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The 100 Best Female Footballers in the World is an annual global ranking of the best female footballers. The list was started by The Offside Rule podcast in 2016. Since 2018 it has also been published in association with the British newspaper The Guardian who have published the male equivalent since its inception in 2012.
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.
The Best FIFA Women's Player is a football award presented annually by the sport's governing body, FIFA, since 2016, to honour the player deemed to have performed the best over the previous calendar year. [1] From 2001 to 2015, the award was known as the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year.
Kristine Lilly of the United States is the all-time highest international capped player with 354 caps. Spain players Alexia Putellas and Jenni Hermoso receiving commemorative shirts for making over 100 appearances. This list summarizes women's association football players with 100 or more international appearances.
Before she retired in 2006, she was a star in the international women's soccer scene. With 71 goals and 14 assists , she was voted Canadian Women’s Player of the Year in 1994, 1995 and 2002.
Sam Mewis was heralded as the world's best player after Team USA's 2019 Women's World Cup win. Now, the 31-year-old is retiring due to ongoing knee issues.
Christine Sinclair of Canada is the all-time leading goalscorer for women's national teams 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.
One woman cracked Forbes' 2023 list of the world's highest-paid athletes -- tennis great Serena Williams, who brought in $45.3 million in her final year of competitive play. She retired from her...