WORLD CUP RECORDS (Part 3) - TOP GOAL SCORERS
Picture : Cristiano Ronaldo scored 43 goals in World Cup games including qualification and final stages.
Top goal-scorer (qualification + finals): Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored most goals in World Cup games (43) including both qualification (36) and final (7) stages.
During the qualification for 2022 edition, he surpassed the previous record holder Carlos Ruiz (Guatemala) who never played in the finals and scored all his 39 goals in the qualifiers.
The players expected to play in Qatar are highlighted in bold.
| BEST GOAL-SCORERS | IN WORLD CUPS | INCLUDING QUALIFICATION | ||||
| Player | Country | Goals | Total | Editions (Q+F) | ||
| Qual | Fin | |||||
| 1 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | 36 | 7 | 43 | 2006(7+1), 2010(0+1), 2014(8+1), 2018(15+4), 2022(6) |
| 2 | Carlos Ruiz | Guatemala | 39 | 0 | 39 | 2002(8+0), 2006(10+0), 2010(6+0), 2014(6+0), 2018(9+0) |
| 3 | Luis Suárez | Uruguay | 29 | 7 | 36 | 2010(5+3), 2014(11+2), 2018(5+2), 2022(8) |
| 4 | Ali Daei | Iran | 36 | 0 | 36 | 1994(7+0), 1998(9+0), 2002(11+0), 2006(9+0) |
| 5 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | 28 | 6 | 34 | 2006(0+1), 2010(4+0), 2014(10+4), 2018(7+1), 2022(7) |
| 6 | Tim Cahill | Australia | 25 | 5 | 30 | 2006(7+2), 2010(4+1), 2014(3+2), 2018(11+0) |
| 7 | Robert Lewandowski | Poland | 30 | 0 | 30 | 2010(2+0), 2014(3+0), 2018(16+0), 2022(9) |
| 8 | Miroslav Klose | Germany | 13 | 16 | 29 | 2002(2+5), 2006(0+5), 2010(7+4), 2014(4+2) |
| 9 | Andriy Shevchenko | Ukraine | 26 | 2 | 28 | 1998(4+0), 2002(10+0), 2006(6+2), 2010(6+0) |
| 10 | Karim Bagheri | Iran | 28 | 0 | 28 | 1994(0+0), 1998(19+0), 2002(8+0), 2006(0+0), 2010(1+0) |
| 11 | Kazuyoshi Miura | Japan | 27 | 0 | 27 | 1994(13+0), 1998(14+0) |
| 12 | Edin Džeko | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 25 | 1 | 26 | 2010(9+0), 2014(10+1), 2018(5+0), 2022(1+0) |
| 13 | Ronaldo | Brazil | 10 | 15 | 25 | 1998(0+4), 2002(0+8), 2006(10+3) |
| 14 | Jared Borgetti | Mexico | 23 | 2 | 25 | 2002(6+2), 2006(14+0), 2010(3+0) |
| 15 | Carlos Pavon | Honduras | 25 | 0 | 25 | 1998(2+0), 2002(15+0), 2006(1+0), 2010(7+0) |