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Cristiano Ronaldo is Portugal's record appearance maker and all-time top scorer. See also: List of Portugal international footballers and List of Portugal national football team captains As of match played 15 November 2024 [ 1 ]
Fernando Peyroteo scored the most goals in Primeira Liga history. This is a list of players who scored over 100 goals in Primeira Liga , Portugal's top flight football league, during its history starting from the 1934–35 season.
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 Bola de Prata (Portuguese for Silver Ball) is a Primeira Liga award for the top scorer. [1] In case two or more players have the same number of goals, the award goes to the footballer with the fewest games played.
Portugal then defeated the Soviet Union 2–1 in the third place match for their best World Cup finish to date. [30] Eusébio was the top scorer of the World Cup with nine goals. Portugal would not qualify for another World Cup for 20 years.
He has scored ten international hat-tricks, and on two occasions, four international goals in a single match. On 5 March 2014, Ronaldo scored twice in Portugal's 5–1 friendly win over Cameroon to take his tally to 49 goals, thus becoming his country's all-time leading goalscorer, surpassing the 47 set by Pauleta. [5]
He was the European Cup top scorer in 1964–65, 1965–66 and 1967–68. He also won the Bola de Prata for the Primeira Liga top scorer a record seven times. He was the first ever player to win the European Golden Boot, in 1968, a feat he replicated in 1973.
Before the creation of the Primeira Liga, there was a competition called Championship of Portugal (Campeonato de Portugal), created in 1922 as the first competition of Portuguese football, however, despite its name and being at the time crowned Portuguese Champions, they are not recognized as Champions any longer.