List of top international women's football goalscorers by country

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.

For men's footballers, see List of top international men's football goalscorers by country.

Christine Sinclair of Canada is the all-time leading goalscorer for women's national teams

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]

List of top scorers by country

As of 16 July 2024

Players in bold are still active at international level.

Players in italics also hold the record for most caps for their nation.

Rank is a count of the FIFA nations.

Rank	Player	Country	Goals	Caps	Goals per match	First cap	Last cap	Ref.
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	Marta[lower-alpha 1]	Brazil	119	200	0.6	19 November 2002	31 July 2024	[1][12][13][14]
6	Julie Fleeting	Scotland	116	121	0.96	1996	8 February 2015	[1][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	96	120	0.8	26 September 2013	16 July 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]
	Tessa Wullaert	Belgium	83	135	0.61	20 August 2011	16 July 2024	[25][26][27]
15	Maribel Domínguez	Mexico	82	116	0.71	18 August 1998	15 February 2016	[28][citation needed]
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	76	154	0.49	24 October 2009	16 July 2024	[31][citation needed]
19	Fanny Vágó	Hungary	74	146	0.51	14 March 2007	22 February 2023	[32]
	Ana-Maria Crnogorčević	Switzerland	74	159	0.47	12 August 2009	16 July 2024	[33][citation needed]
21	Ji So-yun	South Korea	71	160	0.44	30 October 2006	5 June 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	69	73	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	141	0.42	31 May 2007	16 July 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	Barbra Banda	Zambia	56	62	0.9	6 March 2016	30 July 2024
31	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]
33	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]
35	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]
37	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]
40	Reem Al-Hashmi	Bahrain	51	58	0.88			[citation needed]
41	Madeleine Ngono Mani	Cameroon	49	109	0.45	2002	2020	[56]
42	Helen Ward	Wales	44	105	0.42	30 September 2008	21 February 2023	[57]
43	Anastassia Morkovkina	Estonia	40	75	0.53	7 March 1997	28 August 2015	[58][citation needed]
44	Edite Fernandes	Portugal	39	132	0.3	21 December 1997	16 September 2016	[59][citation needed]
45	Rachel Furness	Northern Ireland	38	95	0.4	9 March 2005	27 October 2023
46	Sabina Khatun	Bangladesh	34	53	0.64	2010	4 December 2023	[citation needed]
47	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
49	Sarina Bolden	Philippines	28	44	0.64	6 April 2018	26 October 2023	[62]
50	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
52	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]
54	Zahra Ghanbari	Iran	17	65	0.26	21 May 2013	25 September 2021	[66][67]
55	Lili Iskandar	Lebanon	12	23	0.52	8 November 2018	23 February 2024	[68][69]
56	Megi Doçi	Albania	11	43	0.26	22 October 2015	22 February 2024	[70][citation needed]
57	Belén Aquino	Uruguay	10	15	0.67	24 May 2019	13 July 2024
	Al Bandari Mobarak	Saudi Arabia	10	17	0.59	20 February 2022	23 February 2024	[71][72]

Record progression

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
107	Elisabetta Vignotto[lower-alpha 2]	Italy	1982	22 May 1999	16–17 years	[3][74]
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, 237 days	[1]

See also

• List of women's footballers with 100 or more international goals
• List of women's footballers with 100 or more international caps
• List of women's national association football teams
• List of men's footballers with 50 or more international goals

Notes

1. Only Marta's goals scored in full international matches (senior international team v senior international team) count toward international goal totals.^[11]
2. Vignotto reportedly scored 107 or 108 goals.^[3] The Italian Football Federation lists her record as 97 goals in 95 matches.^[73]

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