Sport | Association football |
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Awarded for | Best goal scorer of the calendar year |
Presented by | International Federation of Football History & Statistics |
History | |
First award | 2011 (retroactive) |
Editions | 13 |
First winner | Cristiano Ronaldo |
Most wins | Cristiano Ronaldo (5 awards) |
Most recent | Cristiano Ronaldo (5th award) |
Website | www |
The IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer is a football award given annually since 2020, [1] and retroactively for the years 2011 to 2019, [2] to the world's top goalscorer in the calendar year. The award is given by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS).
All international goals and all competitive goals for clubs playing in their country's top level division scored from 1 January to 31 December are taken into consideration.
Cristiano Ronaldo holds the record for most wins (5) while Lionel Messi holds the record for most goals in a calendar year (91 in 2012). Robert Lewandowski won the award with the fewest goals (47 in 2020).
Ronaldo (5), Messi (2) and Lewandowski (2) are the only players who have won the award more than once.
Ronaldo (Real Madrid & Al Nassr) is the only player to win the award with multiple clubs. Meanwhile, Al Nassr is the only club with multiple winners (Abderrazak Hamdallah in 2019 & Ronaldo in 2023).
In 2021, the IFFHS awarded the World's Best Goal Scorer of the first and second decade of the 21st century, considering the years 2001 to 2010 and 2011 to 2020. [3] [4]
Player | Wins | Years |
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Cristiano Ronaldo | 5 | 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2023 |
Lionel Messi | 2 | 2012, 2016 |
Robert Lewandowski | 2020, 2021 | |
Harry Kane | 1 | 2017 |
Baghdad Bounedjah | 2018 | |
Abderrazak Hamdallah | 2019 | |
Kylian Mbappé | 2022 |
Rank | Player | Year | Goals |
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1 | Lionel Messi | 2012 | 91 |
2 | Cristiano Ronaldo | 2013 | 69 |
Robert Lewandowski | 2021 | ||
4 | Cristiano Ronaldo | 2012 | 63 |
5 | Cristiano Ronaldo | 2014 | 61 |
6 | Cristiano Ronaldo | 2011 | 60 |
Club | Total | Players |
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Real Madrid | 4 | 1 |
Al Nassr | 2 | 2 |
Barcelona | 2 | 1 |
Bayern Munich | 2 | 1 |
Al Sadd | 1 | 1 |
Paris Saint-Germain | 1 | 1 |
Tottenham Hotspur | 1 | 1 |
Nationality | Total | Players |
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Portugal | 5 | 1 |
Argentina | 2 | 1 |
Poland | 2 | 1 |
Algeria | 1 | 1 |
England | 1 | 1 |
France | 1 | 1 |
Morocco | 1 | 1 |
The final list includes the 32 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 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2010.
Rank | Player | Nation | Club(s) | Goals for country | Goals for club(s) | Total goals |
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1 | Aleksandar Đurić | Singapore | Geylang United Singapore Armed Forces Tampines Rovers | 16 | 311 | 327 |
2 | Washington | Brazil | Ponte Preta Fenerbahçe Athletico Paranaense Tokyo Verdy Urawa Red Diamonds Fluminense São Paulo | 2 | 281 | 283 |
3 | Thierry Henry | France | Arsenal Barcelona New York Red Bulls | 43 | 238 | 281 |
4 | Ruud van Nistelrooy | Netherlands | PSV Eindhoven Manchester United Real Madrid Hamburger SV | 33 | 242 | 275 |
5 | Samuel Eto'o | Cameroon | Mallorca Barcelona Inter Milan | 44 | 227 | 271 |
6 | Marc Lloyd Williams | Wales | Bangor City Southport Aberystwyth Town Total Network Solution Rhyl Newtown Porthmadog Airbus UK Broughton | 0 | 271 | 271 |
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 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2020.
The results were posted on the IFFHS' official website on 4 January 2021. [3]
Rank | Player | League | Cup | Continental | Country & other | Total | Years |
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1 | Cristiano Ronaldo | 532 | 52 | 161 | 128 | 873 | 2002–present |
2 | Lionel Messi* | 497 | 71 | 147 | 106 | 821 | 2004–present |
3 | Pelé * | 606 | 49 | 27 | 83 | 765 | 1957–1977 |
4 | Romário | 544 | 91 | 54 | 64 | 753 | 1985–2007 |
5 | Ferenc Puskás | 514 | 76 | 55 | 84 | 729 | 1943–1966 |
6 | Josef Bican * | 518 | 129 | 41 | 32 | 720 | 1931–1955 |
7 | Jimmy Jones * | 332 | 301 | 2 | 12 | 647 | 1947–1964 |
8 | Robert Lewandowski | 403 | 54 | 99 | 83 | 639 | 2008–present |
9 | Gerd Müller * | 405 | 92 | 69 | 68 | 634 | 1964–1981 |
10 | Eusébio | 425 | 97 | 59 | 41 | 622 | 1958–1981 |
11 | Joe Bambrick | 348 | 247 | 0 | 21 | 616 | 1926–1943 |
12 | Zlatan Ibrahimović | 406 | 48 | 57 | 62 | 573 | 1999–2023 |
13 | Glenn Ferguson | 311 | 245 | 6 | 0 | 562 | 1987–2011 |
14 | Luis Suárez | 360 | 46 | 47 | 68 | 557 | 2005–present |
15 | Fernando Peyroteo * | 463 | 72 | 3 | 14 | 552 | 1937–1949 |
16 | Uwe Seeler * | 446 | 41 | 21 | 43 | 551 | 1954–1978 |
17 | Jimmy McGrory * | 408 | 130 | 0 | 12 | 550 | 1922–1937 |
18 | Alfredo Di Stéfano | 376 | 55 | 70 | 29 | 530 | 1945–1966 |
19 | György Sárosi | 351 | 31 | 102 | 42 | 526 | 1930–1948 |
20 | Roberto Dinamite | 476 | 8 | 5 | 22 | 511 | 1971–1992 |
21 | Hugo Sánchez | 390 | 49 | 38 | 30 | 507 | 1976–1997 |
22 | Imre Schlosser | 417 | 18 | 10 | 59 | 504 | 1905–1928 |
23 | Franz Binder | 296 | 93 | 87 | 26 | 502 | 1930–1949 |
Sport | Association football |
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Awarded for | Best goal scorer of the calendar year |
Presented by | International Federation of Football History & Statistics |
History | |
First award | 2021 |
Editions | 3 |
First winner | Jennifer Hermoso |
Most wins | Jennifer Hermoso Fenna Kalma Temwa Chawinga (1 award each) |
Most recent | Temwa Chawinga (1st award) |
Website | www |
Year | Rank | Player | Club(s) | Goals |
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2021 | 1st | Jennifer Hermoso [11] | Barcelona | 48 |
2nd | Lea Schüller | Bayern Munich | 47 | |
3rd | Alexia Putellas | Barcelona | 43 | |
2022 | 1st | Fenna Kalma [12] | Twente | 45 |
2nd | Sam Kerr | Chelsea | 38 | |
3rd | Tessa Wullaert | Anderlecht Fortuna Sittard | 38 | |
2023 | 1st | Temwa Chawinga [13] | Wuhan Jiangda | 63 |
2nd | Charlyn Corral | Pachuca | 39 | |
3rd | Kiana Palacios | América | 38 |
Player | Wins | Years |
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Jennifer Hermoso | 1 | 2021 |
Fenna Kalma | 1 | 2022 |
Temwa Chawinga | 1 | 2023 |
Rank | Player | Year | Goals |
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1 | Temwa Chawinga | 2023 | 63 |
2 | Jennifer Hermoso | 2021 | 48 |
3 | Lea Schüller | 2021 | 47 |
4 | Fenna Kalma | 2022 | 45 |
5 | Alexia Putellas | 2021 | 43 |
6 | Charlyn Corral | 2023 | 39 |
7 | Sam Kerr | 2022 | 38 |
Tessa Wullaert | 2022 |
Club | Total | Players |
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Barcelona | 1 | 1 |
Twente | 1 | 1 |
Wuhan Jiangda | 1 | 1 |
Nationality | Total | Players |
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Malawi | 1 | 1 |
Netherlands | 1 | 1 |
Spain | 1 | 1 |
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