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List of footballers with 10 or more goals in major national team competitions

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Ronaldo is the all-time top scorer in major international competitions.

90 players have scored at least 10 goals for their national team across major national team competitions.

Ronaldo is the all-time top scorer in major national team competitions with 25 goals.

He has scored 15 goals at the Copa América and 10 at the FIFA World Cup finals representing the Brazil national football team.

Almoez Ali is the only player to have scored in three different major continental competitions.

Landon Donovan and Samuel Eto'o are the joint top scorers in a single continental competition with 18 goals each.

As of 11 July 2021
Table key
FIFA FIFA World Cup
UEFA UEFA European Championship
CONMEBOL Copa América
CONCACAF CONCACAF Gold Cup
CAF Africa Cup of Nations
AFC AFC Asian Cup
OFC OFC Nations Cup
Indicates all-time top scorer (or joint top scorers) of the competition
Players with at least 10 goals in major national team competitions
Rank Player Team(s) Total FIFA[1] UEFA[2] CONMEBOL[3] CONCACAF[4] CAF[5] AFC[6] OFC[7]
1 Ronaldo  Brazil 25 15 10
2 Gabriel Batistuta  Argentina 23 10 13
Landon Donovan  United States 5 18
4 Ademir  Brazil 21 8 13
Samuel Eto'o  Cameroon 3 18
Cristiano Ronaldo  Portugal 7 14
7 Clint Dempsey  United States 20 4 3 13
Pelé  Brazil 12 8
9 Lionel Messi  Argentina 19 6 13
Miroslav Klose  Germany 16 3
Zizinho  Brazil 2 17
12 Gerd Müller  West Germany 18 14 4
13 Norberto Méndez  Argentina 17 17
Tim Cahill  Australia 5 6 6
15 Jürgen Klinsmann  West Germany
 Germany
16 11 5
Teófilo Cubillas  Peru 10 6
17 Jair  Brazil 15 2 13
Luis Hernández  Mexico 4 6 5
Paolo Guerrero  Peru 1 14
Romário  Brazil 5 7 3
Severino Varela  Uruguay 15
Teodoro Fernández  Peru 15
Eduardo Vargas  Chile 1 14
24 Ali Daei  Iran 14 14
Asamoah Gyan  Ghana 6 8
Damian Mori  Australia 14
Héctor Scarone  Uruguay 1 13
Laurent Pokou  Ivory Coast 14
Michel Platini  France 5 9
Óscar Míguez  Uruguay 8 6
Rashidi Yekini  Nigeria 1 13
Almoez Ali  Qatar 1 4 9
33 Andrés Guardado  Mexico 13 1 12
Bebeto  Brazil 6 7
Cuauhtémoc Blanco  Mexico 3 5 5
David Villa  Spain 9 4
Didi  Brazil 3 10
Didier Drogba  Ivory Coast 2 11
José Manuel Moreno  Argentina 13
Just Fontaine  France 13
Patrick M'Boma  Cameroon 2 11
Rivaldo  Brazil 8 5
43 Ángel Romano  Uruguay 12 12
Gonzalo Higuaín  Argentina 5 7
Hassan El-Shazly  Egypt 12
Héctor Castro  Uruguay 2 10
Javier Hernández  Mexico 4 1 7
Luis Roberto Alves  Mexico 12
Roberto Porta  Uruguay 12
Roger Milla  Cameroon 5 7
Rudi Völler  West Germany
 Germany
8 4
Thierry Henry  France 6 6
53 Blas Pérez  Panama 11 11
Brian McBride  United States 3 8
Diego Forlán  Uruguay 6 5
Diego Maradona  Argentina 8 3
Herminio Masantonio  Argentina 11
Hossam Hassan  Egypt 11
Javier Ambrois  Uruguay 1 10
Kris Trajanovski  Australia 11
Lee Dong-Gook  South Korea 1 10
Luis Suárez  Uruguay 7 4
Paulo Wanchope  Costa Rica 3 8
Sándor Kocsis  Hungary 11
Sergio Agüero  Argentina 2 9
Shane Smeltz  New Zealand 1 10
Víctor Ugarte  Bolivia 11
Antoine Griezmann  France 4 7
Romelu Lukaku  Belgium 5 6
Neymar  Brazil 6 5
71 André Ayew  Ghana 10 2 8
Ángel Labruna  Argentina 10
Arnoldo Iguarán  Colombia 10
Dennis Bergkamp  Netherlands 6 4
Enrique Hormazábal  Chile 10
Eric Wynalda  United States 1 9
Francileudo Santos  Tunisia 10
Gary Lineker  England 10
Grzegorz Lato  Poland 10
Helmut Rahn  West Germany 10
Joël Tiéhi  Ivory Coast 10
Kalusha Bwalya  Zambia 10
Karl-Heinz Rumenigge  West Germany 9 1
Luis Tejada  Panama 10
Mengistu Worku  Ethiopia 10
Ndaye Mulamba  DR Congo 10
Óscar Gómez Sánchez  Peru 10
Pedro Petrone  Uruguay 10
Thomas Müller  Germany 10
Zinedine Zidane  France 5 5

* Players in Bold are still active for their national team.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. FIFA.com. "FIFA - FIFA.com". www.fifa.com. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  2. UEFA.com (2020-01-10). "EURO top scorers: all-time and for every tournament". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  3. "Copa América". www.rsssf.com. Retrieved 2020-06-08. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  4. "Gold Cup". www.rsssf.com. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  5. "African Nations Cup". www.rsssf.com. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  6. "Asian Nations Cup". www.rsssf.com. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  7. "Oceanian Nations Cup". www.rsssf.com. Retrieved 2020-06-08.



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