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Danelle Tan Li Ern (born 25 October 2004) is a Singaporean women's football player.[1][2]

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Danelle Tan

Personal information
Full name	Danelle Tan Li Ern
Date of birth	(2004-10-25) 25 October 2004 (age 17)
Place of birth	Singapore
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2019	Still Aerion	10	(20)
2020–2021	Lion City Sailors	4	(6)
2022	Lion City Sailors	4	(5)
National team‡
2019	Singapore U15	6	(6)
2017–2019	Singapore U16	11	(4)
2018–2019	Singapore U19	3	(0)
2019–present	Singapore	15	(3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:45, 3 August 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 02:06, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Early life

Tan started playing football when she was 6 and joined her brothers at JSSL academy. She was proficient from a young age and scored 12 goals in her first session.[3][4]

Club career

In 2019, Tan joined Still Aerion FC, an amateur women's team from the FAS Women's National League. Scoring on her debut match in May 2019 at the age of 14 made her the second-youngest goal scorer in the league's history.[5]

She scored 16 goals in 6 games and became the league's top scorer.[6] She also scored 4 goals in the Challenge Cup and helped Still Aerion FC to enter the finals where they lost 0–1 to Tanjong Pagar United FC.[7] She then joined Lion City Sailors, but played no official matches due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore. She then moved to England to study at Mill Hill School. She is the first female to represent Mill Hill's First XI football team. [8]

Tan made her debut for Lion City Sailors in July 2022 against Still Aerion FC. She scored two minutes after coming on in the second half and another 14 minutes later.[9][10]

International career

Tan made the Singapore U16 in 2017 at the age of 12. She scored her first goal for the under 16 team in September 2018 in a 4–1 win against Tajikistan.[11] She registered her first hat-trick a few days later in a 4–0 win against Northern Mariana Islands.[12]

She made her Singapore U19 debut on 24 October 2018 in a 0–8 loss against Jordan in the 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification. She was the youngest player in the Singapore squad at the age of 13.[13]

In a UEFA-FAS tournament in March 2019, she scored 4 goals against Guam and 1 against Cambodia, to be the joint top scorer in the tournament held in Singapore. She also received the Golden Boot of the UEFA Under-15 Tournament in 2019.[14]

Tan was called up to the senior national team and made her debut on 16 August 2019 at the AFF Women's Championship.[15] She scored a last-minute goal in the 1–2 defeat against Timor-Leste. She was 14 years, which made her the youngest goalscorer (male and female) in Singapore and the fifth youngest in the world.[1][2]

In the 2022 FAS Tri-Nations series, Tan scored 2 goals and had 1 assist in a 6–2 win against Seychelles.[16] She was also named as one of three best players in a 0–1 defeat against Papua New Guinea.[17]

International goals

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	15 August 2019	IPE Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi, Thailand	Timor-Leste	1–2	1–2	2019 AFF Women's Championship
2.	4 April 2022	Jalan Besar Stadium, Jalan Besar, Singapore	Seychelles	3–1	6–2	2022 FAS Tri-Nations Series
3.				6–2

Career statistics

As of 3 August 2022

Club	Season	League		Cup		Continental		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Still Aerion	2019	6	16	4	4	0	0	10	20
Lion City Sailors	2020
	2022	4	5					4	5
Career total		10	21	4	4	0	0	14	25

Personal life

Tan has been chosen to be an ambassador for women's football in Singapore and has been honoured by Edwin Tong, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth & Second Minister for Law at the Women's Football Conference 2022.[4][18] She paid tribute to her mother during mother's day in 2021 as one of several national athletes featured.[19]

References

External links

• Instagram account

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