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Mijke Roelfsema
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Mijke
Roelfsema
Defender

Player Biography

The defender joined the Light Blues as a free agent in the summer of 2026, having most recently featured for FC Nantes in France’s Ligue 1.

Born in the Netherlands, she started in youth football with VV Schoonhoven in her homeland, where she played with the boys teams before, in August 2014, joining ADO Den Haag.

The 28-year-old then moved across the Atlantic in 2017 to attend college in Boston, United States, featuring in college football there before switching to Rice University two years later.

She briefly featured for Calgary Foothills WFC in Canada before making her first steps into the professional game, signing for Apollon Ladies in Cyprus as she made the move back over to Europe.

Spending a season there in 2022, she then made the switch to Danish Women’s League club AaB Fodbold before a stint in the Republic of Ireland with Treaty United.

A move back to Canada with Calgary Wild then came to fruition before her last club, FC Nantes, made the move to bring her to France in January 2026, finishing in fourth place with the club in the nation’s top tier.

On the international front, the centre-back has featured for her nation at two youth levels with both the Netherlands Under-17s and 19s respectively. She featured against Germany in a friendly back in 2015 and played on two occasions for the Under-19s side.

She made her debut for the Gers in a women’s Champions League qualifier against SK Slavia Praha in a 2-1 comeback win at Broadwood, before the team missed out on the play-off round, having narrowly lost out to Ajax in the final.