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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).
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. Thirteen nations (Azerbaijan, Bermuda, Brunei, Bulgaria, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Faroe Islands, Puerto Rico, Romania, Scotland, South Sudan, United States and U.S. Virgin Islands) have a pair of players tied for national l
FIFA, the international governing body of football, has never released a list detailing the highest goalscorers and does not keep official records; [8] [9] in 2020, it recognised Bican, an Austrian-Czech dual international who played between the 1930s and the 1950s, [10] as the record scorer with an estimated 805 goals, [11] [12] although CNN ...
The IFFHS World's Best International Goal Scorer is a football award given annually since 1991 to the world's top international goalscorer in the calendar year. The award is given by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS).
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 ...
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]
2.3 Continental rankings. ... The IFFHS World's Best Player is a football award given annually from 1988 to 1990, ... IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer;
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 ...