List of top international association football goal scorers by country

This page lists the top all-time male goal scorer for each national football team where the top scorer has a minimum 20 goals in official international matches for his country. Players who are currently active at international level are indicated in bold type.

This list is not an all-time top international goal scorers list, as some country's second top scorer could have scored more than another country's top scorer. It only lists the top scorer for each country.

This list is for Men's association football only.

List of players

As of 8 January 2016

Players in bold are still active at international level.

Players in italics also hold the record for most caps for their nation.

#	Country	Name	International goals	Caps	Goals per Match
1	Iran	Ali Daei	109	149	0.73
2	Hungary	Ferenc Puskás	84	85	0.99
3	Iraq	Hussein Saeed	78	137	0.57
4	Brazil	Pelé	77	92	0.84
5	Zambia	Godfrey Chitalu	76	108	0.70
6	Japan	Kunishige Kamamoto	75	76	0.99
7	Kuwait	Bashar Abdullah	75	133	0.56
8	Saudi Arabia	Majed Abdullah	71	116	0.61
	Thailand	Kiatisuk Senamuang	71	134	0.53
	Germany	Miroslav Klose	71	137	0.52
11	Trinidad and Tobago	Stern John	70	115	0.61
12	Egypt	Hossam Hassan	68	176	0.38
13	Republic of Ireland	Robbie Keane	67	142	0.47
14	Ivory Coast	Didier Drogba	65	104	0.63
15	Sweden	Zlatan Ibrahimović	62	111	0.56
16	Spain	David Villa	59	97	0.61
	Guatemala	Carlos Ruiz	59	126	0.47
18	Honduras	Carlos Pavón	57	101	0.56
	United States	Landon Donovan	57	157	0.36
20	Argentina	Gabriel Batistuta	56	78	0.72
	Cameroon	Samuel Eto'o	56	118	0.47
22	Czech Republic	Jan Koller	55	91	0.60
	Singapore	Fandi Ahmad	55	101	0.54
	East Germany	Joachim Streich	55	102	0.54
	Portugal	Cristiano Ronaldo	55	123	0.45
	South Korea	Cha Bum-kun	55	130	0.42
27	Denmark	Poul Nielsen / Jon Dahl Tomasson	52	38 / 112	1.37 / 0.46
	United Arab Emirates	Adnan Al Talyani	52	161	0.32
29	England	Wayne Rooney	51	109	0.47
	Turkey	Hakan Şükür	51	112	0.46
	France	Thierry Henry	51	123	0.41
32	India	Sunil Chhetri	50	88	0.57
	Netherlands	Robin van Persie	50	101	0.49
34	Poland	Włodzimierz Lubański	48	75	0.64
	Bulgaria	Dimitar Berbatov	48	78	0.62
	Ghana	Asamoah Gyan	48	95	0.50
	Ukraine	Andriy Shevchenko	48	111	0.43
38	Costa Rica	Rolando Fonseca	47	113	0.42
39	Mexico	Jared Borgetti	46	89	0.52
	Maldives	Ali Ashfaq	46	unk	unk
41	Croatia	Davor Šuker	45	69	0.65
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Edin Džeko	45	75	0.60
	Australia	Tim Cahill	45	88	0.51
44	Austria	Toni Polster	44	95	0.46
45	Uruguay	Luis Suárez	43	82	0.52
	Oman	Hani Al-Dhabit	43	102	0.42
47	Philippines	Phil Younghusband	42	78	0.54
	Switzerland	Alexander Frei	42	84	0.50
	Panama	Luis Tejada	42	92	0.44
	Soviet Union	Oleh Blokhin	42	112	0.38
51	China PR	Hao Haidong	41	107	0.38
52	Vietnam	Lê Công Vinh	40	70	0.57
	Malta	Michael Mifsud	40	113	0.35
54	El Salvador	Raúl Díaz Arce	39	72	0.41
55	Yugoslavia	Stjepan Bobek	38	63	0.60
	Antigua and Barbuda	Peter Byers	38	72	0.53
	Angola	Akwá	38	76	0.50
	Estonia	Andres Oper	38	134	0.28
	Zimbabwe	Peter Ndlovu	38	unk	unk
60	Nigeria	Rashidi Yekini	37	58	0.64
	Chile	Marcelo Salas	37	70	0.53
62	Hong Kong	Chan Siu Ki	36	62	0.58
	Tunisia	Issam Jemâa	36	84	0.43
	Northern Ireland	David Healy	36	95	0.38
	Bahrain	Ismail Abdul-Latif	36	105	0.34
66	Italy	Luigi Riva	35	42	0.83
	Jamaica	Luton Shelton	35	75	0.47
	Slovenia	Zlatko Zahovič	35	80	0.44
	Romania	Gheorghe Hagi / Adrian Mutu	35	125 / 77	0.28 / 0.45
70	Czechoslovakia	Antonín Puč	34	60	0.57
	Uzbekistan	Maksim Shatskikh	34	61	0.56
	Algeria	Abdelhafid Tasfaout	34	79	0.43
73	Norway	Jørgen Juve	33	45	0.73
	Israel	Mordechai Spiegler	33	83	0.40
75	South Africa	Benni McCarthy	32	80	0.40
	Cyprus	Michalis Konstantinou	32	84	0.38
	Paraguay	Roque Santa Cruz	32	110	0.29
	Finland	Jari Litmanen	32	137	0.23
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Shandel Samuel	32	unk	unk
80	Ecuador	Agustín Delgado	31	70	0.44
	Burkina Faso	Moumouni Dagano	31	unk	unk
82	Scotland	Kenny Dalglish / Denis Law	30	102 / 55	0.29 / 0.55
	Belgium	Bernard Voorhoof / Paul Van Himst	30	61 / 81	0.49 / 0.37
	Togo	Emmanuel Adebayor	30	65	0.46
	Russia	Aleksandr Kerzhakov	30	90	0.33
86	Cuba	Lester Moré	29	62	0.47
	Greece	Nikos Anastopoulos	29	73	0.40
	Senegal	Henri Camara	29	99	0.29
	Latvia	Māris Verpakovskis	29	104	0.28
	Guinea	Pascal Feindouno	29	unk	unk
	Yemen	Ali Al-Nono	29	unk	unk
92	New Zealand	Vaughan Coveny	28	64	0.44
	Wales	Ian Rush	28	78	0.36
94	Mozambique	Tico-Tico	27	unk	unk
	Sri Lanka	Kasun Jayasuriya	27	unk	unk
96	Georgia	Shota Arveladze	26	60	0.43
	Macedonia	Goran Pandev	26	75	0.35
	Peru	Teófilo Cubillas	26	81	0.32
99	Colombia	Radamel Falcao	25	62	0.40
	Iceland	Eiður Guðjohnsen	25	80	0.31
	Mali	Seydou Keita	25	102	0.25
	Rwanda	Olivier Karekezi	25	unk	unk
103	Slovakia	Róbert Vittek	23	80	0.29
	Venezuela	Juan Arango	23	129	0.18
105	Canada	Dwayne De Rosario	22	81	0.27
106	Belize	Deon McCaulay	21	36	0.58
	Benin	Razak Omotoyossi	21	unk	unk
108	Dominican Republic	Jonathan Faña	20	37	0.54
	Bolivia	Joaquín Botero	20	48	0.42
	Lebanon	Roda Antar	20	56	0.37
	Belarus	Maksim Romaschenko	20	63	0.32

Notes

• Number is a count of nations. As of 8 September 2015, four nations (Belgium, Denmark, Romania, and Scotland) have a pair of players tied for national leader. These are counted as one nation each.
• Statistics for the top scorers of Malawi (Kinnah Phiri – 67 goals, 110 caps), Malaysia (Mokhtar Dahari – 125 goals, 167 caps), Morocco (Ahmed Faras – 42 goals), Qatar (Mansoor Muftah – 53 goals), have not been verified and therefore are not included in the list.

See also

• List of footballers with 50 or more international goals
• List of footballers with 100 or more caps

External links

• RSSSF
• More goals than caps. FIFA. 3 June 2009
• Europe's all-time top international goalscorers UEFA. 8 November 2011