List of FIFA Women's World Cup own goals

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Of the 1,081 goals scored in matches at the nine final tournaments of the FIFA Women's World Cup, only 33 have been own goals. In 1997, FIFA published guidelines for classifying an own goal as "when a player plays the ball directly into his own net or when he redirects an opponent’s shot, cross or pass into his own goal", and excludes "shots that are on target (i.e. goal-bound) and touch a defender or rebound from the goal frame and bounce off a defender or goalkeeper".[1] This is a list of all own goals scored during FIFA Women's World Cup matches (not including qualification games).

The United States has scored four own goals for their opponents, while Norway has benefited from five own goals. Of the 31[n 1] matches with own goals, the team scoring the own goal has won five times and drawn three times.[n 2] All but eight own goals have been scored in the group stage of the tournament.

The only player to score two own goals is Angie Ponce from Ecuador, scoring twice for Switzerland in 2015. She later scored Ecuador's first World Cup goal in the same match.[2]

Statistics and notable own goals

Time
  • First ever own goal
  • Fastest own goal
  • Latest regulation-time own goal
  • Only own goal in a final match
  • Matches with two own goals
Tournament
  • Most own goals, tournament
  • Tournaments without own goals
  • Most own goals by a team in one tournament
  • Most own goals in favour of a team in one tournament
Teams
  • Most own goals by a team, overall
  • Most own goals in favour of a team, overall
  • Most matches, never scoring an own goal
  • Most matches, never benefiting from an own goal
  • Most matches, never scoring or benefiting from an own goal
  • Teams to have scored multiple own goals for the same opponent
  • Pairs of teams to have scored own goals for each other
Players
  • Youngest player with an own goal
  • Oldest player with an own goal
  • Players who have scored own goals and regular goals
  • Brandi Chastain of the United States scored against Germany in 1999
  • Eva González of Argentina scored against England in 2007
  • Trine Rønning of Norway scored against Thailand in 2015
  • Angie Ponce of Ecuador scored against Switzerland in 2015
  • Wendie Renard of France scored twice against South Korea, once against Nigeria, and once against the United States in 2019, and once against Brazil in 2023
  • Julie Ertz (née Johnston) of the United States scored against Chile in 2019
  • Laia Codina of Spain scored against Switzerland in 2023
  • Players to score for both teams in a match
Various
  • The own goal scored by Brazilian Mônica for Australia in 2019 was the first own goal to be confirmed by VAR.
  • Club (FC Barcelona Femení) teammates Laia Codina from Spain and Ingrid Syrstad Engen from Norway both scored own goals, in different matches, on the same day (5 August 2023).[4]
  • After scoring one own goal for Japan in 2023 (0–1), Ingrid Syrstad Engen from Norway was the last player to connect with the ball that went in for Japan's next goal (1–2); as the initial strike from Japan's Risa Shimizu was on target, it was not recorded as a second own goal.[5][6]
  •  Ecuador has scored more own goals (two) than regular goals (one).
  •  Morocco has scored as many own goals (two) as regular goals (two).
  •  Chile has benefited from as many own goals (one) as regular goals (one).

By team

Own goals by nations
Team Own goals by
own players opponents
 United States43
 Nigeria31
 Ecuador20
 Morocco20
 Brazil21
 Japan23
 Norway25
 Cameroon10
 Costa Rica10
 Italy10
 Mexico10
 Philippines10
 Republic of Ireland10
 Scotland10
 South Korea10
 Thailand10
 Argentina11
 Australia11
 England11
 France11
 New Zealand11
 Spain11
 Sweden13
 Canada01
 Chile01
 Russia01
 South Africa01
 Switzerland03
 Germany04

See also

Notes

References

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