Barbra Banda

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]

Barbra Banda
Personal information
Date of birth (2000-03-20) 20 March 2000[1]
Place of birth Lusaka, Zambia
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Shanghai Shengli
Number 11
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–2020 Logroño 28 (16)
2020– Shanghai Shengli 13 (18)
International career
2014 Zambia U-17 3 (0)
2016– Zambia (30)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 July 2022

Early life

Banda was born in March 2000 in Lusaka, the Zambian capital. She began playing football at the age of seven.[3]

Club career

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

Junior

Banda represented the Zambia women's national under-17 football team in the 2014 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Senior

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
Scores and results list Zambia's goal tally first
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
113 September 2017Barbourfields Stadium, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Malawi3–16–32017 COSAFA Women's Championship
215 September 2017 Zimbabwe1–01–1
317 September 2017 Madagascar2–02–1
42–1
521 September 2017 South Africa1–03–3
623 September 2017 Kenya1–11–1
74 April 2018National Stadium, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Tanzania1–23–32018 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
83–3
910 June 2018Rufaro Stadium, Harare, Zimbabwe Zimbabwe2–12–1
1013 September 2018Wolfson Stadium, Ibhayi, South Africa Lesotho2–02–02018 COSAFA Women's Championship
1118 September 2018 Mozambique3–03–0
124 November 2020 Lesotho1–06–02020 COSAFA Women's Championship
132–0
146–0
1528 November 2020Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo, Santiago, Chile Chile1–12–1Friendly
1610 April 2021Bidvest Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa South Africa1–01–3
1721 July 2021Miyagi Stadium, Rifu, Japan Netherlands1–33–102020 Summer Olympics
182–10
193–10
20 24 July 2021  China 1–1 4–4
21 3–3
22 4–3
2311 February 2022Nkoloma Stadium, Lusaka, Zambia South Africa1–03–0Friendly
243–0
251 September 2022Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Gqeberha, South Africa Namibia1–02–02022 COSAFA Women's Championship
262–0
274 September 2022NMU Stadium, Port Elizabeth, South Africa Lesotho1–07–0
282–0
294–0
305–0
316–0
326 September 2022Wolfson Stadium, Gqeberha, South Africa Eswatini2–02–0
339 September 2022 Tanzania1–02–1
3411 September 2022Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Gqeberha, South Africa South Africa1–01–0 (a.e.t.)
3521 February 2023Miracle Sports Complex, Alanya, Turkey Uzbekistan4–04–02023 Turkish Women's Cup
367 April 2023Suwon World Cup Stadium, Suwon, South Korea South Korea2–12–5Friendly

Honours

Individual

References
  1. Barbra Banda – FIFA competition record (archived)
  2. Barbra Banda at Soccerway. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  3. "Barbra Banda: "We have something within us"". Olympics.org. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  4. Watkins, Claire. "Barbra Banda isn't waiting around". The Equalizer. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  5. Ahmadu, Samuel (11 October 2020). "Barbra Banda emerges as Chinese Women's Super League top scorer". Goal.com. Retrieved 2021-08-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. Mubanga Jnr, Aaron (12 October 2020). "Barbra Banda wins golden boot in her first season in China". Zambianfootball.co.zm. Retrieved 8 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. Young, Ryan (21 July 2021). "Netherlands women's soccer blows out Zambia in historic win to open Olympics". Yahoo! News. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  8. "China PR 4–4 Zambia". Fifa.com. 24 July 2021.
  9. "Zambian soccer star Barbra Banda ineligible because of high testosterone". Washington Post. 6 July 2022.
  10. "Zambia's Barbra Banda Out of WAFCON Due to Gender Eligibility Tests, per Report". Sports Illustrated. 6 July 2022.
  11. "Zambian Woman Footballer Sex Tested Because FIFA Allows It". Hrw.org. 13 July 2022.
  12. "#CWSL | Topscorers of the League". China Women's Football - 中国女足. 11 October 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  • Profile at Txapeldunak.com (in Spanish)


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