Sari Kees

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Sari Kees
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Kees in 2024
Personal information
Date of birth (2001-02-17) 17 February 2001 (age 25)
Place of birth Belgium
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position Defender
Team information
Current team
 Leicester City
Number 2
Youth career
SP Budingen
KSV Drieslinter
OH Leuven
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2019 OH Leuven 43 (8)
2019–2020 Genk 15 (0)
2020–2024 OH Leuven 89 (11)
2024– Leicester City 6 (0)
International career‡
2015 Belgium U15 1 (0)
2015–2017 Belgium U16 4 (1)
2016–2018 Belgium U17 16 (0)
2018–2020 Belgium U19 20 (3)
2021 Belgium U23 2 (0)
2022– Belgium 34 (5)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 9 February 2025
‡ National team caps and goals as of 5 December 2024[1]

Sari Kees (Flemish: [ˈsaːri ˈkeːs]; born 17 February 2001) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a defender for FA Women's Super League club Leicester City and the Belgium national team.

Club career

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Kees started her youth career as a goalkeeper at SP Budingen. At age 10, she joined OH Leuven, and further developed as a central defender throughout their youth teams for the next eight seasons.[citation needed]

On 12 June 2019, it was announced that Kees joined Racing Genk for one season, becoming a team regular there.[2][3]

Kees returned to OH Leuven again in April 2020,[4] scoring the winning goal in their 1–0 win against defending champions Anderlecht in March 2022.[5] Leuven ended in second place behind Anderlecht for three straight seasons, from 2020-21 to 2022-23, and in 2023-24 won the regular season only to be overhauled in the title play-offs[6][7]

Kees stated that her ambitions for the coming years are becoming a full-time member of the national team, and earning a transfer to a foreign club, which came true when she signed for OHL's sister club Leicester City in July 2024.[8]

International career

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Kees is a member of the national team since the under-15s. As a central defender, she played for the under-19s in the UEFA U19 Championship in 2019 in their group matches against Spain, Germany and England.[citation needed]

Kees made her debut for the Belgium national team on 16 February 2022, in a 4–0 win against Slovakia in the Pinatar Cup in Spain.[9]

Kees was named in the Belgium squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2022 in England, where the Red Flames were beaten in the quarter-finals 1-0 by Sweden. She went on to contribute to Belgium's successful qualification for UEFA Women's Euro 2025 via the play-offs, starting both legs of the play-off final against Ukraine.[10][11]

On 11 June 2025, Kees was called up to the Belgium squad for the UEFA Women's Euro 2025.[12]

Career statistics

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As of match played 6 October 2022[13]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Belgium U15 2015 1 0
Belgium U16 2015 1 0
2017 3 1
Total 4 1
Belgium U17 2016 7 0
2017 6 0
2018 3 0
Total 16 0
Belgium U19 2018 6 0
2019 13 3
2020 1 0
Total 20 3
Belgium U23 2021 2 0
Belgium 2021 1 0
2022 13 1
Total 14 1
Career total 57 5
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 6 September 2022 Yerevan Football Academy Stadium, Yerevan, Armenia  Armenia 7–0 7–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
2. 13 November 2022 Joseph Marien Stadium, Brussels, Belgium  Slovakia 1–0 7–0 Friendly
3. 23 February 2024 Pancho Aréna, Felcsút, Hungary File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary 1–1 5–1 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League play-offs
4. 5–1
5. 9 April 2024 Viborg Stadium, Viborg, Denmark  Denmark 1–4 2–4 UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying

Honours

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Belgium

References

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