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List of footballers with 100 or more caps; List of top international men's association football goal scorers by country; List of foreign Bundesliga players; List of foreign football players in the Netherlands; List of foreign Premier League players; List of foreign Primeira Liga players; List of foreign La Liga players; List of foreign Liga MX ...
Fastest goals in association football; List of men's footballers with 1,000 or more official appearances; List of footballers with 500 or more goals; List of players with the most goals in an association football game; List of most expensive association football transfers; Lists of hat-tricks; Progression of association football caps record
According to the IFFHS and other media outlets, 25 players are credited with scoring 500 or more goals in top-level professional football competitions: As of 4 January 2025. [1] Bold indicates players currently active. * indicates player has scored at least 500 goals for a single club. [58] [59]
Appearances made in youth football are not deemed to be official. War-time results are also excluded if they were later regarded as unofficial by the relevant Football Association(s); if they were included, Billy Meredith would be the first ever player to have played in 1,000 official matches, [1] and Stanley Matthews would also make the list. [2]
Players are listed according to the date of their first-team debut for the club. Statistics correct as of match played 5 January 2025. Table headers. Nationality – If a player played international football, the country/countries he played for are shown. Otherwise, the player's nationality is given as their country of birth.
Player Years Number Gender Details Cristiano Ronaldo: 2008–2024 66 M Cristiano Ronaldo holds the record for the active player with most hat-tricks. [12] [13] [14] Lionel Messi: 2007–2024 59 M Lionel Messi has scored 59 hat-tricks in his career for Barcelona, Inter Miami and Argentina. [15]
From its inception to 2017, it was known as The Guardian 100 Best Footballers in the World. It is decided by a panel of experts from several nations. [1] [2] Argentine player Lionel Messi is the record winner of the award with 6 wins.
The top twenty are most likely accurate as no players before the mid-1980s amassed more than twenty or thirty caps. For example, Boris Bandov, the player active before 1980 with the highest number of caps, played 33 times between 1976 and 1983, while Perry Van der Beck played 23 times between 1979 and 1985. With the typical low scores of the ...