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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 ...
Highest score in an international match: – Australia 31–0 American Samoa, 11 April 2001 [93] Highest score in an youth international match: – Vanuatu 46–0 Micronesia (u-23), 7 July 2015 [94] Highest score in a penalty shootout in history: – Washington 3–3 Bedlington, (25–24 p), 54 penalties taken, 9 March 2022 [95]
Malawi's Kinnah Phiri was the first player from Africa, and also the youngest player, to score 50 international goals. 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
Argentina's run atop international soccer Argentina would maintain the No. 1 FIFA ranking with a win vs. Peru on Tuesday night. It's on an incredible run, winning 64 of its last 69 games.
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. It simply lists only the top scorer for each country. Since January 2020, Canadian forward Christine Sinclair is the leading all-time international goalscorer. [1]
He would later score his first international goal on 12 June 2004, during a UEFA Euro 2004 group stage match against Greece. [2] Throughout his international career , he has become the current all-time record goalscorer for the Portugal national team, and the highest overall men's international goalscorer in history , having scored 135 goals in ...
The first player to reach 100 international goals was Italian Elisabetta Vignotto. Abby Wambach scored 100 goals in 9 years, while Christine Sinclair reached the milestone in just under 10 years while Mia Hamm is the youngest player to score 100 international goals at the age of 26 years 185 days.
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 ...