Nikita van der Vliet

Nikita van der Vliet
Personal information
Born (2000-03-14) 14 March 2000
Zaandam, Netherlands
Nationality Dutch
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position Pivot
Club information
Current club Odense Håndbold
Number 44
Senior clubs
Years Team
2004–2009
HV Zaanstreek
2009-2020
VOC Amsterdam
2020–2023
NFH
2023–
Odense Håndbold
National team 1
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–
Netherlands 56 (98)
1 National team caps and goals correct
as of 1 November 2024

Nikita van der Vliet (born 14 March 2000) is a Dutch handball player for Odense Håndbold and the Dutch national team. She debuted for the Dutch national team on the 28th of September 2018 in a match against Japan.

She represented the Netherlands at the 2020 European Women's Handball Championship.

In September 2018, she was included by the European Handball Federation in a list of the twenty best young handballers to watch for the future.

In the 2024-25 season, she achieved a perfect regular season with Odense Håndbold, winning 26 of 26 games. Later the same year she reached the final of the EHF Champions League where Odense lost the final to Hungarian Győri ETO KC 30-27. 11 days later she won the Danish Championship, when Odense beat Team Esbjerg in the final 2-1 in matches.