List of international goals scored by Manon Melis

Photo of Dutch international footballer Manon Melis in orange football kit with a ball
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 December 2020 Melis ranked second on the all-time goalscoring list for the Netherlands women's football team.[16]

International goals

"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 1 25 April 2004 Den Dreef, Leuven, Belgium  Belgium 2–0 3–0 2005 UEFA Women's Euro qualification [4]
2 16 12 October 2005 Oosterenkstadion, Zwolle, Netherlands  Switzerland 5–0 6–0 Friendly [5]
3 34 21 February 2007 Mitsubishi Forklift Stadion, Almere, Netherlands  Italy 2–0 2–0 [6]
4 35 14 March 2007 County Ground, Swindon, England  England 1–0 1–0 [17]
5 37 9 May 2007 Herti Allmend Stadion, Zug, Switzerland  Switzerland 1–0 2–2 2009 UEFA Women's Euro qualification [18]
6 39 26 August 2007 Veronica Stadium, Volendam, Netherlands  Wales 1–0 2–1 [19]
7 40 1 October 2007 Mitsubishi Forklift Stadion, Almere, Netherlands  France 1–4 1–4 Friendly [20]
8 42 27 January 2008 Frank Cooke Park, Dublin, Ireland  Republic of Ireland 1–0 1–1 [21]
9 43 20 February 2008 Newport Stadium, Newport, Wales  Wales 1–0 1–0 2009 UEFA Women's Euro qualification [22]
10 44 23 April 2008 Patrostadion, Maasmechelen, Belgium  Belgium 2–2 2–2 [23]
11 46 30 August 2008 Den Haag Stadion, The Hague, Netherlands  Switzerland 1–0 1–1 [24]
12 47 27 September 2008 Kras Stadion, Volendam, Netherlands  Belgium 1–0 3–0 [25]
13 2–0
14 48 5 March 2009 Makario Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus  Russia 1–0 2–1 2009 Cyprus Cup [26]
15 2–1
16 50 12 March 2009 GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus  South Africa 1–0 5–0 [27]
17 3–0
18 51 11 July 2009 Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands  Switzerland 2–0 5–0 Four Nations Cup [28]
19 52 15 July 2009  China 2–4 2–4 [29]
20 54 8 August 2009 Koning Willem II Stadion, Tilburg, Netherlands  Poland 1–0 2–0 Friendly [30]
21 58 29 August 2009 Lahden Stadion, Lahti, Finland  Denmark 2–0 2–1 2009 UEFA Women's Euro [8]
22 62 29 October 2009 Oosterenkstadion, Zwolle, Netherlands  Macedonia 3–0 13–1 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification [31]
23 64 24 February 2010 GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus  Scotland 1–0 4–1 2010 Cyprus Cup [32]
24 3–1
25 65 26 February 2010 Ammochostos Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus  New Zealand 1–1 1–1 [33]
26 67 3 March 2010 GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus  Switzerland 1–0 4–0 [34]
27 69 22 April 2010 Gradski Stadion, Kumanovo, Macedonia  Macedonia 5–0 7–0 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification [35]
28 70 19 June 2010 Oosterenkstadion, Zwolle, Netherlands  Norway 1–0 2–2 [36]
29 71 21 August 2010 Haradzki Stadium, Maladzechna, Belarus  Belarus 2–0 4–0 [9]
30 3–0
31 72 2 March 2011 GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus  New Zealand 2–0 4–1 2011 Cyprus Cup [37]
32 3–0
33 73 4 March 2011 Ammochostos Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus  France 2–1 2–1 [38]
34 77 18 May 2011 De Koel, Venlo, Netherlands  North Korea 1–1 1–1 Friendly [39]
35 80 24 August 2011 Hohhot City Stadium, Hohhot, China  China 1–0 1–0 [40]
36 81 21 September 2011 TATA Steel Stadion, Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands  Serbia 1–0 6–0 2013 UEFA Women's Euro qualification [14]
37 3–0
38 5–0
39 6–0
40 82 22 October 2011 Gradski stadion, Vrbovec, Croatia  Croatia 1–0 3–0 [41]
41 85 28 February 2012 GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus  Italy 1–1 2–1 2012 Cyprus Cup [42]
42 89 5 April 2012 De Koel, Venlo, Netherlands  Slovenia 3–1 3–1 2013 UEFA Women's Euro qualification [43]
43 91 20 June 2012 Stadion Srem Jakovo, Jakovo, Serbia  Serbia 1–0 4–0 [44]
44 2–0
45 97 9 April 2013 Kyocera Stadion, The Hague, Netherlands  United States 1–3 1–3 Friendly [45]
46 102 26 September 2013 Qemal Stafa Stadium, Tirana, Albania  Albania 1–0 4–0 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification [15]
47 2–0
48 3–0
49 104 23 November 2013 Stadion Woudestein, Rotterdam, Netherlands  Greece 4–0 ‡ 7–0 [46]
50 107 7 March 2014 GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus  Scotland 3–4 3–4 2014 Cyprus Cup [47]
51 109 5 April 2014 Pankritio Stadium, Heraklion, Greece  Greece 1–0 6–0 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification [48]
52 115 25 October 2014 Tynecastle Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland  Scotland 2–0 ‡ 2–1 [49]
53 116 30 October 2014 Sparta Stadion, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2–0 2–0 [50]
54 123 8 April 2015 Strømmen Stadion, Strømmen, Norway  Norway 2–1 3–2 Friendly [51]
55 124 30 May 2015 York Stadium, Toronto, Canada  Sweden 1–0 1–2 [52]
56 131 29 November 2015 Kras Stadion, Volendam, Netherlands  Japan 2–0 3–1 [53]
57 3–1 ‡
58 134 2 March 2016 Kyocera Stadion, The Hague, Netherlands  Switzerland 1–1 ‡ 4–3 2016 UEFA Women's Olympic qualification [54]
59 135 5 March 2016 Het Kasteel, Rotterdam, Netherlands  Norway 1–2 1–4 [13]

Statistics

See also

References

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