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French club Lyon has had the most players in the Top 100 with 116 selections in total. In 2022, Barcelona became the first club other than Lyon to have the most players selected in a single year and retained the top spot the following two years. The record for most players selected in a single year is 17, set by Barcelona in 2024.
Christine Sinclair of Canada is currently the active player (among both women and men) with the most goals in international football with 190 goals. She also holds the highest record of all time. Association football at the professional level is a low scoring sport (see article Association football for more detail). This page lists the top all ...
Akers is regarded as one of the greatest female soccer players in history. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] She was named FIFA Female Player of the Century in 2002, an award she shared with China 's Sun Wen . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In 2004, Akers and Mia Hamm were the only two women named to the FIFA 100 , a list of the 125 greatest living soccer players selected by ...
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.
Pages in category "Women's Professional Soccer players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 239 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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...
She previously captained the China national team and the Atlanta Beat of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA). In 2000, she won the FIFA Female Player of the Century along with Michelle Akers. Sun won both the Golden Ball (top player) and Golden Boot (top scorer) for her performance at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. She is considered ...
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.