Top international association football goal scorers by country

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This page lists the top all-time male goal scorer for each national football team where the top scorer has a minimum 19 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.

#	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	Brazil	Pelé	77	92	0.84
4	Kuwait	Bashar Abdullah	75	134	0.56
5	Trinidad and Tobago	Stern John	69	109	0.63
5	Egypt	Hossam Hassan	69	169	0.41
7	West Germany	Gerd Müller	68	62	1.10
8	Saudi Arabia	Majed Abdullah	67	139	0.48
9	Thailand	Kiatisuk Senamuang	65	126	0.52
10	Iraq	Hussain Saeed Mohammed	63	126	0.50
11	Argentina	Gabriel Batistuta	56	78	0.72
12	Honduras	Carlos Pavón	56	93	0.60
13	Japan	Kunishige Kamamoto	55	61	0.90
14	Czech Republic	Jan Koller	55	91	0.60
15	East Germany	Joachim Streich	55	102	0.54
16	Korea Republic	Bum-Kun Cha	55	121	0.45
17	United Arab Emirates	Adnan Al Talyani	53	164	0.32
18	Denmark	Poul Nielsen	52	38	1.37
19	Turkey	Hakan Şükür	51	112	0.46
20	France	Thierry Henry	50	113	0.44
21	Sweden	Sven Rydell	49	43	1.14
22	England	Bobby Charlton	49	106	0.46
23	Poland	Włodzimierz Lubański	48	75	0.64
24	Portugal	Pauleta	47	88	0.53
25	Costa Rica	Rolando Fonseca	47	107	0.44
26	Mexico	Jared Borgetti	46	90	0.51
27	Croatia	Davor Suker	45	69	0.65
28	Spain	Raúl	44	102	0.43
29	Austria	Toni Polster	43	95	0.45
30	Ukraine	Andriy Shevchenko	42	89	0.47
31	USSR	Oleg Blokhin	42	112	0.38
32	Côte d'Ivoire	Didier Drogba	41	60	0.68
33	India	Baichung Bhutia	41	58	0.71
34	Bulgaria	Hristo Bonev	41	83	0.49
35	Guatemala	Carlos Ruíz	41	83	0.49
36	Cameroon	Samuel Eto'o	41	86	0.49
37	China PR	Hao Haidong	41	115	0.36
38	United States	Landon Donovan	42	120	0.35
39	Republic of Ireland	Robbie Keane	41	94	0.43
40	El Salvador	Mágico González	41	48	0.83
41	Netherlands	Patrick Kluivert	40	79	0.51
42	Algeria	Rabah Madjer	40	87	0.46
43	Switzerland	Alexander Frei	39	68	0.57
44	Nigeria	Rashidi Yekini	37	58	0.64
44	Chile	Marcelo Salas	37	70	0.53
46	Angola	Akwá	36	80	0.45
47	Italy	Gigi Riva	35	42	0.83
47	Northern Ireland	David Healy	35	75	0.47
47	Slovenia	Zlatko Zahovič	35	80	0.44
47	Estonia	Andres Oper	35	112	0.31
47	Romania	Gheorghe Hagi	35	125	0.28
52	Solomon Islands	Commins Menapi	34	37	0.92
53	Norway	Jørgen Juve	33	45	0.73
54	Uruguay	Hector Scarone	31	51	0.61
54	Ecuador	Agustín Delgado	31	70	0.44
54	South Africa	Benni McCarthy	31	76	0.41
57	Scotland	Denis Law/Kenny Dalglish	30	55/102	0.55/0.29
57	Belgium	Bernard Voorhoof/Paul Van Himst	30	61/81	0.49/0.37
57	Vietnam	Le Huynh Duc	30	63	0.48
57	Uzbekistan	Mirjalol Kasymov	30	67	0.45
57	Finland	Jari Litmanen	30	124	0.24
62	Australia	Damian Mori	29	45	0.64
62	Greece	Nikos Anastopoulos	29	73	0.40
64	New Zealand	Vaughan Coveny	28	64	0.44
64	Wales	Ian Rush	28	78	0.36
66	Cyprus	Michalis Konstantinou	27	70	0.39
67	Russia	Vladimir Beschastnykh	26	71	0.37
67	Peru	Teofilo Cubillas	26	81	0.32
69	Colombia	Arnoldo Alberto Iguarán	25	68	0.37
69	Israel	Mordechai Spiegler	25	83	0.30
69	Paraguay	José Saturnino Cardozo	25	83	0.30
72	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Elvir Bolić	24	55	0.44
72	Latvia	Eriks Petersons	24	99	0.24
74	Fiji	Esala Masi	23	35	0.66
74	Malta	Carmel Busuttil	23	111	0.21
76	Slovakia	Szilárd Németh	22	59	0.37
77	Pakistan	Muhammad Essa	20	47	0.43
78	Canada	Dale Mitchell	19	55	0.34

sorted by goals then goals-per-match

[edit] Notes

• Players in bold are still active in international level.
• Number is a count of nations. As of Sep 2009 two nations have a pair of players tied for national leader...these are counted as 1 nation each.

[edit] See also

• List of football (soccer) players with 100 or more caps
• List of football (soccer) players with 50 or more international goals

[edit] References

• RSSSF