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Cristiano Ronaldo the all-time top scorer in official football history, with over 900 goals. Most official goals: 921 – Cristiano Ronaldo, 2002– [1] [note 1] Most overall goals: 1917 – Lajos Tichy, 1953–1971 [3] [note 2] Most club goals: 786 – Cristiano Ronaldo, 2002– [4] [note 3] Most international goals: 135 – Cristiano Ronaldo ...
The system used in the World Cup up to 1990 was 2 points for a win. In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws. Teams are ranked by total ...
A number of clubs in countries across the world have been subject to match fixing, including Australia, [8] [9] China, [10] and Spain. [11] [12] The South African national team has also been investigated. [13] In the 18 months prior to February 2013, Europol investigated 680 matches in 30 countries. [14]
FIFA said it will consider changes to its policy that blocks league matches from being played in other countries as part of an agreement with a soccer promoter to dismiss the world governing body ...
FIFA moved Wednesday toward ending decades of soccer tradition by ordering a review of its policy that currently blocks domestic league games being played in other countries. Fans are likely to ...
In the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup final, held at Waldstadion in Frankfurt, the match between the United States and Japan ended 2–2 after extra time. This time, the United States ended up on the losing side. Japan won the shoot-out 3–1, thus becoming the first Asian country to win the senior—either men's or women's—World Cup.
Players whose original country ceased to exist and who then played for a successor state, prominent examples being those who had played for the Soviet Union (and/or Commonwealth of Independent States), East Germany, Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s, or who played for one national team prior to a region becoming independent and then also played for that new state, for example the ...
Appearances made in youth football are not deemed to be official. War-time results are also excluded if they were later regarded as unofficial by the relevant Football Association(s); if they were included, Billy Meredith would be the first ever player to have played in 1,000 official matches, [1] and Stanley Matthews would also make the list. [2]