Personal information | |||
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Full name | Enekia Kasonga Lunyamila | ||
Date of birth | (2002-04-20) 20 April 2002 (age 22) | ||
Place of birth | Kigoma, Tanzania | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Mazatlán | ||
Number | 9 | ||
Youth career | |||
Alliance FC | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2016 | Alliance FC | 23 | (37) |
2018 | Ruvuma Queens | 34 | (27) |
2021 | Ausfaz Assa-Zag | 41 | (49) |
2023 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | ||
2023–2024 | Eastern Flames | 14 | (7) |
2024– | Mazatlán | 3 | (1) |
International career | |||
2019–2020 | Tanzania U20 | ||
2018– | Tanzania | 28 | (20) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 September 2024 |
Enekia Kasonga Lunyamila (born 20 April 2002) is a Tanzanian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Liga MX Femenil club Mazatlán and the Tanzania women's national team.
International career
Kasonga played for the Tanzania national U-20 team in 2019 and 2020. She played a key role and scored 4 goals en route to the team winning the 2019 COSAFA U-20 Women's Championship. At the end of the competition she was adjudged player of the tournament.
Kasonga capped for the Tanzania women's national team during the 2020 COSAFA Women's Championship and 2021 COSAFA Women's Championship. She scored the lone goal, the winning goal in the 2021 final against Malawi to help Tanzania win the tournament for the first time in its history.
Honours
Tanzania
Individual
- COSAFA U-20 Women's Championship Player of the Tournament: 2019
- Best player of Morocco women's professional first league 2021/22
References
- "Enekia Lunyamila". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- Duret, Sebastien. "COSAFA Women's Cup – La TANZANIE remporte son premier titre". Footofeminin.fr : le football au féminin (in French). Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ "South Africa claim COSAFA Women's Championship title, Tanzania clinch Under-20 gold". Council of Southern Africa Football Associations. 11 August 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
- "Tanzania go for youth at 2021 COSAFA Women's Championship". COSAFA. 20 September 2021.
- Tanzania Football Federation (16 October 2020). "Kikosi cha Timu ya Taifa ya Wanawake @twigastars kilichopo Kambini kujiandaa na mashindano ya COSAFA yatakayoanza Novemba 3-14 Afrika Kusini" [Squad of the National Women's Team @twigastars present at Camp to prepare for the COSAFA tournament which starts on November 3–14 in South Africa] (Tweet) (in Swahili) – via Twitter.
- "Zimbabwe 0-1 Tanzania". COSAFA. 4 November 2020.
- ^ Philémon (10 October 2021). "COSAFA Cup (F): Tanzania beats Malawi to win the final". Sport News Africa. Archived from the original on 29 September 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- "Tanzania stop Malawi to win COSAFA Women's Championship 2021 title". CAFOnline. CAF-Confedération Africaine du Football. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
External links
- Enekia Kasonga at Global Sports Archive
- Enekia Kasonga on Instagram
Mazatlán F.C. (women) – current squad | |
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COSAFA U-20 Women's Championship Player of the Tournament | |
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- 2002 births
- Living people
- People from Kigoma Region
- Tanzanian women's footballers
- Women's association football forwards
- FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih players
- Eastern Flames FC players
- Liga MX Femenil players
- Mazatlán F.C. footballers
- Tanzanian Women's Premier League players
- Saudi Women's Premier League players
- Tanzania women's international footballers
- Tanzanian expatriate women's footballers
- Tanzanian expatriate sportspeople in Morocco
- Expatriate women's footballers in Morocco
- Tanzanian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine
- Expatriate women's footballers in Ukraine
- Expatriate women's footballers in Saudi Arabia
- Expatriate women's footballers in Mexico
- 21st-century Tanzanian sportswomen