The 2023 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup has to date been an exhilarating match with Australia and New Zealand tackle co-hosting duties for the primary time.
Alongside the battle for workforce glory, there are additionally a some key particular person awards on supply, as the most important stars in ladies’s soccer take centre-stage within the sport’s premier competitors.
The Golden Boot is a notable and, if current historical past is something to go by, aggressive prize: current tournaments have seen the award received by a low-key closing aim tally.
The previous three Golden Boots have been secured with a most of six objectives scored. Will anybody get near Michelle Akers’ single-tournament report this 12 months?
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Ladies’s World Cup high aim scorers 2023
Up to date as of Tuesday, August 15
Rank
Participant
Workforce
Targets
(Penalties)
Assists
Matches
Minutes
Performed
1.
Hinata Miyazawa
Japan
5 (0)
1
4
255
2.
Alexandra Popp
Germany
4 (1)
0
3
263
Jill Roord
Netherlands
4 (0)
0
4
358
Amanda Ilestedt
Sweden
4 (0)
0
4
542
5.
Lauren James
England
3 (0)
3
4
287
Kadidiatou Diani
France
3 (2)
3
5
420
Aita Bonmati
Spain
3 (0)
2
6
495
Jennifer Hermoso
Spain
3 (0)
2
6
557
Ary Borges
Brazil
3 (0)
1
2
206
Alba Redondo
Spain
3 (0)
1
6
334
Jennifer Hermoso
Spain
3 (0)
1
5
437
Rebecka Blomqvist
Sweden
3 (0)
0
5
135
Sophie Roman Haug
Norway
3 (0)
0
3
253
Hayley Raso
Australia
3 (0)
0
5
434
2 objectives: 18 gamers
1 aim: 65 gamers
Personal objectives: 8 gamers
There have been 153 complete objectives scored in 61 matches on the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup, together with eight personal objectives.
Ladies’s World Cup Golden Boot 2023 contenders
Heading into the match, USWNT veteran Alex Morgan was initially tipped, however she failed to attain within the match and missed a penalty within the opening win over Vietnam. Australia star and Chelsea striker Sam Kerr was one other favorite, however she has been hampered by a pre-tournament damage and missed all of the group matches.
We have now a shock chief in Japan’s Hinata Miyazawa after she scored twice in Japan’s 4-0 rout of Spain of their closing group match, after which added one other within the Spherical of 16 win over Norway. However with Japan now out, Germany’s Alexandra Popp completed on 4 and Brazil’s Ary Borges ending on three earlier than they crashed out, the door opened for Sweden’s Amanda Ilestedt who sat on 4 forward of the semifinals. She couldn’t add to that tally of their defeat to Spain, however she might but transfer high of the standings with a robust efficiency within the bronze-medal match.
The USA, Germany and Brazil have historically produced the Golden Boot winner in earlier World Cups.
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Golden Boot tiebreakers
FIFA guidelines over Golden Boot tiebreakers come into play if a couple of participant has scored the identical quantity of objectives on the finish of the match.
In that occasion, assists will probably be used as the primary tiebreaker and that will probably be adopted by minutes performed with the participant compiling her objectives within the fewest minutes rating increased.
Most objectives scored in a single Ladies’s World Cup
12 months
Participant
Nation
Targets
1991
Michelle Akers
USA
10
1991
Heidi Mohr
Germany
7
1999
Solar Wen
China
7
1999
Sissi
Brazil
7
2003
Birgit Prinz
Germany
7
2007
Marta
Brazil
7
Ladies’s World Cup Golden Boot winners
Throughout eight editions of the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup, no participant has received the Golden Boot on a couple of event.
USA’s Michelle Akers holds the report for many objectives in single a match, scoring 10 on the inaugural 1991 World Cup.
Brazilian legend Marta, who’s the all-time high scorer in Ladies’s World Cup historical past, received the Golden Boot in 2007, however Germany wound up successful the match that 12 months.
Megan Rapinoe received the the Golden Boot (high scorer) and the Golden Ball (MVP) on the final World Cup in 2019, and likewise went on to win the Ballon d’Or as the highest participant within the ladies’s sport after main her workforce to a World Cup trophy in that very same competitors.
12 months
Host
Participant
Nation
Targets
1991
China
Michelle Akers
USA
10
1995
Sweden
Ann Kristin Aarones
Norway
6
1999
USA
Solar Wen / Sissi
China/Brazil
7
2003
USA
Birgit Prinz
Germany
7
2007
China
Marta
Brazil
7
2011
Germany
Homare Sawa
Japan
5
2015
Canada
Celia Sasic
Germany
6
2019
France
Megan Rapinoe
USA
6
Who has scored most Ladies’s World Cup objectives in historical past?
Marta leads the best way on the high of the all-time Ladies’s World Cup aim record with 17, and he or she has the possibility to construct on that in 2023.
Participant
Nation
World Cup objectives
Marta
Brazil
17
Birgit Prinz
Germany
14
Abby Wambach
USA
14
Michelle Akers
USA
12
Cristiane
Brazil
11
Wen Solar
China
11
Bettina Wiegmann
Germany
11
Ann-Kristin Aarones
Norway
10
Carli Lloyd
USA
10
Heidi Mohr
Germany
10
Christine Sinclair
Canada
10