IFFHS STATISTICS - LONGEST INTERNATIONAL SCORING SERIES
Picture : Erling Haaland entered in the XXI century Ranking !
Haaland makes one of longest international scoring series in XXI century
Earlier this month, Erling Haaland has finished his 7-game goal-scoring series for Norway. It lasted from 1 September 2021 to 5 June 2022 and was broken on 9 June when he failed to score in the Nations League match vs Slovenia (0-0).
Thus, Haaland became 9th player in XXI century worldwide with such a long streak for national team. Jan Koller, Mohammad Al-Sahlawi, Robert Lewandowski, Cristiano Ronaldo and Riyad Mahrez also scored in 7 consecutive international games, while Edin Džeko, Mohamed Salah and Aleksandar Mitrović did it in 8 games in a row.
8 games is so far the maximum for this goal-scoring category in the current century. Overall in the history, the world record is 11 games. It belongs to Abdul Ghani Minhat who made his series for Malaysia in 1961-62.
Below all cases are listed when a player scored in 7+ consecutive games for national team.
Some exceptional cases:
*György Sárosi and Jan Koller had 2 such streaks.
*Vivian Woodward made his 8-game streak in 1909 playing for England and England Amateurs combined (3 and 5 games resp.).
*Noud van Melis and Leônidas produced their streaks (8 and 10 games resp.) since the very start of their international careers.
*Dai Astley finished his international career with 9-game series.
*George Camsell scored in every one of his 9 games for England.
| Player | National team | Games | From | To |
| Abdul Ghani Minhat | Malaysia | 11 | 28/05/1961 | 28/08/1962 |
| Steve Bloomer | England | 10 | 09.03.1895 | 20.03.1899 |
| Poul "Tist" Nielsen | Denmark | 10 | 02/07/1912 | 04/06/1916 |
| Franz Weselik | Austria | 10 | 06/05/1928 | 12/02/1933 |
| Leônidas | Brazil | 10 | 04/12/1932 | 18/02/1940 |
| Milan Galic | Yugoslavia | 10 | 11/05/1960 | 10/09/1960 |
| Ole Madsen | Denmark | 10 | 15/10/1961 | 12/12/1962 |
| Jan Koller | Czech Republic | 10 | 05/06/1999 | 26/04/2000 |
| Wouter Buitenweg | Netherlands | 9 | 05/04/1914 | 13/06/1926 |
| Ştefan Dobay | Romania | 9 | 04/06/1933 | 27/12/1934 |
| George Camsell | England | 9 | 09/05/1929 | 09/05/1936 |
| Dai Astley | Wales | 9 | 12/07/1932 | 21/05/1939 |
| Gunnar Nordahl | Sweden | 9 | 07/07/1946 | 19/11/1947 |
| Ferenc Puskás | Hungary | 9 | 10/07/1949 | 29/10/1950 |
| Klaus Fischer | Germany | 9 | 17/10/1979 | 23/09/1981 |
| Vivian Woodward | England, England Am. | 8 | 17/04/1909 | 11/12/1909 |
| Jørgen Juve | Norway | 8 | 12/06/1929 | 06/07/1930 |
| György Sárosi | Hungary | 8 | 19/09/1937 | 07/12/1938 |
| James Santiago "Pié Pá" Anderson | Panama | 8 | 15/05/1941 | 17/12/1946 |
| Noud van Melis | Netherlands | 8 | 15/10/1950 | 06/04/1952 |
| Elijah Lidonde | Kenya | 8 | 25/09/1951 | 09/10/1954 |
| Just Fontaine | France | 8 | 08/06/1958 | 05/10/1958 |
| Juan Ulloa | Costa Rica | 8 | 11/09/1960 | 19/03/1961 |
| Shaharuddin Abdullah | Malaysia | 8 | 25/08/1968 | 08/12/1969 |
| Jairzinho | Brazil | 8 | 03/06/1970 | 04/10/1970 |
| Mohamed Mokhtar Dahari | Malaysia | 8 | 04/08/1975 | 15/02/1976 |
| Zainal Abidin Hassan | Malaysia | 8 | 12/08/1984 | 14/10/1984 |
| Hristo Stoichkov | Bulgaria | 8 | 11/10/1995 | 08/06/1997 |
| Karim Bagheri | Iran | 8 | 09/06/1997 | 17/10/1997 |
| Stern John | Trinidad and Tobago | 8 | 22/07/1998 | 03/06/1999 |
| Raúl Díaz Arce | El Salvador | 8 | 08/10/1999 | 07/05/2000 |
| Patrick Mboma | Cameroon | 8 | 10/02/2000 | 25/02/2001 |
| Edin Džeko | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 8 | 10/09/2008 | 12/08/2009 |
| Mohamed Salah | Egypt | 8 | 05/09/2017 | 16/11/2018 |
| Aleksandar Mitrović | Serbia | 8 | 10/06/2019 | 03/09/2020 |
| Eugène Maës | France | 7 | 09/04/1911 | 12/01/1913 |
| Mihály Pataki | Hungary | 7 | 03/11/1912 | 26/10/1913 |
| Ferdinand Svatoš | Austria | 7 | 06/05/1923 | 05/07/1925 |
| Einar Gundersen | Norway | 7 | 06/06/1926 | 03/06/1928 |
| Héctor Scarone | Uruguay | 7 | 28/08/1927 | 13/06/1928 |
| Aleksandar Živković | Serbia | 7 | 02/08/1931 | 07/06/1933 |
| György Sárosi | Hungary | 7 | 25/03/1934 | 09/12/1934 |
| Kick Smit | Netherlands | 7 | 11/03/1934 | 17/02/1935 |
| Franz Binder | Austria, Germany | 7 | 19/01/1936 | 29/01/1939 |
| Jef Mermans | Belgium | 7 | 16/04/1950 | 15/04/1951 |
| Antonio Angelillo | Argentina | 7 | 19/08/1956 | 03/04/1957 |
| Edward Acquah | Ghana | 7 | 06/12/1959 | 09/10/1960 |
| Gerd Müller | Germany | 7 | 13/10/1968 | 21/09/1969 |
| Michel Platini | France | 7 | 12/06/1984 | 21/11/1984 |
| Kalusha Bwalya | Zambia | 7 | 05/04/1987 | 21/09/1988 |
| Romário | Brazil | 7 | 19/09/1993 | 28/06/1994 |
| Jan Koller | Czech Republic | 7 | 09/10/2004 | 17/08/2005 |
| Mohammad Al-Sahlawi | Saudi Arabia | 7 | 14/01/2015 | 08/10/2015 |
| Robert Lewandowski | Poland | 7 | 30/06/2016 | 10/06/2017 |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | 7 | 07/09/2019 | 08/09/2020 |
| Riyad Mahrez | Algeria | 7 | 13/10/2020 | 02/09/2021 |
| Erling Haaland | Norway | 7 | 01/09/2021 | 05/06/2022 |