Heading in the direction of it’s 14th version as Europe’s high worldwide competitors, the UEFA girls’s Euros have been graced by among the sport’s best attacking gamers.
Each star on this record having scored a minimum of six objectives within the finals, with one participant trying so as to add to their tally in Switzerland. And with just a few objectives separating the highest scorers, we might see a brand new document set on the 2025 event .
These are the main scorers in girls’s European Championship historical past – forward of the finals which kick-off on July 2.
The all-time Ladies’s Euros high scorers: 6 objectives – Beth Mead (England), Hanna Ljungberg (Sweden), Alexandra Popp (Germany)
Alexandra Popp is fourth on Germany’s document goalscorers record (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
One among this trio will very a lot have one eye on breaking the all-time document this summer time. We begin with Beth Mead who rocketed up the record following her unbelievable Euro 2022 event.
One of many stars of a dominant England aspect that gained their first main honour, on dwelling soil, Mead scored six objectives for the Lionesses. 5 of them got here within the group stage, with the Arsenal ahead memorably hitting a hat-trick on a boiling summer time night time in Brighton as England thrashed Norway 8-0.
Having missed the Lionesses’ final main event – the 2023 FIFA World Cup , Mead might be seeking to make her mark on her return to the largest stage.
Legendary German ahead Alexandra Popp is subsequent up, additionally sitting on six objectives, however in contrast to Mead gained’t be including to her tally as issues stand. Popp introduced her worldwide retirement in September 2024 and – barring any U-turn – gained’t be representing Germany in Switzerland.
The prolific ahead notched 67 objectives in 145 caps for Germany throughout a 14-year profession, with all of her European Championship objectives coming within the 2022 version. Sharing the golden boot with Mead, Popp scored in each recreation besides the ultimate, hanging twice within the semi-final win over France.
Swede Hanna Ljungberg joins Mead and Popp on six objectives. The ahead gained 130 caps for her nation between 1996 and 2008.
Three objectives at Euro 2005 – held in England – propelled her into the very best scorers record. However regardless of notching two within the semi-final, it wasn’t sufficient for Sweden, who went down 3-2 to rivals Norway.
8 objectives – Carolina Morace (Italy), Heidi Mohr (Germany), Lotta Schelin (Sweden)
Carolina Morace stays one in every of Italy’s best gamers and a nationwide superstar (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Italy striker Carolina Morace and German ahead Heidi Mohr each performed within the early editions of the Championship.
Morace is definitely the Championships all-time main scorer, if you embrace qualifying as nicely the finals – having scored a outstanding 42 objectives in complete.
One among Italy’s best gamers, she additionally – in 1998 – grew to become the primary participant to attain hat-trick within the girls’s FIFA World Cup. Her Euros objectives got here throughout six completely different finals look, between 1984 and 1997, the place she shared the golden boot with 4 objectives.
Mohr scored half of her general complete within the 1991 Championship, netting twice within the remaining to assist Germany to a 3-1 win over Norway for his or her second title.
Lotta Schelin is essentially the most lately energetic participant on eight objectives, however retired in 2018, having ended her worldwide profession a yr earlier.
Nearly all of her Euros tally got here on dwelling soil on the 2013 Championships held in Sweden. Schelin claimed the Golden Boot with 5 objectives, together with two in a 4-0 quarter-final win over Iceland.
10 objectives – Inka Grings (Germany), Birgit Prinz (Germany)
Inka Grings has ten objectives in girls’s European Championship finals (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Two German legends at the moment share the document for many objectives on the girls’s Euros finals.
Birgit Prinz, a three-time FIFA World Participant of the Yr, holds the distinctive document of scoring in 5 consecutive tournaments from 1995 to her remaining championship in 2009. No participant has scored extra objectives for ‘Die Nationalelf’ than the previous striker, with 128 in complete.
Germany gained each event throughout her run at consecutive Euros, with Prinz contributing three objectives in Euro 2005, her finest output in a sole competitors.
Against this, her former teammate Grings blitzed her objectives within the house of two finals – 2005 and 2009. Having missed three main tournaments in a row with critical accidents, she made a triumphant return to the worldwide stage in England in 2005, high scoring with 4 objectives.
4 years later in Finland, Grings discovered the web on six events, memorably grabbing a brace in a 2-1 win over Italy within the semi-final. Alongside Prinz, she then broke English hearts within the remaining, with the pair every scoring twice in a 6-2 win for Germany.
If the Lionesses can have one other profitable main event marketing campaign, Mead might have each probability of catching the German pair – needing 5 objectives to attract stage.
