Barbra Banda

How Acquired: via transfer from Shanghai Shengli FC on Mar. 7, 2024

CLUB HIGHLIGHTS 

• Became the first player in Pride history to score a hat trick on May 23, 2025, against Utah Royals FC.  

• Scored a team-high eight goals in 16 games played before being placed on SEI for the remainder of the 2025 season.  

• 2024 NWSL Championship MVP 

• Scored the game winning goal for the Pride in the 2024 NWSL Championship. 

• Named a finalist for 2024 NWSL MVP.   

• Named to the 2024 Best XI First Team. 

• Named 2024 BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year. 

• Became the first African to ever be named to the FIFPRO Women’s World 11 in 2024. 

• Named a finalist for the Ballon d’Or. 

• Finished second in the Golden Boot race scoring 13 goals in 2024. Added six assists and recorded four braces, tying the single-season league record during the regular season.   

• Scored 41 goals across 52 career games in Shanghai. 

INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS 

• Represented Zambia in the 2024 Paris Olympics and scored four goals, which was tied for the second-most scored in the tournament, including a hat trick against Australia. 

• Became the first player in women’s football to score three hat tricks at the Olympic Games 

• In 2021, became the first player in Olympic history to score back-to-back hat tricks and the first to total two hat tricks over one tournament – scoring three against both the Netherlands and China. 

• Led Zambia to the COSAFA Women’s Championship, and won the Golden Ball with 10 goals over five matches 

• Helped then No. 79 ranked Zambia knock off No. 2 ranked Germany, scoring a brace, including the stoppage-time game-winner 

• Debuted with Zambia in 2016 and has since represented the side at both the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. 

• Scored the game-winning goal in Zambia’s for the nation’s first-ever World Cup win and served as the 1000th goal in Women’s world cup history.