List of international goals scored by Vivianne Miedema
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Vivianne Miedema is a Dutch professional footballer who has played as a forward for the Netherlands women's national football team since 2013.[1] She is the all-time top scorer for her country, for both women and men.[2] On 26 September 2013, Miedema made her debut for the Dutch senior team aged seventeen. She was an 84th-minute substitute for Lieke Martens in a 4–0 win over Albania in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5.[1] One month later in her second cap she scored her first goals, a hat-trick, in her country's 7–0 win over Portugal, after only having come onto the pitch as a substitute in the 75th minute.[3]
Miedema helped the Dutch qualify for their first-ever FIFA World Cup finals, scoring all three of her side's goals in the two-leg final of the UEFA qualification play-offs against Italy in November 2014.[4] She finished as the top scorer in the qualification campaign with 16 goals.[5] At the finals in Canada, she played all four matches, three group stage games and the round of 16 match, a defeat against Japan. She did not score in Canada.[6] At the 2017 UEFA Women's European Championship, held in the Netherlands, Miedema scored four times, including in the semi-final win over England and in the final against Denmark.[7][8] Her goals helped secure the first ever title for the Dutch women.[8]
In the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA play-offs Miedema scored twice against Switzerland, taking her country to the World Cup finals in France, where she scored three times.[9][10] On 15 June 2019, Miedema became the all-time top scorer of the Netherlands women's national football team after scoring her 60th goal in a 3–1 Group E win against Cameroon.[11] She passed the record held by Manon Melis and extended her lead over the men's team's leading scorer, Robin van Persie, who scored 50 goals before retiring.[12] In the quarter-final against Italy she scored the first goal of the match, helping the Dutch progress.[13] In the final against the United States the Netherlands did not score and lost 2–0.[14] At the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo Miedema broke the record of most goals scored in a single Olympic tournament: 10.[15] In 118 appearances for the senior national team as of December 2023, Miedema has scored 95 goals.[1] None of her goals have come from penalty kicks.[1] She has scored seven hat-tricks: a double hat-trick (six goals) against Cyprus (2022),[16] four goals against Zambia (2021),[17] and regular hat-tricks against Greece (2013),[18] Russia (2017),[19] and Portugal (twice, in 2013 and 2014).[20][21] Her most productive year was 2017 with 20 goals from 21 games.[1]