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.
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]
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.
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]
^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]
^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]
^FIFA previously listed 166 games, but only 163 games were recorded.[19]
^Morace reportedly scored 105 goals in 153 games.[20]
The FIGC website lists Morace's record as 94 goals in 136 games.[17]
^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]