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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]
Besart Berisha was the first player to score 100 A-League goals and is the highest scorer in the competition's history. Since the A-League Men's formation, at the start of the 2005–06 season, a total of 17 players have scored 50 or more goals in the competition. During the 2010–11 season, Archie Thompson became the first player to score 50 ...
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 3 February 2025. [1] Bold indicates players currently active. * indicates player has scored at least 500 goals for a single club. [58] [59]
On 2 September, he scored a goal in Al-Nassr's 5–1 away win against Al-Hazem, his 850th senior career goal. [333] On 19 September, Ronaldo made his AFC Champions League debut, starting in a 2–0 win over Persepolis, becoming the first player in football history to record 1000 career games unbeaten (776 wins and 224 draws). [334]
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 ...
He played his last national team match later that year and finished with the second-most career goals in Japanese national team history with 55 goals in 89 matches. [54] He is one of only three men for Japan to score more than 50 goals for the teams, along with Kunishige Kamamoto and Shinji Okazaki. [55]
Having won 45 team trophies, [note 1] he is the most decorated player in the history of professional football. [11] His remarkable goal-scoring ability, masterful ball control, high level passing and playmaking as well as his outstanding dribbling skills has earned him recognition as one of the greatest and most iconic players in football history.
Most goals scored in a football season: 107 – Ernst Wilimowski, 1940–41 [28] Most club goals scored in a football season: 96 [note 12] – Fred Roberts, 1930–31 [29] [30] [note 13] Most domestic league goals scored in a football season: 67 [note 14] Jaap Bulder, 1919–20; Archie Stark, 1924–25