Records that could be broken in 2027
Find out how the likes of Aitana Bonmati, Marta and Alex Morgan can make history at Brazil 2027.
Brazil will host the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2027
FIFA looks at milestones that could tumble during the tournament
Bonmati, Marta, Morgan and Naeher could make history
USA could become the first nation to register 150 goals in the competition. The USWNT are currently on 142, with nearest rivals Germany on 129. Norway, on 100, are the only other members of the century club.
Sweden’s Lena Videkull has held the record for the fastest FIFA Women’s World Cup goal for 33 years. Can anyone score in fewer than 30 seconds to break it?
USA are on a run of 21 outings without defeat in the tournament. Their last loss was 2-1 to Sweden in the group stage at Germany 2011. Germany boast the next best sequence: 15 matches unbeaten between 2003 and 2011.
Brianna Scurry and Hope Solo share the record for most clean sheets in the competition: 10. Fellow American Alyssa Naeher, who remains USA’s first-choice goalkeeper, has seven to her name.
Brazil, Germany, Japan, Nigeria, Norway, Sweden and USA could extend their ever-present record to 10 FIFA Women’s World Cup participations.
Formiga appeared in an unprecedented seven FIFA Women’s World Cups. Nigeria defender Onome Ebi and Brazil playmaker Marta have been to six. So too has Christine Sinclair, who called time on her phenomenal international career last year. If Ebi, who will be 44 at the next global finals, plays she will outrank Formiga and become the oldest player in the tournament’s history.
Birgit Prinz is the only player to have netted five-plus goals in two editions. Cristiane, Sam Kerr, Hinata Miyazawa and Marta could emulate her at Brazil 2027.
The most goals a host-nation player has scored in an edition of the competition is four. Liu Ailing achieved the feat for China PR in 1991, and Wendie Renard repeated it for France in 2019. Over to the Brazilians…
Alex Morgan and Alyssa Naeher could become the first players to lift the trophy three times. The former, who turned out in the Germany 2011, Canada 2015 and France 2019 finals, could also become the first to appear in four deciders, with Birgit Prinz, Tobin Heath, Ali Krieger, Carli Lloyd and Megan Rapinoe also on three.
No player has registered multiple hat-tricks in the event. Ary Borges, Ramona Bachmann, Cristiane, Kadidiatou Diani, Cristiana Girelli, Fabienne Humm, Sam Kerr, Morgan and Sophie Roman Haug are the active players with one to their name.
Aitana Bonmati or Marta could become the first woman to win the adidas Golden Ball twice, while the latter or Hinata Miyazawa has a chance to become the first to claim multiple adidas Golden Boots. Mary Earps, meanwhile, will strive to tie Hope Solo’s record of two adidas Golden Gloves.
No foreign coach has won the Women’s World Cup. Australia, Canada, Denmark and England are respectively guided by bosses from overseas – namely Tony Gustavsson, Bev Priestman, Andree Jeglertz and Sarina Wiegman – and in the top 15 on the FIFA/Coca-Cola Women’s World Ranking, while Emma Hayes is set to take over USA.