Renate Jansen


Renate Jansen is a Dutch female international footballer. She plays as a striker in the Dutch Eredivisie for Twente and the Netherlands women's national football team.

Club career

Her career started at youth teams of SV Abbenes in her native Abbenes. In 2005, she started to play in the B1 of VV Kagia in Lisserbroek. In 2007 she left the club and joined Ter Leede, later joining HvA.
In the summer of 2008 she signed with ADO Den Haag of the Eredivisie. In the 2011–12 season she won the double with the club. Some changes were made in the 2012–13 season, a new league with clubs from Belgium and the Netherlands was created replacing the national leagues of both countries. In the same season she scored on her UEFA Women's Champions League debut match against Rossiyanka.
On 19 April 2014, she played her 150th official match for ADO against FC Twente, since her club debut on 21 August 2008 she had missed just three matches and scored 87 goals.
After seven seasons at ADO, where she scored 109 goals in 181 games in all competitions, she joined FC Twente in the summer of 2015. She won the league title in 2015–16 at her first season with FC Twente.

International career

Jansen made her debut for the Dutch national team on 1 April 2010 against Slovakia. She was part of training camps with the national team and played in friendlies until 2017 when she was included in the squad for the 2017 Algarve Cup with her big break into a major tournament coming soon after as she was selected for the UEFA Women's Euro 2017, where she played four matches coming in as a substitute in the tournament won by the Dutch.

International goals

GoalDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.20 May 2015Sparta Stadion, Rotterdam, Netherlands6–07–0Friendly
2.20 May 2015Sparta Stadion, Rotterdam, Netherlands7–07–0Friendly
3.1 March 2017Estádio Municipal de Albufeira, Albufeira, Portugal1–01–02017 Algarve Cup

Honours

Clubs

;ADO Den Haag
;FC Twente
;Netherlands