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

As of 29 March 2016, a total of 47 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
1	Ali Daei	Iran	AFC	109	150[2]	0.73	1993–2006
2	Ferenc Puskás	Hungary  Spain	UEFA	84 0	85 4	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[3]	0.85	1957–1971
6	Sándor Kocsis	Hungary	UEFA	75	68	1.10	1948–1956
	Bashar Abdullah	Kuwait	AFC	75	133	0.56	1996–2007
8	Majed Abdullah	Saudi Arabia	AFC	71	116	0.61	1977–1994
	Miroslav Klose	Germany	UEFA	71	137	0.51	2001–2014
10	Stern John	Trinidad and Tobago	CONCACAF	70	115	0.61	1995–2012
	Kiatisuk Senamuang	Thailand	AFC	70	131	0.54	1993–2007
12	Hossam Hassan	Egypt	CAF	69[4]	169[5]	0.41	1985–2006
13	Gerd Müller	West Germany	UEFA	68	62	1.10	1966–1974
14	Robbie Keane	Republic of Ireland	UEFA	67[6][7]	143[2]	0.44	1998–
15	Jassem Al-Houwaidi	Kuwait	AFC	63	74	0.85	1992–2009
	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	CAF	63[8]	104	0.61	2002–2014
17	Ronaldo	Brazil	CONMEBOL	62	98	0.63	1994–2011
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	UEFA	62	111	0.56	2001–
	Ahmed Radhi	Iraq	AFC	62	121	0.51	1982–1997
20	Carlos Ruiz	Guatemala	CONCACAF	60	127	0.47	1998–
21	Imre Schlosser	Hungary	UEFA	59	68	0.87	1906–1927
	David Villa	Spain	UEFA	59	97	0.61	2005–2014
23	Cha Bum-kun	South Korea	AFC	58	135	0.42	1972–1986
24	Carlos Pavón	Honduras	CONCACAF	57	101	0.56	1993–2010
	Younis Mahmoud	Iraq	AFC	57	146	0.39	2002–
	Landon Donovan	United States	CONCACAF	57	157	0.36	2000–2014
27	Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina	CONMEBOL	56	78	0.72	1991–2002
	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	UEFA	56	125	0.45	2003–
28	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
33	Samuel Eto'o	Cameroon	CAF	54[9]	118	0.46	1997–2014
34	Joachim Streich	East Germany	UEFA	53[10]	98	0.54	1969–1984
35	Poul Nielsen	Denmark	UEFA	52	38	1.37	1910–1925
	Jon Dahl Tomasson	Denmark	UEFA	52	112	0.46	1997–2010
	Adnan Al Talyani	United Arab Emirates	AFC	52	161	0.32	1983–1997
38	Lajos Tichy	Hungary	UEFA	51	72	0.71	1955–1971
	Karim Bagheri	Iran	AFC	51	87	0.58	1993–2010
	Wayne Rooney	England	UEFA	51	109	0.47	2003–
	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–
44	Sunil Chhetri	India	AFC	50	88	0.56	2005-
	Robin van Persie	Netherlands	UEFA	50	101	0.50	2005–
	Hwang Sun-hong	South Korea	AFC	50	103	0.48	1988–2002
	Lionel Messi	Argentina	CONMEBOL	50	107	0.47	2005–
	Ali Ashfaq	Maldives	AFC	50	75	0.67	2003–

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

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