ALL TIME RANKING FOR NATIONAL TEAM GOAL SCORERS

• Mar 30, 2023
• History Statistics

Picture : the podium with the only 3 players in the World adding 100 or more goals !

All-time ranking for national teams’ goal-scorers 

Regarding the Lionel Messi’s achievement of 100 goal mark for Argentina, we publish the all-time ranking of the best national teams’ scorers, with the breakdown of goals by tournament.

	BEST NATIONAL	TEAM         GOAL	SCORERS
	Player	Team(s)	Years	Goals	WC	WCQ	OW	CC	CCQ	OC	Fr	Games
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2003-	122	8	36	2	14	35	7	20	198
2	Ali Daei	Iran	1993-2006	109		36		14	24	14	21	148
3	Lionel Messi	Argentina	2005-	102	13	28		13			48	174
4	Mokhtar Dahari	Malaysia	1972-1985	89			4	1	4	20	60	142
5	Sunil Chhetri	India	2005-	85		9		4	8	25	39	133
6	Ferenc Puskás	Hungary, Spain	1945-1962	84	4		4			20	56	89
7	Ali Mabkhout	UAE	2009-	81		23		9	6	13	30	109
8	Godfrey Chitalu	Zambia	1968-1980	79		10	4	1	10	16	38	111
9	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	2008-	78	2	30		5	19	3	19	140
10	Hussein Saeed	Iraq	1976-1990	78		11	12			31	24	137
11	Neymar	Brazil	2010-	77	8	14	4	5			46	124
12	Pelé	Brazil	1957-1971	77	12	6		8			51	92
13	Bashar Abdullah	Kuwait	1996-2018	75		10		3	20	14	28	134
14	Kunishige Kamamoto	Japan	1964-1977	75		2	22			12	39	76
15	Sándor Kocsis	Hungary	1948-1956	75	11		6			8	50	68
16	Vivian John Woodward	England, England Am.	1903-1914	75			6			15	54	53
17	Majed Abdullah	Saudi Arabia	1978-1994	72		8		3	8	27	26	117
18	Romelu Lukaku	Belgium	2010-	72	5	18		6	10	10	23	106
19	Kiatisuk Senamuang	Thailand	1993-2007	71		14		1	6	33	17	134
20	Miroslav Klose	Germany	2001-2014	71	16	13		3	16		23	137
21	Kinnah Phiri	Malawi	1973-1981	71			1		8	16	46	117
22	Piyapong Pue-on	Thailand	1981-1997	70		10	5		2	36	17	100
23	Stern John	Trinidad and Tobago	1995-2011	70		20		3	3	17	27	115
24	Abdul Kadir	Indonesia	1967-1979	70			2			1	67	101

WC (WCQ) = World Cup finals (qualification),
CC (CCQ) = Confederations’ Championships finals (qualification),
OW = Other relevant world tournaments: Confederation Cup, Olympic Games (only “full internationals”) etc.,
OC = Other relevant continental (sub-continental) tournaments,
Fr. = Friendlies (including minor tournaments).