Highest goal scorer in the World – All time highest goal scorer

In top-level football competitions, 23 players have scored 500 or more goals over the course of their career in both club and international football, according to research by the IFFHS, first published in 2007.

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Cristiano Ronaldo is widely considered the top goalscorer of all time. FIFA, the international governing body of football, has never released a list detailing the highest goalscorers and does not keep official records.

In 2020 it recognized Bican, an Austrian-Czech dual international who played between the 1930s and the 1950s, as the record scorer with an estimated 805 goals, although CNN, the BBC, France 24, and O Jogo all acknowledge that Bican’s tally includes goals scored for reserve teams and in unofficial international matches.

UEFA, the governing body for European football, ranks him as the leading all-time goalscorer in European top-flight leagues with 518 goals, narrowly ahead of Hungarian Ferenc Puskás.

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Highest goal scorer in the World – All time highest goal scorer

#	Player	Goals	Games	Average	Seasons
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	818	1140	0.72	2002-act
2	Josef Bican	805	530	1.51	1931-55
3	Lionel Messi	786	995	0.78	2004-Act
4	Romário	772	961	0.78	1985-2009
5	Pelé	767	831	0.92	1956-77
6	Ferenc Puskás	741	746	0.99	1943-66
7	Gerd Müller	735	793	0.93	1962-83
8	Jimmy Jones	647	614	1.05	1946-65
9	Robert Lewandowski	582	797	0.73	2006-Act
10	Zlatan Ibrahimović	572	982	0.60	1999- Act
11	Eusébio	547	596	0.91	1957-79
12	Jimmy McGrory	528	415	1.01	1922-37
13	Isidro Lángara	525	414	1.2	1930-48
14	Zico	522	773	0.68	1971-94
15	Luis Suárez	528	880	0.61	2005-Act
16	Hugo Sánchez	516	883	0.58	1976-97
17	Alfredo Di Stéfano	509	706	0.72	1945-66
18	Ferenc Bene	508	493	1.16	1961-85
19	Roberto Dinamite	507	838	0.60	1971-1992
20	Jef Mermans	500	629	0.79	1937-60
21	Gunnar Nordahl	498	548	0.91	1937-58
22	Uwe Seeler	489	592	0.83	1954-78
23	Stjepan Bobek	480	554	0.87	1944-59
24	Imre Schlosser	475	388	1.23	1905-22
25	Henrik Larsson	471	874	0.54	1988-2010
26	Jimmy Greaves	466	660	0.71	1957-79
27	Alberto Spencer	451	662	0.68	1953-1972
28	Gyula Zsengellér	448	433	1.03	1933-52
29	Rivaldo	446	1033	0,43	1989-2015
30	Dixie Dean	442	601	0.74	1923-40