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 931 offical goals.
He is followed by Lionel Messi with 856 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 (Portugal) – 931 goles en 1272 partidos
- Lionel Messi (Argentina) – 856 goles en 1091 partidos
- Josef Bican (Austria) – 805 goles en 530 partidos
- Pelé (Brasil) – 770 goles en 812 partidos
- Romário (Brasil) – 761 goles en 963 partidos
- Ferenc Puskás (Hungría) – 760 goles en 746 partidos
- Erwin Helmchen (Alemania) – 702 goles en ? partidos
- Robert Lewandowski (Polonia) – 693 goles en 974 partidos
- Jimmy Jones (Irlanda del Norte) – 660 goles en 614 partidos
- Abe Lenstra (Países Bajos) – 645 goles en 650 partidos
- Gerd Müller (Alemania) – 640 goles en 728 partidos
- Joe Bambrick (Irlanda del Norte) – 634 goles en ? partidos
- Max Morlock (Alemania) – 609 goles en 970 partidos
- Fernando Peyroteo (Portugal) – 591 goles en 354 partidos
- Luis Suárez (Uruguay) – 584 goles en 984 partidos
- Ferenc Deák (Hungría) – 576 goles en 400 partidos
- Zlatan Ibrahimović (Suecia) – 573 goles en 988 partidos
- Uwe Seeler (Alemania) – 567 goles en 653 partidos
- Glenn Ferguson (Irlanda del Norte) – 563 goles en 1047 partidos
- Jimmy McGrory (Escocia) – 558 goles en 522 partidos
- Arthur Friedenreich (Brasil) – 557 goles en 562 partidos
- Eusébio (Portugal) – 555 goles en 648 partidos
- Imre Schlosser (Hungría) – 554 goles en ? partidos
- Alfredo Di Stéfano (Argentina) – 524 goles en 739 partidos
- Roberto Dinamite (Brasil) – 514 goles en 839 partidos
- Gyula Zsengellér (Hungría) – 513 goles en ? partidos
- Hugo Sánchez (México) – 513 goles en 879 partidos
- Zico (Brasil) – 511 goles en 773 partidos
- Ferenc Bene (Hungría) – 506 goles en 493 partidos
- Sándor Kocsis (Hungría) – 505 goles en ? partidos
- György Sárosi (Hungría) – 505 goles en ? partidos
- Isidro Lángara (España) – 504 goles en 415 partidos
- Gunnar Nordahl (Suecia) – 498 goles en 548 partidos
- Johan Cruyff (Países Bajos) – 493 goles en 712 partidos
- Karim Benzema (Francia) – 491 goles en 946 partidos
- Stjepan Bobek (Yugoslavia) – 480 goles en 554 partidos
- Ali Ashfaq (Maldivas) – 476 goles en 567 partidos
- Jimmy Greaves (Inglaterra) – 466 goles en 661 partidos
- Delio Onnis (Argentina) – 461 goles en 709 partidos
- Aleksandar Đurić (Singapur) – 461 goles en 733 partidos
- Edinson Cavani (Uruguay) – 461 goles en 865 partidos
- Alberto Spencer (Ecuador) – 451 goles en 678 partidos
- Jef Mermans (Bélgica) – 449 goles en 556 partidos
- Edin Džeko (Bosnia y Herzegovina) – 448 goles en 1016 partidos
- Rivaldo (Brasil) – 446 goles en 1033 partidos
- Dixie Dean (Inglaterra) – 442 goles en 601 partidos
- Neymar (Brasil) – 441 goles en 725 partidos
- Givanildo de Souza Hulk (Brasil) – 436 goles en 856 partidos
- Sebastián Abreu (Uruguay) – 435 goles en 860 partidos
- Carlos Bianchi (Argentina) – 434 goles en 605 partidos
- Harry Kane (Inglaterra) – 433 goles en 661 partidos
- Raúl González (España) – 432 goles en 1034 partidos
- David Villa (España) – 427 goles en 826 partidos
- Samuel Eto’o (Camerún) – 427 goles en 882 partidos
- Sergio Agüero (Argentina) – 426 goles en 786 partidos
- Hans Krankl (Austria) – 425 goles en 587 partidos
- Dadá Maravilha (Brasil) – 425 goles en ? partidos
- József Takacs (Hungría) – 418 goles en 388 partidos
- Hughie Gallacher (Escocia) – 416 goles en 567 partidos
- John Aldridge (Inglaterra) – 416 goles en 576 partidos
- Eran Zahavi (Israel) – 416 goles en 755 partidos
- Ronaldo Nazário (Brasil) – 414 goles en 616 partidos
- Dejan Damjanović (Montenegro) – 412 goles en 796 partidos
- Ally McCoist (Escocia) – 412 goles en 816 partidos
- Fred (Brasil) – 412 goles en 816 partidos
- Ferenc Szusza (Hungría) – 411 goles en 486 partidos
- Juan Plata (Guatemala) – 411 goles en 598 partidos
- Vágner Love (Brasil) – 411 goles en 888 partidos
- Thierry Henry (Francia) – 411 goles en 917 partidos
- Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Países Bajos) – 409 goles en 741 partidos
- Óscar Cardozo (Paraguay) – 407 goles en 901 partidos
- Túlio Maravilha (Brasil) – 398 goles en 594 partidos
- Cabinho (Brasil) – 398 goles en 617 partidos
- Carlos Hermosillo (México) – 396 goles en 740 partidos
- Ronaldinho (Brasil) – 395 goles en 710 partidos
- Romelu Lukaku (Bélgica) – 395 goles en 780 partidos
- Roger Milla (Camerún) – 393 goles en 734 partidos
- Robbie Keane (Irlanda) – 393 goles en 883 partidos
- Víctor Hugo Antelo (Bolivia) – 392 goles en 526 partidos
- Andriy Shevchenko (Ucrania) – 391 goles en 815 partidos
- Fritz Walter (Alemania) – 390 goles en 425 partidos
- Alex (Brasil) – 389 goles en ? partidos
- José Águas (Portugal) – 387 goles en 417 partidos
- Albert De Cleyn (Bélgica) – 386 goles en 500 partidos
- Magno Alves (Brasil) – 385 goles en ? partidos
- Telmo Zarra (España) – 384 goles en 426 partidos
- Ruud van Nistelrooy (Países Bajos) – 384 goles en 662 partidos
- Omar Al Soma (Siria) – 383 goles en 513 partidos
- Alan Shearer (Inglaterra) – 382 goles en 733 partidos
- Luís Fabiano (Brasil) – 381 goles en 721 partidos
- Ricardo Oliveira (Brasil) – 381 goles en 774 partidos
- Pierre Aubameyang (Gabón) – 377 goles en 752 partidos
- Mohamed Salah (Egipto) – 374 goles en 739 partidos
- Bader Al-Mutawa (Kuwait) – 372 goles en 721 partidos
- Michel Platini (Francia) – 371 goles en 620 partidos
- Didier Drogba (Costa de Marfil) – 370 goles en 805 partidos
- Osvaldo Castro (Chile) – 368 goles en 622 partidos
- Firas Al-Khatib (Siria) – 367 goles en 507 partidos
- Hughie Ferguson (Escocia) – 366 goles en 425 partidos
- Gonzalo Higuaín (Argentina) – 366 goles en 783 partidos
- Wayne Rooney (Inglaterra) – 366 goles en 883 partidos
- Kylian Mbappé (Francia) – 359 goles en 494 partidos
- André-Pierre Gignac (Francia) – 356 goles en 803 partidos
- Ali Mabkhout (Emiratos Árabes Unidos) – 355 goles en 538 partidos
- Sunil Chhetri (India) – 349 goles en 690 partidos
- Radamel Falcao (Colombia) – 351 goles en 717 partidos
- Dayro Moreno (Colombia) – 350 goles en 762 partidos
*Note: Statistics updated April 2025. 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.
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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I am interested on it
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
24 . Alfredo Di Stéfano (Desconocido) – 524 goles en 739 partidos
Alfredo Di Stéfano was from Argentina. He first attained fame as a River Plate player, moved to Colombia, and eventually to Real Madrid in Spain. Before Pele, Maradona, Messi, he was widely reknown as the best player in the world.
Ronaldinho has 299 goals (266 club + 33 national), instead of 395. He cannot be on the list. A legend – yes, but he was never a striker.
According to the most detailed data available in wukipedia, you may edit the line 7 to read:
7. Erwin Helmchen (Alemania) – 747 goles en 418 partidos
Best, Leonard.