.jpg) Nicky Evrard in 2014 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1995-05-26)26 May 1995 (age 30) | ||
| Place of birth | Zottegem, Belgium | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | PSV | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Racing Strijpen | |||
| SK Munkzwalm | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2013–2016 | AA Gent | 51 | (0) |
| 2016–2019 | FC Twente | 42 | (0) |
| 2019–2020 | Sporting Huelva | 0 | (0) |
| 2020–2022 | Gent | 55 | (0) |
| 2022–2023 | OH Leuven | 30 | (0) |
| 2023–2024 | Chelsea | 0 | (0) |
| 2023–2024 | →Brighton & Hove Albion (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 2024– | PSV | 0 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2009–2010 | Belgium U15 | 2 | (0) |
| 2010–2012 | Belgium U17 | 15 | (0) |
| 2012–2013 | Belgium U19 | 6 | (0) |
| 2014 | Belgium U21 | 1 | (0) |
| 2013– | Belgium | 69 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 9 January 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 5 December 2024[1] | |||
Nicky Evrard (born 26 May 1995) is a Belgianfootballer who plays as agoalkeeper forPSV and theBelgium women's national team.[2]
Evrard started her career at RC Strijpen boy's teams. She was coached by Stefan Van de Voorde, a legendary coach at Eendracht Elene-Grotenberge. In the 2011–12 season, she signed with Cercle Melle. In 2012, the team change its name toAA Gent. In the 2016–17 season, she won the Cup of Belgium with AA Gent.[3] On 17 May 2017, Evrard announced that she would be joiningFC Twente.[4][5]
Evrard joinedWomen's Super League clubChelsea in the summer of 2023,[6] signing on a season's loan withBrighton & Hove Albion on loan for the 2023–24 season on 14 September 2024.[7] She returned to Chelsea on 9 January 2024 after suffering a long-term hamstring injury.[8]
Chelsea confirmed Evrard's departure forPSV on 19 July 2024.[9]
From 2009 to April 2013, Evrard was part of several Belgium's youth teams. On 2 June 2013, she played for Belgium senior team for the first time in a friendly match againstUkraine.[10] Evrard was also part of the team who represented Belgium at theUEFA Women's Euro 2017.[11] Evrard was in the national team in 2022 alongsideLisa Lichtfus then of Dijon andDiede Lemey who at the time played for Sassuolo.[12]
At the start of 2022, Evrard kept goal in Belgium's winning of thePinatar Cup for the first time inSpain, beatingRussia on penalties in the final after a 0-0 draw.[13]
Evrard was the first-choice goalkeeper for Belgium'sUEFA Women's Euro 2022 campaign in England. She was vital to their progression to the quarter-finals despite not being amongst the heavy favourites in their group, and saved bothpenalties she faced in the group stages, one each againstIceland andFrance.[14][15]
Her hamstring injury at the end of 2023 meant Evrard did not play a single international for Belgium in 2024, recovering sufficiently to be substitute goalkeeper in Belgium's final games of their successfulUEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualification via the play-offs, and remained on the bench for both legs of the play-off final againstUkraine, withLisa Lichtfus starting instead.[16][17]
On 11 June 2025, Evrard was called up to the Belgium squad for theUEFA Women's Euro 2025.[18]
Like many of her Belgium teammates, Evrard is semi-professional and when she is not playing football, she is an entrepreneur with her own business renting out bouncy castles.[19]
Evrard is in a relationship with Belgian footballerShari Van Belle.[20]
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