IFFHS World's Best International Goal Scorer

The IFFHS World's Best International Goal Scorer is a football award given annually since 1991 to the world's top goalscorer in the calendar year. The award is given by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS).

French striker Jean-Pierre Papin was the first ever winner of the award, in 1991.

Only international goals from 1 January to 31 December in international matches, Olympic tournaments, FIFA Club World Cup, official matches between the topical continental club champions, and the continental club competitions of FIFA, AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC and UEFA, as well as, the continental Super Cup matches of the six confederations are taken into consideration. If the number of goals is equal, the player who scored more goals in international matches is ranked higher.[1][2]

Cristiano Ronaldo holds the record for most wins (5), and most goals in a calendar year (32 in 2017). Dennis Bergkamp won the award with the fewest goals (12 in 1992). Neymar and Gabriel Batistuta are the players with the most runner-up appearances (2). Cristiano Ronaldo and Romário are tied with most third place finishes (2). Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are the only players to have won the award more than once, and the only players to win the award in successive seasons, with the former achieving this twice. Ali Ashfaq scored the most goals without winning (23 goals in 2013). Real Madrid and Barcelona are tied for the clubs with the most wins (5).

Plus, since the institution of the award, the IFFHS has awarded the World's Best Goal Scorer of the Decade twice, considering the years 2001-2010 and 2011-2020.

List of winners

Cristiano Ronaldo is the only player to score 30+ goals in a year.

Humberto Suazo is the only Chilean to win the award.

Brazil striker Ronaldo was the first South American to win the award in 1997.

Thierry Henry won the award in 2003.

Year	Winner	Club(s)	Goals	Second place	Club(s)	Goals	Third place	Club(s)	Goals	Source
1991	Jean-Pierre Papin	Marseille	16	Gabriel Batistuta	Boca Juniors Fiorentina	12	Darko Pančev	Red Star Belgrade	12	[3]
1992	Dennis Bergkamp	Ajax	12	Raí	São Paulo	12	César Obando	Motagua	12	[4]
1993	Saeed Al-Owairan	Al Shabab	18	Kazuyoshi Miura	Tokyo Verdy	16	Luís Roberto Alves	América	14	[5]
1994	Hristo Stoichkov	Barcelona	17	Hwang Sun-hong	Pohang Steelers	16	Romário	Barcelona	15	[6]
1995	Jürgen Klinsmann	Tottenham Hotspur Bayern Munich	17	Mário Jardel	Grêmio	16	Enzo Francescoli	River Plate	14	[7]
1996	Ali Daei	Persepolis Al Sadd	22	Natipong Sritong-In	Thai Farmers Bank	16	Hernán Crespo	River Plate	16	[8]
1997	Ronaldo	Barcelona Inter Milan	22	Karim Bagheri	Persepolis Arminia Bielefeld	20	Romário Kazuyoshi Miura	Flamengo Valencia Tokyo Verdy	19	[9]
1998	Jasem Al-Huwaidi	Al-Kuwait	20	Gabriel Batistuta	Fiorentina	14	Luis Hernández	Necaxa	13	[10]
1999	Raúl	Real Madrid	14	Rivaldo	Barcelona	13	Alex	Palmeiras	13	[11]
2000	Rivaldo	Barcelona	21	Romario	Vasco da Gama	21	Ali Daei	Hertha BSC	20	[12]
2001	Hani Al-Dhabit	Dhofar	22	Kiatisuk Senamuang Raúl	Warriors FC Real Madrid	16	Archie Thompson	Marconi Stallions	16	[13]
2002	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Manchester United	14	Miroslav Klose	Kaiserslautern	13	Jon Dahl Tomasson	Feyenoord Milan	13	[14]
2003	Thierry Henry	Arsenal	15	David Trezeguet	Juventus	15	Raúl	Real Madrid	14	[15]
2004	Ali Daei	Persepolis Saba Battery	17	Carlos Tevez	Boca Juniors	16	Adriano Didier Drogba	Inter Milan Marseille Chelsea	15	[16]
2005	Adriano	Inter Milan	18	Wilmer Velásquez	Olimpia	15	Ronaldinho Emad Moteab	Barcelona Zamalek	14	[17]
2006	Humberto Suazo	Colo-Colo	17	Peter Crouch	Liverpool	16	Mohamed Aboutrika	Al Ahly	14	[18]
2007	Trésor Mputu	TP Mazembe	20	Salvador Cabañas	América	18	Juan Román Riquelme	Boca Juniors	17	[19]
2008	Rico	Al-Muharraq	19	Ahmad Ajab	Qadsia	15	Miroslav Klose	Bayern Munich	15	[20]
2009	Shinji Okazaki	Shimizu S-Pulse	15	Didier Drogba	Chelsea	15	Abdelmalek Ziaya	ES Sétif	15	[21]
2010	Bader Al-Mutawa	Qadsia	15	Samuel Eto'o	Inter Milan	15	David Villa	Barcelona	15	[22]
2011	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	19	Radamel Falcao	Porto Atlético Madrid	17	Hassan Abdel-Fattah Mario Gómez	Al-Kuwait Bayern Munich	15	[23]
2012	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	25	Neymar	Santos	21	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	18	[24]
2013	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	25	Ali Ashfaq	New Radiant	23	Issam Jemâa	Al-Kuwait	20	[25]
2014	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	20	Neymar	Barcelona	19	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	18	[26]
2015	Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich	22	Ahmed Khalil	Shabab Al-Ahli	20	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	19	[27]
2016	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	24	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	21	Edinson Cavani	Paris Saint-Germain	16	[28]
2017	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	32	Kim Yu-song	April 25	16	Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich	15	[29]
2018	Baghdad Bounedjah	Al Sadd	20	Romelu Lukaku	Manchester United	15	Ayoub El Kaabi	RS Berkane	15	[30]
2019	Cristiano Ronaldo	Juventus	21	Ali Mabkhout	Al Jazira	19	Harry Kane	Tottenham Hotspur	19	[31]
2020	Romelu Lukaku	Inter Milan	16	Erling Haaland	Borussia Dortmund	14	Neymar	Paris Saint-Germain	11	[32]

The World's Best Top Goal Scorer of the First Decade (2001–2010)

Miroslav Klose scored the most international goals for his country during the decade, with 58.

The awards were part of the IFFHS World Football Gala 2012 which took place in Barcelona in May 2012.[33]

Rank	Player	Nation	Club(s)	Goals for country	Goals for club	Total goals	Source
1	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Netherlands	Manchester United Real Madrid Hamburger SV	33	53	86	[34]
2	Thierry Henry	France	Arsenal Barcelona	43	42	85
3	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	Marseille Chelsea	45	38	83
4	Miroslav Klose	Germany	Kaiserslautern Werder Bremen Bayern Munich	58	23	81
5	Samuel Eto'o	Cameroon	Mallorca Barcelona Inter Milan	44	35	79
6	Flávio Amado	Angola	Petro Atlético Al Ahly Al Shabab	32	41	73
7	Dimitar Berbatov	Bulgaria	Bayer Leverkusen Tottenham Hotspur Manchester United	46	25	71
8	Raúl	Spain	Real Madrid Schalke 04	26	45	71
9	David Villa	Spain	Zaragoza Valencia Barcelona	44	24	68
10	Andriy Shevchenko	Ukraine	Milan Chelsea Dynamo Kyiv	32	36	68

The World's Best Top Goal Scorer of the Second Decade (2011–2020)

The results have been posted on the IFFHS' official website on January 4, 2021.[35]

The final list includes the 41 players who scored 200 or more goals in top-tier national leagues, national cups, continental and international competitions with both club and national teams in the period of time from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2020.

Rank	Player	Nation	Club(s)	Goals for country	Goals for club(s)	Total goals	Source
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	Real Madrid Juventus	77	473	550	[35]
2	Lionel Messi	Argentina	Barcelona	56	493	549
3	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	Borussia Dortmund Bayern Munich	54	363	417
4	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	AC Milan Paris Saint Germain Manchester United LA Galaxy	37	303	340
5	Luis Suárez	Uruguay	Liverpool Barcelona Atlético Madrid	47	288	335
6	Edinson Cavani	Uruguay	Napoli Paris Saint Germain Manchester United	43	291	334
7	Neymar[36]	Brazil	Santos Barcelona Paris Saint Germain	63	264	327
8	Sergio Agüero	Argentina	Atlético Madrid Manchester City	32	270	302
9	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang[37]	Gabon	Saint-Étienne Borussia Dortmund Arsenal	21	257	278
10	Sebastián Tagliabúe	UAE	Ettifaq Al-Shabab Al-Wahda Al-Nasr	1	264	265
11	Eran Zahavi	Israel	Hapoel Tel Aviv Palermo Maccabi Tel Aviv Guangzhou R&F PSV Eindhoven	24	240	264
12	Karim Benzema	France	Real Madrid	16	243	259
13	Romelu Lukaku[38]	Belgium	Anderlecht West Bromwich Albion Everton Manchester United Inter Milan	55	203	258
14	Omar Al Somah	Syria	Al Futowa Al Qadsia Al Ahli	15	240	255
15	Ali Mabkhout	UAE	Al-Jazira	65	185	250
16	Gonzalo Higuaín	Argentina	Real Madrid Napoli Juventus AC Milan Chelsea Inter Miami	24	218	242
17	Ali Ashfaq	Maldives	VB Sports Club New Radiant PDRM FA Maziya S&RC TC Sports Club Club Green Streets Club Valencia	37	205	242
18	Nemanja Nikolić	Hungary	Videoton Legia Warsaw Chicago Fire Fehérvár	7	235	242
19	Abderrazak Hamdallah	Morocco	Olympic Safi Aalesund Guangzhou R&F El Jaish Al-Rayyan SC Al-Nassr	6	231	237
20	Harry Kane[39]	England	Tottenham Hotspur	32	204	236
21	Burak Yılmaz	Turkey	Trabzonspor Galatasaray Beijing Sinobo Guoan Beşiktaş Lille OSC	24	210	234
22	Mohamed Salah	Egypt	Al Mokawloon Basel Chelsea Fiorentina Roma Liverpool	43	186	229
23	Antoine Griezmann	France	Real Sociedad Atlético Madrid Barcelona	33	196	229
24	Carlos Saucedo[40]	Bolivia	San José Saprissa Oriente Petrolero Blooming Real Potosí Guabirá Royal Pari	7	221	228
25	Edin Džeko	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Manchester City Roma	42	185	227
26	Bafetimbi Gomis	France	Olympique Lyonnais Swansea City Olympique Marseille Galatasaray Al Hilal	1	225	226
27	Baghdad Bounedjah	Algeria	USM El Harrach Étoile du Sahel Al Sadd	17	207	224
28	Radamel Falcao	Colombia	Porto Atlético Madrid Monaco Manchester United Chelsea Galatasaray	29	194	223
29	Youssef El-Arabi	Morocco	Caen Al Hilal Granada Al-Duhail Olympiacos	16	207	223
30	Klæmint Olsen	Faroe Islands	NSÍ Runavík	5	215	220
31	André-Pierre Gignac	France	Olympique Marseille Tigres UANL	3	216	219
32	Olivier Giroud	France	Montpellier Arsenal Chelsea	44	174	218
33	Thomas Müller	Germany	Bayern Munich	33	180	213
34	Dejan Damjanović	Montenegro	FC Seoul Jiangsu Suning Beijing Sinobo Guoan Suwon Samsung Bluewings Daegu FC	6	204	210
35	Jonathan Soriano[41]	Spain	Red Bull Salzburg Beijing Sinobo Guoan Al Hilal	0	207	207
36	Hulk	Brazil	Porto Zenit Saint Petersburg Shanghai SIPG	11	194	205
37	Dries Mertens	Belgium	Utrecht PSV Eindhoven Napoli	21	182	203
38	Esteban Paredes	Chile	Colo-Colo Atlante Querétaro	6	196	202
39	Greg Draper	New Zealand	The New Saints	0	202	202
40	Bas Dost[42]	Netherlands	Heerenveen Wolfsburg Sporting CP Eintracht Frankfurt	1	200	201
41	Joe Gormley[43]	Northern Ireland	Cliftonville	0	200	200

References

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In regards to Neymar's statistics during his spell at Santos (2011-2013), the IFFHS chose to consider the Campeonato Paulista (the top-flight league in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, of which Santos is a municipality) as a national league. As a result, the official stats for Neymar include goals scored in two different Brazilian leagues: the Campeonato Paulista and the Brasileirão.
As the statistics are calculated starting from January 1, 2011, two goals from Aubameyang's loan spell at Monaco (from AC Milan) in the first half of the 2010-11 season are left out of the total amount. The Gabonese striker joined Saint-Étienne in January 2011 on another loan, and eventually signed for the French team on a permanent deal the following December.
Lukaku was registered for Chelsea between 2011 and 2014, but he never scored during his first season with the club and was loaned, respectively, to West Bromwich Albion and Everton (which eventually signed him permanently) during the following couple of years.
14 goals scored during 2011 and 2013 are not counted, as Kane was playing in lower divisions (for Leyton Orient, Milwall and Leicester City): plus, he never scored during his time in Premier League with Norwich City. For this reason, while his first goal in a continental competition traces back to December 15, 2011 (on a 4-0 away win against Shamrock Rovers in the UEFA Europa League group stage), he scored his first goal with a top-tier club, Tottenham, on October 30, 2013 (in the League Cup) and on April 7, 2014 (in Premier League).
Saucedo's spell at Independiente Medellín (Colombia) in 2011 wasn't considered, as the Bolivian striker never scored during that time.
The goals scored by Soriano for Barcelona B throughout 2011 are not counted, as the team was competing in the Spanish second tier. For the same reason, his only goal scored for Girona in the 2019-20 season is left out of the total amount.
On December 24, 2020, Dost joined Club Brugge on a permanent basis, but his first goal for the Belgian team is not counted, as it was scored on January 10, 2021, ten days after the limit date set for the counting (December 31, 2020).
In 2016, Gormley played for Scottish Premiership team St Johnstone (on loan from English League One side Peterborough United), but never scored a goal during that spell.

External links

IFFHS official website

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[8] "IFFHS Awards 1996". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.

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[36] In regards to Neymar's statistics during his spell at Santos (2011-2013), the IFFHS chose to consider the Campeonato Paulista (the top-flight league in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, of which Santos is a municipality) as a national league. As a result, the official stats for Neymar include goals scored in two different Brazilian leagues: the Campeonato Paulista and the Brasileirão.

[37] As the statistics are calculated starting from January 1, 2011, two goals from Aubameyang's loan spell at Monaco (from AC Milan) in the first half of the 2010-11 season are left out of the total amount. The Gabonese striker joined Saint-Étienne in January 2011 on another loan, and eventually signed for the French team on a permanent deal the following December.

[38] Lukaku was registered for Chelsea between 2011 and 2014, but he never scored during his first season with the club and was loaned, respectively, to West Bromwich Albion and Everton (which eventually signed him permanently) during the following couple of years.

[39] 14 goals scored during 2011 and 2013 are not counted, as Kane was playing in lower divisions (for Leyton Orient, Milwall and Leicester City): plus, he never scored during his time in Premier League with Norwich City. For this reason, while his first goal in a continental competition traces back to December 15, 2011 (on a 4-0 away win against Shamrock Rovers in the UEFA Europa League group stage), he scored his first goal with a top-tier club, Tottenham, on October 30, 2013 (in the League Cup) and on April 7, 2014 (in Premier League).

[40] Saucedo's spell at Independiente Medellín (Colombia) in 2011 wasn't considered, as the Bolivian striker never scored during that time.

[41] The goals scored by Soriano for Barcelona B throughout 2011 are not counted, as the team was competing in the Spanish second tier. For the same reason, his only goal scored for Girona in the 2019-20 season is left out of the total amount.

[42] On December 24, 2020, Dost joined Club Brugge on a permanent basis, but his first goal for the Belgian team is not counted, as it was scored on January 10, 2021, ten days after the limit date set for the counting (December 31, 2020).

[43] In 2016, Gormley played for Scottish Premiership team St Johnstone (on loan from English League One side Peterborough United), but never scored a goal during that spell.