Nela Lopušanová (born 26 February 2008) is a Slovak ice hockey winger for the Bishop Kearney Selects under-19 AAA team.

Lopušanová began figure skating on an outdoor pond at the age of two and started playing ice hockey before her fifth birthday.

[2] At the age of four, she attended a World Girls Ice Hockey Weekend hosted by the IIHF, prompting her to join a club team.

[7][8] Concurrently, she scored 18 goals and tallied 25 assists across fourteen games as a centre with VLCI Žilina U16 in the Liga starších žiakov AA, ranking second on the team for points.

[4][10] Her stellar performance led VLCI Žilina youth coach Jakub Kubiš to dub her "a wunderkind of the kind that is born only once per century.

[18] On 5 August 2024, Lopušanová announced her commitment to play college ice hockey at the University of Wisconsin beginning in the 2026–27 season.

[21] Having grabbed international media attention in her first game, Lopušanová followed it up with "one of the most dominant performances ever seen by a player her age" against Switzerland, scoring a hat-trick and four points in a 4–1 win.

[1] At the Friuli-Venezia Giulia 2023 edition of the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF), Lopušanová again led the tournament in scoring, propelling Slovakia to a silver medal.

[27] Entering the 2024 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship with high expectations after garnering significant media attention the previous year, Lopušanová scored just two goals and three points in five games.

Her older brother, Šimon Lopušan (born 2002), is also an ice hockey player, a right winger, who plays[needs update] with the men's senior team of VLCI Žilina in the Slovenská hokejová liga.