List of international goals scored by Manon Melis

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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. From 2010 to 2019 she was the all-time top goalscorer for her country.

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

Melis scored on her debut for the senior national team on 25 April 2004, in an away game against Belgium, aged 17. Not until her 16th cap did she score again. An even longer goal drought followed, playing 17 matches in which she was unable to score her third. 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. 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. She overtook Marjoke de Bakker's goal tally of 29, achieved between 1979 and 1991. At the 2013 Euros she played three matches but did not score and the Netherlands were eliminated at the group stage.

Melis earned her last cap on 9 March 2016 in a home game against Sweden, a qualification game for the 2016 Olympics. 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. Her highest number of goals in one match was four, scored in a 6–0 win over Serbia in 2011. In September 2013, she scored a hat-trick against Albania during 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification. 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. 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. As of December 2020 Melis ranked second on the all-time goalscoring list for the Netherlands women's football team.

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

Statistics

Goals by competition
Competition Goals
Friendlies 13
FIFA World Cup qualifiers 12
UEFA European Championship qualifiers 16
FIFA World Cup finals 0
UEFA European Championship finals 1
Other 17
Total 59
 
Manon Melis (7) jumps over Belgium's goalkeeper in May 2014

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