FC Barcelona And Poland’s Ewa Pajor Leads World’s Goalscorers In 2025

After a record-breaking season at FC Barcelona, Poland’s Ewa Pajor is the leading female goalscorer in the world during the calendar year of 2025 going into June.

According to The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS), the 28-year-old has scored 29 goals in all competitions so far this year. This puts her two goals ahead of last year’s winner of the award, Charlyn Corral of Pachuca, who has scored 26 goals during the first five months of 2025.

Pajor’s 29 goals also put her level with the leading male goalscorer in the world so far this year, Kylian Mbappé of Real Madrid. This means, going into June, no player on the planet has scored more times than Pajor.

Pajor joined Barcelona from VfL Wolfsburg last June on a three-year contract. During her first season in Spain, she scored a total of 43 goals in all competitions, outscoring her much-vaunted Polish compatriot in the men’s side, Robert Lewandowski, who scored 42 times.

Her season total for Barcelona is 15 more than she has scored in any previous season during her career. The 43 goals, scored in just 46 matches, is also just short of the record for the FC Barcelona women’s team, four fewer than the 47 scored in 40 games by former striker Jenni Hermoso scored during the 2016/17 season.

However, despite winning the league title in Spain, the one domestic club trophy missing from Pajor’s collection continues to elude her. The Polish striker lost four Champions League finals in her time at Wolfsburg, the last of them against Barcelona in 2023. One of her main motivations in joining the three-time winners was to become a European champion herself saying “the Champions League is something special, something I want to win but it’s not my obsession.”

Pajor scored seven goals in ten games to help Barcelona reach a fifth successive Champions League final. Yet, once again, she finished as a runner-up, losing 1-0 to Arsenal in Lisbon, the fifth time she was suffered defeat in the Champions League final.

Nevertheless, Pajor could help Barcelona complete a domestic treble this weekend by winning the Copa de la Reina final against Atlético de Madrid. It would be 10th season in a row in which Pajor has won a domestic cup competition. Next month, her country’s all-time leading goalscorer, Pajor will lead Poland into their first-ever senior international tournament in the UEFA Women’s Euro.

Corral was the leading female goalscorer in the world at the end of 2024 with 44 goals in all competitions and has already scored at a higher rate in 2025. With 21 goals in the regular season, her five strikes in the Clausura play-offs helped Pachuca win their first league title last month.

However, the Mexican striker has not represented her national team this year and has been unable to add to the 26 goals she has scored for Pachuca. This has proved crucial as Pajor has 25 goals for Barcelona and has moved ahead of Corral due to the four she has scored for the Polish national team, including two against Northern Ireland in Belfast last week.

Elsewhere on the list, Kateřina Svitková of Slavia Praha sits in third place with 25 goals in all competitions. 24-year-old Jaimy Ravensbergen of FC Twente has scored 24, all for her club side. She is four ahead of England’s Katie Wilkinson in fifth position with 20 goals playing in Scotland for Glasgow Rangers.

Pajor is remarkably one of five FC Barcelona players to feature on the top thirty of the list of leading female goalscorers in 2025. She is ahead of Claudia Pina (15) who added another two in Spain’s win over England this week, Salma Paralleulo (14), Aitana Bonmatí and Alexia Putellas (both on 12 goals).