Vivianne Miedema reached a special milestone for the Dutch national team on Saturday. The 28-year-old all-time top scorer for Oranje scored her hundredth international goal in the European Championship match against Wales.
Miedema put Oranje ahead against Wales just before halftime. The striker freed herself to shoot and curled the ball beautifully into the far corner.
Miedema now has one hundred goals in the shirt of the Dutch national team. The attacker from Hoogeveen needed only 126 matches for that. She was in the starting lineup in only 107 of those matches.
The Manchester City attacker scored her first international goals in 2013 in a 7-0 victory against Portugal. She scored three times within sixteen minutes. Since then, her goal tally has continued to rise.
With one hundred international goals, Miedema is by far the all-time top scorer for Oranje. Number two Lieke Martens, who has retired as an international, is in second place with 62 goals. Manon Melis (59 goals), who has also retired, is third.
Miedema already crowned herself as the all-time top scorer for Oranje in 2019, just six years after she made her debut in the Dutch national team. She scored twice in the World Cup match against Cameroon and thus reached sixty international goals.
Miedema, despite her bizarre goal tally, does not come close to the world record by a long shot. Record holder Christine Sinclair scored no less than 190 times for the Canadian national team between 2000 and 2023.
Abby Wambach is in second place with 184 goals for the United States. It should be noted that Wambach (256 matches) played far less than Sinclair (331 matches).
Wambach’s goal average (0.72 goals per match) is higher than that of Sinclair (0.57 per match). Incidentally, Miedema does even better than Wambach: the Dutch player scores 0.79 goals per match.