page_title: List of international goals scored by Abby Wambach
section_title: Statistics
hierarchical_section_title: List of international goals scored by Abby Wambach / Statistics
caption_attribution_description: Karen Bardsley of England Women's punches the ball away from Abby Wambach of USA Women's.
context_page_description: Abby Wambach is a retired professional soccer player who competed as a forward for the United States women's national soccer team from 2001 to 2015. In 255 appearances for the senior national team, she scored 184 goals and is second in the world for goals scored at the international level by both female and male soccer players. The previous record holder was Mia Hamm who scored 158 international goals during her career, also for the United States. Wambach broke Hamm's record on June 20, 2013, as she completed a hat trick against South Korea, in a friendly match at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey.
  Wambach scored her first international goal in the seventh minute of a friendly against Finland on April 27, 2002, in her second game for the national team. She scored her first international hat trick during a friendly against Scotland leading the national team to an 8–2 win in her fourth appearance for the team. Her first international goal scored during a competitive match occurred on November 2, 2002, during the national team's 9–0 win over Panama in the 2002 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup. During her first FIFA Women's World Cup tournament, she scored three goals in six games.
context_section_description: Notes:
   ¹ Olympic Games includes CONCACAF qualifying rounds.
   ² Other Tournaments includes the Peace Queen Cup and the Volvo Winners Cup.
caption: Wambach heads the ball during a match against England, February 2015.
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