Women's World Cup
Top goal scorer
It's Marta. Marta played as a forward as a member of the Brazilian national women's soccer team. Marta played in five of the first eight Women's World Cups, making 20 appearances and contributing a memorable 17 goals, including five penalties, which makes her the all-time top scorer in the Women's World Cup, a feat she reached in 20 matches.
The Women's World Cup has been held eight times until 2023, with China hosting the inaugural and fifth Women's World Cups. Chinese women's soccer player Sun Wen scored a total of 11 goals in the Women's World Cup, the most goals scored by a Chinese women's soccer player in the World Cup, and she is ranked fifth on the all-time Women's World Cup goal scorer list.
If you take away penalties, the player with the most goals in the Women's World Cup is Birgit Prinz from Germany, who has scored a total of 14 goals in 24 appearances. If you want to rank the players who scored the most goals per game in the Women's World Cup, the first place goes to Michelle Ackers from the U.S. Women's Soccer Team, who scored 12 goals in 13 World Cup appearances for an average of 0.91 goals, and Norwegian Women's Soccer star Aronnes ranked second with an average of 0.91 goals per game, and she scored 10 goals in 11 Women's World Cup appearances.
The top goal scorers at the 2019 Women's World Cup were U.S. women's soccer player Alex Morgan and England women's soccer player Ellen White, while Megan Rapinoe scored six goals for the U.S. women's soccer team as well, but three of them came from penalty kicks.
