Barbra Banda – Wikipedia
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Zambian footballer
| Date of birth | 20 March 2000[1] | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Place of birth | Lusaka, Zambia | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
|
Current team |
Shanghai Shengli | ||
| Number | 11 | ||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2018–2020 | Logroño | 28 | (16) |
| 2020– | Shanghai Shengli | 13 | (18) |
| 2014 | Zambia U-17 | 3 | (0) |
| 2016– | Zambia | (30) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 July 2022 | |||
Barbra Banda (born 20 March 2000) is a Zambian amateur boxer and footballer who plays as a forward for Chinese club Shanghai Shengli and the Zambia women’s national team. She captains the Zambia women’s national football team.[2]
Early life[edit]
Banda was born in March 2000 in Lusaka, the Zambian capital. She began playing football at the age of seven.[3]
Club career[edit]
After spending her two first seasons at Spanish first division club EDF Logroño, in January 2020, Banda was transferred to Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shengli.[4]
In her debut season, she scored 18 goals in 13 league matches to emerge as the 2020 Chinese Women’s Super League top scorer.[5][6]
International career[edit]
Junior[edit]
Banda represented the Zambia women’s national under-17 football team in the 2014 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup.
Senior[edit]
In Zambia’s first group stage match at the 2020 Olympics, Banda scored a hat trick against the Netherlands. The match ended 3–10, the worst ever loss for the Zambia women’s national football team and the highest-scoring women’s football match in Olympics history.[7] In their second group match, Banda scored another hat trick against China with the match ending in a 4–4 draw. She became the first female player in Olympics history to score back-to-back hat tricks and the first to score two hat tricks in one tournament.[8]
On July 6, 2022, Banda was ruled ineligible to compete for Zambia in the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations tournament after a gender verification test found that her natural testosterone levels were above those allowed by the Confederation of African Football, which has stricter gender verification rules than the Olympics.[9][10] The ruling sparked significant controversy, with Human Rights Watch describing it as a “clear violation” of her human rights.[11]
International goals[edit]
- Scores and results list Zambia’s goal tally first
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 September 2017 | Barbourfields Stadium, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe |  Malawi |
3–1 | 6–3 | 2017 COSAFA Women’s Championship |
| 2 | 15 September 2017 |  Zimbabwe |
1–0 | 1–1 | ||
| 3 | 17 September 2017 |  Madagascar |
2–0 | 2–1 | ||
| 4 | 2–1 | |||||
| 5 | 21 September 2017 |  South Africa |
1–0 | 3–3 | ||
| 6 | 23 September 2017 |  Kenya |
1–1 | 1–1 | ||
| 7 | 4 April 2018 | National Stadium, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |  Tanzania |
1–2 | 3–3 | 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification |
| 8 | 3–3 | |||||
| 9 | 10 June 2018 | Rufaro Stadium, Harare, Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe |
2–1 | 2–1 | |
| 10 | 13 September 2018 | Wolfson Stadium, Ibhayi, South Africa |  Lesotho |
2–0 | 2–0 | 2018 COSAFA Women’s Championship |
| 11 | 18 September 2018 |  Mozambique |
3–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 12 | 4 November 2020 | Lesotho |
1–0 | 6–0 | 2020 COSAFA Women’s Championship | |
| 13 | 2–0 | |||||
| 14 | 6–0 | |||||
| 15 | 28 November 2020 | Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo, Santiago, Chile |  Chile |
1–1 | 2–1 | Friendly |
| 16 | 10 April 2021 | Bidvest Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa | South Africa |
1–0 | 1–3 | |
| 17 | 21 July 2021 | Miyagi Stadium, Rifu, Japan |  Netherlands |
1–3 | 3–10 | 2020 Summer Olympics |
| 18 | 2–10 | |||||
| 19 | 3–10 | |||||
| 20 | 24 July 2021 |  China
|
1–1 | 4–4 | ||
| 21 | 3–3 | |||||
| 22 | 4–3 | |||||
| 23 | 11 February 2022 | Nkoloma Stadium, Lusaka, Zambia | South Africa |
1–0 | 3–0 | Friendly |
| 24 | 3–0 | |||||
| 25 | 1 September 2022 | Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Gqeberha, South Africa |  Namibia |
1–0 | 2–0 | 2022 COSAFA Women’s Championship |
| 26 | 2–0 | |||||
| 27 | 4 September 2022 | NMU Stadium, Port Elizabeth, South Africa | Lesotho |
1–0 | 7–0 | |
| 28 | 2–0 | |||||
| 29 | 4–0 | |||||
| 30 | 5–0 | |||||
| 31 | 6–0 | |||||
| 32 | 6 September 2022 | Wolfson Stadium, Gqeberha, South Africa |  Eswatini |
2–0 | 2–0 | |
| 33 | 9 September 2022 | Tanzania |
1–0 | 2–1 | ||
| 34 | 11 September 2022 | Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Gqeberha, South Africa | South Africa |
1–0 | 1–0 (a.e.t.) | |
| 35 | 21 February 2023 | Miracle Sports Complex, Alanya, Turkey |  Uzbekistan |
4–0 | 4–0 | 2023 Turkish Women’s Cup |
| 36 | 7 April 2023 | Suwon World Cup Stadium, Suwon, South Korea |  South Korea |
2–1 | 2–5 | Friendly |
Honours[edit]
Individual
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Profile at Txapeldunak.com (in Spanish)
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