MEMPHIS DEPAY IN THE ALL TIME RANKING !

• Nov 18, 2021
• History Statistics

Picture : Memphis Depay scored 17 goals in 2021 with the National Team !

Memphis Depay enters the all-time ranking of one-year national team goal-scorers! 

Memphis Depay completed the Dutch national team program in 2021 with a staggering 17 goals.
Over this century, only 4 players have managed to score more in a calendar year so far: Ali Mabkhout (19 goals in 2019), Hani Al-Dhabit (18 goals in 2001), Kevin Parsemain (18 goals in 2012) and Mohammad Al-Sahlawi (18 goals in 2015).
In the world ranking of all times (see below), Depay is placed 20th.
The record in this category is very old; it was set more than a century ago. It belongs to Vivian Woodward who scored 25 goals in 10 matches in 1909.
Woodward played simultaneously for two national teams (though belonging to the same country) - England (11 goals in 5 matches) and England Amateurs (14 goals in 5 matches), which existed then on equal terms.
In total, there were 7 cases in history when a player scored 20+ goals in a year (while not once in our century) and 40 cases when 15+ goals.
Four players reached this mark twice: Vivian Woodward, Sándor Kocsis, Kinnah Phiri and Kazuyoshi Miura (with Woodward scoring more than 20 both times), and one player 3 times: Ali Daei.
A bit strange, the record holder on the number of goals for national team, Cristiano Ronaldo, did not manage to reach 15 goals even once.
Regards this ranking, in the case of same number of goals, we place higher a player with fewer appearances. 

	WORLD's	ALL-TIME BEST
	NATIONAL TEAM	ONE-YEAR	GOAL	SCORERS
	Player	Country	Goals	Years	Games
1	Vivian Woodward	England, England Amateurs	25	1909	10
2	Sándor Kocsis	Hungary	23	1954	14
3	Ali Daei	Iran	22	1996	18
4	Vivian Woodward	England, England Amateurs	21	1908	13
5	Bashar Abdullah	Kuwait	21	2000	15
6	Karim Bagheri	Iran	20	1997	15
7	Ali Daei	Iran	20	2000	19
8	Jasem Al-Huwaidi	Kuwait	19	1998	14
	Ali Mabkhout	UAE	19	2019	14
10	Romário	Brazil	19	1997	17
11	Sven Rydell	Sweden	18	1924	9
12	Mohammad Al-Sahlawi	Saudi Arabia	18	2015	10
13	Just Fontaine	France	18	1958	12
14	Borivoje Kostić	Yugoslavia	18	1960	17
	Kevin Parsemain	Martinique	18	2012	17
16	Kinnah Phiri	Malawi	18	1975	19
	Kazuyoshi Miura	Japan	18	1997	19
18	Hani Al-Dhabit	Oman	18	2001	28
19	Godfrey Chitalu	Zambia	17	1978	14
20	Ali Daei	Iran	17	2004	16
	Memphis Depay	Netherlands	17	2021	16
22	Kiatisuk Senamuang	Thailand	17	2001	22
23	Archie Thompson	Australia	16	2001	7
24	Imre Schlosser	Hungary	16	1912	10
25	Sándor Kocsis	Hungary	16	1952	12
26	Natipong Sritong-In	Thailand	16	1996	13
27	Kazuyoshi Miura	Japan	16	1993	15
28	Isa Abu Bakar	Malaysia	16	1976	16
29	Mohamed Mokhtar Dahari	Malaysia	16	1976	17
	Hwang Sun-hong	South Korea	16	1994	17
31	Kinnah Phiri	Malawi	16	1978	19
32	Gunnar Nordahl	Sweden	15	1947	7
33	Kunishige Kamamoto	Japan	15	1972	8
34	Dušan Bajević	Yugoslavia	15	1972	12
35	Neymar	Brazil	15	2014	14
36	Soetjipto "Gareng" Soentoro	Indonesia	15	1968	15
37	Majed Abdullah	Saudi Arabia	15	1984	16
	Shinji Okazaki	Japan	15	2009	16
39	Ronaldo	Brazil	15	1997	20
40	Cha Bum-kun	South Korea	15	1977	26