Refiloe Jane

Refiloe Jane
Jane with South Africa in 2018
Personal information
Date of birth (1992-08-04) 4 August 1992 (age 34)
Place of birth Kliptown, Gauteng, South Africa
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 TS Galaxy Queens
Number 4
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
– Colchester United
2012 Mamelodi Sundowns
–2018 TUT Ladies
2018–2019 Canberra United 10 (2)
2019–2022 AC Milan 45 (3)
2022–2024 Sassuolo 29 (3)
2025– TS Galaxy Queens 22 (1)
International career‡
2012– South Africa 150 (18)
Medal record
Representing  South Africa
Women's Africa Cup of Nations
Second place2012 Equatorial Guinea
Second place2018 Ghana
First place2022 Morocco
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 9 June 2026
‡ National team caps and goals as of 9 June 2026

Refiloe Jane (born 4 August 1992) is a South African professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder and captain for the South African women's national team. She plays for SAFA Women's League club TS Galaxy Queens.

Club career

Canberra United

From 20 August 2018 to 2019, Canberra United announced that it had signed Jane for the 2018–19 W-League Season. She joined the club alongside fellow South African Rhoda Mulaudzi; they are the first players from South Africa to play in the W-League.

AC Milan

After parting ways with the Australian team Canberra United in April 2019, Refiloe signed for Italian Serie A Women's League outfit AC Milan on a one-year deal for an undisclosed fee.

Sassuolo

In August 2022, she joined Italian Serie A side Sassuolo. After two seasons at the club, she left in the summer of 2024, seeking a new challenge.

TS Galaxy Queens

She returned from being sidelined for 10 months due to an injury by signing with SAFA Women's League side TS Galaxy Queens. Jane made her debut on 15 March 2025 and assisted the first goal in a 2-0 win over First Touch.

International career

Jane represented South Africa at the 2012 London Olympics. In September 2014, Jane was named to the roster for the 2014 African Women's Championship in Namibia.

Jane was named in the South African squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics and played every minute of the team's three group games. On 27 February 2019, Jane made her 100th appearance for South Africa against Finland.

She captained the South African women's national team at the Women's Africa Cup of Nations where they won their first continental title and the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup where they reached the last 16. Jane played the opening two games, a 2-1 defeat to Sweden and 2-2 draw against Argentina, where she exited Dunedin Stadium in New Zealand on a stretcher after a tough collision with Argentine midfielder Florencia Bonsegundo. South Africa went on to beat Italy 3-2 without Jane, but bowed out in the last-16 to the Netherlands on a 2-0 scoreline. In April 2024, she returned to the national team in the 2024 Olympic last round qualifiers against Nigeria where the team failed to qualify for the tournament after a 1–0 aggregate loss.

Jane played her 150th appearance for the national team on 9 June 2026 against Japan, becoming the fourth most-capped player in the team following Nompumelelo Nyandeni (150 caps), Noko Matlou (174 caps), and Janine van Wyk (185 caps).

In July-August 2026, Jane was again captain of the team in the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON). South Africa got knocked out in the quarterfinals, ending their title defense and also failing to secure an automatic spot in the 2027 Women's World Cup. They did, however, reach an inter-confederation play-in game to keep alive their hopes of reaching the World Cup. In that game, against Nigeria on August 13, Jane scored the game-winning goal in the 77th minute and then received a red card (second yellow) in the 90+2nd minute. With this win, South Africa qualified for the preliminary phase of the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification inter-confederation play-offs.

International goals

Scores and results list South Africa's goal tally first

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetitionReference
110 December 2012Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Phokeng, South Africa Botswana2-03-0Friendly
213 September 2014Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Phokeng, South Africa Botswana4–010–0Friendly
322 October 2014Sam Nujoma Stadium, Windhoek, Namibia Nigeria1–21–22014 African Women's Championship
425 November 2016Limbe Stadium, Limbe, Cameroon Egypt3–05–02016 Africa Women Cup of Nations
521 September 2017Barbourfields Stadium, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Zambia3–33–32017 COSAFA Women's Championship
622 September 2018Wolfson Stadium, KwaZakele, South Africa Cameroon1–02–12018 COSAFA Women's Championship
72–1
87 October 2018Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar, Chile Chile1–11–2Friendly
921 November 2018Cape Coast Sports Stadium, Cape Coast, Ghana Equatorial Guinea3–17–12018 Africa Women Cup of Nations
1014 July 2025Honneur Stadium, Oujda, Morocco Mali2–04–02024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations
1113 August 2026Moulay Rachid Stadium, Casablanca, Morocco Nigeria2–02–1Inter-confederation play-in, 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations

Personal life

She married Christa Kgamphe on 18 June 2021.

Honours

South Africa

Individual

References

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