Tine De Caigny (born 9 June 1997) is a Belgian

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who plays as a

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for

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after previously featuring for

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club

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. She is one of a select number of players with over 100 caps for the Belgium national team.

Club career

From

Beveren Beveren () is a former municipality in the Belgian province of East Flanders which comprises the towns of Beveren, Doel, Haasdonk, Kallo, Kieldrecht, Melsele, Verrebroek and Vrasene. The port of the Waasland (Dutch: ''Waaslandhaven'') ...

, De Caigny spent the early years of her career with

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where she played in two Belgian Cup Finals, losing both. She moved in 2015 to Lierse for a season and spending a year in Norway the following year with

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. De Caigny joined

in 2017, enjoying league glory in each of her four seasons with the Brussels club, winning four league titles in a row, before moving in the summer of 2021 to

club 1899 Hoffenheim, where she played in the 2021-22 UEFA Women's Champions League. Returning to Anderlecht in 2023, she helped the Mauves win the 2023-24 Belgian title via the title play-offs, overhauling regular season winners

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. She won the

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for Player of the Year in 2020.

International career

On 12 November 2019, De Caigny became the first Belgian player to score five goals in a senior international game, 6–0 against

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. At the start of 2022, De Caigny helped Belgium win the Pinatar Cup in Spain for the first time, beating

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on penalties in the final after a 0-0 draw. De Caigny scored in the shoot-out. On 18 July 2022, she scored the only goal in a 1–0 win over

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, earning Belgium a spot in the quarter-finals of the Euro 2022 for the first time in the history of the competition. On 12 July 2024, De Caigny recorded her 100th cap for

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in a 3–0 defeat against

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. She went on to contribute to Belgium's successful qualification for

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via the play-offs, coming on as substitute in both legs of the play-off final against

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. She had missed parts of the campaign through injury.

Career statistics

:''Scores and results list Belgium's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each De Caigny goal.''

Honours

Anderlecht *

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: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2023–24; runner-up 2016–17 Lierse *

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: 2015–16 Club Brugge *

runner-up: 2013–14, 2014–15 Belgium * Pinatar Cup:

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Individual

(Player of the Year): 2020

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:De Caigny, Tine 1997 births Living people Belgian women's footballers Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Belgium women's international footballers Expatriate women's footballers in Germany Women's association football defenders Vålerenga Fotball Damer players Frauen-Bundesliga players TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (women) players RSC Anderlecht (women) players Super League Vrouwenvoetbal players Club YLA players Lierse SK (women) players Toppserien players Belgian LGBTQ footballers Sportspeople from Beveren Footballers from East Flanders UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players Belgian lesbian sportswomen 21st-century Belgian LGBTQ people 21st-century Belgian sportswomen FIFA Women's Century Club