Sylvia Smit

Smit's career started at amateur clubs SETA (from Musselkanaal), SPW and SC Stadskanaal (both from Stadskanaal). In 2002, she joined Oranje Nassau, winning the KNVB Women's Cup in her third and final season at the club. She then joined Be Quick '28 in 2005 and was the top scorer of the Hoofdklasse. When the professional Dutch women's league, the Eredivisie Vrouwen, was formed in 2007, she joined FC Twente for the league's inaugural season and won her second Dutch Cup at the club. In 2008, she joined SC Heerenveen and was the Eredivisie top scorer for two consecutive seasons, with 14 goals in 2008–09 and 11 goals in 2009–10. She joined FC Zwolle in 2011 and when the Belgian and Dutch leagues merged creating the BeNe League. She played the inaugural season for the club (then renamed PEC Zwolle). On 1 August 2014, she returned to SC Heerenveen and signed a one-year contract. On 11 June 2015, it was announced she was joining DTS Ede in the Dutch Topklasse.

On 6 August 2004 Smit debuted for the senior Netherlands women's national football team, playing the first half of a 2–0 friendly defeat to Japan in Zeist. Smit also featured in the Dutch run to the semi-final of UEFA Women's Euro 2009, playing all of the Netherlands five matches in the tournament and scoring a goal. On 25 November 2012, she earned her 100th cap for the national team in a friendly match against Wales at Velsen, scoring the first goal of the 2–0 Dutch win. In June 2013 national team coach Roger Reijners selected Smit in his Netherlands squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden. She came on as a substitute in the tournament against Iceland on 17 July 2013, her final appearance for the Netherlands.

International goals

Scores and results list the Netherlands goal tally first.

In 2018, Smit was knighted by the KNVB. In 2022, she was an assistant coach for the Dutch women's under-16 team.

Oranje Nassau KNVB Women's Cup (1): 2004–05 FC Twente KNVB Women's Cup (1): 2007–08 DTS Ede Topklasse (1): 2015–16