*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:07, 24 May 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17:07, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
In May 2010, she moved to SC Heerenveen,[4] where she played for one season before joining FC Twente in May 2011.[5]
After four and a half seasons at FC Twente, she signed with Liverpool of the English WSL1 on 4 February 2016.[6][7]
On 29 August 2017, after two seasons at Liverpool where she played a total of 28 matches (in all competitions), she moved to France and joined Division 1 Féminine club Olympique Lyonnais.[8]
In September 2020 it was announced that Van de Sanden would be moving to Germany to play for Wolfsburg with immediate effect.[9]
On 16 July 2022, Van de Sanden rejoined Liverpool.[10]
*During the BeNe League period (2012 to 2015), the highest placed Dutch team is considered as national champion by the Royal Dutch Football Association.[22]
Van de Sanden is one of UEFA's official ambassadors for #WePlayStrong, a social media and vlogging campaign which was launched in 2018. The campaign's "...aim is to promote women’s football as much as we can and to make people aware of women’s football, really,” Evans, another participant explains. “The ultimate goal is to make football the most played sport by females by 2020. So it’s a UEFA initiative to get more women and girls playing football, whether they want to be professional or not.”[27] The series, which also originally included professional footballers Sarah Zadrazil, Eunice Beckmann, Laura Feiersinger and Lisa Evans and now also includes Petronella Ekroth and Shanice van de Sanden, follows the daily lives of female professional footballers.[28]
Personal life
Van de Sanden was born in the Netherlands and is of Surinamese descent.[29] As of August 2020, Van de Sanden has a girlfriend.[30]
She welcomed a daughter in November 2023.
^"Shanice van de Sanden". vrouwenvoetbalnederland.nl (in Dutch). 15 December 2014. Archived from the original on 2 December 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
