List of men's footballers with 50 or more international goals

List of men's footballers with 50 or more international goals

As of 11 October 2018. Players in bold are still active at international level.

Cristiano Ronaldo (pictured in 2018) is the currently active player with the most number of goals in international football. He also has the most number of goals by a European player in international football.

#	Name	Nation	Confederation	International goals	Caps	Goals per match	Career span	Notes
1	Ali Daei	Iran	AFC	109	149	0.73	1993–2006	[1]
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	UEFA	85	154	0.55	2003–
3	Ferenc Puskás	Hungary  Spain	UEFA	84	89	0.94	1945–1962
4	Kunishige Kamamoto	Japan	AFC	80	84	0.95	1964–1977
5	Godfrey Chitalu	Zambia	CAF	79	111	0.71	1968–1980	[2]
6	Hussein Saeed	Iraq	AFC	78	137	0.57	1977–1990
7	Pelé	Brazil	CONMEBOL	77	92	0.84	1957–1971	[3]
8	Sándor Kocsis	Hungary	UEFA	75	68	1.1	1948–1956
	Bashar Abdullah	Kuwait	AFC	75	134	0.56	1996–2018
10	Kinnah Phiri	Malawi	CAF	71	115	0.62	1973–1981
	Majed Abdullah	Saudi Arabia	AFC	71	116	0.61	1977–1994
	Kiatisuk Senamuang	Thailand	AFC	71	134	0.53	1993–2007
	Miroslav Klose	Germany	UEFA	71	137	0.52	2001–2014
14	Piyapong Pue-on	Thailand	AFC	70	100	0.7	1981–1997
	Stern John	Trinidad and Tobago	CONCACAF	70	115	0.61	1995–2012
Hossam Hassan	Egypt	CAF	70	169	0.41	1985–2006	[4][5]
17	Gerd Müller	West Germany	UEFA	68	62	1.1	1966–1974
	Carlos Ruiz	Guatemala	CONCACAF	68	133	0.51	1998–2016
	Robbie Keane	Republic of Ireland	UEFA	68	146	0.47	1998–2016[6]	[1][7][8]
20	Sunil Chhetri	India	AFC	65	103	0.63	2005–	[9]
	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	CAF	65	104	0.63	2002–2014	[10]
	Lionel Messi	Argentina	CONMEBOL	65	128	0.51	2005–	[11]
23	Ronaldo	Brazil	CONMEBOL	62	98	0.63	1994–2011
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	UEFA	62	116	0.53	2001–2016
Ahmed Radhi	Iraq	AFC	62	121	0.51	1982–1997
26	Imre Schlosser	Hungary	UEFA	59	68	0.87	1906–1927
	Neymar	Brazil	CONMEBOL	59	92	0.64	2010–
David Villa	Spain	UEFA	59	98	0.6	2005–
29	Cha Bum-kun	South Korea	AFC	58	135	0.43	1972–1986
30	Carlos Pavón	Honduras	CONCACAF	57	101	0.56	1993–2010
	Clint Dempsey	United States	CONCACAF	57	141	0.4	2004–2018
	Younis Mahmoud	Iraq	AFC	57	148	0.39	2002–2016
Landon Donovan	United States	CONCACAF	57	157	0.36	2000–2014
34	Samuel Eto'o	Cameroon	CAF	56	118	0.47	1997–2014	[12]
35	Romário	Brazil	CONMEBOL	55	70	0.79	1987–2005
	Kazuyoshi Miura	Japan	AFC	55	89	0.62	1990–2000
	Jan Koller	Czech Republic	UEFA	55	91	0.6	1999–2009
	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	UEFA	55	100	0.55	2008–
	Fandi Ahmad	Singapore	AFC	55	101	0.54	1979–1997
	Luis Suárez	Uruguay	CONMEBOL	55	104	0.53	2007–
Bader Al-Mutawa	Kuwait	AFC	55	164	0.34	2003–
42	Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina	CONMEBOL	54	77	0.7	1991–2002
43	Edin Džeko	Bosnia and Herzegovina	UEFA	53	96	0.55	2007–
	Joachim Streich	East Germany	UEFA	53	98	0.54	1969–1984	[13]
	Wayne Rooney	England	UEFA	53	119	0.45	2003–2016
46	Poul Nielsen	Denmark	UEFA	52	38	1.37	1910–1925
	Ali Ashfaq	Maldives	AFC	52	78	0.67	2003–
	Jon Dahl Tomasson	Denmark	UEFA	52	112	0.46	1997–2010
Adnan Al Talyani	United Arab Emirates	AFC	52	161	0.32	1983–1997
50	Lajos Tichy	Hungary	UEFA	51	72	0.71	1955–1971
	Lê Công Vinh	Vietnam	AFC	51	83	0.61	2004–2016
	Phil Younghusband	Philippines	AFC	51	99	0.52	2006–
	Asamoah Gyan	Ghana	CAF	51	106	0.48	2003–
	Hakan Şükür	Turkey	UEFA	51	112	0.46	1992–2007
	Thierry Henry	France	UEFA	51	123	0.41	1997–2010
56	Karim Bagheri	Iran	AFC	50	87	0.57	1993–2010
	Robin van Persie	Netherlands	UEFA	50	102	0.49	2005–
	Hwang Sun-hong	South Korea	AFC	50	103	0.49	1988–2002
	Javier Hernández	Mexico	CONCACAF	50	105	0.48	2009–
	Tim Cahill	Australia	OFC/AFC	50	107	0.47	2004–
Shinji Okazaki	Japan	AFC	50	116	0.43	2008–

Number of men's footballers with 50 or more international goals by country

Updated as of 11 October 2018.

Footballers	Country	Confederation
4	Brazil	CONMEBOL
	Hungary	UEFA
3	Iraq	AFC
	Japan	AFC
2	Argentina	CONMEBOL
	Denmark	UEFA
	Germany (including  West Germany)	UEFA
	Iran	AFC
	Kuwait	AFC
	South Korea	AFC
	Thailand	AFC
	United States	CONCACAF
1	Australia	OFC through 2005 AFC 2006–present
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	UEFA
	Cameroon	CAF
	Czech Republic	UEFA
	Egypt	CAF
	England	UEFA
	France	UEFA
	East Germany	UEFA
	Ghana	CAF
	Guatemala	CONCACAF
	Honduras	CONCACAF
	India	AFC
	Ivory Coast	CAF
	Malawi	CAF
	Maldives	AFC
	Mexico	CONCACAF
	Netherlands	UEFA
	Philippines	AFC
	Poland	UEFA
	Portugal	UEFA
	Republic of Ireland	UEFA
	Saudi Arabia	AFC
	Singapore	AFC
	Spain	UEFA
	Sweden	UEFA
	Trinidad and Tobago	CONCACAF
	Turkey	UEFA
	United Arab Emirates	AFC
	Uruguay	CONMEBOL
	Vietnam	AFC
	Zambia	CAF

Number of men's footballers with 50 or more international goals by Confederation

Updated as of 11 October 2018.

See also

• List of men's footballers with 500 or more goals
• List of top international association football goal scorers by country
• List of footballers with 100 or more caps
• List of footballers with the most official appearances
• List of women's footballers with 100 or more international goals

References

General

Mamrud, Roberto; Stokkermans, Karel (15 March 2017). "Players with 100+ Caps and 30+ International Goals". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 22 June 2017.

Specific