This page lists the top all-time goalscorer for each women's national football team. This list is not an all-time top international goalscorers list, as several countries have two or more players with more goals than another country's top scorer. It simply lists only the top scorer for each country.
Since January 2020, Canadian forward Christine Sinclair is the leading all-time international goalscorer. [1] She overtook Abby Wambach of the United States, who had held the top position for over six years. [2] Wambach's former teammate Mia Hamm topped the list between 1999 and 2013, who was preceded by Italian player Elisabetta Vignotto. [3]
Rank | Player | Country | Goals | Caps | Goals per match | First cap | Last cap | Ref. |
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1 | Christine Sinclair | Canada | 190 | 331 | 0.57 | 12 March 2000 | 5 December 2023 | [1] [4] [5] |
2 | Abby Wambach | United States | 184 | 255 | 0.72 | 9 September 2001 | 16 December 2015 | [1] [6] |
3 | Maysa Jbarah | Jordan | 133 | 127 | 1.05 | 18 September 2005 | 29 February 2024 | [7] [8] |
4 | Birgit Prinz | Germany | 128 | 214 | 0.6 | 27 July 1994 | 30 June 2011 | [1] [9] [10] |
5 | Julie Fleeting | Scotland | 116 | 121 | 0.96 | 1996 | 8 February 2015 | [1] [11] |
6 | Marta [lower-alpha 1] | Brazil | 115 | 186 | 0.62 | 19 November 2002 | 9 April 2024 | [1] [13] [14] [15] |
7 | Patrizia Panico | Italy | 110 | 204 | 0.54 | 8 April 1996 | 27 November 2014 | [1] [16] |
8 | Sun Wen | China | 106 | 152 | 0.7 | 1990 | 2003 | [17] [ citation needed ] |
9 | Portia Modise | South Africa | 101 | 124 | 0.81 | 14 November 2000 | 11 March 2015 | [18] |
10 | Vivianne Miedema | Netherlands | 95 | 118 | 0.81 | 26 September 2013 | 23 February 2024 | [19] [20] |
11 | Eugénie Le Sommer | France | 93 | 192 | 0.48 | 12 February 2009 | 9 April 2024 | [21] [22] |
12 | Lotta Schelin | Sweden | 88 | 185 | 0.48 | 16 March 2004 | 29 July 2017 | [23] |
13 | Homare Sawa | Japan | 83 | 205 | 0.4 | 6 December 1993 | 5 July 2015 | [24] |
14 | Maribel Domínguez | Mexico | 82 | 116 | 0.71 | 18 August 1998 | 15 February 2016 | [25] [ citation needed ] |
Tessa Wullaert | Belgium | 82 | 131 | 0.63 | 20 August 2011 | 9 April 2024 | [26] [27] [28] | |
16 | Perpetua Nkwocha | Nigeria | 80 | 99 | 0.81 | 1999 | 12 June 2015 | [29] |
17 | Margrét Lára Viðarsdóttir | Iceland | 79 | 124 | 0.64 | 14 June 2003 | 8 October 2019 | [30] [ citation needed ] |
18 | Pernille Harder | Denmark | 75 | 150 | 0.5 | 24 October 2009 | 9 April 2024 | [31] [ citation needed ] |
19 | Fanny Vágó | Hungary | 74 | 146 | 0.51 | 14 March 2007 | 22 February 2023 | [32] |
20 | Ana-Maria Crnogorčević | Switzerland | 72 | 157 | 0.46 | 12 August 2009 | 27 February 2024 | [33] [ citation needed ] |
21 | Ji So-yun | South Korea | 71 | 158 | 0.45 | 30 October 2006 | 8 April 2024 | [34] [35] |
22 | Sam Kerr | Australia | 69 | 128 | 0.54 | 7 February 2009 | 1 November 2023 | [36] |
23 | Huỳnh Như | Vietnam | 68 | 109 | 0.62 | 2011 | 1 November 2023 | [37] [ citation needed ] |
24 | Isabell Herlovsen | Norway | 67 | 133 | 0.5 | 11 March 2005 | 8 October 2019 | [38] |
Win Theingi Tun | Myanmar | 67 | 71 | 0.94 | 2014 | 3 May 2023 | [39] [40] [ citation needed ] | |
26 | Daryna Apanashchenko | Ukraine | 64 | 145 | 0.44 | 12 May 2002 | 9 April 2024 | |
27 | Linda Sällström | Finland | 59 | 137 | 0.43 | 31 May 2007 | 9 April 2024 | [41] [42] [43] |
Raquel Rodríguez | Costa Rica | 59 | 110 | 0.54 | 20 October 2007 | 9 April 2024 | ||
Ewa Pajor | Poland | 59 | 85 | 0.69 | 20 August 2013 | 9 April 2024 | [44] | |
30 | Khadija Shaw | Jamaica | 55 | 41 | 1.34 | 2015 | 27 September 2023 | [45] |
Jennifer Hermoso | Spain | 55 | 113 | 0.49 | 21 June 2012 | 9 April 2024 | [46] [47] | |
32 | Olivia O'Toole | Republic of Ireland | 54 | 130 | 0.42 | 8 December 1991 | 30 October 2008 | [48] |
Amber Hearn | New Zealand | 54 | 125 | 0.43 | 18 February 2004 | 9 June 2018 | [49] [50] | |
34 | Nina Burger | Austria | 53 | 108 | 0.49 | 1 September 2005 | 9 April 2019 | [51] [ citation needed ] |
Sabitra Bhandari | Nepal | 53 | 46 | 1.15 | 12 November 2014 | 27 February 2024 | [52] | |
36 | Bala Devi | India | 52 | 61 | 0.85 | 2007 | 2020 | [53] |
Gabriela Chlumecká | Czech Republic | 52 | 66 | 0.79 | 21 June 1993 | 26 May 2007 | [54] [ citation needed ] | |
Ellen White | England | 52 | 113 | 0.46 | 25 March 2010 | 31 July 2022 | [55] | |
39 | Reem Al-Hashmi | Bahrain | 51 | 58 | 0.88 | [ citation needed ] | ||
40 | Madeleine Ngono Mani | Cameroon | 49 | 109 | 0.45 | 2002 | 2020 | [56] |
41 | Helen Ward | Wales | 44 | 105 | 0.42 | 30 September 2008 | 21 February 2023 | [57] |
42 | Anastassia Morkovkina | Estonia | 40 | 75 | 0.53 | 7 March 1997 | 28 August 2015 | [58] [ citation needed ] |
43 | Edite Fernandes | Portugal | 39 | 132 | 0.3 | 21 December 1997 | 16 September 2016 | [59] [ citation needed ] |
44 | Rachel Furness | Northern Ireland | 38 | 95 | 0.4 | 9 March 2005 | 27 October 2023 | |
45 | Sabina Khatun | Bangladesh | 34 | 53 | 0.64 | 2010 | 4 December 2023 | [ citation needed ] |
46 | Silvi Jan | Israel | 29 | 23 | 1.26 | 2 November 1997 | 10 May 2007 | [60] [61] |
Nérilia Mondésir | Haiti | 29 | 19 | 1.53 | 2016 | 30 October 2023 | ||
48 | Sarina Bolden | Philippines | 28 | 44 | 0.64 | 6 April 2018 | 26 October 2023 | [62] |
49 | Yağmur Uraz | Turkey | 26 | 73 | 0.36 | 2006 | 31 October 2023 | [63] [ citation needed ] |
Patrícia Hmírová | Slovakia | 26 | 116 | 0.22 | 27 May 2012 | 9 April 2024 | ||
51 | Ghizlane Chebbak | Morocco | 22 | 69 | 0.32 | 8 March 2008 | 31 October 2023 | [64] |
Mariana Larroquette | Argentina | 22 | 83 | 0.27 | 21 May 2015 | 2 March 2024 | [65] | |
53 | Zahra Ghanbari | Iran | 17 | 65 | 0.26 | 21 May 2013 | 25 September 2021 | [66] [67] |
54 | Lili Iskandar | Lebanon | 12 | 23 | 0.52 | 8 November 2018 | 23 February 2024 | [68] [69] |
55 | Megi Doçi | Albania | 11 | 43 | 0.26 | 22 October 2015 | 22 February 2024 | [70] [ citation needed ] |
56 | Al Bandari Mobarak | Saudi Arabia | 10 | 17 | 0.59 | 20 February 2022 | 23 February 2024 | [71] [72] |
57 | Marjan Haydaree | Afghanistan | 5 | 2012 | [73] [ citation needed ] | |||
58 | Rawan Abdelmoneim | Sudan | 1 | 24 August 2021 | 20 October 2021 | [74] | ||
Rayan Ragab | 1 | 24 August 2021 | 20 October 2021 | [74] |
Since the early 1980s there have been four players who have topped the all-time global goal scorers list.
Goals | Name | Country | Start | End | Span | Ref |
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107 | Elisabetta Vignotto [lower-alpha 2] | Italy | 1982 | 22 May 1999 | 16–17 years | [3] [76] |
158 | Mia Hamm | United States | 22 May 1999 | 20 June 2013 | 14 years, 29 days | [2] |
184 | Abby Wambach | United States | 20 June 2013 | 30 January 2020 | 6 years, 224 days | [2] |
190 | Christine Sinclair | Canada | 30 January 2020 | ongoing | 4 years, 80 days | [1] |
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