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There are other claims to the record; Guinness World Records credits Pelé as the scorer of the "most career goals", with 1,279, [45] and Brazilian striker Romário celebrated scoring what he claimed was his 1,000th goal in 2007 but later admitted his tally included friendly matches; [46] they are reported to have scored 767 and 772 goals ...
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 ...
The IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer is a football award given annually since 2020, [1] and retroactively for the years 2011 to 2019, [2] to the world's top goalscorer in the calendar year. The award is given by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS).
Most goals scored by a defender in a calendar year: 27 – Daniel Passarella, 1976 [37] Most goals scored by a goalkeeper in a calendar year: 21 – Rogério Ceni, 2005 [38] Most domestic league goals scored in a football season: 67 – Archie Stark, 1924–25 [39] [40] [note 14] Most international club goals scored in a football season: 19 [42]
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]
The top Welsh goal scorer is Ryan Giggs who scored 114 goals, 109 in the Premier League while Duncan Ferguson with 68 goals is the top Scottish goal scorer in the Premier League. All well short of the record totals by Derek Dougan, Ian Rush and Hughie Gallacher. Republic of Ireland striker Robbie Keane scored 126 goals in the Premier League ...
A total of over 2,700 goals have been scored in matches across the 22 final tournaments of the men's FIFA World Cup, not counting penalties scored during shoot-outs. [1] Since the first goal scored by French player Lucien Laurent in 1930, [2] nearly 1,300 footballers have scored goals at the World Cup tournaments, [3] of whom 101 have scored ...
18-year-old Jocky Petrie scored 13 goals for Arbroath in the first round of the 1885–86 Scottish Cup and held the record for most goals in a single game for more than half a century. Sandro Tau: 2023 Pirae 22–0 Papenoo: 13 M Sandro Tau scored 13 goals for Pirae in the ninth round of the 2023–24 Tahiti Ligue 1. [14] Ekaterina Frolova: 2024