List of FIFA Women's World Cup red cards

This is a list of all occasions where a football player was sent off from a FIFA Women's World Cup match due to a foul or misconduct, either as a direct expulsion (red card) or as a second caution (yellow card) within the match. This list includes all dismissals since the first World Cup in 1991.

Only players are listed, even if they were at the substitutes' bench at the time of the sending off. Managers and other technical staff members are not covered.

Statistics

 * Lin Hui-fang was the first player to be sent off in a World Cup match, playing for Chinese Taipei against Nigeria in a 1991 match officiated by Rafael Rodríguez Medina.
 * One dismissal has taken place during final matches: Japan's Azusa Iwashimizu against United States in 2011.
 * Australia's Alicia Ferguson received the quickest red card, in the second minute in a game against China in 1999.
 * Five goalkeepers have been sent off in the tournament: Chinese Taipei's Lin Hui-fang (1991), United States's Briana Scurry (1995), France's Bérangère Sapowicz (2011), Colombia's Catalina Pérez (2015), and Zambia's Catherine Musonda (2023).
 * The team that has the greatest number of expulsed players is Nigeria, with 4 – in 4 different matches. The team whose opponents have received the most red cards is United States, with 5 – in 5 different matches.
 * The 2023 World Cup had the largest number of red cards: a total of 6 players were sent off.