Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Most goals scored by a defender in a calendar year: 27 – Daniel Passarella, 1976 [37] Most domestic league goals scored in a football season: 67 – Archie Stark, 1924–25 [38] [39] [note 14] Most international club goals scored in a football season: 19 [41] Trésor Mputu, 2007 [note 15] Rico, 2008
When Argentinian forward Messi was reported to have broken the record for most goals for a single club (644 for Spanish club Barcelona), Pelé's former club Santos denied the claim, releasing a statement saying 448 of Pelé's goals scored in friendlies had been uncounted, [30] and arguing that many of the goals came against "the best teams of ...
The IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer is a football award given annually since 2020, [1] and retroactively for the years 2011 to 2019, [2] to the world's top goalscorer in the calendar year. The award is given by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS).
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 ...
A total of over 2,700 goals have been scored in matches across the 22 final tournaments of the men's FIFA World Cup, not counting penalties scored during shoot-outs. [1] Since the first goal scored by French player Lucien Laurent in 1930, [2] nearly 1,300 footballers have scored goals at the World Cup tournaments, [3] of whom 101 have scored ...
18-year-old Jocky Petrie scored 13 goals for Arbroath in the first round of the 1885–86 Scottish Cup and held the record for most goals in a single game for more than half a century. Sandro Tau: 2023 Pirae 22–0 Papenoo: 13 M Sandro Tau scored 13 goals for Pirae in the ninth round of the 2023–24 Tahiti Ligue 1. [14] Ekaterina Frolova: 2024
BBC Sport looks at some iconic goals scored by players from their own half after Josh Windass' stunner for Sheffield Wednesday.
The game is remembered as one of the greatest in English football; it was ranked #38 in The Times' 50 Greatest Football Matches (2019). [12] Giggs' winning goal is also considered among the greatest ever scored, and his celebration, removing his shirt to reveal copious chest hair, is considered an iconic image by football fans.