CLUB 500+ GOALS - 23 IN THE WORLD !

• May 9, 2021
• IFFHS News

Picture : Robert Lewandowski, already winner of 3 IFFHS Awards in 2015 and 2020, is the twenty third player in the World History to score 500 or more Top Level Goals !

“Club 500+ goals”: now 23 members!

After Robert Lewandowski scored his 500th top-level career goal, the number of footballers who reached this milestone increased to 23. The first to do this was the Hungarian Imre Schlosser in 1927.
The table below shows how the “Club 500+ goals” added new members in chronological order.
There were three cases when 2 players entered the “Club” during one calendar year: Peyroteo and Binder in 1948, Puskas and Jones in 1959. This happened for the third time this year (Suarez and Lewandowski).
Including Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi and Ibrahimovic, who joined it earlier, the number of active players in the “Club” increased to 5. Never before in history the “Club” replenished as intensively as in recent years (5 new members over 6 years since 2015 to 2021).

	"CLUB 500+ GOALS":	CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
	Player	Nationality	Year of scoring 500th	Total Goals
1	Imre Schlosser	Hungary	1927	504
2	Joe Bambrick	Northern Ireland	1934	616
3	Jimmy McGrory	Scotland	1936	550
4	Josef Bican	Austria, Czechoslovakia, BM	1944	704
5	György Sárosi	Hungary	1946	526
6	Fernando Peyroteo	Portugal	1948	552
7	Franz Binder	Austria, Germany	1948	502
8	Ferenc Puskás	Hungary, Spain	1959	729
9	Jimmy Jones	Northern Ireland	1959	647
10	Alfredo Di Stéfano	Argentina, Spain	1963	530
11	Pelé	Brazil	1965	765
12	Uwe Seeler	Germany	1969	551
13	Eusébio	Portugal	1971	622
14	Gerd Müller	Germany	1976	634
15	Roberto Dinamite	Brazil	1992	511
16	Hugo Sánchez	Mexico	1996	507
17	Romário	Brazil	2000	753
18	Glenn Ferguson	Northern Ireland	2008	562
19	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2015	775
20	Lionel Messi	Argentina	2016	741
21	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	2019	552
22	Luis Suarez	Uruguay	2021	500
23	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	2021	502
	BM = Bohemia and Moravia