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This article lists the top all-time goalscorer for each men's national football team. This list is not an all-time top international goalscorers list, as several countries have two or more players with more goals than another country's top scorer. It simply lists only the top scorer for each country.
A total of over 2,700 goals have been scored in matches across the 22 final tournaments of the men's FIFA World Cup, not counting penalties scored during shoot-outs. [1] Since the first goal scored by French player Lucien Laurent in 1930, [2] nearly 1,300 footballers have scored goals at the World Cup tournaments, [3] of whom 101 have scored ...
There are other claims to the record; Guinness World Records credits Pelé as the scorer of the "most career goals", with 1,279, [45] and Brazilian striker Romário celebrated scoring what he claimed was his 1,000th goal in 2007 but later admitted his tally included friendly matches; [46] they are reported to have scored 767 and 772 goals ...
The IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer is a football award given annually since 2020, [1] and retroactively for the years 2011 to 2019, [2] to the world's top goalscorer in the calendar year. The award is given by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS).
Miroslav Klose scored the most international goals for his country during the decade, with 58. The awards were part of the IFFHS World Football Gala 2012 which took place in Barcelona in May 2012. [38] For the final list of 15 players, international goals scored from 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2010 were taken into consideration. [3]
Scorer of 1st goal – Lucien Laurent (for France vs. Mexico, 13 July 1930) [57] Scorer of 100th goal – Angelo Schiavio (for Italy vs. United States, 27 May 1934) [57] Scorer of 1,000th goal – Rob Rensenbrink (for Netherlands vs. Scotland, 11 June 1978) [57] Scorer of 2,000th goal – Marcus Allbäck (for Sweden vs. England, 20 June 2006) [57]
This list is not an all-time top international goalscorers list, as several countries have two or more players with more goals than another country's top scorer. It simply lists only the top scorer for each country. Since January 2020, Canadian forward Christine Sinclair is the leading all-time international goalscorer. [1] She overtook Abby ...
Malawi's Kinnah Phiri was the first player from Africa, and also the youngest player, to score 50 international goals. He scored his 50th goal in a friendly match against Sierra Leone on 6 July 1978, aged 23 years, 8 months and 6 days. [36] Stern John of Trinidad and Tobago was the first player from North America to score 50 international goals.