USWNT all-time leading scorers: Wambach, Hamm & players with most goals - listed

Before becoming a renowned figure with ESPN, Julie Foudy was a star for the USWNT. She made a 273 appearances for her country and scored 45 goals from midfield in a career that saw her win two World Cup titles and two Olympic gold medals.

Foudy, who debuted in 1988, spent a large period of her international career as one of the USWNT's co-captains before taking the armband full-time for her final four years, hanging her boots up in 2004.

After making her international debut in 2002, while still in high school, Heather O'Reilly made 231 appearances for the USWNT and scored 47 goals over 14 years. During that time, she won three Olympic gold medals and the World Cup in 2015.

O'Reilly retired in 2019 but made a sensational return to the game in 2022, aged 37, signing for Irish club Shelbourne in order to fulfil her dream of playing in the Women's Champions League.

A gold medalist at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and a World Cup winner three years later when the U.S. hosted the tournament, Tisha Venturini scored 47 goals across her eight-year USWNT career. She ranks ahead of O'Reilly due to the fact that total was racked up in just 134 games.

Two of those goals came at the Olympics while five were in World Cup games, including a brace against North Korea in 1999.

Scoring 56 goals in just 119 games, Carin Jennings-Gabarra was an incredibly prolific forward during her USWNT career.

Her goal-scoring exploits and all-round play won her the Golden Ball award at the 1991 Women's World Cup as the U.S. triumphed in China, with the highlight of her tournament seeing her net a hat-trick in the semi-final win over Germany.

Jennings-Gabarra also won a gold medal at the 1996 Olympics.

The U.S. Soccer Player of the Year for 2002, Shannon MacMillan became a world and Olympic champion during her 12 years with the USWNT before calling time on her career when she was still just 31 years old.

MacMillan netted 60 goals for her country in 177 games, including the winner against Norway in the 1996 Olympic semi-final which went to overtime. A few days later, she would open the scoring in the final against China, too.

One of the most recognizable women's players on the planet for her work on and off the pitch, Megan Rapinoe is also 10th on the list of her country's top goalscorers.

The winger made her debut back in 2006 and, before retiring at the end of 2023, won two World Cup titles and an Olympic gold medal, scoring 63 goals.

Five of those came in the 2019 World Cup, including one in the final, as the USWNT retained their crown as world champions and Rapinoe won the Golden Ball and Golden Boot awards.

That Christen Press is so high up this list despite not always being a guaranteed starter in her USWNT career says a lot about her quality and ability to make an impact.

Since debuting in 2013, the forward has scored 64 international goals, getting on the scoresheet at both the 2015 and 2019 Women's World Cup tournaments, both of which were won by the United States.

One of her most significant goals for her country came at the latter, Press scoring a superb header to open the scoring in the 2-1 semi-final win over England.

The forward is currently sidelined after suffering an ACL injury and the hope is that she will return soon.

Current president of U.S. Soccer, Cindy Parlow Cone began her USWNT career in 1996 and would go on to score 75 goals in 158 games.

The midfielder won Olympic gold twice in her career, being the youngest player on the roster during the 1996 triumph. She was also part of the team that won the 1999 Women's World Cup, opening the scoring in the semi-final win over Brazil.

Seventh on this list, Tiffeny Milbrett netted a century of goals during her 206 appearances for her country, the biggest being the winner against China in the gold medal match at the 1996 Olympics.

Twelve of those 100 would come at Olympic and World Cup tournaments, with no American scoring more than her at the 1999 World Cup that saw the U.S. crowned world champions for the second time.

Michelle Akers is one of the USWNT's greatest ever players, with her record of 10 goals at a single Women's World Cup still to be beaten - despite her setting it at the first ever tournament back in 1991.

That haul, which included a brace in the final, would help the U.S. become world champions and she'd score another two in 1999 as well as they reclaimed their crown, having lost it four years earlier.

A strike in the Olympic semi-final win over Norway in 1996, as she and her team went on to win gold, is also among the most important of the 107 goals Akers netted for her country - in just 155 games.

The highest ranked active player on this list, Alex Morgan has scored 122 times for her country since making her debut back in 2010.

A year later, she scored in a World Cup final, albeit one which she and her side would go on to lose to Japan. Morgan has since won the title twice, though, netting in the semi-final win over England in 2019 after scoring five goals in a single game as the U.S. beat Thailand in the group stages.

She has an Olympic gold medal to her name from 2012, too, scoring a dramatic 123rd minute winner in the semi-final against Canada.

Morgan is also the USWNT's highest-scoring mom, netting 16 times since giving birth to her daughter, Charlie.

As well as being the most capped international soccer player of all time, Kristine Lilly is also one of the USWNT's top scorers.

She was a member of the team for an incredible 23 years, making 354 appearances between 1987 and 2010 and netting 130 goals, while winning two World Cup titles and two Olympic gold medals.

A dozen of her international goals came at World Cup and Olympic tournaments, six of which were in the knockout stages.

Carli Lloyd ranks just behind Lilly for caps, coming in second for the most caps in the history of international soccer, but she did score more goals for her country - netting 134 times in 316 appearances.

The most memorable of those came in 2015, when Lloyd became the first player to score a hat-trick in a Women's World Cup final as the U.S. beat Japan to become world champions.

The midfielder-turned-forward would win the World Cup again four years later as well as two Olympic gold medals before calling time on her career in 2021.

A two-time FIFA World Player of the Year, Mia Hamm scored 158 times in 276 games for the United States and, until 2013, held the record for most international goals scored.

She's third on that list today and second for her country, having enjoyed a career that brought her two World Cup titles and two Olympic gold medals.

Among her most notable strikes is the only one in the Olympic semi-final victory over Brazil in 2000, one of 13 goals she scored at Olympic and World Cup tournaments.

It was Abby Wambach who overtook Mia Hamm in the USWNT's scoring charts in 2013 and the forward remains at the top of tree today, having retired back in 2015 after winning the World Cup for the first time.

Wambach scored 184 times in 255 games, the most iconic of them all being the extra time winner in the Olympic gold medal match against Brazil in 2004. That was one of 22 goals she scored at World Cup and Olympic tournaments.

Christine Sinclair is the only player in the history of the sport to have scored more international goals than Wambach, the Canadian surpassing her in 2020.