NATIONAL TEAM TOP GOAL SCORERS 3rd DECADE XXI CENTURY
Top scorer of National teams in 3rd Decade XXI after 2025: Erling Haaland
Erling Haaland leads the ranking for best scorers of national teams in the current decade (2021-2030) after the end of 2025. At the halfway point, he has scored 49 goals for Norway, being ahead of Harry Kane (46 for England) and Lionel Messi (44 for Argentina).
| 3rd DECADE | NATIONAL TEAMS | 2021 | ||||||
| XXI CENTURY | TOP SCORERS | 2025 | ||||||
| Player | Country | Goals | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
| 1 | Erling Haaland | Norway | 49 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 17 |
| 2 | Harry Kane | England | 46 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 9 |
| 3 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | 44 | 9 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 3 |
| 4 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | 41 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 8 |
| 5 | Kylian Mbappé | France | 39 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 7 |
| 6 | Memphis Depay | Netherlands | 34 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| 7 | Mehdi Taremi | Iran | 34 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 4 |
| 8 | Romelu Lukaku | Belgium | 32 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 4 | |
| 9 | Sadio Mané | Senegal | 32 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
| 10 | Almoez Ali | Qatar | 31 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 10 | |
| 11 | Aymen Hussein | Iraq | 30 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 1 |
| 12 | Ali Olwan | Jordan | 29 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 11 |
| 13 | Son Heung-min | South Korea | 28 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 3 |
| 14 | Victor Osimhen | Nigeria | 27 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 9 |
| 15 | Aleksandar Mitrović | Serbia | 27 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| 16 | Frantzdy Pierrot | Haiti | 26 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | |
| 17 | Bruno Fernandes | Portugal | 26 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| 18 | Jonathan David | Canada | 26 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 19 | Yazan Al-Naimat | Jordan | 26 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 3 |
| 20 | Dorny Romero | Dominican Republic | 25 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 2 |
| 21 | Robert Lewandowski | Poland | 25 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| 22 | Lautaro Martínez | Argentina | 25 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 4 |
The ranking provides a breakdown of goals by calendar year.
Period: from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2025.
Tie-breaker: fewer games.