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). An athlete in association football, or soccer in short, can score 100 goals in international matches by playing a forward position, maintaining a high-level of success in scoring for a long period of usually more than 10 years. This page lists the highly accomplished top all-time female goal scorers in official international football matches for her country. The world governing body FIFA calls this elite group the Century Club.

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

For men's footballers, see List of men's footballers with 50 or more international goals.
Christine Sinclair of Canada is currently the active player (among both women and men) with the most goals in international football with 186 goals. She also holds the highest record of all time.

For every soccer player, especially a player not playing in a forward position, a measure of her accomplishment is the number of times she played for her national team, which shows her value to the team as a competitor on the field. See Most capped international women footballers. The world governing body FIFA calls that elite group the Century Club.

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.

Indicates the FIFA world top scorer.
Indicates the top scorer of the respective confederation.
Indicates the top scorer of the respective nation.
As of 27 November 2020
# Name Position National
team		 Confederation Intl
goals		 Caps Goals
per
match		 Active
years		 Date of 100th
goal
1 Christine Sinclair Forward/­Midfielder  Canada CONCACAF 186 296 0.63 2000– 2010-02-20[3]
2 Abby Wambach Forward  United States CONCACAF 184 256 0.72 2001–2015 2009-07-20[1]
3 Mia Hamm Forward/­Midfielder  United States CONCACAF 158 275 0.57 1987–2004 1998-09-18[4]
4 Kristine Lilly Forward/­Midfielder  United States CONCACAF 130 352 0.37 1987–2010 2004-10-03[5]
5 Birgit Prinz Forward  Germany UEFA 128 214 0.6 1994–2011 2006-10-25[6]
6 Carli Lloyd Midfielder  United States CONCACAF 123 294 0.42 2005– 2018-04-08[7]
7 Julie Fleeting Forward  Scotland UEFA 116 121 0.96 1996–2011 2007-10-27[8]
8 Marta2 Forward  Brazil CONMEBOL 108 154 0.7 2002– 2017-10-21
9 Elisabetta Vignotto1 Forward  Italy UEFA 107 110 0.97 1970–1989 unknown
Michelle Akers7 Forward/­Midfielder  United States CONCACAF 107 155 0.69 1985–2000 1998-09-20[9]
Alex Morgan Forward  United States CONCACAF 107 170 0.63 2010– 2019-04-04[10]
Patrizia Panico3 Forward  Italy UEFA 107 196 0.55 1996–2014 2014-03-10[11]
13 Sun Wen4 Forward  China PR AFC 106 163 0.65 1990–2006 unknown
14 Carolina Morace5 Forward  Italy UEFA 105 153 0.69 1978–1997 unknown
15 Portia Modise Forward  South Africa CAF 101 124 0.81 2000–2015 2014-10-18[12]
Han Duan6 Forward  China PR AFC 101 188 0.54 2000–2011 unknown[13][14][15][16]
17 Tiffeny Milbrett Forward  United States CONCACAF 100 206 0.49 1991–2006 2005-7-10[17]

Notes

1 Vignotto reportedly scored 107, or 108 goals and her record was broken by Mia Hamm.[18][9] FIFA indicates that she made 110 appearances.[19] The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) website lists her record as 97 goals in 95 matches.[20]

2 Only Marta's goals scored in full international matches (senior int'l team v senior int'l team) count toward international goal totals.[21]

3 Panico reportedly scored 108 goals in 200 games.

4 FIFA previously listed 166 games, but only 163 games were recorded.[22]

5 Morace reportedly scored 105 goals in 153 games.[23] The FIGC website lists Morace's record as 94 goals in 136 games.[20]

6 Han Duan reportedly scored her one hundredth goal[24] 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.[13] FIFA Match Report shows that she scored only one goal in that match.[25]

7 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 September 20, 1998 vs. Brazil, and not in January 1999 vs. Portgual.[26]

Number of players with 100 or more goals by country
Footballers Country Confederation
7 United StatesCONCACAF
3 ItalyUEFA
2 China PRAFC
1 BrazilCONMEBOL
 CanadaCONCACAF
 GermanyUEFA
 ScotlandUEFA
 South AfricaCAF
178Total

Number of players with 100 or more goals by confederation
Footballers Confederation
8CONCACAF
5UEFA
2AFC
1CAF
1CONMEBOL
0OFC
17Total

See also

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