List of top international men's football goalscorers 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.

#	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	Japan	Kunishige Kamamoto	80	84	0.95
4	Brazil	Pelé	77	92	0.84
5	Kuwait	Bashar Abdullah	75	134	0.56
6	Trinidad and Tobago	Stern John	70	114	0.61
7	Egypt	Hossam Hassan	69	169	0.41
8	Germany	Gerd Müller	68	62	1.09
9	Saudi Arabia	Majed Abdullah	67	139	0.48
10	Iraq	Hussein Saeed	61	126	0.48
11	Argentina	Gabriel Batistuta	56	78	0.72
=	Honduras	Carlos Pavón	56	101	0.55
13	Czech Republic	Jan Koller	55	91	0.60
=	South Korea	Cha Bum-Kun	55	121	0.45
15	Ivory Coast	Didier Drogba	54	82	0.66
=	Cameroon	Samuel Eto'o	54	109	0.49
17	East Germany	Joachim Streich	53	98	0.54
=	Republic of Ireland	Robbie Keane	53	114	0.46
=	United Arab Emirates	Adnan Al Talyani	53	164	0.32
20	Denmark	Poul Nielsen/Jon Dahl Tomasson	52	38/112	1.37/0.46
21	Spain	David Villa	51	82	0.62
=	Turkey	Hakan Sükür	51	112	0.46
=	France	Thierry Henry	51	123	0.41
24	Sweden	Sven Rydell	49	43	1.14
=	England	Bobby Charlton	49	106	0.47
26	Poland	Wlodzimierz Lubanski	48	75	0.64
=	Bulgaria	Dimitar Berbatov	48	76	0.63
28	Portugal	Pauleta	47	88	0.53
=	Costa Rica	Rolando Fonseca	47	107	0.44
30	Mexico	Jared Borgetti	46	90	0.51
=	Ukraine	Andriy Shevchenko	46	105	0.44
=	United States	Landon Donovan	46	138	0.33
=	Oman	Hani Al-Dhabit	46	unk	unk
34	Croatia	Davor Šuker	45	69	0.65
=	Guatemala	Carlos Ruíz	45	92	0.49
36	Austria	Toni Polster	43	95	0.45
37	Switzerland	Alexander Frei	42	82	0.51
=	Soviet Union	Oleg Blokhin	42	112	0.38
39	China	Hao Haidong	41	115	0.36
40	Netherlands	Patrick Kluivert	40	79	0.51
41	El Salvador	Raúl Díaz Arce	39	68	0.57
42	Yugoslavia	Stjepan Bobek	38	63	0.60
=	Zimbabwe	Peter Ndlovu	38	unk	unk
44	Nigeria	Rashidi Yekini	37	58	0.64
=	Chile	Marcelo Salas	37	70	0.53
=	Indonesia	Bambang Pamungkas	37	83	0.45
=	Serbia	Savo Milošević	37	102	0.33
=	Angola	Akwá	37	unk	unk
49	Estonia	Andres Oper	36	121	0.30
50	Italy	Luigi Riva	35	42	0.83
=	Slovenia	Zlatko Zahovic	35	80	0.44
=	Northern Ireland	David Healy	35	91	0.38
=	Romania	Gheorghe Hagi	35	125	0.28
54	Uzbekistan	Maksim Shatskikh	34	60	0.57
=	Czechoslovakia	Antonín Puč	34	60	0.57
=	Algeria	Abdelhafid Tasfaout	34	62	0.55
=	Panama	Luis Tejada	34	unk	unk
=	United States	Eric Wynalda	34	109
Norway	Jørgen Juve	33	45	0.73
=	Ghana	Abedi Pele	33	67	0.49
=	Bahrain	Husain Ali	33	unk	unk
61	South Africa	Benni McCarthy	32	79	0.41
=	Cyprus	Michalis Konstantinou	32	82	0.39
=	Uruguay	Diego Forlán	32	84	0.38
=	Finland	Jari Litmanen	32	137	0.23
65	Jamaica	Luton Shelton	31	60	0.52
=	Ecuador	Agustín Delgado	31	70	0.44
67	Vietnam	Le Cong Vinh/Le Huynh Duc	30	48/unk	0.63/unk
=	Scotland	Denis Law/Kenny Dalglish	30	55/102	0.55/0.29
=	Belgium	Bernard Voorhoof/Paul Van Himst	30	61/81	0.49/0.37
=	Malta	Michael Mifsud	30	85	0.35
=	Antigua and Barbuda	Peter Byers	30	unk	unk
=	Burkina Faso	Moumouni Dagano	30	unk	unk
73	Hong Kong	Chan Siu Ki	29	39	0.74
=	Australia	Damian Mori	29	45	0.64
=	Cuba	Lester Moré	29	60	0.48
=	Greece	Nikos Anastopoulos	29	73	0.40
=	Senegal	Henri Camara	29	99	0.29
=	Guinea	Pascal Feindouno	29	unk	unk
=	Yemen	Ali Al-Nono	29	unk	unk
80	New Zealand	Vaughan Coveny	28	64	0.44
=	Wales	Ian Rush	28	78	0.36
=	Latvia	Maris Verpakovskis	28	90	0.31
83	Tunisia	Issam Jemâa	27	59	0.46
=	Sri Lanka	Kasun Jayasuriya	27	unk	unk
=	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Shandel Samuel	27	unk	unk
86	Georgia	Shota Arveladze	26	60	0.43
=	Russia	Vladimir Beschastnykh	26	71	0.37
=	Peru	Teófilo Cubillas	26	81	0.32
89	Colombia	Arnoldo Alberto Iguarán	25	68	0.37
=	Paraguay	José Saturnino Cardozo/Roque Santa Cruz	25	83/89	0.30/0.28
91	Israel	Mordechai Spiegler	24	57	0.42
=	Macedonia	Goran Pandev	24	61	0.39
=	Iceland	Eiður Guðjohnsen	24	66	0.36
=	Rwanda	Olivier Karekezi	24	unk	unk
95	Slovakia	Róbert Vittek	23	79	0.29
=	Maldives	Ali Ashfaq	23	unk	unk
=	Togo	Emmanuel Adebayor	23	unk	unk
98	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Elvir Bolic	22	52	0.42
=	Venezuela	Giancarlo Maldonado	22	64	0.34
100	Bolivia	Joaquín Botero	20	48	0.42
=	Belarus	Maksim Romaschenko	20	63	0.32

sorted by goals then goals-per-match

Notes

Players in bold are still active in international level.
Number is a count of nations. As of 2 December 2011 five nations (Belgium, Denmark, Paraguay, Scotland, Vietnam) have a pair of players tied for national leader. These are counted as 1 nation each.

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