List of men's association football players with 50 or more international goals

As of 15 November 2016, a total of 52 male players have each scored fifty or more goals in official international association football matches. The only male player to score more than a hundred goals is Ali Daei, who scored 109 goals for Iran.

List

This list is sorted by the number of goals. Players with the same amount of goals scored are sorted by the goals-per-match average. Players who are currently active at international level are indicated in bold type.^[1]

#	Name	Nation	Confederation	International goals	Caps	Goals per match	Career span	Notes
1	Ali Daei	Iran	AFC	109	149	0.73	1993–2006	[2]
2	Ferenc Puskás †	Hungary  Spain	UEFA	84	89	0.94	1945–1956 1961–1962
3	Kunishige Kamamoto	Japan	AFC	80	84	0.95	1964–1977
4	Hussein Saeed	Iraq	AFC	78	137	0.57	1977–1990
5	Pelé	Brazil	CONMEBOL	77	91	0.85	1957–1971	[3]
	Piyapong Pue-on	Thailand	AFC	77	104	0.74	1981–1997
7	Godfrey Chitalu †	Zambia	CAF	76	108	0.70	1968–1980
8	Sándor Kocsis †	Hungary	UEFA	75	68	1.10	1948–1956
	Bashar Abdullah	Kuwait	AFC	75	133	0.56	1996–2007
10	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	0.51	2001–2014
13	Stern John	Trinidad and Tobago	CONCACAF	70	115	0.61	1995–2012
14	Hossam Hassan	Egypt	CAF	69	169	0.41	1985–2006	[4][5]
15	Gerd Müller	West Germany	UEFA	68	62	1.10	1966–1974
	Carlos Ruiz	Guatemala	CONCACAF	68	132	0.52	1998–2016
	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	UEFA	68	136	0.50	2003–
	Robbie Keane	Republic of Ireland	UEFA	68	146	0.46	1998–2016 [6]	[2][7][8]
19	Jasem Al-Huwaidi	Kuwait	AFC	65	100	0.65	1992–2003
20	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	CAF	65	104	0.61	2002–2014	[9]
21	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
24	Imre Schlosser †	Hungary	UEFA	59	68	0.87	1906–1927
	David Villa	Spain	UEFA	59	97	0.61	2005–2014
26	Cha Bum-kun	South Korea	AFC	58	135	0.42	1972–1986
27	Carlos Pavón	Honduras	CONCACAF	57	101	0.56	1993–2010
	Lionel Messi	Argentina	CONMEBOL	57	116	0.49	2005–
	Younis Mahmoud	Iraq	AFC	57	148	0.39	2002–2016
	Landon Donovan	United States	CONCACAF	57	157	0.36	2000–2014
31	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	0.60	1999–2009
	Fandi Ahmad	Singapore	AFC	55	101	0.55	1979–1997
35	Samuel Eto'o	Cameroon	CAF	54	118	0.46	1997–2014	[10]
	Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina	CONMEBOL	54	78	0.72	1991–2002
37	Joachim Streich	East Germany	UEFA	53	98	0.54	1969–1984	[11]
	Wayne Rooney	England	UEFA	53	119	0.44	2003–
39	Poul Nielsen †	Denmark	UEFA	52	38	1.37	1910–1925
	Ali Ashfaq	Maldives	AFC	52	77	0.67	2003–
	Jon Dahl Tomasson	Denmark	UEFA	52	112	0.46	1997–2010
	Clint Dempsey	United States	CONCACAF	52	130	0.40	2004–
	Adnan Al Talyani	United Arab Emirates	AFC	52	161	0.32	1983–1997
44	Lajos Tichy †	Hungary	UEFA	51	72	0.71	1955–1971
	Lê Công Vinh	Vietnam	AFC	51	82	0.62	2004–
	Sunil Chhetri	India	AFC	51	91	0.56	2005–
	Hakan Şükür	Turkey	UEFA	51	112	0.46	1992–2007
	Thierry Henry	France	UEFA	51	123	0.41	1997–2010
	Bader Al-Mutawa	Kuwait	AFC	51	158	0.32	2003–
50	Neymar	Brazil	CONMEBOL	50	75	0.67	2010–
	Karim Bagheri	Iran	AFC	50	87	0.58	1993–2010
	Robin van Persie	Netherlands	UEFA	50	101	0.50	2005–2015
	Hwang Sun-hong	South Korea	AFC	50	103	0.48	1988–2002

See also

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

References