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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]
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; European association football club records and statistics; List of longest managerial reigns in association ...
Platini holds the record for the most goals scored in a single tournament, with 9 goals in 1984. [7] The players that came closest were Antoine Griezmann in 2016 (with 6 goals) and Marco van Basten in 1988, Alan Shearer in 1996, Savo Milošević and Patrick Kluivert in 2000, Milan Baroš in 2004, and Ronaldo and Patrik Schick in 2020 (all with 5 goals).
A total of 2,557 goals have been scored by European players in matches at these tournaments, not counting penalties scored during shoot-outs. These goals were scored by 1,169 different individuals, of whom 24 have scored ten or more. [3] [4]
The progression up to 1956 is derivable from the world record progression because the world record holder was always European. Cristiano Ronaldo became the first European and the second world international player to score 100 international goals. [1] He scored his 100th goal for Portugal on 8 September 2020 against Sweden.
The list refers to goals in all national club competitions (top division), all European club competitions organized by UEFA (including all UEFA preliminary and qualifying rounds) [3] [4] and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup as the predecessor in the UEFA Cup [2] and all intercontinental / worldwide club competitions (excluding the International ...
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 ...
In the most prolific European football leagues, the Premier League (and the Football League First Division before it), La Liga, Serie A and the Bundesliga, the top scorers per game have much lower tallies: seven in England and Spain and six in Italy and Germany.