FIFA Women's World Cup 2003
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United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and won by Germany
Germany women's national football team
The German women's national football team represents Germany in international women's football and is directed by the German Football Association . The team – informally called West Germany in English – played its first international match in 1982...
. The tournament was originally scheduled for China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
. On May 3, 2003 the tournament was abruptly moved to the United States, as a result of the 2003 SARS outbreak in China. Because the United States had hosted the 1999 World Cup, it was thought the United States could best organize the tournament in the little time remaining before the October scheduled start. In addition, women's soccer boosters in the United States hoped that interest generated by the tournament would save the U.S. women's professional league, the Women's United Soccer Association
Women's United Soccer Association
The Women's United Soccer Association, often abbreviated to the WUSA, was the world's first women's soccer league in which all the players were paid as professionals. Founded in February 2000, the league began its first season in April 2001 with eight teams in the United States...
, from folding.
In compensation for losing the tournament, China retained its automatic qualification as host, and was named as host for the 2007 event.
Mostly due to the rescheduling of the tournament on short notice, FIFA and the United States Soccer Federation
United States Soccer Federation
The United States Soccer Federation is the official governing body of the sport of soccer in the United States. Its headquarters are located in Chicago, Illinois. It is a member of FIFA and is responsible for governing amateur and professional soccer, including the men's, women's, youth, futsal...
were forced to creatively schedule matches. Nine doubleheaders were scheduled in group play (similar to the 1999 format). They also had to abandon the modern practice of scheduling the final matches of the group stage to kick off simultaneously. In Groups A and D, the final matches were scheduled as the two ends of a doubleheader. The final matches in Groups B and C were also scheduled as doubleheaders, but split between two cities, with a Group B match in each city followed by a Group C match. The four quarterfinals were also scheduled as two doubleheaders, and both semifinals were also a doubleheader.
Venues
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| The Home Depot Center The Home Depot Center The Home Depot Center is a multiple-use sports complex located on the campus of California State University, Dominguez Hills in Carson, California. It is located approximately 10 miles south of Downtown Los Angeles. Its title sponsor is hardware retailer The Home Depot. The $150 million complex was... Location: Carson, CA Carson, California Carson is a city in Los Angeles County, California. As of the 2010 census, Carson had a total population of 91,714. Located south of downtown Los Angeles and approximately 14 miles away from the Los Angeles International Airport, it is known as a suburb of the city.... Capacity: 27,000 |
Columbus Crew Stadium Columbus Crew Stadium Columbus Crew Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium in Columbus, Ohio and the home stadium of Major League Soccer club, Columbus Crew. Built in 1999, Crew Stadium was the first soccer-specific stadium built for a professional soccer team in the second pro era of American soccer... Location: Columbus, OH Columbus, Ohio Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city... Capacity: 23,000 |
Gillette Stadium Gillette Stadium Gillette Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Foxborough, Massachusetts, 21 miles southwest of downtown Boston and from downtown Providence, Rhode Island. It serves as the home stadium and administrative offices for the New England Patriots football team and the New England Revolution... Location: Foxborough, MA Capacity: 22,385 |
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| Lincoln Financial Field Lincoln Financial Field Lincoln Financial Field is the home stadium of the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles. It has a seating capacity of 68,532 . It is located in South Philadelphia on Pattison Avenue between 11th and 10th streets, also aside I-95 as part of the South Philadelphia Sports Complex... Location: Philadelphia, PA Capacity: 68,500 |
PGE Park PGE Park Jeld-Wen Field is an outdoor sports stadium located in Portland, Oregon, United States that is used primarily for soccer and American football... Location: Portland, OR Portland, Oregon Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States... Capacity: 27,700 |
RFK Stadium Location: Washington, DC Capacity: 55,000 |
Teams
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Squads
For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup squads.Match Officials
Africa Xonam Agboyi Desiree Perpetue Bola Elizabeth Abidoye Florence BiaguiAsia Dongqing Zhang Hisae Yoshizawa Im Eun Ju Choi Soo Jin Hong Kum Nyo Hsiu Mei Liu
North, Central America & Caribbean Sonia Denoncourt
Sonia Denoncourt
Sonia Denoncourt is a retired football referee from Canada.Denoncourt became the first female FIFA accredited referee in 1994. She went on to referee the 1995, 1999 and 2003 FIFA Women's World Cups as well as the 1996 and 2000 Olympic football tournaments...
Denise Robinson
Denise Robinson
Denise Robinson is a South African politician, currently a Member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance, and the Shadow Minister of Women, Youth, Children and People with Disabilities. -Education and Early Career:...
Lynda Bramble Kari Seitz
Kari Seitz
Kari Seitz , is an american association football referee, considered one of the most experienced female referees in the world. She has participated in four FIFA Women's World Cups: 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011.-External links:*...
Karalee Sutton Sharon Wheeler
South America Florencia Romano Alejandra Cercato Sabrina Lois Sueli Tortura Cleidy Mary Ribeiro Marlei Silva
Europe Andi Regan Katriina Elovirta Emilia Parviainen Nelly Viennot
Nelly Viennot
Nelly Viennot is a French football referee. An international woman's referee since 1995, Viennot attracted the attention of the wider football community when she was shortlisted, along with eighty-two other elite referees, as a possible assistant referee in the 2006 World Cup.Viennot attended a...
Katarzyna Nadolska Cristina Babadac Cristina Ionescu Irina Mirt Nicole Petignat
Nicole Petignat
Nicole Petignat was born on October 27, 1966 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, in Switzerland. In August 2003 she became the first female referee of a men's football game organized by the UEFA, AIK Fotboll versus Fylkir in the preliminary round of the UEFA Cup....
Elke Lüthi
Oceania Tammy Ogston
Tammy Ogston
Tammy Ogston is an Australian football referee from Moorooka, Brisbane.Ogston began playing football at age 14 before moving into officiating in 1993, aged 23, on recognising that there were not enough officials in her area to cover Women's football games...
Airlie Keen Jacqueline Leleu
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Group A
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
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| 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | ||
| 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | ||
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | |
| 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 | −11 |
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Group B
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
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| 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | ||
| 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | ||
| 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | |
| 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 11 | −10 |
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Group C
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
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| 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | ||
| 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | ||
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | ||
| 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 15 | −14 |
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Group D
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
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| 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | ||
| 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | |
| 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 |
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Knockout stage
Quarterfinals
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Semifinals
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Final
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| GK | 1 | Silke Rottenberg Silke Rottenberg Silke Rottenberg is a former German football goalkeeper.-Career:She last played for 1. FFC Frankfurt. She announced her retirement from the German national team on May 27, 2008. After the game Germany versus Wales on May 29, 2008, she formally retired from international football... |
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| DF | 2 | Kerstin Stegemann Kerstin Stegemann Kerstin Stegemann is a former female football player from Germany.Born in Rheine-Mesum, she made her football debut at age 15 in 1993, playing for FFC Heike Rheine in the Frauen Bundesliga. Within two years, she made her first appearance for the German national team, playing in an April 13, 1995... |
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| DF | 17 | Ariane Hingst Ariane Hingst Ariane Hingst is a German footballer. Primarily utilized as a defender or a defensive holding, midfielder Hingst announced this summer that she would be retiring from international football with the German national team. In addition it was announced by 1... |
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| DF | 13 | Sandra Minnert Sandra Minnert Sandra Minnert is a former German football defender. She played for SC 07 Bad Neuenahr and the German national team.-Coaching career:... |
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| DF | 19 | Stefanie Gottschlich Stefanie Gottschlich Stefanie Gottschlich is a retired German football defender. She scored 3 goals in 43 caps for the German national team between 1997 and 2006.Gottschlich played for Germany at the 2000 Summer Olympics.-References:... |
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| MF | 18 | Kerstin Garefrekes Kerstin Garefrekes Kerstin Garefrekes is a German footballer. She plays as a midfielder or striker for 1. FFC Frankfurt and the German national team.-Club:... |
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| MF | 10 | Bettina Wiegmann Bettina Wiegmann Bettina Wiegmann is a retired German football midfielder. She scored 51 goals in 154 caps for the German national team between 1989 and 2003. In 1997 she was selected German Female Footballer of the Year.... (c) |
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| MF | 6 | Renate Lingor Renate Lingor Renate Lingor is a retired female German international football player.-Club career:Lingor began her career in 1981 with SV Blankenloch at the age of six, in 1983 she joined the youth team of Karlsruher SC. Aged 14 she signed with SC Klinge Seckach where she started her professional career in... |
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| MF | 7 | Pia Wunderlich Pia Wunderlich Pia Wunderlich is a German football midfielder. She currently plays for 1. FFC Frankfurt, and has been selected for the German national team.-Success:Word Cup Winner 2003Runner-up World Cup 1995,... |
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| FW | 14 | Maren Meinert Maren Meinert Maren Meinert is a retired German football midfielder/striker and currently the coach for the German U-20 Women's squad... |
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| FW | 9 | Birgit Prinz Birgit Prinz Birgit Prinz is a former German female professional association football player. She last played for 1. FFC Frankfurt and the German national team. Prinz is one of the game's most prolific strikers and the FIFA Women's World Cup all-time leading scorer with 14 goals . She has been named FIFA... |
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| DF | 4 | Nia Künzer Nia Künzer Nia Künzer is a retired German women's football player.-Early life:She was born in Mochudi, Botswana as Nia Tsholofelo Künzer , where her parents were on a two year's tour with a development aid organization... |
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| FW | 11 | Martina Müller Martina Müller Martina Müller is a former professional tennis player from Germany. On April 2, 2007 she reached a career high WTA-ranking of No. 33.... |
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| Tina Theune-Meyer Tina Theune-Meyer Christina Theune is a graduate sports teacher, and the former national coach of the German women's national football team. After her marriage she bore the surname 'Theune-Meyer' until her divorce in 2008.... |
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SWEDEN:
Caroline Jönsson
Caroline Jönsson is a Swedish football goalkeeper currently playing for Umeå IK of Damallsvenskan and is a former member of the Swedish Women's National Team.-Youth career:...
Hanna Marklund
Hanna Gunilla Marklund is a Swedish football player. She plays as a defender, and her shirt number is 4....
Karolina Westberg
Karolina Westberg born is a female footballer for Umeå IK and the Swedish national team. She is a defender as number 4 on Umeå and number 2 on the national team. She is currently the captain of Umeå IK.-External links:* * * *...
Jane Törnqvist
Jane Törnqvist is a female footballer for Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC. A tough tackling central defender, she wears number 3 for her club...
Sara Larsson
Sara Larsson is a Swedish football defender currently playing for Philadelphia Independence of the Women's Professional Soccer league. She is also a member of the Sweden women's national football team.-Career:...
Frida Östberg
Frida Christina Östberg is a retired Swedish football midfielder who played for Umeå IK, Linköpings FC and Chicago Red Stars of Women's Professional Soccer. She is a former member of the Sweden women's national football team.-Club:Östberg started her career with Hägglunds IoFK, who she played for...
Malin Moström
Malin Sofi Moström is a Swedish former football player , from 2001 to 2006 she was the captain of the Sweden women's national football team...
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Hanna Ljungberg
Hanna Carolina Ljungberg is a Swedish football player, playing the position of forward. She plays for the club side Umeå IK and for the Swedish national football team. She debuted for Sweden, at age 17, on February 6, 1996 where Sweden won 8-0 against Spain.She is not related to Swedish male...
Victoria Svensson
Victoria Margareta Sandell Svensson is a former Swedish female football player. She was team captain on the Swedish women's national team and Djurgårdens IF Dam; captaining the national team during the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup...
Kristin Bengtsson
Gärd Kristin Bengtsson is a women's soccer player, who currently plays for Djurgården/Älvsjö. She holds the record for the most capped player in the Swedish women's national team, with 157 caps. Bengtsson has appeared in three World Cups, the 1995, 1999 and 2003 competitions. She netted one goal...
Therese Sjögran
Therese Sjögran is a female midfielder for Sky Blue FC of Women's Professional Soccer and the Swedish Women's National Team. Although her club number is 11, she wears the number 15 for the national team....
MATCH OFFICIALS
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Awards
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 Birgit PrinzBirgit Prinz Birgit Prinz is a former German female professional association football player. She last played for 1. FFC Frankfurt and the German national team. Prinz is one of the game's most prolific strikers and the FIFA Women's World Cup all-time leading scorer with 14 goals . She has been named FIFA... |
Birgit Prinz Birgit Prinz Birgit Prinz is a former German female professional association football player. She last played for 1. FFC Frankfurt and the German national team. Prinz is one of the game's most prolific strikers and the FIFA Women's World Cup all-time leading scorer with 14 goals . She has been named FIFA... |
All-star team
| Goalkeeper | Defenders | Midfielders | Forwards |
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| Germany Silke Rottenberg Silke Rottenberg Silke Rottenberg is a former German football goalkeeper.-Career:She last played for 1. FFC Frankfurt. She announced her retirement from the German national team on May 27, 2008. After the game Germany versus Wales on May 29, 2008, she formally retired from international football... |
 People's Republic of China Wang LipingWang Liping (footballer) Wang Liping is a female Chinese football player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics, in the 2000 Summer Olympics, and in the 2004 Summer Olympics.In 1996 she won the silver medal with the Chinese team. She played all five matches.... Germany Sandra MinnertSandra Minnert Sandra Minnert is a former German football defender. She played for SC 07 Bad Neuenahr and the German national team.-Coaching career:...  United States Joy Fawcett |
Germany Bettina Wiegmann Bettina Wiegmann Bettina Wiegmann is a retired German football midfielder. She scored 51 goals in 154 caps for the German national team between 1989 and 2003. In 1997 she was selected German Female Footballer of the Year....  Sweden Malin MoströmMalin Moström Malin Sofi Moström is a Swedish former football player , from 2001 to 2006 she was the captain of the Sweden women's national football team... United States Shannon BoxxShannon Boxx Shannon Boxx is an American soccer midfielder currently playing for magicJack of Women's Professional Soccer and is a member of the United States women's national soccer team.... |
 Canada Charmaine HooperCharmaine Hooper Charmaine Hooper is a former striker for the Canadian women's national soccer team.-Career:A former star at North Carolina State University, she currently plays for the * of the Women's Premier Soccer League. In 2006 she played for the New Jersey Wildcats in the American W-League... Germany Maren MeinertMaren Meinert Maren Meinert is a retired German football midfielder/striker and currently the coach for the German U-20 Women's squad... Germany Birgit PrinzBirgit Prinz Birgit Prinz is a former German female professional association football player. She last played for 1. FFC Frankfurt and the German national team. Prinz is one of the game's most prolific strikers and the FIFA Women's World Cup all-time leading scorer with 14 goals . She has been named FIFA... Sweden Victoria SvenssonVictoria Svensson Victoria Margareta Sandell Svensson is a former Swedish female football player. She was team captain on the Swedish women's national team and Djurgårdens IF Dam; captaining the national team during the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup... |
Top scorers
7 goals Birgit PrinzBirgit Prinz
Birgit Prinz is a former German female professional association football player. She last played for 1. FFC Frankfurt and the German national team. Prinz is one of the game's most prolific strikers and the FIFA Women's World Cup all-time leading scorer with 14 goals . She has been named FIFA...
4 goals Kerstin Garefrekes
Kerstin Garefrekes
Kerstin Garefrekes is a German footballer. She plays as a midfielder or striker for 1. FFC Frankfurt and the German national team.-Club:...
Maren Meinert
Maren Meinert
Maren Meinert is a retired German football midfielder/striker and currently the coach for the German U-20 Women's squad...
Kátia
Kátia Cilene Teixeira da Silva
Kátia Cilene Teixeira da Silva , known simply as Kátia is a female Brazilian footballer.-Career:...
3 goals
Marta Christine Latham
Christine Latham
Christine Latham is a Canadian soccer forward currently playing for Boston Breakers of Women's Professional Soccer and is a member of the Canadian Women's National Team.- Early years and university :...
Christine Sinclair
Christine Sinclair
Christine Margaret Sinclair is a Canadian soccer forward who plays professional soccer for the Western New York Flash and is the captain of the Canadian national team. Sinclair has spent ten years with the Canadian national team participating in two World Cups in 2007 and 2003 and the 2008 Summer...
Mio Otani Homare Sawa
Homare Sawa
is a female football player from Japan. She currently plays for INAC Kobe Leonessa in the Nadeshiko League Division 1.- Career :Long considered Japan's finest female footballer, she made her debut in Japan's highest domestic league at age 12. On December 6, 1993, at age 15, she made her Japanese...
Dagny Mellgren
Dagny Mellgren
Dagny Mellgren from Ålgård is a former Norwegian footballer. She retired in December 2005 while playing for Klepp. She has also played for Boston Breakers, in the WUSA. She scored the golden goal which gave Norway the Olympic gold medal in Sydney 2000.-References:...
Hanna Ljungberg
Hanna Ljungberg
Hanna Carolina Ljungberg is a Swedish football player, playing the position of forward. She plays for the club side Umeå IK and for the Swedish national football team. She debuted for Sweden, at age 17, on February 6, 1996 where Sweden won 8-0 against Spain.She is not related to Swedish male...
Victoria Svensson
Victoria Svensson
Victoria Margareta Sandell Svensson is a former Swedish female football player. She was team captain on the Swedish women's national team and Djurgårdens IF Dam; captaining the national team during the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup...
Abby Wambach
Abby Wambach
Mary Abigail "Abby" Wambach is an American professional soccer player, coach and Olympic gold medalist. A four-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award, she has been a regular on the U.S. women's national team since 2003...
2 goals
Heather Garriock
Heather Garriock
Heather Ann Garriock is an Australian football midfielder currently playing for Sydney FC of the Australian W-League and is a member of the Australian women's national team.-Club career:...
Charmaine Hooper
Charmaine Hooper
Charmaine Hooper is a former striker for the Canadian women's national soccer team.-Career:A former star at North Carolina State University, she currently plays for the * of the Women's Premier Soccer League. In 2006 she played for the New Jersey Wildcats in the American W-League...
Kara Lang
Kara Lang
Kara Elise Lang is a retired Canadian soccer player, who represented her country in two FIFA World Cups and the Olympic Games, and played club soccer for Vancouver Whitecaps Women...
Bai Jie Marinette Pichon Sandra Minnert
Sandra Minnert
Sandra Minnert is a former German football defender. She played for SC 07 Bad Neuenahr and the German national team.-Coaching career:...
Martina Müller
Martina Müller (footballer)
Martina Müller is a German footballer. She plays as a striker for VfL Wolfsburg and the German national team.-Club:Müller had played at several smaller clubs at youth level, before joining the reigning German champions FSV Frankfurt in 1998...
Bettina Wiegmann
Bettina Wiegmann
Bettina Wiegmann is a retired German football midfielder. She scored 51 goals in 154 caps for the German national team between 1989 and 2003. In 1997 she was selected German Female Footballer of the Year....
Alberta Sackey Jin Pyol Hui Linda Ørmen
Linda Ørmen
Linda Ørmen is a former Norwegian football player who played for the Norway women's national football team from 1998 to 2001.She played on the Norwegian team that finished fourth at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup in United States....
Marianne Pettersen
Marianne Pettersen
Marianne Iren Pettersen is a Norwegian footballer. She was a forward for the club Asker, whom she joined from Gjelleråsen after the 1996 season, and became the top scorer with 36 goals in the 1998 season of 18 matches. For the Norwegian national team, she debuted in 1994, scoring against Italy....
Malin Moström
Malin Moström
Malin Sofi Moström is a Swedish former football player , from 2001 to 2006 she was the captain of the Sweden women's national football team...
Shannon Boxx
Shannon Boxx
Shannon Boxx is an American soccer midfielder currently playing for magicJack of Women's Professional Soccer and is a member of the United States women's national soccer team....
Mia Hamm
Mia Hamm
Mariel Margaret "Mia" Hamm is a retired American soccer player. Hamm played many years as a forward for the United States women's national soccer team and was a founding member of the Washington Freedom. Hamm has scored more international goals in her career than any other player, male or female,...
Kristine Lilly
Kristine Lilly
Kristine Marie Lilly Heavey is a retired American soccer player who last played for Boston Breakers of Women's Professional Soccer and was a member of the United States women's national soccer team for 24 years...
Cindy Parlow Cat Reddick
Cat Whitehill
Cat Whitehill is an American soccer player. She plays as a defender for the Atlanta Beat of Women's Professional Soccer and the United States women's national soccer team, and formerly played on the Washington Freedom W-League team.She was born in Richmond, Virginia, but grew up in Birmingham,...
1 goal
Yanina Gaitán Kelly Golebiowski
Kelly Golebiowski
Kelly Golebiowski is an Australian football player who currently plays for Central Coast Mariners in the Australian W-League...
Daniela
Daniela Alves Lima
Daniela Alves Lima , commonly known as Daniela, is a Brazilian footballer who played midfielder who last played for Saint Louis Athletica of Women's Professional Soccer and is a member of the Brazil women's national football team.-Career:Daniela begun her career at the age of 13, at Portuguesa de...
Rosana
Rosana dos Santos Augusto
Rosana dos Santos Augusto , commonly known as Rosana, is a Brazilian footballer who played midfielder currently playing for French club Lyon in the Division 1 Féminine. She is also a member of the Brazilian Women's National Team.-Club career:Rosana played for years in Brazil before moving to...
Sun Wen
Sun Wen (football)
Sun Wen is a retired well-known female Chinese football player.Sun appeared in the national squad at the age of 17 . A strong striker with great skills and passing abilities, Sun won both the Golden Boot and the Golden Ball for the 1999 Women's World Cup, and became the first woman to be...
Stefanie Gottschlich
Stefanie Gottschlich
Stefanie Gottschlich is a retired German football defender. She scored 3 goals in 43 caps for the German national team between 1997 and 2006.Gottschlich played for Germany at the 2000 Summer Olympics.-References:...
Nia Künzer
Nia Künzer
Nia Künzer is a retired German women's football player.-Early life:She was born in Mochudi, Botswana as Nia Tsholofelo Künzer , where her parents were on a two year's tour with a development aid organization...
Conny Pohlers
Conny Pohlers
Conny Pohlers is a successful German football player. Since 1998 she has played in the Women's Bundesliga and since 2001 in the Germany women's national football team.-Domestic Football:...
Pia Wunderlich
Pia Wunderlich
Pia Wunderlich is a German football midfielder. She currently plays for 1. FFC Frankfurt, and has been selected for the German national team.-Success:Word Cup Winner 2003Runner-up World Cup 1995,...
Emi Yamamoto Ri Un-Gyong Kim Jin-Hee
Kim Jin-hee
Kim Jin-hee is a Korean tennis player.Kim has attempeted to qualify to a number of WTA tour events, but has failed to qualify in most of them. Kim lost to Liza in the first round of qualifying in Bali, 2002. However she qualified for the 2002 Japan Open, where she lost in the first round...
Solveig Gulbrandsen
Solveig Gulbrandsen
Solveig Gulbrandsen is a Norwegian footballer from the Oppegård area to the South-East of Oslo. She is a midfielder on her club side Stabæk Fotball....
Anita Rapp
Anita Rapp
Anita Rapp is a former Norwegian footballer and Olympic champion.She debuted for the Norwegian national team in 1998, and played 62 matches for the national team.She received a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney....
Brit Sandaune
Brit Sandaune
Brit Sandaune is a Norwegian soccer player and pre-school teacher. She is originally from the rural area of Skatval in the municipality of Stjørdal, Nord-Trøndelag, and is educated in economy and administration...
Natalia Barbachina
Elena Danilova
Elena Danilova
Elena Yurievna Danilova is an international Russian football forward playing for Energiya Voronezh.At 16 she took part in the 2003 World Cup. She scored Russia's last goal in the tournament, in the quarterfinals against eventual champions Germany. Two years later she lead with 9 goals the Under-19...
Elena Fomina
Elena Fomina
Elena Fomina is a Russian football midfielder, currently playing for ShVSM Izmailovo in the Russian women's football championship She previously played for Spartak Moscow, Chertanovo Moscow, CSK VVS Samara, Lada Togliatti and Nadezhda Noginsk....
Olga Letyushova
Olga Letyushova
Olga Letyushova is a Russian football forward, currently anattached. She has played for Energiya Voronezh, Kaluzhanka, Ryazan VDV, Rossiyanka, Zvezda Perm and ShVSM Izmailovo in the Russian Championship....
Marina Saenko
Marina Saenko
Marina Saenko is a Russian football defender currently playing for Energiya Voronezh.She has been a member of the Russian national team. She was named the MVP of Russia's 3-0 win over Ghana in the 2003 World Cup, where she scored one goal.-References:...
Malin Andersson Josefine Öqvist
Josefine Öqvist
Josefine "Jossan" Öqvist is a female footballer for Tyresö FF and the Swedish national team. She scored a critical goal at the 86' minute in the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup semifinals against Canada to put them through to the finals...
Julie Foudy Tiffeny Milbrett
Own goals Dianne Alagich
Dianne Alagich
Dianne Alagich is an Australian football player, who currently plays for Adelaide United in the W-League and the Australian national football team. She is a defender, who has been capped 86 times, scoring on three occasions. She is 169 cm tall and her weight is 62 kg...
(for Russia)