Top 10 international women’s points scorers in 2025

With it being a Women’s Rugby World Cup year and the tournament expanding to 16 teams, matches have come thick and fast in 2025, providing players with more opportunities to notch up points.

Two players took advantage of the packed schedule to reach their centuries during RWC 2025, and another is in the top three for points scored in 2025, despite being fit for only the last three-and-a-half months.

Here’s our rundown of the top 10:

10. Amalia Argudo (Spain) – 53pts
The bulk of Argudo’s scoring was achieved before the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025, where she managed only nine points through three conversions and a penalty. The Barcelona-born utility back, who was first capped five years ago, reached 150 career points for Las Leonas during the tournament.

9. Byrhandre Dolf (South Africa) – 54pts
Exactly half of Dolf’s points for the year came in the Springbok Women’s historic run to the quarter-finals, thanks to 12 conversions and a penalty. The tally of 27 points surpassed Zandile Nojoko’s Women’s Rugby World Cup record of 26 points for the Boks, but where Dolf achieved that in four matches at one tournament, it took Nojoko 15 games across three tournaments. The back-three player wasn’t the team’s kicker up until this year – that responsibility had always fallen to either Libbie Janse van Rensburg or Jakkie Cilliers – and had only scored 10 points in 15 previous caps.

8. Dannah O’Brien (Ireland) – 58pts
O’Brien kicked nine conversions and a penalty in addition to scoring a try at RWC 2025. She was also the team’s leading points scorer for the second consecutive Women’s Six Nations earlier in the year, despite only being successful with two-thirds of her goal attempts.

7. Portia Woodman-Wickliffe (New Zealand) – 60pts
RugbyPass’s No.1 Player in the World came out of retirement to appear on the Women’s Rugby World Cup stage again, scoring twice. However, the highlight of the year from a personal standpoint was the seven tries she scored against the USA in May,  passing Vanessa Coutts as the Black Ferns’ all-time leading try scorer in the process. The former World Rugby Women’s Player of the Year also became New Zealand’s all-time record try-scorer in both women’s and men’s rugby when she overtook Doug Howlett’s tally of 49. All of her points this year have come from tries.

6. Renee Holmes (New Zealand) – 66pts
The second-highest points scorer at RWC 2025 with 64, behind team-mate Braxton Sorensen-McGee, which is some achievement considering the full-back almost failed to make the squad. Twenty of her points came from tries.

5. Julia Schell (Canada) – 74pts
Schell’s six tries in her side’s 65-7 thrashing of Fiji was one of the tournament’s early talking points. It was the most tries scored by a Canadian in a Rugby World Cup match. Remarkably, her double hat-trick was achieved in the space of 23 minutes. Schell didn’t kick at goal during the tournament but filled in for Sophie de Goede beforehand, while the all-action loose forward was in injury rehab.

3= Braxton Sorensen-McGee (New Zealand) – 84pts
The teenage sensation didn’t put a foot wrong in England, lighting up the tournament with her pace and ability to beat defenders on her way to scoring a whopping 11 tries. Sorensen-McGee also got to showcase her goal-kicking skills, becoming the tournament’s top points scorer with 69.

3= Sophie de Goede (Canada) – 84pts
It’s remarkable that the Canadian loose forward and recently crowned World Rugby Women’s Player of the Year for 2025 is anywhere near this list, given she only returned to action in July after a year on the sidelines with an ACL injury. She kicked 20 conversions and two penalties at RWC 2025 and also crossed for three tries.

2. Zoe Harrison (England) – 101pts
Harrison became the second points centurion this year when she kicked her fourth conversion in the 33-13 win over Canada in the final of RWC 2025. The fly-half was the second-highest points scorer in the Guinness Women’s Six Nations earlier this year, with 37 points.

1. Morgane Bourgeois (France) – 106pts
Boosted by three tries, Bourgeois’ total of 106 points is the most by a women’s player from one of the leading nations this year. Her 73 points were the most by a player in the Guinness Women’s Six Nations, ensuring France of the double, as Thomas Ramos achieved the same feat in the men’s competition. She was the only player with more than three attempts at goal in the championship to boast a success rate of 80%. At RWC 2025, she accumulated 27 more through nine conversions and three penalties. Having spent a year out of the team through injury, things have turned around nicely for the 22-year-old in 2025.

*Data supplied by World Rugby and includes players from the 16 participating teams at RWC 2025.