List of women's footballers with 100 or more international goals

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Christine Sinclair of Canada is currently the active player (among both women and men) with the most goals in international football with 190 goals. She also holds the highest record of all time. Christine Sinclair 2013-05-04 Spirit - Thorns-2.jpg
Christine Sinclair of Canada is currently the active player (among both women and men) with the most goals in international football with 190 goals. She also holds the highest record of all time.

Association football at the professional level is a low scoring sport (see article Association football for more detail). This page lists the top all-time female goal scorers in official international football matches for their country.

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Abby Wambach is the second top scorer with 184. She scored her 100th goal on 20 July 2009. [1]
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Mia Hamm held the goal scoring record for women's international matches from May 1999, when she surpassed Italy's Elisabetta Vignotto by scoring her 108th goal for the United States, until 20 June 2013 when fellow American Abby Wambach passed her with goal 159. [2]

List of players with 100 or more international goals

The first player to reach 100 international goals was Italian Elisabetta Vignotto. Abby Wambach scored 100 goals in 9 years, while Christine Sinclair reached the milestone in just under 10 years while Mia Hamm is the youngest player to score 100 international goals at the age of 26 years 185 days. Most played exclusively in the forward position, with Kristine Lilly and Michelle Akers having also played as midfielder. All players scored at a high average rate of more than one goal every three matches. International goals in this list should not include goals scored in penalty-shoot-out; see Penalty shootout (association football). Players who are currently active at international level are indicated in bold type background.

As of 21 August 2022
RankPlayerPositionNationConfederation Goals Caps Goals
per
match		Career
span		Date of
100th goal
1 Christine Sinclair Forward / Midfielder Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada CONCACAF 190 3280.582000–202320 February 2010 [3]
2 Abby Wambach Forward Flag of the United States.svg  United States CONCACAF 184 2550.722001–201520 July 2009 [1]
3 Mia Hamm Forward / Midfielder Flag of the United States.svg  United States CONCACAF1582760.571987–200418 September 1998 [4]
4 Maysa Jbarah ForwardFlag of Jordan.svg  Jordan AFC 1331291.042005–unknown [5] [6]
5 Carli Lloyd Forward / MidfielderFlag of the United States.svg  United States CONCACAF 134 3150.432005–20218 April 2018 [7]
6 Kristine Lilly Forward / Midfielder Flag of the United States.svg  United States CONCACAF1303540.371987–20103 October 2004 [8]
7 Birgit Prinz ForwardFlag of Germany.svg  Germany UEFA 128 2140.61994–201125 October 2006 [9]
8 Alex Morgan ForwardFlag of the United States.svg  United States CONCACAF 121 2150.562010–4 April 2019 [10]
9 Julie Fleeting ForwardFlag of Scotland.svg  Scotland UEFA 116 1210.961996–201127 October 2007 [11]
10 Marta [lower-alpha 1] ForwardFlag of Brazil.svg  Brazil CONMEBOL 115 1750.662002–21 October 2017
11 Patrizia Panico [lower-alpha 2] ForwardFlag of Italy.svg  Italy UEFA1101960.551996–201410 March 2014 [13]
12 Elisabetta Vignotto [lower-alpha 3] ForwardFlag of Italy.svg  Italy UEFA1071100.971970–1989unknown
Michelle Akers [lower-alpha 4] Forward/­MidfielderFlag of the United States.svg  United States CONCACAF1071550.691985–200027 January 1999 [15]
14 Sun Wen [lower-alpha 5] ForwardFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China AFC1061630.651990–2006unknown
15 Carolina Morace [lower-alpha 6] ForwardFlag of Italy.svg  Italy UEFA1051530.691978–1997unknown
16 Portia Modise ForwardFlag of South Africa.svg  South Africa CAF 1011240.812000–201518 October 2014 [21]
Han Duan [lower-alpha 7] ForwardFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China AFC1011880.542000–2011unknown­ [23] [25] [26] [27]
18 Tiffeny Milbrett ForwardFlag of the United States.svg  United States CONCACAF1002060.491991–200610 July 2005 [28]

Number of players with 100 or more goals by country

FootballersCountryConfederation
7Flag of the United States.svg  United States CONCACAF
3Flag of Italy.svg  Italy UEFA
2Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China AFC
1Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil CONMEBOL
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada CONCACAF
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany UEFA
Flag of Jordan.svg  Jordan AFC
Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland UEFA
Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa CAF
189Total

Number of players with 100 or more goals by confederation

FootballersCountriesConfederation
82 CONCACAF
53 UEFA
32 AFC
11 CAF
11 CONMEBOL
00 OFC
189Total

No OFC player has scored 100 goals in full internationals. The current record holder is New Zealand player Amber Hearn, with 54 goals in 125 matches between 2004 and 2018. [29] [30]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Only Marta's goals scored in full international matches are counted. [12]
  2. ↑ Panico reportedly scored 108 goals in 200 games.
  3. ↑ Vignotto reportedly scored 107, or 108 goals and her record was broken by Mia Hamm. [14] [15] FIFA indicates that she made 110 appearances. [16] The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) website lists her record as 97 goals in 95 matches. [17]
  4. ↑ Akers' goal total was long thought to be 105. U.S. Soccer has revised it to 107 after discovering two friendlies in 1995. This means her 100th international goal was scored on 27 January 1999, vs. Portugal, and not on 30 January 1999 vs. Portugal. [18]
  5. ↑ FIFA previously listed 166 games, but only 163 games were recorded. [19]
  6. ↑ Morace reportedly scored 105 goals in 153 games. [20] The FIGC website lists Morace's record as 94 goals in 136 games. [17]
  7. ↑ Han Duan reportedly scored her one hundredth goal [22] on 6 August 2008 in China's opening match against Sweden at Beijing 2008 Olympics. Another source reported that she scored her goal 101 that day. [23] FIFA Match Report shows that she scored only one goal in that match. [24]

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