Samantha van Diemen

In this Dutch name, the surname is van Diemen, not Diemen.

Samantha van Diemen

Personal information
Full name	Samantha van Diemen
Date of birth	(2002-01-28) 28 January 2002
Place of birth	Leiden, Netherlands
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Fortuna Sittard
Number	4
Youth career
2018	Ajax
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2019–2021	Ajax	12	(1)
2021–2022	Feyenoord	23	(1)
2022–	Fortuna Sittard	20	(0)
International career‡
2018–2019	Netherlands U17	13	(1)
2020	Netherlands U19	1	(0)
2022	Netherlands U20	7	(0)
2021–	Netherlands	3	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 May 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 28 August 2022

Samantha van Diemen (born 28 January 2002) is a Dutch footballer who plays as defender for Fortuna Sittard in the Eredivisie.

Club career

Van Diemen played for CTO, an educational team organized by the national football association KNVB. When CTO stopped in 2018, Van Diemen went to Ajax Talententeam, the female youth team of Ajax. In the summer of 2019 she signed a contract for the Ajax Vrouwen-squad. On October 25 she played her first official match, the second half of the game against Heerenveen for the Eredivisie Cup. In July 2021 she signed a contract with Feyenoord to continue her career.

International career

On 15 February 2018 Van Diemen played her first international game for Oranje U16. She then already played for Oranje U17. In August 2019 she also played for Oranje U19. Since 2021, she plays for Oranje U23.

Van Diemen became the first ever female Feyenoord player to play for the Netherlands, when she started on 29 November 2021 in a 0–0 draw, during a friendly match against Japan.

Honours

Ajax

• Eredivisie (1): 2019–20

External links

• Samantha van Diemen at Soccerway
• Samantha van Diemen at WorldFootball.net
• Profile at onsoranje.nl (in Dutch)