The 100 best female footballers in the world 2023 (2025)

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Aitana Bonmatí, Sam Kerr and Salma Paralluelo top the list of female footballers in the world in 2023 according to our judges

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The 100 best female footballers in the world 2023 (2025)

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Who is the best female footballer in the world in 2023? ›

Bonmatí swept all before her this year, winning the Ballon d'Or and dominating the top 100, with 102 of our 112 judges putting the Barcelona and Spain midfielder at No 1. With 4,338 points, she finished over 500 points clear of Sam Kerr.

Who is the best women's football player right now? ›

Top 10
RankPlayerYears
1Sam Kerr2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
2Lucy Bronze2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022
3Pernille Harder2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Vivianne Miedema2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
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Who is the greatest female soccer player? ›

Marta. Considered by many as the undisputed greatest player in the history of women's soccer. With an impressive streak of five consecutive World Player of the Year awards from 2006 to 2010, Marta remains unmatched in her accolades.

Who is the best FIFA World women's player? ›

Read why Aitana Bonmati was honoured at The Best FIFA Football Awards after sweeping all before her with Spain and Barcelona in 2023. Aitana Bonmati has been named The Best FIFA Women's Player for the first time.

Which female has the most Ballon d'Or? ›

Winners. Alexia Putellas, is the only player to have ever won the Ballon d'Or Féminin twice and in consecutive years.

Who is the famous girl football player? ›

Abby Wambach is the all-time international goal scorer in women's football, with 184 goals in 255 appearances for the United States. She was part of the team that defeated Japan in the final to win the World Cup in 2015, and won Olympic Gold in Beijing in 2008, and again in London four years later.

Who is the top scoring female footballer? ›

List of players with 100 or more international goals
RankPlayerCaps
1Christine Sinclair328
2Abby Wambach255
3Mia Hamm276
4Maysa Jbarah133
14 more rows

Who is the best female striker in the world? ›

Here are our top ten best women's strikers in the world.
  1. Sam Kerr (Chelsea) (Image credit: Getty Images)
  2. Ada Hegerberg (Lyon) ...
  3. Bunny Shaw (Manchester City) ...
  4. Marie-Antoinette Katoto (Paris St-Germain) ...
  5. Ewa Pajor (Wolfsburg) ...
  6. Alessia Russo (Manchester United) ...
  7. Sophia Smith (Portland Thorns) ...
  8. Lea Schüller (Bayern Munich) ...
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Who is the highest paid women's soccer player? ›

Leading women's soccer players worldwide 2023, by annual earnings. As of 2023, Alex Morgan was the highest-paid female soccer player in the world, earning an estimated 7.1 million U.S. dollars a year.

Who is the best defender in women's soccer? ›

Naomi Girma made history Thursday, becoming the first pure defender to be named U.S. Soccer's Female Player of the Year in the award's 39-year history, the federation announced. The 23-year-old started all four games for the U.S. women's national team at the 2023 World Cup, leading a defense that allowed just one goal.

Who is the most popular female footballer? ›

Having passed the 17 million mark, Alisha Lehmann is the most followed female footballer on Instagram by a healthy margin.

Who has won the most women's soccer? ›

The nine FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments have been won by five national teams. The United States have won four times. The other winners are Germany, with two titles, and Japan, Norway, and Spain with one title each. Eight countries have hosted the Women's World Cup.

Who is the top female soccer club? ›

From 2012 to 2021, the IFFHS crowned each year the Women's World Best Club (Olympique Lyonnais won 7 times, VFL Wolfsburg 2 times, FC Barcelona 1 time). Since 2022 and the Club World Ranking (calculation system determined by IFFHS ), FC Barcelona dominates the World ranking.

Who is the best player in FIFA 2023 for women's? ›

Aitana Bonmati has been named The Best FIFA Women's Player for the first time. The coveted award is richly deserved for this magnificent midfielder, who in 2023 inspired Spain to their maiden world title, and Barcelona to a domestic and European treble.

Who is the No 1 player in football history 2023? ›

Erling HAALAND

Who won women's Ballon d'Or in 2023? ›

Only one player has won the women's Ballon d'Or award more than once: Alexia Putellas. The Spanish forward picked up the award in 2021 and 2022. Meanwhile, Aitana Bonmatí picked up the award most recently in 2023.

Who won the women's world cup in 2023? ›

Spain were crowned champions after defeating reigning European champions England 1–0 in the final. It was the first time a European nation had won the Women's World Cup since 2007 and Spain's first title, although their victory was marred by the Rubiales affair.

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