Category profile
- Dominance
- 86
- Peak
- 92
- Longevity
- 88
- Honours
- 86
- Statistics
- 90
Career timeline · Goals per season
| Season | Goals per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 52 | |
| 1976 | 57 | |
| 1977 | 61 | |
| 1978 | 66 | |
| 1979 | 71 | |
| 1980 | 75 | |
| 1981 | 80 | |
| 1982 | 85 | |
| 1983 | 89 | |
| 1984 | 94 | |
| 1985 | 90 | |
| 1986 | 86 | |
| 1987 | 82 | |
| 1988 | 78 | |
| 1989 | 74 | |
| 1990 | 70 | |
| 1991 | 65 | |
| 1992 | 61 | |
| 1993 | 57 | |
| 1994 | 53 | |
| 1995 | 49 | |
| 1996 | 45 |
Data sources
- FIFA Women's World Cup records
- UEFA women's competition archives
- National federation statistics
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Pia Sundhage ranks #68 in Football
Pia Sundhage ranks 68th among Football athletes on GOAT Rank and 109th of 4013 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 88.2 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 86, Peak 92, Longevity 88, Honours 86, Statistics 90. Those categories are normalised against the full Football reference universe of 895 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 1975–1996 with 22 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1984, which sets the Peak component at 92. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 92 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes european championship titles 1, sweden caps 146, sweden goals 71, damallsvenskan titles 6.
Immediately ahead sits Formiga on 88.2, a gap of 0.0 points. Directly behind is Michel Platini on 88.1. The position moves whenever the verified record moves: new titles, new seasons or a corrected source all feed straight back into the same formula, and every change is dated on this profile.
Pia Sundhage GOAT Score explained
- Dominance86/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Sundhage stood above the field while competing. Scored 86/100 against the full Football cohort.
- Peak92/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1984. Scored 92/100.
- Longevity88/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 21 years of competition and 22 recorded seasons. Scored 88/100.
- Honours86/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 86/100.
- Statistics90/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 90/100.
Top Sundhage comparisons
Pia Sundhage — frequently asked
- Is Pia Sundhage the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Pia Sundhage ranks 68th in Football with a GOAT Score of 88.2, behind Lionel Messi on 97.0.
- What is Pia Sundhage's GOAT Score?
- 88.2 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 86 (25%), Peak 92 (20%), Longevity 88 (20%), Honours 86 (20%), Statistics 90 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Pia Sundhage rank all time?
- 109th of 4013 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 68th within Football.
- Pia Sundhage vs Formiga: who ranks higher?
- Pia Sundhage, on 88.2 against Formiga's 88.2 — a margin of 0.0 points.