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According to the IFFHS and other media outlets, 25 players are credited with scoring 500 or more goals in top-level professional football competitions: As of 21 January 2025. [1] Bold indicates players currently active. * indicates player has scored at least 500 goals for a single club. [58] [59]
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 the all-time top scorer in official football history, with over 900 goals. Most official goals: 917 – Cristiano Ronaldo, 2002– [1] [note 1] Most overall goals: 1917 – Lajos Tichy, 1953–1971 [3] [note 2] Most club goals: 782 – Cristiano Ronaldo, 2002– [4] [note 3] Most international goals: 135 – Cristiano Ronaldo ...
Players who scored at 3 or more separate World Cups Rank Player Team Tournaments with goals Goals scored Matches played Goals per match Tournaments with goals 1 Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal: 5 8 22 0.36 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022 2 Uwe Seeler West Germany: 4 9 21 0.43 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970 Pelé Brazil: 12 14 0.86 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970 ...
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 ...
Lionel Messi is the all-time top scorer in La Liga history with 474 goals. La Liga's all-time top scorer is Lionel Messi with 474 goals, all for Barcelona.He also holds the record for most goals scored in a single season with 50 in the 2011–12 campaign, [1] [2] and is the only player ever to win the league's top scorer award in eight different seasons. [3]
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]
The Guardian 100 Best Male Footballers in the World is a list of the current best male footballers published annually by the British newspaper The Guardian.From its inception to 2017, it was known as The Guardian 100 Best Footballers in the World.