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Most goals scored in a calendar year: 91 – Lionel Messi, 2012 [24] [25] [26] [note 11] Most goals scored in a football season: 107 – Ernst Wilimowski, 1940–41 [32] Most club goals scored in a football season: 96 [note 12] – Fred Roberts, 1930–31 [33] [34] [note 13] Most goals scored by a defender in a calendar year: 27 – Daniel ...
Fastest goal ever scored in a FIFA World Cup qualification game. 60 Davide Gualtieri: 1993 San Marino v England: 1–7 8.3 sec [57] [84] Second-fastest goal ever scored in a FIFA World Cup qualification game. Kylian Mbappé: 2022 Lille v Paris SG: 1–7 8.3 sec [85] Second-fastest goal ever scored in French Ligue 1 62 Hisato Satō: 2006
It holds the world record for the highest scoreline in any association football match, recognised by The Guinness Book of Records. SO l'Emyrne (SOE) intentionally lost the game against their archrivals AS Adema in a pre-planned protest over refereeing decisions that had gone against them during a previous four-team playoff tournament.
Players in bold are still active at international level. Players in italics also hold the record for most caps for their nation. Rank is a count of the 211 FIFA nations. Fourteen nations (Azerbaijan, Bermuda, Brunei, Bulgaria, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Faroe Islands, Puerto Rico, Romania, Scotland, South Sudan, United States and U.S. Virgin Islands) have a pair of players tied ...
Cristiano Ronaldo has another spectacular strike to add to his collection of memorable goals after the soccer great scored a stunning 40-yard lob in the Saudi Pro League.
Pelé, with 77 goals in 91 official matches, averages 0.84 goal per game. Neymar has an average of 0.62. Neymar, who is yet to win a Copa America or a World Cup, took a humbling approach amid all ...
Leônidas scored a record eight World Cup goals for Brazil, coming at the 1934 and 1938 tournaments. Ademir scored a record nine World Cup goals for Brazil, all coming at the 1950 tournament. Sándor Kocsis was the first player to score ten or more goals in a single World Cup: he scored a record eleven goals in just five matches for Hungary ...
Next Goal Wins centers around the American Samoan national team, which is considered one of the world's worst teams. That's not hyperbolic: The team was best known for its record-setting 31-0 loss ...