Elisabetta Vignotto (born 13 January 1954) is an Italian former

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who played as a striker.

Club career

At club level Vignotto represented numerous different clubs in

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. In 1986 she told ''

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'': "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 (and later A.S.D. Sassuolo Calcio Femminile).

International career

Vignotto reportedly scored 107 goals in 109 games for the Italian national team.

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suggest she made 110 appearances. The

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(FIGC) 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

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, who scored her 108th goal for the

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. She was inducted into the

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in 2017.

Honours

Club

;Gommagomma *

: 1970 ;Real Juventus *

: 1971 ;Gamma 3 Padova *

: 1972, 1973 *

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: 1974 ;Valdobbiadene *

: 1976 ;Gorgonzola *

: 1980 ;Reggiana *

: 1989–90

International

;Italy * Mundialito: 1984, 1986

Individual

top scorer: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1980 *

: 2017

Club career

International career

Honours

Club

International

Individual

International goals

References

See also