Alex Morgan USWNT records: Women's soccer star among all-time USA greats | Sporting News (2024)

Alex Morgan is one of the most iconic and visible U.S. women's soccer players of all time, and there's a good reason why.

Turning 34 years old just before the start of the 2023 Women's World Cup, Morgan has been a fixture of the U.S. women's national team for 13 years, scoring iconic goals and setting a multitude of records.

Morgan has cemented herself among the all-time greats in the history of the world's most successful national team, earning her place as a leader for the continued growth of the game in the USA. She also has served as a leader off the field, championing the equal-pay fight alongside her teammates.

The Sporting News details Morgan's career accomplishments at an individual and team level, having won significant accomplishments with the U.S. national team and her clubs, as well as scoring iconic goals for her country.

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Alex Morgan USA national team, FIFA records

Alex Morgan's most notable all-time individual record came in the 2019 Women's World Cup, when she scored five goals in a single game, leading the U.S. in a 13-0 rout of Thailand in their group stage opener. It is the most goals ever scored in a single Women's World Cup match by one player, tied with another U.S. international, Michelle Akers, who did it against Chinese Taipei in 1991, the first Women's World Cup.

Those five goals also tied Morgan for the most goals ever scored in a single match by any U.S. player in any match, level with eight others: Brandi Chastain, Tiffeny Milbrett, Abby Wambach, Amy Rodriguez, Sydney Leroux, Crystal Dunn, Carli Lloyd and, of course, Akers.

With the U.S. national team, Morgan sits fifth in the all-time goal-scoring chart, needing nine more to pass Kristine Lilly for fourth, and then four more to pass Carli Lloyd for third. After that, she has a significant gap to close if she wishes to crack the top two.

She is also 10th all-time in most international caps by a U.S. player, with 207 entering the Women's World Cup, nine behind Becky Sauerbrunn's 216 for ninth, and 147 behind all-time leader Kristine Lilly, who has 354. Morgan is also 10th on the all-time assists chart with 49, level with Carin Jennings-Gabarra. She is just one behind ninth-place Shannon MacMillan, but 98 behind the leader Mia Hamm.

In 2011, Morgan became the first player to score and assist a goal in a Women's World Cup final, scoring against Japan in the 69th minute and assisting Abby Wambach's extra-time goal in the 104th minute.

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Alex Morgan awards, trophies won

Trophies won

USWNT

• FIFA Women's World Cup (2x): 2015, 2019
• FIFA U20 Women's World Cup: 2008
• Olympic gold medal: 2012
• Olympic bronze medal: 2020
• CONCACAF W Championship (3x): 2014, 2018, 2022
• SheBelieves Cup (5x): 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023
• Algarve Cup (3x): 2011, 2013, 2015

Western New York Flash

• WPS Championship: 2011

Portland Thorns

• NWSL Championship: 2013

Olympique Lyonnais

• Division 1 Feminine: 2016/17
• Coupe de France Feminine: 2016/17
• UEFA Champions League: 2016/17

Awards & nominations

• U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year (2x): 2012, 2018
• FIFA FIFPRO Women's World 11 (5x): 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022
• FIFA The Best Women's Player of the Year*(finalist — 3x): 2012, 2019, 2022
• CONCACAF Women's Player of the Year (4x): 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018
• FIFA Women's World Cup Silver Boot: 2019
• NWSL Golden Boot: 2022
• NWSL Best XI: 2022
• USWNT All-Time Best XI: 2013
• ESPY Award Best Female Athlete: 2019
• IFFHS Women's World Team of the Year (4x): 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022
• IFFHS Women's World Team of the Decade: 2011-20

* Previously known as Women's FIFA Player of the Year

Alex Morgan notable goals for USA

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