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Sarah Wijnants

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Sarah Wijnants
Wijnants in 2022
Personal information
Full name Sarah Wijnants
Date of birth (1999-10-13) October 13, 1999 (age 25)
Place of birth Leuven, Belgium
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Anderlecht
Number 11
Youth career
–2014 NS Tervuren
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2017 Standard Liège
2017– Anderlecht 89 (42)
International career
2014 Belgium U15 1 (0)
2014–2015 Belgium U16 5 (0)
2014–2016 Belgium U17 14 (3)
2016–2017 Belgium U19 12 (1)
2017– Belgium 40 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 July 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19 November 2024 [1]

Sarah Wijnants (born 13 October 1999) is a Belgian footballer who plays as a forward for Anderlecht and the Belgium women's national football team (also known as the Belgian Red Flames).

Club career

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Wijnants started her career at the youth of NS Tervuren. She transfers in 2014 to Standard Liège. The season after she joined Standard Liège she made her first UEFA Champions League debut on 10 October 2015 against Frankfurt. The game was lost with 6–0. In the season 2015–16 She played in Super League as in the First Division and Standard won in both leagues the championship title. At the end of season 2016–17 Wijnants left Stander Liège to play for Anderlecht.[2]

International career

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Wijnants played her first game with the Flames U15 on 26 March 2014 against the Netherlands. The game was lost 0–6.[3] The same year, she played for the Flames U16 and U17. She made her first cap for the U16 on a tournament in Magglingen, Switzerland against Croatia. The game was won 0–4.[4] Her last game for the U16 was on 7 May 2015 against Norway in Castro Verde, Portugal.[5]

On 6 October 2014 she made her first cap with the U17 in a 3–0 victory against Latvia on which she scored the opening goal. This was the first goal as an international.[6] She played in total 14 games and was able to score 3 goals. She played her last game for the U17 on 29 March 2015 against England, the game was lost 2–0. In 2016 she made her first cap for the U19 in a match against Ireland and won with 2–1. The friendly game was played in Tubize, Belgium on 19 September.

Wijnants made her first senior appearance in a friendly match against France in Clairefontaine on 19 January. She played 10 minutes and the game ended with a 1–2 victory.[7] The Red Flames where invited to participate on the Cyprus Cup. Wijnants didn't made it to the selection at first but because of the injury of Laura de Neve she was called up in extremis for the selection.[8]

Career statistics

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Club

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As of match played 3 May 2017[9]
Champions League
Year Apps Goals
2015 1 0
2016 3 1
Total 4 1

International

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As of match played 6 October 2022[10]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Belgium 2017 4 0
2018 4 0
2019 1 0
2020 2 0
2021 7 1
2022 8 1
Total 26 2
Scores and results list Belgium's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Wijnants goal.
List of international goals scored by Sarah Wijnants
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 25 November 2021 Den Dreef, Leuven, Belgium  Armenia 3–0 19–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying
2 16 February 2022 Pinatar Arena, San Pedro del Pinatar, Spain  Slovakia 4–0 4–0 Friendly
3 7 April 2022 Stadion Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt, Austria  Austria 1–0 2–3

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ "Al onze Red Flames" [All our Red Flames]. RBFA (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-11-19.
  2. ^ "Biesmans en Wijnants spreken over hun vertrek bij Standard". Vrouwenvoetbalkrant.be (in Dutch). 2017-05-20. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  3. ^ URBSFA, Delaey Tom – Landsheere Koen – KBVB -. "Internationale wedstrijden – KBVB". static.belgianfootball.be (in Dutch). Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  4. ^ URBSFA, Delaey Tom – Landsheere Koen – KBVB -. "Internationale wedstrijden – KBVB". static.belgianfootball.be (in Dutch). Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  5. ^ URBSFA, Delaey Tom – Landsheere Koen – KBVB -. "Internationale wedstrijden – KBVB". static.belgianfootball.be (in Dutch). Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  6. ^ URBSFA, Delaey Tom – Landsheere Koen – KBVB -. "Internationale wedstrijden – KBVB". static.belgianfootball.be (in Dutch). Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  7. ^ URBSFA, Delaey Tom – Landsheere Koen – KBVB -. "Internationale wedstrijden – KBVB". static.belgianfootball.be (in Dutch). Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  8. ^ "Sarah Wijnants vervangt Laura De Neve in Cyprus". Vrouwenvoetbalkrant.be (in Dutch). 2017-02-27. Retrieved 2017-05-17.
  9. ^ "UEFA Women's Champions League". uefa.com. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  10. ^ "Sarah Wijnants". www.rbfa.be.
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