List of FIFA Women's World Cup red cards

This is a list of all occasions where a football player was sent off from a FIFA Women's World Cup match due to a foul or misconduct, either as a direct expulsion (red card) or as a second caution (yellow card) within the match. This list includes all dismissals since the first World Cup in 1991.

Only players are listed, even if they were at the substitutes' bench at the time of the sending off. Managers and other technical staff members are not covered.

Statistics

• Lin Hui-fang was the first player to be sent off in a World Cup match, playing for Chinese Taipei against Nigeria in a 1991 match officiated by Rafael Rodríguez Medina.
• One dismissal has taken place during final matches: Japan's Azusa Iwashimizu against United States in 2011.
• Australia's Alicia Ferguson received the quickest red card, in the second minute in a game against China in 1999.
• Five goalkeepers have been sent off in the tournament: Chinese Taipei's Lin Hui-fang (1991), United States's Briana Scurry (1995), France's Bérangère Sapowicz (2011), Colombia's Catalina Pérez (2015), and Zambia's Catherine Musonda (2023).
• The team that has the greatest number of expulsed players is Nigeria, with 4 – in 4 different matches. The team whose opponents have received the most red cards is United States, with 5 – in 5 different matches.
• The 2023 World Cup had the largest number of red cards: a total of 6 players were sent off.

Full list

Tournament	#	M	Player	T	Time	Representing	At score	Final score	Opponent	Referee	Round	Date	Ref
1991, China	1.	1.	Lin Hui-fang		6'	Chinese Taipei	0–0	2–0	Nigeria	Rafael Rodríguez Medina (SLV)	Group stage	21 November 1991	[1]
1995, Sweden	2.	2.	Sonia Gegenhuber		30'	Australia	0–2	0–5	Denmark	Bente Skogvang (NOR)	Group stage	6 June 1995	[2]
	3.	3.	Briana Scurry		88'	United States	0–2	0–2	Denmark	Engage Camara (GUI)	Group stage	8 June 1995	[3]
	4.	4.	Suzy		63'	Brazil	1–3	1–6	Germany	Alain Hamer (LUX)	Group stage	9 June 1995	[4]
	5.	5.	Heidi Støre		76'	Norway	1–0	1–0	United States	Alain Hamer (LUX)	Semi-finals	15 June 1995	[5]
1999, United States	6.	6.	Barikisu Tettey-Quao		26'	Ghana	0–0	1–1	Australia	Kari Seitz (USA)	Group stage	20 June 1999	[6]
	7.	7.	Regina Ansah		53'	Ghana	0–3	0–7	China	Elke Günthner (GER)	Group stage	23 June 1999	[7]
	8.	8.	Pak Jong-ae		86'	North Korea	1–3	1–3	Denmark	Martha Liliana Pardo (COL)	Group stage	24 June 1999	[8]
	9.	9.	Alicia Ferguson		2'	Australia	0–0	1–3	China	Sandra Hunt (USA)	Group stage	26 June 1999	[9]
	10.	10.	Patience Avre		87'	Nigeria	3–3	3–4aet	Brazil	Virginia Tovar (MEX)	Quarter-finals	1 July 1999	[10]
2003, United States	11.	11.	Natalia Gatti		39'	Argentina	0–2	0–6	Japan	Katriina Elovirta (FIN)	Group stage	20 September 2003	[11]
2007, China	12.	12.	Catalina Pérez		49'	Argentina	0–2	1–6	England	Dianne Ferreira-James (GUY)	Group stage	17 September 2007	[12]
	13.	13.	Shannon Boxx		45+1'	United States	0–2	0–4	Brazil	Nicole Petignat (SUI)	Semi-finals	27 September 2007	[13]
2011, Germany	14.	14.	Bérangère Sapowicz		65'	France	1–2	2–4	Germany	Kirsi Heikkinen (FIN)	Group stage	5 July 2011	[14]
	15.	15.	Rachel Buehler		65'	United States	1–0	2–2aet (5–3pen)	Brazil	Jacqui Melksham (AUS)	Quarter-finals	10 July 2011
	16.	16.	Josefine Öqvist		68'	Sweden	1–1	2–1	France	Kari Seitz (USA)	Third place play-off	16 July 2011
	17.	17.	Azusa Iwashimizu		120+1'	Japan	2–2	2–2aet (3–1pen)	United States	Bibiana Steinhaus (GER)	Final	17 July 2011
2015, Canada	18.	18.	Ligia Moreira		66'	Ecuador	0–3	0–6	Cameroon	Katalin Kulcsár (HUN)	Group stage	8 June 2015
	19.	19.	Sarah Nnodim		69'	Nigeria	0–1	0–1	United States	Kateryna Monzul (UKR)	Group stage	16 June 2015
	20.	20.	Catalina Pérez		47'	Colombia	0–0	0–2	United States	Stéphanie Frappart (FRA)	Round of 16	22 June 2015
2019, France	21.	21.	Nothando Vilakazi		81'	South Africa	1–1	1–3	Spain	María Carvajal (CHI)	Group stage	8 June 2019
	22.	22.	Ngozi Ebere		75'	Nigeria	0–0	0–1	France	Melissa Borjas (HON)	Group stage	17 June 2019
	23.	23.	Alanna Kennedy		104'	Australia	1–1	1–1aet (1–4pen)	Norway	Riem Hussein (GER)	Round of 16	22 June 2019
	24.	24.	Millie Bright		86'	England	1–2	1–2	United States	Edina Alves Batista (BRA)	Semi-finals	2 July 2019
2023, Australia/New Zealand	25.	25.	Deborah Abiodun		90+8'	Nigeria	0–0	0–0	Canada	Lina Lehtovaara (FIN)	Group stage	21 July 2023
	26.	26.	Catherine Musonda		90+7'	Zambia	0–4	0–5	Japan	Tess Olofsson (SWE)	Group stage	22 July 2023
	27.	27.	Khadija Shaw		90+2'	Jamaica	0–0	0–0	France	María Carvajal (CHI)	Group stage	23 July 2023
	28.	28.	Zhang Rui		29'	China	0–0	1–0	Haiti	Marta Huerta de Aza (ESP)	Group stage	28 July 2023
	29.	29.	Sofia Harrison		67'	Philippines	0–5	0–6	Norway	Marie-Soleil Beaudoin (CAN)	Group stage	30 July 2023
	30.	30.	Lauren James		87'	England	0–0	0–0aet (4–2pen)	Nigeria	Melissa Borjas (HON)	Round of 16	7 August 2023

References

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