Most Goals in Football history – Highest goal scorer in the world
The portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo is the all-time highest goal scorer in the world with 879 offical goals.
He is followed by Lionel Messi with 826 official goals.
The austrian Josef Bican closes the podium with 805 goals.
The following is a list of the top scorers in the history of soccer according to the data available.*
⚽ Most Goals in Soccer | Top 30 Most Goals in football
- Cristiano Ronaldo – 1212 goals (879 matches)
- Lionel Messi – 1052 goals (826 matches)
- Josef Bican – 805 goals (530 matches)
- Pelé – 812 goals (770 matches)
- Romário – 963 goals (761 matches)
- Ferenc Puskás – 746 goals (760 matches)
- Jimmy Jones – 614 goals (660 matches)
- Abe Lenstra – 650 goals (645 matches)
- Robert Lewandowski – 908 goals (644 matches)
- Gerd Müller – 728 goals (640 matches)
- Joe Bambrick – 634 goals
- Fernando Peyroteo – 591 goals
- Zlatan Ibrahimović – 573 goals
- Uwe Seeler – 567 goals
- Luis Suárez – 563 goals
- Glenn Ferguson – 563 goals
- Jimmy McGrory – 558 goals
- Eusébio – 555 goals
- Imre Schlosser – 554 goals
- Alfredo Di Stéfano – 524 goals (524 matches)
- Roberto Dinamite – 514 goals
- Gyula Zsengellér – 513 goals
- Zico – 511 goals
- Hugo Sánchez – 507 goals
- Ferenc Bene – 506 goals
- Sándor Kocsis – 505 goals
- György Sárosi – 505 goals
- Gunnar Nordahl – 498 goals
- Johan Cruyff – 493 goals
- Stjepan Bobek – 480 goals
- Ali Ashfaq – 476 goals
- Karim Benzema – 472 goals
- Isidro Lángara – 468 goals
- Jimmy Greaves – 466 goals
- Delio Onnis – 461 goals
- Aleksandar Đurić – 461 goals
- Alberto Spencer – 450 goals
- Jef Mermans – 449 goals
- Rivaldo – 446 goals
- Edinson Cavani – 443 goals
- Dixie Dean – 442 goals
- Neymar – 439 goals
- Sebastián Abreu – 435 goals
- Raúl González – 432 goals
- Ronaldo Nazário – 429 goals
- Sergio Agüero – 427 goals
- David Villa – 427 goals
- Samuel Eto’o – 427 goals
- Hans Krankl – 425 goals
*Note: Statistics updated March 2024. Goals and matches in youth categories (club or national team) and friendlies are not counted. If the goals in friendlies with the senior national teams are counted.
The top goal scorers of all time | Who has scored the most goals in football history
Sources: FIFA y Sport Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) and Wikipedia.org
Messi 762 goal in 967 game – 762/967 = 0.78
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I would take Pele over anyone. When you start playing more games in a season by the time you are done with your career you will naturally score more than others from earlier times. Hence Pele scored just about a goal a match. American football has that same thing going
You should take Bican who has a better goal/game ratio than everyone.
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Josef Bican is just amazing playing 530 matches and then scoring 805 goals is really incredible and still in the second place as compared to C Ronaldo who has played 1120 matches leading him by some little goals
Joest Bican played in weak league
Critiano played in England,Spain,Italy league and he is the top scorer of UCL
in the 1930s the best leagues were in central Europe – Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Germany plus Italy, the rest of Europe was football periphery just learn history
Well… none of them could beat England (where football was invented) at home. Only Puskás could.
i hope ur talking about the past, cus now england arent THAT great. team is first class but the way they bottle the tournaments is upsetting. even in england they lost the euro finale.
Hello, Lewandowski is at 616 Goals as of 29th of August 2022, now at 620 or 622. So its a lil bit wrong.
Source: FC Barcelona.com
Thank You that sounds right
Olvidaron a Fernando Peyroteo, que marcó 558 goles en 354 apariciones con el Sporting de Portugal y la selección portuguesa y paró de jugar con tan sólo 30 anos.
Source: wikipedia
1.5 goal ratio, amazing.
Lewandowski scored 603 goals
please correct
thank you
Sunil Chhetri from India has scored more goals than many on the list. Add him also
Who is Sunil Chhetri ?
Classic Chhetri! After Ronaldo & Messi, Chhetri placed third in Top Active International Goalscorer- KreedOn Banter
he scored against teams like bhutan, bangladesh and countries who never even went to knockout stages of a major tournament. (by major tournament i mean very small south asian major tournaments.)
so i dont think he should be praised all over the world, but hes amazing and obviously better than the ones around him.
Chetrri never played in Europe
Chhetri has only scored around 300 goals. He might be #4 for international goals all-time but he has very few club goals and isn’t even close to most people on this list.
It’s crazy how overlooked Lewandowski is because Messi and Ronaldo are from the same era
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Okay he is really godly good
Change it to Men, because there are multiple woman soccer player that have scored well above Cristano Ronaldo. For starters Christine Sinclair has scored 190 goals compared to Ronaldo’s 118. So if you could recognize women in this list that’s would be inclusive and accurate or just change it to men’s highest international scorer in football.
That is just international team goals.
This list includes club goals as well.
Sinclair is not in the top 50 in this list.
Sinclair has 291 goals compared to Ronaldo’s 844*
Actually it’s Christine Sinclair 190 goals.
That is national goals only.
She does not have enough total goals to make it on this list.
WRONG PICTURE, JOSEF BICAN WAS WHITE
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Bro were is sunil chhetri
He’s playing Kabbadi where people will actually know who he is, I mean I’m reading some posts on this forum and you’re mentioning a guy who’s scored most of his goals against amateur players he wouldn’t get into the English conference league
Some days ago you wrote that Messi had scored 799 goals. Now you change it to 798 again. Why?
cristiano ronaldo eis the most player ever
Why is messi’s name highlited
Where is Abe Lenstra from the Netherlands?
Lewandowski has passed more than 600 goals. Please give him credit. Wikipedia not a reliable source. Transfermarkt is a 100% safe source for active players
Where is Sunil chhetri?? He is 2nd highest active goal scorer after Ronaldo. You should collect information before posting something bro …
Sunil Chhetri has less than 300 total goals which doesn’t even make it onto this list.
Buscan is in a weak league. Messi played in la ligament and liege a little bit and Ronaldo has played in premier league, la lugs, serie A and Portuguese league for a bit. Both have played in ucl as well and buscan has bad stats for a bad team just in an easy league
Did Ronaldo’s goals at saudi arabia league count?
if it doesnt, messis goals in mls shouldnt count.
Hey you clever boys Josef Bican was a CZECH of CZECH parents not Austrian!!!!!!!! He only was born in Viena, short time he played in Austria national team but later he came in his fatherland Czechia and played for Czecholovakia and in Czechoslovak league.
I think Messi is better than Ronaldo
As of July 18, 2023, the top scorer is a Canadian woman, Christine Sinclair with 190 goals.
She has the most in the world for international goals, but not for total goals. Sinclair has 291 goals in total which doesn’t even make it onto this list
Where do you find the name Nazario? .. his name is Ronaldo.. the first and real Ronaldo
Ronaldo Nazario might have been here first, but Cristiano is far superior
Where is Giorgio Chinaglia on your list ? 734 goals averaging a goal a game ..
Pele` scored 127 goals in 1959 and 1283 in his career until the WHITE media INVENTED OFFICIAL – UNOFFICIAL GOALS. They could not handle a Black King in Soccer