Lynn Anke Hannie Wilms (born 3 October 2000) is a Dutch professional

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who plays as a

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or a

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for

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club

VfL Wolfsburg Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V., commonly known as VfL Wolfsburg (), is a German professional sports club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. The club grew out of a multi-sports club for Volkswagen workers in the city of Wolfsburg. I ...

and the Netherlands national team.

Club career

Wilms played for CTO-Zuid. In 2018, she moved to FC Twente in the

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. During the 2018–19 season, she was a starting defender in all 24 matches and scored two goals. FC Twente finished in second place during the regular season with a record. Wilms helped the club win the Eredivisie championship. She made six appearances in the 2019/20 UEFA Women's Champions League, but lost twice to the German champions

in the round of 16. She came for Wolfsburg in the 2020/21 UEFA Women's Champions League for the first time in the last game of the group stage, which won 4–0 against Chelsea and thus secured group victory, for a five-minute brief. She also came in the quarter-final and semi-final second legs against

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and

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respectively, winning 2–0 each. Since they lost 5–1 in Barcelona, the semifinals were the last stop. In the 2022/23 UEFA Women's Champions League, she featured in the first five of six group games and qualified with the Wolves for the quarter-finals.

International career

Youth career

In October 2016, she took part with the U-17 team in the first qualifying round for the 2017 U-17 European Championship and scored her first international goal in the second game against

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to make it 12–0 (final score 13–0). A 2–0 defeat against

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meant they missed out on top of the group, but finished runners-up to qualify for the second round. Here they had home rights at the end of March and beginning of April 2017. With victories against

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and

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and a draw against

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, they were group winners and qualified for the finals. At the tournament in May in the Czech Republic, they beat Norway, Wilms contributing the first goal in a 3–1 win, and

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, so a goalless draw against

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was enough to top the group. In the semi-finals, however, they lost 2–0 to eventual vice-European champions

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. She then played for the U-19 team for the first time in September 2017, first twice at a tournament in Switzerland and then in her home country in October in the first qualifying round for the 2018 U-19 European Championship. Here she scored her first goal for the U-19 team in a 12–1 win against Estonia. With two more victories against Latvia and

and a total of 32–2 goals, they qualified for the second round as the best group winners. At the tournament in Hungary in April 2018, two 6–0 wins against Slovenia and the hosts and a 1–1 draw against

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were enough to win the group again this time. At the finals in July, she was the tournament's top scorer with two goals in their opening 3–1 win over Italy, along with six other players, but her side lost by one after beating

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1–0 in a 1–3 defeat against

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. Because they were level on points with the Danes and Germans, they had a slightly worse goal difference and thus missed the semi-finals. At the next attempt, they held home ground again in the first round and used it to three clean sheets against

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, Belarus, and Poland, to which they contributed a goal. They were also able to play the second round in their home country and again achieved three victories - this time against Bulgaria, Iceland, and Russia. At the finals in July 2019 in Scotland, they survived the group stage this time, beating

and the hosts despite losing to eventual European champions

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. In the semifinals they then lost to record European champions Germany.

Senior career

At the age of 18, Wilms made her debut in the 84th minute for the Dutch national team in the 2022 European Championship qualifier against

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which the Netherlands won 3–0 on September 3, 2019. Her next assignment, again as a substitute in the 84th minute, was in the first game of the

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in March 2020 against South American champions

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. Against hosts

in a 3–3 draw, she was in the starting eleven and gave her team a 1–0 lead with her first international goal. This was followed by a six-month international break due to COVID-19. She came on again as a substitute in the first game after the break against

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in September, as well as in the second game against

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, where the Dutch won 7–0 to qualify for the finals. In the next three games, twice against

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in the European Championship qualifier and in the friendly against world champions

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, she was in the starting XI and played the full 90 minutes against the USA. In February 2021, she was nominated for the three-nation tournament for the Dutch to meet

in their native city. She was also nominated for the 2020 Olympics, which was postponed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There she was used in the three group games and in the quarterfinals against world champions USA, which was lost 2–4 on penalties. In April and June 2022 she was selected twice for the qualifying games for the 2023 World Cup. On May 31, 2022, she was nominated for the European Championship finals. At the

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, she played in the three group games and in the quarter-finals, which they lost to France in extra time. She was in the starting XI in the last qualifying match for the 2023 World Cup against

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. A goal in added time saw the Dutch win 1–0 and qualify for the World Cup. On 31 May 2023, she was named as part of the Netherlands provisional squad for the

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Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Netherlands' goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Wilms goal.''

Honours

Twente *

: 2018–19,

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VfL Wolfsburg *

: 2021–22 *

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: 2021–22,

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, 2023–24 *

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runner-up:

References

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