England women's all-time top goalscorers: Ellen White, Beth Mead, Georgia Stanway & the Lionesses' best finishers

Another non-striker on this list, Karen Carney spent 14 years sprinkling her individual magic on the international game and she scored 33 goals in that time, the joint-seventh most in the history of the Lionesses. Two of those came in England's incredible Euro 2009 campaign, including one in the defeat to Germany in the final, with another couple coming in her side's run to a first-ever Women's World Cup semi-final in 2015.

The second proper forward on this list, Eniola Aluko also scored 33 goals in her 13-year England career, albeit in 39 fewer games than Carney. Three of those came at Euro 2009, where Aluko netted a brace in the quarter-final win over hosts Finland, including the match-winner. Those followed a crucial strike in another dramatic 3-2 win earlier in the tournament, against Russia in the group stages.

Alessia Russo moved herself into the top 10 for the all-time top goal-scorers in the Lionesses' history with her strike in the 1-0 win over Iceland in April and has since jumped even higher. Her goalscoring ratio is particularly special, too, as it is only bettered by three players on this list. Her most recent goal, one of two against Greece, was her 33rd on just her 69th England appearance.

Georgia Stanway's goalscoring record for England is outstanding, particularly considering she is a midfielder rather than a forward. In 95 appearances, she has 35 goals, with 21 assists on top of that making her tally of goal contributions incredibly impressive. Stanway's form in front of goal in recent months has really thrown her in and amongst the Lionesses' greatest ever finishers and with her still just 27 years old, she could climb a lot higher yet.

The Lionesses' most-capped player of all-time, Fara Williams also scored plenty of goals in her 18-year international career. While the most memorable of those was certainly her final one, as her penalty secured a first-ever win over Germany and third place at the 2015 World Cup, that was just one of the remarkable eight she scored at major tournaments. The first came some 10 years earlier, against Denmark at Blackburn Rovers' Ewood Park as England hosted Euro 2005.

No one on this list has a better goals-per-game ratio than Beth Mead, who is more or less averaging a goal every two games for England at this point in her career. The winger's 40 strikes have come in 81 games and six of them came in the Lionesses' Euro 2022 triumph, to secure the tournament's Golden Boot. The 30-year-old could finish her playing career much higher than joint-fifth, too, given the small gaps between her and those above her on this list.

On this list, only Mead has a better goals-per-game ratio than Karen Walker, who began her England career in 1988 and would score 41 times in 86 appearances before retiring from international duty in 2003. Perhaps the most notable of those came at the 1995 Women's World Cup, when Walker gave England a 2-1 lead over Nigeria in a group stage game they would win to secure qualification for the quarter-finals on their tournament debut.

With the same impressive average of 0.48 goals per game as Walker, Kerry Davis ranks second on this list after netting 43 times in 90 England appearances. The first black woman to represent the Lionesses, Davis debuted in 1982 and would play in defence and midfield as well as attack, yet she continued to score at a remarkable rate, so much so that she was the team's all-time leading goalscorer until Kelly Smith surpassed her in 2012, some 14 years after Davis' final Lionesses game.

Widely considered the Lionesses' greatest ever player, Smith held the record as England's all-time top goalscorer for nine years, after surpassing Davis' tally when she scored against Finland in February 2012. The forward would score two more goals for her country - another in that very game, and one against Scotland a year later - before retiring with 46 to her name.

Smith's most famous goals came in the 2007 Women's World Cup, because of the celebration that followed. Having netted in the Lionesses' opening game against Japan, Smith removed her boot and kissed it, producing an image that would become iconic.

Ellen White became the Lionesses' greatest ever goalscorer in September 2021, when she scored a hat-trick against Latvia. Her first of the night levelled Smith's tally, then her next two sent her to the top of the charts outright. It was a position White would strengthen with four more goals before retiring after England's Euro 2022 triumph, having scored 52 times in 113 games. The striker scored twice that summer and netted 10 in total at major tournaments, including six at the 2019 Women's World Cup to win the Bronze Ball.