List of international goals scored by Gary Lineker

Gary Lineker is an English former professional footballer who represented the England national football team as a striker from 1984 to 1992. He is England's third highest goalscorer with 48 goals, and was capped 80 times, making him the 16th most-capped player in England's history.

He represented England at two FIFA World Cups (1986, 1990) and two UEFA European Championships (1988, 1992). Most notably, at the 1986 World Cup, he earned the Golden Boot after scoring six goals, including one in England's quarter-final defeat to Argentina.^[1] He also scored five hat-tricks for England, three of which came in international tournaments or qualifiers.

He earned his first cap for England in 1984 against Scotland during the 1983–84 British Home Championship.^[2] He played his last game for England in a 2–1 loss against Sweden in a Euro 1992 group stage match.^[3] He almost equalled the England goalscoring record, held at the time by Bobby Charlton, in a pre-tournament friendly against Brazil, but he missed a penalty kick, leaving him one goal short of Charlton's total, which was overtaken by Wayne Rooney in 2015.^[4]

Goals[edit]

England score listed first, score column indicates score after each Lineker goal.^[5]

List of international goals scored by Gary Lineker
No.	Date	Venue	Cap	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref
1	26 March 1985	Wembley Stadium, London, England	2	Republic of Ireland	2–1	2–1	Friendly	^[6]
2	16 June 1985	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, United States	7	United States	1–0	5–0		^[7]
3	16 June 1985	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, United States	7	United States	3–0	5–0		^[7]
4	16 October 1985	Wembley Stadium, London, England	9	Turkey	2–0	5–0	1986 FIFA World Cup qualification	^[8]
5					4–0
6					5–0
7	11 June 1986	Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey, Mexico	16	Poland	1–0	3–0	1986 FIFA World Cup	^[9]
8					2–0
9					3–0
10	18 June 1986	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, Mexico	17	Paraguay	1–0	3–0		^[10]
11	18 June 1986		17	Paraguay	3–0	3–0		^[10]
12	22 June 1986		18	Argentina	1–2	1–2		^[11]
13	15 October 1986	Wembley Stadium, London, England	19	Northern Ireland	1–0	3–0	UEFA Euro 1988 qualification	^[12]
14	15 October 1986	Wembley Stadium, London, England	19	Northern Ireland	3–0	3–0	UEFA Euro 1988 qualification	^[12]
15	18 February 1987	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid, Spain	21	Spain	1–1	4–2	Friendly	^[13]
16					2–1
17					3–1
18					4–1
19	19 May 1987	Wembley Stadium, London, England	24	Brazil	1–1	1–1	Friendly (1987 Rous Cup)	^[14]
20	9 September 1987	Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf, Germany	25	West Germany	1–2	1–3	Friendly	^[15]
21	14 October 1987	Wembley Stadium, London, England	26	Turkey	2–0	8–0	UEFA Euro 1988 qualification	^[16]
22					4–0
23					7–0
24	23 March 1988		28	Netherlands	1–0	2–2	Friendly	^[17]
25	24 May 1988		31	Colombia	1–0	1–1	Friendly (1988 Rous Cup)	^[18]
26	7 September 1988	Stade olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne, Switzerland	32	Switzerland	1–0	1–0	Friendly	^[19]
27	26 April 1989	Wembley Stadium, London, England	40	Albania	2–0	5–0	1990 FIFA World Cup qualification	^[20]
28	3 June 1989	Wembley Stadium, London, England	41	Poland	1–0	3–0	1990 FIFA World Cup qualification	^[21]
29	7 July 1989	Københavns Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark	42	Denmark	1–0	1–1	Friendly	^[22]
30	28 March 1990	Wembley Stadium, London, England	47	Brazil	1–0	1–0		^[23]
31	15 May 1990	Wembley Stadium, London, England	49	Denmark	1–0	1–0		^[24]
32	11 June 1990	Stadio Sant'Elia, Cagliari, Italy	52	Republic of Ireland	1–0	1–1	1990 FIFA World Cup	^[25]
33	1 July 1990	Stadio San Paolo, Naples, Italy	56	Cameroon	2–2	3–2 (a.e.t.)		^[26]
34	1 July 1990	Stadio San Paolo, Naples, Italy	56	Cameroon	3–2	3–2 (a.e.t.)		^[26]
35	4 July 1990	Stadio delle Alpi, Turin, Italy	57	West Germany	1–1	1–1 (3–4 p)		^[27]
36	22 September 1990	Wembley Stadium, London, England	59	Hungary	1–0	1–0	Friendly	^[28]
37	17 October 1990		60	Poland	1–0	2–0	UEFA Euro 1992 qualification	^[29]
38	6 February 1991		62	Cameroon	1–0	2–0	Friendly	^[30]
39	6 February 1991		62	Cameroon	2–0	2–0	Friendly	^[30]
40	25 May 1991		65	Argentina	1–0	2–2	Friendly (1991 England Challenge Cup)	^[31]
41	3 June 1991	Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand	67	New Zealand	1–0	1–0	Friendly	^[32]
42	12 June 1991	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	68	Malaysia	1–0	4–2	Friendly	^[33]
43					2–0
44					3–0
45					4–1
46	13 November 1991	Stadion Miejski, Poznań, Poland	71	Poland	1–1	1–1	UEFA Euro 1992 qualification	^[34]
47	19 February 1992	Wembley Stadium, London, England	72	France	2–0	2–0	Friendly	^[35]
48	29 April 1992	Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia	74	CIS	1–0	2–2	Friendly	^[36]