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Most national championships won in a row: 15 – Tafea, 1994–2009; the club won 15 Port Vila Football League consecutive titles [74] Oldest football club that is still active: Since 1848 – Sheffield [75] Most goals in football history: 13,085 (up to 4 December 2024) – Flamengo, 1912–2024 [76] [77] [78]
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.
Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal holds the all-time record with 135 international goals. [2] Brazil, Hungary, Iran and Kuwait hold the record of having the most players to have scored 50 or more international goals with four each. England, Iraq, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea and Thailand each have three players who have achieved the feat.
Taking into account competitions of all levels, 77 players have reached the milestone, according to research by the RSSSF, [3] an organisation described by German newspaper Der Spiegel as a "Wikipedia of football statistics". [4] Hungarian Imre Schlosser was the first to reach the 500-goal mark, doing so in 1927 shortly before his retirement. [5]
The 1966 FIFA World Cup final was a football match played at Wembley Stadium in London on 30 July 1966 to determine the winner of the 1966 FIFA World Cup, the eighth FIFA World Cup. [2] The match was contested by England and West Germany , with England winning 4–2 after extra time to claim the Jules Rimet Trophy .
The FIFA 100 is a list compiled by Brazilian professional footballer Pelé featuring his choices of the "greatest living footballers" at the time of its release. The list was unveiled on 4 March 2004 during a gala ceremony at the Natural History Museum in London, England, as part of the celebrations commemorating the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Fédération Internationale de ...
The World's Best Top Division Goal Scorer of the Decade: 2011–2020 [180] IFFHS All Time World's Best One Club Goal Scorer: 672 goals for Barcelona [181] IFFHS All Time Best Goalscorer in Europe: 703 goals (672 goals for Barcelona, 31 goals for Paris Saint-Germain) [182] Goal of the tournament
Messi is widely regarded as one of the two best players of his generation, alongside Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo, [261] and one of the greatest footballers of all time. [262] A prodigious talent as a teenager, Messi established himself among the world's best players before age 20. [263]