List of international goals scored by Zlatan Ibrahimović

Ibrahimović playing for Sweden in 2012.

Zlatan Ibrahimović is a Swedish professional association footballer who represented Sweden at international level, between 2001 and 2016. As well as Sweden he was eligible to represent Bosnia and Herzegovina, or Croatia.^[1] He made his debut for Sweden in a 0–0 draw against the Faroe Islands on 31 January 2001.^[2] He scored his first international goal later that year against Azerbaijan. He previously appeared seven times for the Sweden U-21 side and scored six goals, which are not considered as official ones for Sweden. During his international career for Sweden, he scored 62 goals in 116 international appearances, making him Sweden's all-time top scorer, surpassing Sven Rydell's record with two goals against Estonia at the Friends Arena during a friendly.^[3] On 21 June 2016, Ibrahimović announced his retirement from international football after UEFA Euro 2016, and he played his last match for Sweden against Belgium the following day.^[4]

Ibrahimović scored his first hat-trick on 4 September 2004, where he scored four goals against Malta, they are also the team he has scored the most goals against (6). Ibrahimović has scored four international hat-tricks; in addition to the one against Malta, he scored three goals in a game against Finland during the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying competition, four in a friendly against England, and three in a friendly against Norway. More than half of Ibrahimović's goals have come at home, having scored 20 at the Friends Arena, 11 at the Råsunda Stadium, five at Ullevi, two at the Swedbank Stadion and one at Gamla Ullevi.^[5]

The majority of Ibrahimović's goals have come in qualifying matches. He has scored 19 in European Championship qualifiers, including 11 during the 2016 qualifying round, where he finished as the second top scorer, two behind Poland's Robert Lewandowski.^[6] Ibrahimović has also scored 19 times in World Cup qualifiers. He has never scored a goal in the World Cup finals but has scored six in European Championship finals. The remainder of Ibrahimović's goals, 18, have come in friendlies.

International goals

Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first.^[5]

List of international goals scored by Zlatan Ibrahimović

No.	Cap	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref
1	4	7 October 2001	Råsunda Stadium, Solna, Sweden	Azerbaijan	3–0	3–0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualifiers
2	13	21 August 2002	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Russia	1–1	1–1	Friendly
3	15	12 October 2002	Råsunda Stadium, Solna, Sweden	Hungary	1–1	1–1	UEFA Euro 2004 qualifiers
4	16	30 April 2003		Croatia	1–1	1–2	Friendly
5	17	6 September 2003	Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden	San Marino	3–0	5–0	UEFA Euro 2004 qualifiers
6					5–0
7	20	31 March 2004		England	1–0	1–0	Friendly
8	24	14 June 2004	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon, Portugal	Bulgaria	4–0	5–0	UEFA Euro 2004
9	25	18 June 2004	Estádio do Dragão, Porto, Portugal	Italy	1–1	1–1
10	28	18 August 2004	Råsunda Stadium, Solna, Sweden	Netherlands	2–2	2–2	Friendly
11	29	4 September 2004	Ta' Qali National Stadium, Ta' Qali, Malta	Malta	1–0	7–0	2006 FIFA World Cup qualifiers
12					2–0
13					3–0
14					5–0
15	33	4 June 2005	Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden	Malta	4–0	6–0
16	34	3 September 2005	Råsunda Stadium, Solna, Sweden	Bulgaria	3–0	3–0
17	35	7 September 2005	Ferenc Puskás Stadium, Budapest, Hungary	Hungary	1–0	1–0
18	36	12 October 2005	Råsunda Stadium, Solna, Sweden	Iceland	1–1	3–1
19	51	10 June 2008	Wals-Siezenheim Stadium, Salzburg, Austria	Greece	1–0	2–0	UEFA Euro 2008
20	52	14 June 2008	Tivoli-Neu, Innsbruck, Austria	Spain	1–1	1–2
21	58	10 June 2009	Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden	Malta	3–0	4–0	2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers
22	59	5 September 2009	Ferenc Puskás Stadium, Budapest, Hungary	Hungary	2–1	2–1
23	63	11 August 2010	Råsunda Stadium, Solna, Sweden	Scotland	1–0	3–0	Friendly
24	65	7 September 2010	Swedbank Stadion, Malmö, Sweden	San Marino	1–0	6–0	UEFA Euro 2012 qualifiers
25					5–0
26	69	7 June 2011	Råsunda Stadium, Solna, Sweden	Finland	2–0	5–0
27					3–0
28					4–0
29	75	29 February 2012	Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb, Croatia	Croatia	1–0	3–1	Friendly
30	76	30 May 2012	Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden	Iceland	1–0	3–2
31	77	5 June 2012	Råsunda Stadium, Solna, Sweden	Serbia	2–1	2–1
32	78	11 June 2012	Olympic Stadium, Kiev, Ukraine	Ukraine	1–0	1–2	UEFA Euro 2012
33	80	19 June 2012		France	1–0	2–0
34	83	12 October 2012	Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands	Faroe Islands	2–1	2–1	2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers
35	84	16 October 2012	Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany	Germany	1–4	4–4
36	85	14 November 2012	Friends Arena, Solna, Sweden	England	1–0	4–2	Friendly
37					2–2
38					3–2
39					4–2
40	90	11 June 2013		Faroe Islands	1–0	2–0	2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers
41					2–0
42	91	14 August 2013		Norway	1–0	4–2	Friendly
43					2–2
44					3–2
45	93	10 September 2013	Astana Arena, Astana, Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan	1–0	1–0	2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers
46	94	11 October 2013	Friends Arena, Solna, Sweden	Austria	2–1	2–1
47	96	19 November 2013		Portugal	1–1	2–3
48					2–1
49	99	4 September 2014		Estonia	1–0	2–0	Friendly
50					2–0
51	101	15 November 2014	Podgorica City Stadium, Podgorica, Montenegro	Montenegro	1–0	1–1	UEFA Euro 2016 qualifiers
52	102	27 March 2015	Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău, Moldova	Moldova	1–0	2–0
53					2–0
54	103	31 March 2015	Friends Arena, Solna, Sweden	Iran	1–0	3–1	Friendly
55	105	14 June 2015		Montenegro	2–0	3–1	UEFA Euro 2016 qualifiers
56					3–0
57	107	8 September 2015		Austria	1–4	1–4
58	108	9 October 2015	Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz, Liechtenstein	Liechtenstein	2–0	2–0
59	109	12 October 2015	Friends Arena, Solna, Sweden	Moldova	1–0	2–0
60	110	14 November 2015		Denmark	2–0	2–1	UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying play-off
61	111	17 November 2015	Telia Parken, Copenhagen, Denmark	Denmark	1–0	2–2
62					2–0

Statistics

Zlatan Ibrahimović playing in the Euro 2012 match against England.

References

General

• Mamrud, Roberto. "Zlatan Ibrahimovic - Century of International Appearances". RSSSF. Retrieved 13 January 2016. 

Specific