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Daphne van Domselaar

Daphne van Domselaar (Dutch: [ˈdɑfnə vɑn ˈdɔmsəlaːr]; born 6 March 2000) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Women's Super League club Arsenal and the Netherlands national team.[3] Prior to her Arsenal move, she played for Twente and Aston Villa.

Daphne van Domselaar
Van Domselaar with Arsenal in 2025
Personal information
Full name Daphne van Domselaar[1]
Date of birth (2000-03-06) 6 March 2000 (age 26)[2]
Place of birth Beverwijk, Netherlands
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Arsenal
Number 14
Youth career
LSVV
Telstar
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017–2023 Twente 78 (0)
2023–2024 Aston Villa 14 (0)
2024– Arsenal 29 (0)
International career‡
2015 Netherlands U15 3 (0)
2015–2016 Netherlands U16 5 (0)
2015–2017 Netherlands U17 14 (0)
2017–2019 Netherlands U19 26 (0)
2019–2020 Netherlands U23 3 (0)
2022– Netherlands 39 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 16 May 2026
‡ National team caps and goals as of 18 April 2026

Club career

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Youth career

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At the age of 11, Van Domselaar started playing football at LSVV in Zuid-Scharwoude.[4] In the team that she joined, the girls played without a regular keeper. However, after Van Domselaar took her turn as goalkeeper, she did not leave that position but stayed in it.[5] The LSVV goalkeeping coach immediately recognised her great talent. Moreover, he noted that she had learned a lot at the volleyball club from which she had come.[6] Van Domselaar then played for four years with the boys of LSVV and for two years with Telstar's youth academy.[7]

In her second year at Telstar, she was the one-off reserve keeper of the senior team in their away match against PSV on 4 February 2017.[8] Telstar continued as VV Alkmaar in the following season.[citation needed] Soccerway erroneously[citation needed] reports that Van Domselaar played with VV Alkmaar in the 2016–17 season.[3]

Senior career

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Daphne van Domselaar saving a Tottenham Hotspur free kick against Aston Villa, 21 October 2023; Aston Villa 2 - 4 Tottenham Hotspur.

Van Domselaar started her professional career with FC Twente in the 2017–18 season.[3] In the first two seasons she was reserve goalkeeper behind Nicky Evrard.[citation needed] She made her debut in the Eredivisie on 22 December 2017 in the match against Heerenveen, when after 20 minutes Evrard was shown a red card.[9] From the 2019–20 season, Van Domselaar was FC Twente's first-choice goalkeeper.[3]

Her first trainer at FC Twente, Tommy Stroot, called her a “pure natural talent”.[10] After the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 championship, various foreign clubs were interested in Van Domselaar, but she decided to stay with FC Twente for the 2022–23 season.[11] She did say that she hoped for a transfer to “a very nice club outside the Netherlands” in 2023.[12] At the end of 2022, she was the only Eredivisie player included in The Guardian's annual list of the 100 best female football players in the world.[13]

On 16 June 2023, Women's Super League club Aston Villa announced the signing of Van Domselaar on a three-year deal until 2026.[14][15] In March 2024, Van Domselaar underwent surgery on her hip, and would miss the remainder of the WSL season.[16]

On 31 July 2024, it was announced that Arsenal had signed Van Domselaar after triggering a substantial buyout clause in her Villa contract.[17][18] On 9 March 2025, Arsenal were knocked out of the FA Cup quarterfinals against Liverpool, after an unfortunate own goal from Van Domselaar.[19] After suffering a concussion from the FA cup match against Liverpool Van Domselaar missed Arsenal’s next two matches. She returned to the squad against Liverpool in their league match, keeping a clean sheet in a 4-0 Arsenal win.[20] She won the 2026 WSL Save of the Season award for a save she made during a win over Brighton.[21]

Alongside her football career, she has studied for a Certificate in Football Psychology at the Professional Footballers' Association business school.[22]

International career

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Van Domselaar's first cap[definition needed] was for a friendly against Belgium U15 on 18 March 2015.[23] The UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship in May 2017 was her first major tournament. With the Dutch team she reached the semifinals.[24] Her performance in the Netherlands U17 team drew the attention of Tommy Stroot, who brought her to FC Twente in the summer of 2017.[10]

Van Domselaar made her senior team debut during the Tournoi de France on 19 February 2022 in a 3–0 win against Finland.[25] In July 2022, she was named in the Dutch squad for the European Championship held in England.[26] In the first group match against Sweden, the starting goalkeeper Sari van Veenendaal was injured, and Van Domselaar came on as a substitute in the 20th minute. She played in goal for the rest of the tournament.[27][28] Up to and including the quarterfinals, in which the Netherlands team were eliminated by France, she was the star player of the Dutch national team.[29][13] On 31 May 2023, Van Domselaar was named as part of the Netherlands provisional squad for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.[30]

Career statistics

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Club

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As of match played 16 May 2026[3]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] League cup[b] Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Twente 2017–18 Eredivisie 3010———40
2018–19 Eredivisie 4030———70
2019–20 Eredivisie 12010407[c]0—240
2020–21 Eredivisie 1802030——230
2021–22 Eredivisie 21020104[c]0—280
2022–23 Eredivisie 20050102[c]01[d]0290
Total 78014090130101150
Aston Villa 2023–24 WSL 1400010——150
Arsenal 2024–25 WSL 15010107[c]0—240
2025–26 WSL 14010009[c]01[e]0250
Total 290201016010490
Career total 1210160110290201790
  1. ↑ Includes KNVB Women's Cup, Women's FA Cup
  2. ↑ Includes Eredivisie Cup, FA Women's League Cup
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Appearances in UEFA Women's Champions League
  4. ↑ Appearance in Dutch Women's Super Cup
  5. ↑ Appearance in FIFA Women's Champions Cup

International

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As of match played 18 April 2026[3]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Netherlands 202290
2023150
202450
202580
202620
Total390

Honours

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Twente

Arsenal

Individual

References

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  1. ↑ "FIFA Women's World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 – Squad List: Netherlands (NED)" (PDF). FIFA. 11 July 2023. p. 18. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 July 2023. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
  2. ↑ "Daphne van Domselaar". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Daphne van Domselaar at Soccerway
  4. ↑ "Het jaar van Daphne van Domselaar, over FC Twente, LSVV, Oranje en voetballen in coronatijd" (in Dutch). 24 December 2020. Archived from the original on 13 January 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  5. ↑ "Erehaag voor Oranje leeuwin Daphne van Domselaar" (in Dutch). 4 November 2021. Archived from the original on 9 January 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  6. ↑ "Oudkarspel begint trots te worden op leeuwin Daphne van Domselaar" (in Dutch). 13 July 2022. Archived from the original on 9 January 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  7. ↑ "Keepster Daphne van Domselaar 'vliegensvlug naar Nederlandse top!'" (in Dutch). 5 November 2018. Archived from the original on 9 January 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  8. ↑ "PSV vs. Alkmaar 4-0". Soccerway. 4 February 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  9. ↑ "Smits en Bente Jansen schieten FC Twente Vrouwen naar koppositie". tubantia.nl (in Dutch). 22 December 2017. Archived from the original on 9 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  10. 1 2 "Daphne van Domselaar, de nieuwe eerste keeper, staat bij de grote clubs al op de lijstjes". volkskrant.nl (in Dutch). 11 July 2022. Archived from the original on 9 January 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  11. ↑ "Van Domselaar staat voor uitdaging: 'Spotlights zijn wel even wennen'". nos.nl (in Dutch). 1 September 2022. Archived from the original on 9 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  12. ↑ "Daphne van Domselaar over penalty's, grootste fout en het EK". jeugdjournaal.nl (in Dutch). 18 December 2022. Archived from the original on 9 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  13. 1 2 "The 100 best female footballers in the world 2022". theguardian.com. 24 December 2022. Archived from the original on 11 March 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  14. ↑ "van Domselaar to join Villa Women!". avf.co.uk. 16 June 2023. Archived from the original on 16 June 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
  15. ↑ "WSL: Aston Villa to sign Daphne van Domselaar". BBC Sport. 16 June 2023. Archived from the original on 16 June 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
  16. ↑ "Daphne van Domselaar: Aston Villa goalkeeper out for season after hip surgery". BBC Sport. 19 March 2024. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  17. ↑ "Daphne van Domselaar joins the club". Arsenal F.C. 31 July 2024. Archived from the original on 31 July 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  18. ↑ "Van Domselaar makes Arsenal move". Aston Villa F.C. 31 July 2024. Archived from the original on 31 July 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  19. ↑ "Liverpool secure FA Cup upset over Arsenal after Van Domselaar own goal". The Guardian. 9 March 2025. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  20. ↑ "Team news: van Domselaar returns in goal". Team news: van Domselaar returns in goal. 22 March 2025. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  21. ↑ Wright, Stephen (19 May 2026). "Van Domselaar wins WSL Save of the Season". Arsenal FC. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
  22. ↑ "Student Testimonials". PFA Business School. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
  23. ↑ "Daphne van Domselaar - Jeugd vrouwen onder 15". onsoranje.nl (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 9 January 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  24. ↑ "Netherlands beat England to top group". UEFA. 5 May 2017. Archived from the original on 9 January 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  25. ↑ "Oranjevrouwen met debutante Van Domselaar verslaan Finland op Tournoi de France". rtvoost.nl (in Dutch). 19 February 2022. Archived from the original on 9 January 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  26. ↑ "Definitieve selectie OranjeLeeuwinnen voor EK in Engeland". onsoranje.nl (in Dutch). 31 May 2022. Archived from the original on 9 January 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  27. ↑ "Oranje ondanks tegenslagen morele winnaar met gelijkspel tegen EK-favoriet Zweden". nos.nl (in Dutch). 9 July 2022. Archived from the original on 9 January 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  28. ↑ "Schouderblessure maakt einde aan EK van keeper Van Veenendaal". nos.nl (in Dutch). 11 July 2022. Archived from the original on 9 January 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  29. ↑ "Parsons prijst uitblinkende Van Domselaar bij Oranje: 'Heel speciaal'". nos.nl. 24 July 2022. Archived from the original on 9 January 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  30. ↑ Mark White (5 June 2023). "Netherlands Women's World Cup 2023 squad: 30-player preliminary team named". fourfourtwo.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  31. ↑ "Het wonder van De Toekomst blijft uit: Twente Vrouwen voor achtste keer kampioen". nos.nl (in Dutch). 20 May 2022. Archived from the original on 26 June 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  32. ↑ "FC Twente-vrouwen veroveren KNVB-beker en geven seizoen toch nog glans" (in Dutch). 18 May 2023. Archived from the original on 18 May 2023. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  33. ↑ "Vrouwen FC Twente veroveren eerste Eredivisie Cup na overwinning op PSV" (in Dutch). 28 February 2022. Archived from the original on 20 August 2022. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  34. ↑ "Vrouwen Twente winnen ook Eredivisie Cup na doelpuntenfestijn tegen Ajax: 4-3". nos.nl (in Dutch). 5 June 2022. Archived from the original on 25 September 2022. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  35. ↑ "Voetbalsters FC Twente winnen Eredivisie Cup opnieuw". 29 May 2023. Archived from the original on 29 May 2023. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  36. ↑ "FC Twente wint ten koste van Ajax eerste editie van supercup voor vrouwen". NU.nl (in Dutch). 11 September 2022. Archived from the original on 11 September 2022. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  37. ↑ Sanders, Emma (24 May 2025). "Women's Champions League Final: Arsenal stun Barcelona to win title". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 24 May 2025. Retrieved 24 May 2025.
  38. ↑ Rogers, Jonathon (1 February 2026). "Arsenal Women win FIFA Women's Champions Cup". Arsenal F.C. Archived from the original on 1 February 2026. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
  39. ↑ "2024/25 Women's Champions League Team of the Season". UEFA.com. 25 May 2025. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
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