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

For men's footballers, see List of men's footballers with 50 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.

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]

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.

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 10 August 2024

Rank	Player	Position	Nation	Confederation	Goals	Caps	Goals per match	Career span	Date of 100th goal
1	Christine Sinclair	Forward / Midfielder	Canada	CONCACAF	190	328	0.58	2000–2023	20 February 2010[3]
2	Abby Wambach	Forward	United States	CONCACAF	184	255	0.72	2001–2015	20 July 2009[1]
3	Mia Hamm	Forward / Midfielder	United States	CONCACAF	158	276	0.57	1987–2004	18 September 1998[4]
4	Maysa Jbarah	Forward	Jordan	AFC	137	133	1.04	2005–	unknown [5][6]
5	Carli Lloyd	Forward / Midfielder	United States	CONCACAF	134	315	0.43	2005–2021	8 April 2018[7]
6	Kristine Lilly	Forward / Midfielder	United States	CONCACAF	130	354	0.37	1987–2010	3 October 2004[8]
7	Birgit Prinz	Forward	Germany	UEFA	128	214	0.6	1994–2011	25 October 2006[9]
8	Alex Morgan	Forward	United States	CONCACAF	123	224	0.55	2010–2024	4 April 2019[10]
9	Marta[a]	Forward	Brazil	CONMEBOL	119	204	0.58	2002–2024	21 October 2017
10	Julie Fleeting	Forward	Scotland	UEFA	116	121	0.96	1996–2011	27 October 2007[12]
11	Patrizia Panico[b]	Forward	Italy	UEFA	110	196	0.55	1996–2014	10 March 2014[13]
12	Elisabetta Vignotto[c]	Forward	Italy	UEFA	107	110	0.97	1970–1989	unknown
	Michelle Akers[d]	Forward/­Midfielder	United States	CONCACAF	107	155	0.69	1985–2000	27 January 1999[15]
14	Sun Wen[e]	Forward	China	AFC	106	163	0.65	1990–2006	unknown
15	Carolina Morace[f]	Forward	Italy	UEFA	105	153	0.69	1978–1997	unknown
16	Portia Modise	Forward	South Africa	CAF	101	124	0.81	2000–2015	18 October 2014[21]
	Han Duan[g]	Forward	China	AFC	101	188	0.54	2000–2011	unknown­[23][25][26][27]
18	Tiffeny Milbrett	Forward	United States	CONCACAF	100	206	0.49	1991–2006	10 July 2005[28]

Number of players with 100 or more goals by country

Footballers	Country	Confederation
7	United States	CONCACAF
3	Italy	UEFA
2	China	AFC
1	Brazil	CONMEBOL
	Canada	CONCACAF
	Germany	UEFA
	Jordan	AFC
	Scotland	UEFA
	South Africa	CAF
18	9	Total

Number of players with 100 or more goals by confederation

Footballers	Countries	Confederation
8	2	CONCACAF
5	3	UEFA
3	2	AFC
1	1	CAF
1	1	CONMEBOL
0	0	OFC
18	9	Total

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

• List of top international women's football goalscorers by country
• List of women's footballers with 100 or more international caps
• List of top international men's football goalscorers by country
• List of men's footballers with 100 or more international caps
• List of women footballers with 300 or more goals

Notes

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]