*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of August 17, 2024
Melanie Claire Rendeiro Forbes (born June 21, 1999) is a Canadian soccer player.
Early life
Forbes played with the Ontario provincial team from 2013 to 2015 and the Ontario REX program from 2014 to 2015.[1] She also played with Scarborough GS United.[1] In 2017, she was named to the Team Ontario roster for the 2017 Canada Summer Games, where she won a silver medal.[2][3]
College career
In 2017, Forbes began attending Indiana University, where she played for the women's soccer team.[1] On September 7, 2018, she scored her first collegiate goal in a 5-1 victory over the Kentucky Wildcats.[4] At the end of her second season, she was named a Big Ten Conference Distinguished Scholar and named to the Academic All-Big Ten team.[1] In 2019, she was named to the Academic All-District First Team, the Academic All-Big Ten Team, and named a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar.[1][5] On February 28, 2021, she scored a brace in a 2-0 victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes,[6] which earned her Big Ten Co-Offensive Player of the Week and Forbes Named TopDrawerSoccer’s Player of the Week honours.[7][8] After completing her Bachelor of Science degree, she returned for a fifth year to play with the team and complete her Master of Science in Healthcare Management, with her completing her final semester of her master's in Portugal to enable her to also pursue professional soccer.[9]
In 2021, she played with Detroit City FC in United Women's Soccer.[14] She scored 7 goals that season[15] and was named to the UWS All-Midwest Conference Second Team at the end of the season.[16]
In February 2022, Forbes joined Portuguese club Damaiense.[17] In April 2022, she was named to the league's Team of the Week.[18]
In July 2023, she signed with Icelandic club Keflavík.[19] On August 2, 2023, she scored her first goal for the club in a 1-1 draw with Stjarnan.[20] On September 7, 2024, she scored a hat trick in a 4-4 draw with Stjarnan.[21] After finishing as the team's top scorer in 2024, she was named the club's female player of the year.[22]