Margaret Belemu
Appearance
Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | [1] | 24 February 1997|||||||||||||
Place of birth | Lusaka, Zambia[2] | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.45 m (4 ft 9 in)[2] | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Right-back[2] | |||||||||||||
Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Shanghai Shengli | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
National Assembly F.C. | ||||||||||||||
Lusaka Foundation | ||||||||||||||
Yacha Girls | ||||||||||||||
Red Arrows F.C. | ||||||||||||||
2022 | Hakkarigücü Spor | 13 | (2) | |||||||||||
2023– | Shanghai Shengli | |||||||||||||
International career‡ | ||||||||||||||
2014 | Zambia U17 | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||
Zambia | 32[2] | (0) | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 5 February 2023 |
Margaret Belemu (born 24 February 1997) is a Zambian international footballer who plays as a right-back for Chinese Women's Super League club Shanghai Shengli and the Zambia women's national team.
Club career
[edit]In September 2022, Belemu moved to Turkey and joined Hakkarigücü Spor to play in the 2022–23 Super League.[3][4]
International career
[edit]Belemu competed for Zambia at the 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations, playing in three matches.[1][5]
Honours
[edit]Zambia
Individual
- Women's Africa Cup of Nations Team of the Tournament: 2022[6]
- IFFHS CAF Women's Team of The Year: 2022[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Player Details: Margaret Belemu". Total Women's Africa Cup of Nations. Confederation of African Football. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Margaret Belemu". LTA Agency.
- ^ "Oyuncular – Futbolcular: Margaret Belemu" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
- ^ "Hakkarigücü, kadrosuna 4 Afrikalı kadın futbolcu daha kattı". Cumhuriyet (in Turkish). 24 September 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
- ^ "M. Belemu". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
- ^ "CAF announces TotalEnergies Women's AFCON 2022 Best XI". CAF. 26 July 2022. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
- ^ "IFFHS Women's CAF Team 2022". The International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). 31 January 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
Categories:
- 1997 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Lusaka
- Zambian women's footballers
- Women's association football fullbacks
- Zambia women's international footballers
- Red Arrows F.C. players
- Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers for Zambia
- Expatriate women's footballers in Zambia
- Zambian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
- Expatriate women's footballers in Turkey
- Turkish Women's Football Super League players
- Hakkarigücü Spor players
- 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- Zambian women's football biography stubs