Renate Jansen (born 7 December 1990) is a Dutch professional

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who plays as a striker for

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club PSV and the Netherlands national team. She has scored the most goals in the history of the top Dutch women's league.

Club career

Jansen's career started at the youth teams of SV Abbenes in her native Abbenes. In 2005, she started to play in the B1 (boys team) of in Lisserbroek. In 2007, she left the club and joined

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, and later joined HvA.

ADO Den Haag

In the summer of 2008, she signed with

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of the

. In the 2011–12 season, her team won the double, winning the league and the

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. The next season, the new

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, with clubs from Belgium and the Netherlands, replaced the national leagues of both countries. That season, Jansen scored during her

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debut match against Rossiyanka. On 19 April 2014, she played her 150th official match for ADO (131 league, 16 cup, 2 Champions League, and 1 BeNe Super Cup) against

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; since her club debut on 21 August 2008, she had missed just three matches and scored 87 goals (71 league, 15 cup, and 1 Champions League).

FC Twente

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. Twente won the league title in her first season, 2015–16. She was third on her team and in the league in goal scored, with 13. She was second the Eredivisie in goals scored in

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with 12 goals and third the following year with 17 goals. She also scored 14 goals in 29 Champions League matches with the

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club. On 10 April 2024, Jansen announced she would leave the club at the end of the season, hoping to play for a club in another country.

PSV

In June 2024, Jansen signed a two-year contract with PSV, arriving from Twente on a free transfer. At the end of the season, she was named Eredivisie Player of the Year.

International career

Jansen made her debut for the Dutch national team on 1 April 2010 against

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. 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

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. Her big break into a major tournament coming soon after, as she was selected for the

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, where she played four matches, coming in as a substitute in the tournament won by the Dutch. After the tournament, the entire team was honoured by the

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and

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and made

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. She appeared in one match in the

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, coming on as a substitute in the 87th minute in a victory over

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. On 31 May 2023, she was named as part of the Netherlands provisional squad for the

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. In September 2023, Jansen scored the winning goal in the 90th minute against

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in the

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, keeping the Dutch team's chances alive in the tournament.

International goals

:''Scores and results list the Netherlands goal tally first.''

Honours

;ADO Den Haag *

: 2011–12 *

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: 2011–12, 2012–13 ;FC Twente *

: 2015–16, 2018–19,

, 2021–22, 2023–24 ;Netherlands *

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;Individual * Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau: 2017 * Eredivisie Player of the Year: 2024–25

References

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at Soccerway * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jansen, Renate 1990 births Living people Footballers from Haarlemmermeer Dutch women's footballers Netherlands women's youth international footballers Netherlands women's international footballers Eredivisie (women) players FC Twente (women) players ADO Den Haag (women) players UEFA Women's Championship–winning players Knights of the Order of Orange-Nassau Women's association football forwards 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players Ter Leede players Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for the Netherlands UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players Association football people awarded knighthoods 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players 21st-century Dutch sportswomen UEFA Women's Euro 2025 players