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Gary Lineker is the top scorer for England at the World Cup, with ten goals. Grzegorz Lato (left) became the top scorer for Poland at FIFA World Cups during the 1974 tournament, with ten total goals. Teófilo Cubillas is the top scorer for Peru at the World Cup, with ten goals.
Of all the players who have played in the World Cup tournaments, only six have achieved an average of two goals or more per game played: Kocsis, Fontaine, Stábile, Russia's Oleg Salenko, Switzerland's Josef Hügi, and Poland's Ernst Wilimowski — the last of these scored four in his single World Cup game in 1938. The top 101 goalscorers have ...
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 ...
FIFA World Cup: Oleg Salenko: Russia: Cameroon: 5: 6–1: 28 June 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification: Archie Thompson: Australia: American Samoa: 13: 31–0: 11 April 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup: Cuauhtémoc Blanco: Mexico: Saudi Arabia: 4: 5–1: 25 July 1999 Marzouk Al-Otaibi: Saudi Arabia: Egypt: 5–1: 29 July 1999 Fernando Torres: Spain ...
2006 FIFA World Cup qualification [21] 6 4–0 7 18: 17 November 2004: Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Luxembourg: 2–0: 5–0 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification [22] 8 22: 4 June 2005: Estádio da Luz, Lisbon, Portugal Slovakia: 2–0: 2–0 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification [23] 9 23: 8 June 2005: A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn ...
The remainder of his goals, 30, have come in FIFA World Cup qualification. His most productive calendar years in terms of international goals were 2015 and 2021, when he scored eleven goals in seven and twelve games, respectively for Poland.
When Mexico announced its preliminary roster in October for the 2022 World Cup, there was a glaring omission, albeit not a surprise.Javier “Chicharito” Hernández, Mexico’s all-time leading ...
The following is a list of goalscorers in the FIFA World Cup finals. Only goals scored during regulation or extra time are included. Any goals scored during the penalty shoot-out are excluded. As of the 2022 final, sixty-two individuals have scored the total of eighty goals in all of the finals history.