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In total, he scored 59 international goals in 68 matches, playing his last match on 10 April 1927. [a] [9] He remained the highest international goalscorer for 26 years, until his fellow countryman Ferenc Puskás broke the record in 1953. Puskás was the third player, after Poul Nielsen of Denmark, to achieve 50 goals in his international career.
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 ...
Paolo Guerrero is the all-time top goalscorer for the Peru national football team. As of 15 November 2024, he has scored 39 goals in 123 appearances, since his debut on 9 October 2004. [1] Guerrero became the all-time leading goalscorer for Peru on 4 June 2016, after scoring against Haiti in a 1–0 win at the Copa América Centenario. [2]
Lionel Messi scored twice in Argentina’s Copa America win over Bolivia to move into the top 10 men’s international goalscorers.The 34-year-old’s achievement follows his long-time rival ...
The top 101 goalscorers have represented 30 nations, with 14 players scoring for Brazil, and another 14 for Germany or West Germany. In total, 67 footballers came from UEFA (Europe), 30 from CONMEBOL (South America), and only four from elsewhere: Cameroon and Ghana from CAF (Africa), Australia from AFC (Asia) (formerly from OFC of Oceania), and ...
Oldest goalscorer in a professional match: 50 years and 14 days – Kazuyoshi Miura, Yokohama v Thespa Gunma, 2017 J2 League, 12 March 2017 [52] [53] [54] [note 18] Oldest goalscorer in a domestic cup match: 49 years and 208 days – Billy Meredith , Manchester City v Brighton & Hove Albion , 1923–24 FA Cup , 23 February 1924 [ 55 ] [ note 19 ]
Chhetri has scored 94 international goals for India. Sunil Chhetri is an Indian professional footballer who represented the India national football team as a forward between 2005 and 2024. He is the country's all-time top goal scorer and most-capped player.
His first and second international goals came on his eighth appearance for Belgium, in a 2–0 friendly victory over Russia. As of 14 November 2024 [update] , Lukaku is his country's top scorer with 85 goals in 120 appearances, and ranks as the second-highest European men's international goalscorer , behind only Cristiano Ronaldo . [ 1 ]