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Ademir scored a record nine World Cup goals for Brazil, all coming at the 1950 tournament. Sándor Kocsis was the first player to score ten or more goals in a single World Cup: he scored a record eleven goals in just five matches for Hungary during the 1954 tournament.
All-time top scorers [50] [51] Rank Player Team(s) Goals Matches Goals per game 1 Miroslav Klose Germany: 16 24 0.67 2 Ronaldo Brazil: 15 19 0.79 3 Gerd Müller West Germany: 14 13 1.08 4 Just Fontaine France: 13 6 2.17 Lionel Messi Argentina: 26 0.50
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 ...
Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal is the all-time leading goalscorer for men's national teams. 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.
Most national cup goals: 97 – Eusébio, 1961–1974 [5] Most international club goals: 168 – Cristiano Ronaldo, 2002– Most goals scored for a single club: 672 – Lionel Messi for Barcelona, 2004–2021 [note 6] Most goals scored in a single league: 474 – Lionel Messi in La Liga, 2004–2021
Twelve players have scored multiple goals in the finals. Five players have done so via a penalty kick. Mario Mandžukić was the first player to score an own goal in a final, as well as the first to follow it up with a goal at the opponent's net. He scored the opening and closing goal of the final in 2018. Geoff Hurst and Kylian Mbappé are the ...
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. He scored 70 goals in 115 matches, with his 50th goal coming in a friendly match against the Dominican Republic on 13 ...
This is a list of players with the most goals in a football game. This list only includes players who have scored the most multiple goals in first class or fully professional matches for country or club. The current world record for an international is held by Archie Thompson, who scored 13 goals against American Samoa in Australia's 31–0 ...