ALL TIME GOAL SCORERS RANKING

• Sep 21, 2024
• History Statistics

All-time goal-scorers’ ranking: CR7 leads with 902 

As Cristiano Ronaldo has recently become the first ever player to reach 900 top level goals (now being already at 902), it’s time to update the ranking for world’s best goal-scorers of all time, with inclusion of all players who amassed 500+ top-level goals throughout their careers.
Four of them are active (taken bold).
Helmchen, Quill and Date are included in the list but not classified as they scored vast majority of goals in regional competitions of quite modest quality.

	ALL-TIME	BEST	GOAL	SCORERS
	Player	Goals	Nationality	Career	NL	OL	NC	OC	IP	MI	OI	NT	OS
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	902	Portugal	2002-	550		44	12		158	6	132
2	Lionel Messi	840	Argentina	2004-	511		56	15		139	10	109
	Alf Quill	778	Australia	1927-1949		595	94	52	35			2
	Erwin Helmchen	769	Germany	1923-1951	23	690	16		40
3	Pelé	762	Brazil	1957-1977	138	466		49	6	26		77
4	Romário	756	Brazil	1985-2007	293	252	51	42	2	54		55	7
5	Ferenc Puskás	725	Hungary, Spain	1943-1966	516		69			38	18	84
6	Josef Bican	722	Austria, BM, CS	1931-1955	515		75	62		15	23	32
7	Jimmy Jones	639	Northern Ireland	1947-1964	327	3	40	246		2	12	1	8
8	Robert Lewandowski	635	Poland	2008-	390		45	12		104		84
9	Gerd Müller	634	Germany	1964-1981	405		78	14		69		68
10	Joe Bambrick	626	Northern Ireland	1926-1943	347		40	213			5	12	9
11	Abe Lenstra	624	Netherlands	1936-1963	289	284	18					33
	Reg Date	604	Australia	1938-1954		446	77	52	21			8
12	Luis Suárez	579	Uruguay	2005-	398	7	40	8		55	2	69
13	Eusébio	578	Portugal	1960-1978	349	32	97			59		41
14	Glenn Ferguson	563	Northern Ireland	1987-2011	313		56	185		6	3
15	Zlatan Ibrahimović	561	Sweden	1999-2023	394		33	15		57		62
16	Imre Schlosser	553	Hungary	1906-1928	363	50	13	55			13	59
17	Fernando Peyroteo	553	Portugal	1937-1949	332	132	70	2			3	14
18	Uwe Seeler	552	Germany	1954-1978	180	267	24	17		21		43
19	Jimmy McGrory	550	Scotland	1923-1937	407		77	54				6	6
20	Alfredo Di Stéfano	537	Argentina, Spain	1945-1966	378		54			50	26	29
21	György Sárosi	530	Hungary	1931–1948	350		21	14		50	53	42
22	Roberto Dinamite	513	Brazil	1971-1992	192	284	1	9	2	5		20
23	Hugo Sánchez	507	Mexico	1976-1997	390		33	16		36	2	29	1
24	Franz Binder	503	Austria, Germany	1930-1949	297		93			10	77	26
25	Zico	501	Brazil	1971-1994	171	239	14	13		16		48

Abbreviatures:
NL = National Leagues (top divisions), 
OL = other relevant domestic leagues (top-tier regional, war-time, parallel etc.),
NC = (major) National Cup,
OC = other relevant domestic club tournaments, including League Cup, SuperCup, Torneio Rio-São Paulo etc.,
IP = Inter-Provincial competitions, 
MI = major international club competitions, including FIFA and confederations’ tournaments, Mitropa Cup until 1940, InterContinental Cup, Club World Cup,
OI = other relevant international club competitions, 
NT = National Team (only “full internationals”),
OS = other relevant selections (final tournaments of Olympic Games until 1988, Inter-League games).