List of footballers with 50 or more international goals

As of 3 January 2016, a total of 46 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 of male footballers

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	Active years
1	Ali Daei	Iran	AFC	109	149	0.73	1993–2006
2	Ferenc Puskás	Hungary Spain	UEFA	84	85	0.99	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	92	0.84	1957–1971
6	Sándor Kocsis	Hungary	UEFA	75	68	1.10	1948–1956
6	Bashar Abdullah	Kuwait	AFC	75	133	0.56	1996–2007
8	Majed Abdullah	Saudi Arabia	AFC	71	116	0.61	1977–1994
8	Miroslav Klose	Germany	UEFA	71	137	0.51	2001–2014
10	Stern John	Trinidad and Tobago	CONCACAF	70	115	0.61	1995–2012
10	Kiatisuk Senamuang	Thailand	AFC	70	131	0.54	1992–2007
12	Gerd Müller	West Germany	UEFA	68	62	1.10	1966–1974
12	Hossam Hassan	Egypt	CAF	68	176	0.39	1985–2006
14	Robbie Keane	Republic of Ireland	UEFA	67	142	0.47	1998–
15	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	CAF	65	104	0.63	2002–2014
16	Jassem Al-Houwaidi	Kuwait	AFC	63	74	0.85	1992–2009
17	Ronaldo	Brazil	CONMEBOL	62	98	0.63	1994–2011
17	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	UEFA	62	111	0.53	2001–
17	Ahmed Radhi	Iraq	AFC	62	121	0.51	1982–1997
20	Imre Schlosser	Hungary	UEFA	59	68	0.87	1906–1927
20	David Villa	Spain	UEFA	59	97	0.61	2005–2014
20	Carlos Ruiz	Guatemala	CONCACAF	59	126	0.47	1998–
23	Cha Bum-kun	South Korea	AFC	58	135	0.42	1972–1986
24	Carlos Pavón	Honduras	CONCACAF	57	101	0.56	1993–2010
24	Younis Mahmoud	Iraq	AFC	57	145	0.39	2002–
24	Landon Donovan	United States	CONCACAF	57	157	0.36	2000–2014
27	Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina	CONMEBOL	56	78	0.72	1991–2002
27	Samuel Eto'o	Cameroon	CAF	56	118	0.47	1997–2014
29	Romário	Brazil	CONMEBOL	55	70	0.79	1987–2005
29	Kazuyoshi Miura	Japan	AFC	55	89	0.62	1990–2000
29	Jan Koller	Czech Republic	UEFA	55	91	0.60	1999–2009
29	Fandi Ahmad	Singapore	AFC	55	101	0.55	1979–1997
29	Joachim Streich	East Germany	UEFA	55	102	0.54	1969–1984
29	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	UEFA	55	123	0.45	2003–
35	Poul Nielsen	Denmark	UEFA	52	38	1.37	1910–1925
35	Jon Dahl Tomasson	Denmark	UEFA	52	112	0.46	1997–2010
35	Adnan Al Talyani	United Arab Emirates	AFC	52	161	0.32	1983–1997
38	Lajos Tichy	Hungary	UEFA	51	72	0.71	1955–1971
38	Karim Bagheri	Iran	AFC	51	87	0.58	1993–2010
38	Wayne Rooney	England	UEFA	51	108	0.47	2003–
38	Hakan Şükür	Turkey	UEFA	51	112	0.46	1992–2007
38	Thierry Henry	France	UEFA	51	123	0.41	1997–2010
38	Bader Al-Mutawa	Kuwait	AFC	51	158	0.32	2003–
44	Sunil Chhetri	India	AFC	50	88	0.56	2005-
44	Robin van Persie	Netherlands	UEFA	50	101	0.50	2005–
44	Hwang Sun-hong	South Korea	AFC	50	103	0.48	1988–2002