Elisabetta Vignotto


Elisabetta Vignotto is an Italian former international footballer who played as a striker. She is nicknamed "Betty".

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.

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 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
;Real Juventus
;Gamma 3 Padova
;Valdobbiadene
;Gorgonzola
;Reggiana
;Italy