♣ List of women's footballers with 100 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.

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.

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♣ List of top international women's football goal scorers 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.

Since January 2020, Canadian forward Christine Sinclair is the leading all-time international goalscorer. She overtook Abby Wambach of the United States, who had held the top position for over six years. Wambach's former teammate Mia Hamm topped the list between 1999 and 2013, who was preceded by Italian player Elisabetta Vignotto.

List of top scorers by country

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. Sudan has a pair of players tied for national leader, and is counted as one nation.

♣ List of women's footballers with 100 or more international caps

This list summarizes women's association football players with 100 or more international appearances.

As of 01 May 2024, a total of 465 women have played 100 or more international matches for their respective nations. The all-time leader in senior caps, Kristine Lilly of the United States, had 354 caps and retired from international football on 6 January 2011.

The currently active most-capped women's international football player is Christine Sinclair of Canada, with 331 caps.

Three American players, Kristine Lilly, Carli Lloyd and Christie Pearce, and one from Canada, Christine Sinclair, have 300 or more caps. In total, 28 players — fourteen of them American; three from Canada; two each from China, and Sweden; and one each from Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, and Scotland — have 200 or more caps.

FIFA criteria

FIFA recognises only matches played within the FIFA World Cup (including qualifying competitions), continental competitions (including qualifiers), friendly matches between senior national teams and Olympic final and qualifying matches played up to and including 1960 (with certain exceptions) as international "A" matches. This affects some players who were formerly included in FIFA's 'Century Club'. Therefore, the records established by the associations with regard to these players may differ from the FIFA Century Club.

As FIFA recognises the Great Britain women's Olympic football team, these appearances are included. FIFA does not recognise the Catalonia women's national football team, and so these appearances are not included.

♣ List of women footballers with 300 or more goals

In women's association football competitions, 44 players have scored 300 or more goals over the course of their career in both club and international football, according to research by Independent Football Data (IFD), an organisation ran independently by an English man. FIFA, the international governing body of football, has never released a list detailing the highest women's goalscorers and does not keep official records.

As part of the article List of footballers with 500 or more goals, two women had entered the list; Patrizia Panico with 863 goals in 790 games and Anita Pádár with 661 goals in 447 games. However, with no source to back up this claim, it was removed from the article.

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