Players Who Scored 50 International Goals Or More [72 Players]

Scoring 50 international goals is an incredible achievement on its own, but it is thrilling to dig deeper to find out the first player to do so and how many players scored 50 international goals or more.

It may surprise you to find out that some Forwards who are not Strikers, made the list.

Without further ado, let’s get to it.

Football players Who scored 50 international goals In Order Of When It Was Achieved

In total, as of today, there are 72 football players who scored 50 international goals.

The first player to score 50 international goals was Imre Schlosser – the Hungarian legendary Forward.

See below the list of other players who achieved this great feat.

SN	Player Name	Nation	Goals	Date of 50th Goal	Total Caps	Average Goal Per Match	International Career Years
1	Imre Schlosser	Hungary	59	3 June 1917	68	0.87	1906–1927
2	Poul Nielsen	Denmark	52	14 June 1925	38	1.37	1910–1925
3	Ferenc Puskás	Hungary / Spain	84	24 July 1952	89	0.94	1945–1962
4	Sándor Kocsis	Hungary	75	19 September 1954	68	1.1	1948–1956
5	Abdul Ghani Minhat	Malaya / Malaysia	61	15 December 1961	71	0.86	1956–1966
6	Lajos Tichy	Hungary	51	25 April 1964	72	0.71	1955–1971
7	Pelé	Brazil	77	4 July 1965	92	0.84	1957–1971
8	Gerd Müller	West Germany	68	18 June 1972	62	1.1	1966–1974
9	Kunishige Kamamoto	Japan	75	18 July 1972	76	0.99	1964–1977
10	Abdul Kadir	Indonesia	70	8 August 1972	111	0.63	1967–1979
11	Mokhtar Dahari	Malaysia	89	22 August 1976	142	0.63	1972–1985
12	Cha Bum-kun	South Korea	58	5 September 1977	135	0.43	1972–1986
13	Iswadi Idris	Indonesia	55	19 November 1977	97	0.57	1968–1980
14	Kinnah Phiri	Malawi	71	6 July 1978	117	0.61	1973–1981
15	Godfrey Chitalu	Zambia	79	7 November 1978	111	0.71	1968–1980
16	Joachim Streich	East Germany	55	26 July 1983	102	0.54	1969–1984
17	Hussein Saeed	Iraq	78	17 March 1984	137	0.57	1977–1990
18	Majed Abdullah	Saudi Arabia	72	15 April 1984	117	0.62	1977–1994
19	Piyapong Pue-on	Thailand	70	30 January 1989	100	0.7	1981–1997
20	Ahmed Radhi	Iraq	62	18 August 1992	121	0.51	1982–1997
21	Fandi Ahmad	Singapore	55	16 December 1995	101	0.54	1979–1997
22	Adnan Al Talyani	United Arab Emirates	52	19 November 1996	161	0.32	1983–1997
23	Zainal Abidin Hassan	Malaysia	50	31 March 1997	129	0.39	1980–1997
24	Kazuyoshi Miura	Japan	55	7 September 1997	89	0.62	1990–2000
25	Hossam Hassan	Egypt	68	25 February 1998	176	0.39	1985–2006
26	Ali Daei	Iran	109	9 January 2000	148	0.74	1993–2006
27	Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina	56	29 June 2000	78	0.72	1991–2002
28	Jasem Al-Huwaidi	Kuwait	63	30 September 2000	83	0.76	1992–2003
29	Romário	Brazil	55	8 October 2000	70	0.79	1987–2005
30	Kiatisuk Senamuang	Thailand	71	23 January 2001	134	0.53	1993–2007
31	Hwang Sun-hong	South Korea	50	4 June 2002	103	0.49	1988–2002
32	Bashar Abdullah	Kuwait	75	25 December 2002	134	0.56	1996–2007
33	Ronaldo	Brazil	62	19 November 2003	98	0.63	1994–2011
34	Stern John	Trinidad and Tobago	70	13 June 2004	115	0.61	1995–2012
35	Hakan Şükür	Turkey	51	11 October 2006	112	0.46	1992–2007
36	Jan Koller	Czech Republic	55	8 September 2007	91	0.6	1999–2009
37	Jon Dahl Tomasson	Denmark	52	21 November 2007	112	0.46	1997–2010
38	Karim Bagheri	Iran	50	9 January 2009	87	0.57	1993–2010
39	Carlos Pavón	Honduras	57	28 March 2009	101	0.56	1993–2010
40	Thierry Henry	France	51	9 September 2009	123	0.41	1997–2010
41	Miroslav Klose	Germany	71	27 June 2010	137	0.52	2001–2014
42	Robbie Keane	Republic of Ireland	68	4 June 2011	146	0.47	1998–2016
43	Samuel Eto’o	Cameroon	56	3 September 2011	118	0.47	1997–2014
44	David Villa	Spain	59	11 October 2011	98	0.6	2005–2017
45	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	65	13 January 2012	105	0.62	2002–2014
46	Carlos Ruiz	Guatemala	68	15 August 2012	133	0.51	1998–2016
47	Landon Donovan	United States	57	5 July 2013	157	0.36	2000–2014
48	Younis Mahmoud	Iraq	57	5 March 2014	148	0.39	2002–2016
49	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	117	26 June 2014	189	0.62	2003–
50	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	62	4 September 2014	121	0.51	2001–
51	Bader Al-Mutawa	Kuwait	56	3 September 2015	194	0.29	2003–
52	Wayne Rooney	England	53	8 September 2015	120	0.44	2003–2018
53	Robin van Persie	Netherlands	50	13 October 2015	102	0.49	2005–2017
54	Sunil Chhetri	India	82	31 December 2015	127	0.65	2005–
55	Lionel Messi	Argentina	86	29 March 2016	162	0.53	2005–
56	Ali Ashfaq	Maldives	57	29 March 2016	89	0.64	2003–
57	Clint Dempsey	United States	57	7 June 2016	141	0.4	2004–2018
58	Neymar	Brazil	74	11 November 2016	119	0.62	2010–
59	Lê Công Vinh	Vietnam	51	20 November 2016	83	0.61	2004–2016
60	Edin Džeko	Bosnia and Herzegovina	61	28 March 2017	122	0.5	2007–
61	Shinji Okazaki	Japan	50	28 March 2017	119	0.42	2008–
62	Asamoah Gyan	Ghana	51	11 June 2017	109	0.47	2003–
63	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	76	5 October 2017	131	0.58	2008–
64	Tim Cahill	Australia	50	10 October 2017	108	0.46	2004–2018
65	Phil Younghusband	Philippines	52	22 March 2018	108	0.48	2006–2019
66	Luis Suárez	Uruguay	68	23 March 2018	132	0.52	2007–
67	Javier Hernández	Mexico	52	23 June 2018	109	0.48	2009–
68	Ali Mabkhout	United Arab Emirates	80	31 August 2019	107	0.75	2009–
69	Romelu Lukaku	Belgium	68	10 October 2019	102	0.67	2010–
70	Edinson Cavani	Uruguay	56	18 November 2019	132	0.42	2008–
71	Teerasil Dangda	Thailand	53	14 December 2021	114	0.46	2007–
72	Harry Kane	England	50	7 June 2022	71	0.7	2015–

Conclusion

From the table above, it is clear that Imre Schlosser of Hungary is the first player to score 50 international goals for a nation.

The lastest player to join the rank is Harry Kane, who has scored 50 goals in just 71 caps. In fact, Harry Kane is only the second English player to score 50 international goals for the National team after Wayne Rooney.

Hopefully, there will be more players who will score more than 50 international goals in the nearest future.

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