List of international goals scored by Manon Melis

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Manon Melis playing for the Netherlands during the UEFA Women's Euro 2013

Manon Melis is a retired Dutch professional footballer who played as a forward for the Netherlands women's national team from 2004 to 2016. During her international career she scored 59 goals from 136 games.[1] From 2010 to 2019 she was the all-time top goalscorer for her country.[2][3]

Melis scored on her debut for the senior national team on 25 April 2004, in an away game against Belgium, aged 17.[1][4] Not until her 16th cap did she score again.[1][5] An even longer goal drought followed, playing 17 matches in which she was unable to score her third.[1][6] She helped the Dutch qualify for their first major finals by scoring in six of the eight matches in UEFA Women's Euro 2009 qualifying. At the finals held in Finland Melis played five matches, in which she scored once, against Denmark.[7][8] On 21 August 2010 Melis became the all-time top goalscorer for the Netherlands after scoring twice against Belarus, her 29th and 30th international goals.[2][9] She overtook Marjoke de Bakker's goal tally of 29, achieved between 1979 and 1991.[2] At the 2013 Euros she played three matches but did not score and the Netherlands were eliminated at the group stage.[1][10]

Melis earned her last cap on 9 March 2016 in a home game against Sweden, a qualification game for the 2016 Olympics.[11][12] She scored her last goal, her 59th, in the penultimate match of her career, against Norway. Hers was the only Dutch goal in the 4–1 loss.[13] Her highest number of goals in one match was four, scored in a 6–0 win over Serbia in 2011.[14] In September 2013, she scored a hat-trick against Albania during 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification.[15] Serbia and Switzerland are the teams against which she has scored the most, six goals total, from two and six games respectively. Four of her 59 goals came from penalties; 25 were scored on home soil. Her most productive year was 2011 with 10 goals from 12 games.[1] For nearly nine years Melis held the all-time goalscoring record, until 15 June 2019, when Vivianne Miedema surpassed Melis by scoring her 60th goal in a 3–1 win over Cameroon at a group stage match at the FIFA World Cup Finals in France.[3] As of July 2025, Melis ranks third on the all-time goalscoring list for the Netherlands women's football team, behind Miedema and Lieke Martens.[16]

"Score" represents the score in the match after Melis's goal. "Score" and "Result" list the Netherlands' goal tally first. Cap represents the player's appearance in an international level match at senior level.[1]
Key
‡ Indicates goal was scored from a penalty kick
Goals by Melis for the Netherlands' senior national team
G C Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Ref
1 125 April 2004Den Dreef, Leuven, Belgium Belgium2–03–02005 UEFA Women's Euro qualification[4]
2 1612 October 2005Oosterenkstadion, Zwolle, Netherlands Switzerland5–06–0Friendly[5]
3 3421 February 2007Mitsubishi Forklift Stadion, Almere, Netherlands Italy2–02–0[6]
4 3514 March 2007County Ground, Swindon, England England1–01–0[17]
5 379 May 2007Herti Allmend Stadion, Zug, Switzerland Switzerland1–02–22009 UEFA Women's Euro qualification[18]
6 3926 August 2007Veronica Stadium, Volendam, Netherlands Wales1–02–1[19]
7 401 October 2007Mitsubishi Forklift Stadion, Almere, Netherlands France1–41–4Friendly[20]
8 4227 January 2008Frank Cooke Park, Dublin, Ireland Republic of Ireland1–01–1[21]
9 4320 February 2008Newport Stadium, Newport, Wales Wales1–01–02009 UEFA Women's Euro qualification[22]
10 4423 April 2008Patrostadion, Maasmechelen, Belgium Belgium2–22–2[23]
11 4630 August 2008Den Haag Stadion, The Hague, Netherlands Switzerland1–01–1[24]
12 4727 September 2008Kras Stadion, Volendam, Netherlands Belgium1–03–0[25]
13 2–0
14 485 March 2009Makario Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus Russia1–02–12009 Cyprus Cup[26]
15 2–1
16 5012 March 2009GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus South Africa1–05–0[27]
17 3–0
18 5111 July 2009Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands Switzerland2–05–0Four Nations Cup[28]
19 5215 July 2009 China2–42–4[29]
20 548 August 2009Koning Willem II Stadion, Tilburg, Netherlands Poland1–02–0Friendly[30]
21 5829 August 2009Lahden Stadion, Lahti, Finland Denmark2–02–12009 UEFA Women's Euro[8]
22 6229 October 2009Oosterenkstadion, Zwolle, Netherlands Macedonia3–013–12011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification[31]
23 6424 February 2010GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus Scotland1–04–12010 Cyprus Cup[32]
24 3–1
25 6526 February 2010Ammochostos Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus New Zealand1–11–1[33]
26 673 March 2010GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus Switzerland1–04–0[34]
27 6922 April 2010Gradski Stadion, Kumanovo, Macedonia Macedonia5–07–02011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification[35]
28 7019 June 2010Oosterenkstadion, Zwolle, Netherlands Norway1–02–2[36]
29 7121 August 2010Haradzki Stadium, Maladzechna, Belarus Belarus2–04–0[9]
30 3–0
31 722 March 2011GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus New Zealand2–04–12011 Cyprus Cup[37]
32 3–0
33 734 March 2011Ammochostos Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus France2–12–1[38]
34 7718 May 2011De Koel, Venlo, Netherlands North Korea1–11–1Friendly[39]
35 8024 August 2011Hohhot City Stadium, Hohhot, China China1–01–0[40]
36 8121 September 2011TATA Steel Stadion, Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands Serbia1–06–02013 UEFA Women's Euro qualification[14]
37 3–0
38 5–0
39 6–0
40 8222 October 2011Gradski stadion, Vrbovec, Croatia Croatia1–03–0[41]
41 8528 February 2012GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus Italy1–12–12012 Cyprus Cup[42]
42 895 April 2012De Koel, Venlo, Netherlands Slovenia3–13–12013 UEFA Women's Euro qualification[43]
43 9120 June 2012Stadion Srem Jakovo, Jakovo, Serbia Serbia1–04–0[44]
44 2–0
45 979 April 2013Kyocera Stadion, The Hague, Netherlands United States1–31–3Friendly[45]
46 10226 September 2013Qemal Stafa Stadium, Tirana, Albania Albania1–04–02015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification[15]
47 2–0
48 3–0
49 10423 November 2013Stadion Woudestein, Rotterdam, Netherlands Greece4–0 ‡7–0[46]
50 1077 March 2014GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus Scotland3–43–42014 Cyprus Cup[47]
51 1095 April 2014Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion, Greece Greece1–06–02015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification[48]
52 11525 October 2014Tynecastle Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland Scotland2–0 ‡2–1[49]
53 11630 October 2014Sparta Stadion, Rotterdam, Netherlands2–02–0[50]
54 1238 April 2015Strømmen Stadion, Strømmen, Norway Norway2–13–2Friendly[51]
55 12430 May 2015York Stadium, Toronto, Canada Sweden1–01–2[52]
56 13129 November 2015Kras Stadion, Volendam, Netherlands Japan2–03–1[53]
57 3–1 ‡
58 1342 March 2016Kyocera Stadion, The Hague, Netherlands Switzerland1–1 ‡4–32016 UEFA Women's Olympic qualification[54]
59 1355 March 2016Het Kasteel, Rotterdam, Netherlands Norway1–21–4[13]

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