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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has the highest number of footballers who scored at least 50 international goals, with 35 players. [3] Egypt is the only African team with more than one player who has scored at least 50 international goals, after Mohamed Salah achieved the feat on 24 March 2023. [4] [5]
Besart Berisha was the first player to score 100 A-League goals and is the highest scorer in the competition's history. Since the A-League Men's formation, at the start of the 2005–06 season, a total of 17 players have scored 50 or more goals in the competition. During the 2010–11 season, Archie Thompson became the first player to score 50 ...
Most goals scored in a football season: 107 – Ernst Wilimowski, 1940–41 [28] Most club goals scored in a football season: 96 [note 12] – Fred Roberts, 1930–31 [29] [30] [note 13] Most domestic league goals scored in a football season: 67 [note 14] Jaap Bulder, 1919–20; Archie Stark, 1924–25
Taking into account competitions of all levels, 77 players have reached the milestone, according to research by the RSSSF, [3] an organisation described by German newspaper Der Spiegel as a "Wikipedia of football statistics". [4] Hungarian Imre Schlosser was the first to reach the 500-goal mark, doing so in 1927 shortly before his retirement. [5]
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 ...
On 4 March, he scored the opening goal in a 4–2 home win against Nantes, with the goal seeing Messi achieve 1,000 career direct goal contributions at club level (701 goals and 299 assists). [341] On 11 March, PSG defeated Brest 2–1 away from home, with Messi setting up a last-minute winner for Mbappé, registering his 300th club career ...
Cristiano Ronaldo is the competition's all-time top scorer with 140 goals. The UEFA Champions League, known until 1992 as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or colloquially as the European Cup, is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1955. Originally a straight knockout competition open only to champion clubs ...
A goal against Nice resulted in him surpassing Cristiano Ronaldo as the all-time highest goalscorer in European club football with 702 goals; during the match, he also achieved 1,000 career direct goal contributions at club level.