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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. Thirteen nations (Azerbaijan, Bermuda, Brunei, Bulgaria, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Faroe Islands, Puerto Rico, Romania, Scotland, South Sudan, United States and U.S. Virgin Islands) have a pair of players tied for national l
French striker Jean-Pierre Papin was the first ever winner of the award, in 1991. The IFFHS World's Best International Goal Scorer is a football award given annually since 1991 to the world's top international goalscorer in the calendar year.
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 international goals.
From 2011 to 2020, Zlatan Ibrahimović scored a total of 340 goals for club and country. The final list includes the 41 players who scored 200 or more goals in top-tier national leagues, national cups, continental and international competitions with both club and national teams in the period of time from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2020.
Argentine star Lionel Messi became the top international goal scorer in South American history on Thursday, overtaking Brazil's Pelé. The 34-year-old netted all the goals at Argentina's 3-0 win ...
Highest score in an international match: – Australia 31–0 American Samoa, 11 April 2001 [91] Highest score in an youth international match: – Vanuatu 46–0 Micronesia (u-23), 7 July 2015 [92] Highest score in a penalty shootout in history: – Washington 3–3 Bedlington, (25–24 p), 54 penalties taken, 9 March 2022 [93]
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 ...
He has scored 17 international goals at the Estadio Mâs Monumental, his most in a single stadium. [1] In 2022, Messi broke the record for the most international goals scored in a calendar year for Argentina, with eighteen. [11] Messi has scored 34 goals in FIFA World Cup qualifiers, making him the highest scorer of the qualification in ...