Elisabetta Vignotto

Elisabetta Vignotto (born 13 January 1954) is an Italian former footballer who played as a striker.

Club career

At club level Vignotto represented numerous different clubs in Serie A. In 1986 she told la Repubblica: "So far I've changed teams ten times. But it's not that I'm capricious. The teams broke up." According to the Dizionario del Calcio Italiano, she scored 467 goals in 461 Serie A appearances.

She was the chairman of A.S.D. Reggiana Calcio Femminile (and later A.S.D. Sassuolo Calcio Femminile).

International career

Vignotto reportedly scored 107 goals in 109 games for the Italian national team. FIFA suggest she made 110 appearances. The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) website does not support this, suggesting figures of 97 goals in 95 national team games.

Vignotto held the goalscoring record for women's international matches until May 1999, when she was surpassed by Mia Hamm, who scored her 108th goal for the United States.

She was inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame in 2017.

Honours

Club Gommagomma Serie A: 1970

Real Juventus Serie A: 1971

Gamma 3 Padova Serie A: 1972, 1973 Coppa Italia: 1974

Valdobbiadene Serie A: 1976

Gorgonzola Coppa Italia: 1980

Reggiana Serie A: 1989–90

International Italy Mundialito: 1984, 1986

Individual Serie A top scorer: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1980 Italian Football Hall of Fame: 2017

International goals No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition 1. 6 May 1971 Guadalajara, Mexico ?–0 2–0 Friendly 2. 2 June 1971 Trapani, Italy 5–0 7–0 1971 Women's World Cup qualifying 3. 6 June 1971 Palermo, Italy 1–0 6–0 4. 3–0 5. 4–0 6. 5–0 7. 6–0 8. 20 July 1971 Turin, Italy 2–0 8–1 Friendly 9. 5–0 10. 6–0 11. 4 September 1971 Guadalajara, Mexico 1–0 4–0 1971 Women's World Cup 12. 2–0 13. 4–0 14. 25 June 1972 Vicenza, Italy ?–0 3–0 Friendly 15. 1 November 1972 Padua, Italy 2–0 5–0 16. 3–0 17. 8 December 1972 Córdoba, Spain 4–0 5–1 18. 10 December 1972 Badajoz, Spain 2–0 4–1 19. 3–1 20. 4 June 1973 Milan, Italy 1–0 1–0 21. 19 May 1974 Valence, France 3–0 3–2 22. 2 June 1976 Rome, Italy 1–0 2–0 23. 2–0 24. 28 May 1978 Naples, Italy 1–? 1–1 25. 28 July 1978 Atri, Italy ?–1 2–1 1978 Mundialito 26. 2 August 1978 Pescara, Italy ?–0 7–0 27. ?–0 28. 5 August 1978 ?–? 4–1 29. ?–?