Of the 1,081 goals scored in matches at the nine final tournaments of the FIFA Women's World Cup, only 33 have been own goals.
In 1997, FIFA published guidelines for classifying an own goal as "when a player plays the ball directly into his own net or when he redirects an opponent’s shot, cross or pass into his own goal", and excludes "shots that are on target (i.e. goal-bound) and touch a defender or rebound from the goal frame and bounce off a defender or goalkeeper".
[1] This is a list of all own goals scored during FIFA Women's World Cup matches (not including qualification games).
[n 2] All but eight own goals have been scored in the group stage of the tournament.
She later scored Ecuador's first World Cup goal in the same match.