Which Footballer (Has)Scored the Most Career Goals

For Each of the footballers listed try to guess which one has scored the most senior career goals.

For players still active, figures correct as of 20th January, 2023

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Only first team goals are counted

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1. Most Goals?

Pele ✓

Romario ✓

George Best ✓

Diego Maradona ✓

Pele scored a career 732 goals in 792 games, a rate of 0.924 goals per game.

2. Most Goals?

Ruud van Nistelrooy ✓

Robin van Persie ✓

Thierry Henry ✓

Carlos Tevez ✓

Thierry Henry scored 336 goals from 704 games.

3. Four greats at the tail end of their careers. Most Goals?

Lionel Messi ✓

Cristiano Ronaldo ✓

Zlatan Ibrahimovic ✓

Karim Benzema ✓

Ronaldo currently has 616 career goals and counting.

4. Most Goals?

Gabriel Batistuta ✓

Mario Kempes ✓

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge ✓

Jürgen Klinsmann ✓

Mario Kempes scored 322 goals in 597 games, including 2 in a World Cup final.

5. Four of the greatest ever Italian strikers. Most Goals?

Paolo Rossi ✓

Giuseppe Meazza ✓

Gigi Riva ✓

Christian Vieri ✓

Giuseppe Meazza scored the most goals with 303 in 516 games.

6. Four of the greatest defenders of all time, who could also score goals. Most Goals?

Fernando Hierro ✓

Sergio Ramos ✓

Daniel Passarella ✓

Franz Beckenbauer ✓

Daniel Passarella scored 165 goals in 549 games; not a bad return for a centre back.

7. Four of the best midfielders of recent times. Most Goals?

Andres Iniesta ✓

David Beckham ✓

Andrea Pirlo ✓

Wesley Sneijder ✓

Sneijder scored 148 goals in 539 games.

8. Most goals?

Samuel Eto'o ✓

Davor Suker ✓

Alan Shearer ✓

George Weah ✓

Eto'o scored 349 goals in 703 games

9. Four more great strikers at the tail end of their careers. Most Goals?

Luis Suarez ✓

Fabio Quagliarella ✓

Edinson Cavani ✓

Javier Hernandez ✓

Suarez leads the way with 425 goals in 685 games.

10. Four of the greatest Spanish strikers of all time. Most Goals?

Raul ✓

David Villa ✓

Fernando Torres ✓

Telmo Zarra ✓

David Villa scored the most goals, with 392 from 722 games.

11. Four of the best strikers in the Champions League in the late '90's and early 2000's. Most goals?

Fernando Morientes ✓

Mario Jardel ✓

Giovane Élber ✓

Walter Pandiani ✓

Jardel has finished top scorer in a season of both the Copa Libertadores and the UEFA Champions League. He scored 256 goals in 338 games, thats 0.757 goals per game..

12. Most goals?

Wayne Rooney ✓

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar ✓

Ebbe Sand ✓

Henrik Larsson ✓

Henrik Larsson is the all-time leading goalscorer in the Europa League/UEFA Cup. He scored 362 goals in 681 games.

13. Four of the greatest strikers of all time. Most Goals?

Ronaldo ✓

Eusebio ✓

Gerd Muller ✓

Ferenc Puskas ✓

Ferenc Puskas has an incredible record of 705 goals from 708 games. A rate of 0.996 goals per game.

14. Four of the best British strikers of all time. Most Goals?

Michael Owen ✓

Denis Law ✓

Ian Rush ✓

Jimmy Greaves ✓

Jimmy Greaves scored 447 goals in 675 games.

15. Four of the best strikers to come out of North America. Most Goals?

Dwight Yorke ✓

Jared Borgetti ✓

Landon Donovan ✓

Clint Dempsey ✓

Jared Borgetti scored 317 goals in 614 games.

16. Four of the greatest strikers to ever play for Real Madrid. Most Career Goals?

Emilio Butragueño ✓

Hugo Sánchez ✓

Alfredo di Stefano ✓

Ivan Zamorano ✓

Another great striker out of Mexico. Hugo Sanchez scored 426 goals in 739 games.

17. Four great current strikers aged 30-34yrs. Most Goals?

Robert Lewandowski ✓

Ciro Immobile ✓

Mohamed Salah ✓

Wissam Ben Yedder ✓

Robert Lewandowski has scored 475 goals from 671 games.

18. Four great current strikers aged 25-29. Most Goals?

Timo Werner ✓

Harry Kane ✓

Lautaro Martínez ✓

Romelu Lukaku ✓

Romelu Lukaku has 270 goals from 523 games.

19. Four great current strikers aged under 25. Most goals?

Kylian Mbappe ✓

Erling Haaland ✓

Victor Osimhen ✓

Darwin Núñez ✓

Kylian Mbappe, at just 24 years old, already has 184 career goals from just 266 games.

20. Most Goals?

Kevin Keegan ✓

Roberto Baggio ✓

Gonzalo Higuaín ✓

Zico ✓

Gonzalo Higuain scored 310 goals in 605 games.

21. Four of the greatest wingers of all time. Most Goals?

Ryan Giggs ✓

Pierre Littbarski ✓

Garrincha ✓

Grzegorz Lato ✓

Grzegorz Lato was top goalscorer at the 1974 FIFA World Cup. He scored 190 career goals in 504 matches.

22. Four of the best strikers to come out of Oceania. Most Goals?

Wynton Rufer ✓

Mark Viduka ✓

Tim Cahill ✓

John Aloisi ✓

Mark Viduka scored 262 goals in 534 games.

23. Four of the best strikers to come out of Eastern Europe. Most Goals?

Gheorghe Hagi ✓

Oleg Salenko ✓

Andriy Shevchenko ✓

Hristo Stoichkov ✓

Shevchenko scored 283 goals in 608 games.

24. All of these players won the Golden Boot at the FIFA World Cup. Most Career Goals?

Just Fontaine ✓

Sándor Kocsis ✓

Miroslav Klose ✓

Gary Lineker ✓

Sándor Kocsis won the Golden Boot at the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He scored 75 goals for Hungary in just 68 games. Career wise, he scored 371 times in just 403 games, that's 0.921 goals per game.

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