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

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.

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.
Wambach
Abby Wambach is the second top scorer with 184. She scored her 100th goal on 20 July 2009.[1]
Hamm
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

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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
RankPlayerPositionNationConfederationGoalsCapsGoals
per
match
Career
span
Date of
100th goal
1Christine SinclairForward / Midfielder  CanadaCONCACAF1903280.582000–202320 February 2010[3]
2Abby WambachForward  United StatesCONCACAF1842550.722001–201520 July 2009[1]
3Mia HammForward / Midfielder  United StatesCONCACAF1582760.571987–200418 September 1998[4]
4Maysa JbarahForward  JordanAFC1371331.042005–unknown [5][6]
5Carli LloydForward / Midfielder  United StatesCONCACAF1343150.432005–20218 April 2018[7]
6Kristine LillyForward / Midfielder  United StatesCONCACAF1303540.371987–20103 October 2004[8]
7Birgit PrinzForward  GermanyUEFA1282140.61994–201125 October 2006[9]
8Alex MorganForward  United StatesCONCACAF1232220.562010–4 April 2019[10]
9Marta[a]Forward  BrazilCONMEBOL1191840.642002–21 October 2017
10Julie FleetingForward  ScotlandUEFA1161210.961996–201127 October 2007[12]
11Patrizia Panico[b]Forward  ItalyUEFA1101960.551996–201410 March 2014[13]
12Elisabetta Vignotto[c]Forward  ItalyUEFA1071100.971970–1989unknown
Michelle Akers[d]Forward/­Midfielder  United StatesCONCACAF1071550.691985–200027 January 1999[15]
14Sun Wen[e]Forward  ChinaAFC1061630.651990–2006unknown
15Carolina Morace[f]Forward  ItalyUEFA1051530.691978–1997unknown
16Portia ModiseForward  South AfricaCAF1011240.812000–201518 October 2014[21]
Han Duan[g]Forward  ChinaAFC1011880.542000–2011unknown­[23][25][26][27]
18Tiffeny MilbrettForward  United StatesCONCACAF1002060.491991–200610 July 2005[28]

Number of players with 100 or more goals by country

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FootballersCountryConfederation
7  United StatesCONCACAF
3  ItalyUEFA
2  ChinaAFC
1  BrazilCONMEBOL
 CanadaCONCACAF
 GermanyUEFA
 JordanAFC
 ScotlandUEFA
 South AfricaCAF
189Total

Number of players with 100 or more goals by confederation

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

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Notes

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  1. ^ Only Marta's goals scored in full international matches are counted.[11]
  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]

References

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  5. ^ "Maysa Jbarah". Jordan Football Association. Archived from the original on 20 April 2021. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  6. ^ "Women's Senior National Team – Players". Jordan Football Association. Archived from the original on 20 April 2021. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  7. ^ "Carli Lloyd Scores 100TH Goal In Wild 6–2 Win vs. Mexico". U.S. Soccer. Archived from the original on 9 April 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  8. ^ "Lilly Scores 100th Career Goal as U.S. Downs New Zealand 5–0". U.S.Soccer. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013.
  9. ^ "Germany Women 5–1 England Women". BBC Sport. 25 October 2006. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  10. ^ "Morgan notches 100th goal in International Play". ESPN. 4 April 2019. Archived from the original on 8 April 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
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  12. ^ "JULIE FLEETING'S 100th INTERNATIONAL GOAL IN WIN AGAINST SLOVAKIA". Scottish Football Association. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  13. ^ "Panico claims 100th Italy goal". uefa.com. 11 March 2014. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  14. ^ "Mia Hamm Set to Break All-time International Goal Scoring Mark". U.S.Soccer. Archived from the original on 13 March 2013. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  15. ^ a b "Akers Joins Century Club with 100th International Goal as U.S. Women's National Team Downs Portugal, 6–0". U.S. Soccer. Archived from the original on 13 March 2013.
  16. ^ "Fact Sheet: FIFA Century Club" (PDF). FIFA.com. 9 February 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  17. ^ a b "Classifica Marcatori". FIGC.it. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  18. ^ "Case of the Missing Caps". USSoccer.com. United States Soccer Federation. 8 August 2016. Archived from the original on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  19. ^ "FIFA Century Club" (PDF). FIFA. 9 February 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2014.
  20. ^ Kevin Ashby (5 July 2011). "1997: Carolina Morace". UEFA.com. Archived from the original on 24 January 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  21. ^ "Portia Modise: South Africa's centurion in numbers". fifa.com. 20 October 2014. Archived from the original on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  22. ^ "韩端百球 (Han Duan playing 100 ball)". 搜狐体育 (SOHU.com). Archived from the original on 3 February 2021. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  23. ^ a b "China celebrates opening victory". BBC Sport. 6 August 2008. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  24. ^ "Olympic Football Tournaments Beijing 2008 – Women". FIFA. Archived from the original on 4 July 2011.
  25. ^ "China beats New Zealand Olympic women's soccer warm-up". chinadaily.com.cn. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  26. ^ "Striker Ma may miss Olympics for injury". chinadaily.com.cn. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  27. ^ "China PR: Fixtures and Results". FIFA. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011.
  28. ^ "U.S. Women's National Team Earns 7–0 Win Against Ukraine; Tiffeny Milbrett earned her 100th's career goal". U.S.Soccer. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012.
  29. ^ Voerman, Andrew (26 February 2020). "Football Ferns' leading goalscorer Amber Hearn slips quietly into retirement". Stuff.co.nz. Archived from the original on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2021. Amber Hearn has played her last game for the national women's football team and won't add to her 125 caps or her 54 goals.
  30. ^ "Goalscorers". The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website. Archived from the original on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 14 February 2021.