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Players in bold are still active at international level. Players in italics also hold the record for most caps for their nation. Rank is a count of the 211 FIFA nations. Twelve nations (Aruba, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Scotland, Suriname, United States and U.S. Virgin Islands) have a pair of players tied for national l
Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal holds the all-time record with 130 international goals. [ 2] Brazil, Hungary and Iran hold the record of having the most players to have scored 50 or more international goals with four each. England, Iraq, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia and Thailand each have three players who have achieved the feat.
The FIFA 100 is a list compiled by Brazilian professional footballer Pelé featuring his choices of the "greatest living footballers" at the time of its release. The list was unveiled on 4 March 2004 during a gala ceremony at the Natural History Museum in London, England, as part of the celebrations commemorating the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Fédération Internationale de ...
Cristiano Ronaldo is the competition's all-time top scorer with 140 goals. The UEFA Champions League, known until 1992 as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or colloquially as the European Cup, is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1955. Originally a straight knockout competition open only to champion clubs ...
The top goalscorer of the inaugural competition was Argentina 's Guillermo Stábile, with eight goals. Since then, only 25 players have scored more World Cup goals in total than Stábile did during the 1930 tournament. The first to do so was Hungary 's Sándor Kocsis, scoring eleven in 1954. At the following tournament, France's Just Fontaine ...
The top twenty are most likely accurate as no players before the mid-1980s amassed more than twenty or thirty caps. For example, Boris Bandov, the player active before 1980 with the highest number of caps, played 33 times between 1976 and 1983, while Perry Van der Beck played 23 times between 1979 and 1985. With the typical low scores of the ...
Joško Gvardiol, the most expensive defender. Philippe Coutinho, the most expensive midfielder. Neymar, the most expensive forward and the most expensive footballer. Kylian Mbappé, the most expensive teenager and the most expensive player in a domestic transfer. Racheal Kundananji, the most expensive women's footballer.
Cristiano Ronaldo, the men's international appearance record holder and the only men's player to get 200 FIFA recognised caps. Soh Chin Ann, recognised with appearing in 219 matches by RSSSF and IFFHS. Billy Wright, the first player to reach 100 international caps. In association football, a cap is traditionally awarded in international ...