List of world association football records

This article features a list of men's professional FIFA records in association football, in any football league, cup, or other competition around the world, including professionals, semi-professionals, amateurs, and women's football. Friendly matches are generally not eligible for the records, unless some exceptions. These records are divided based on whether they relate to players, coaches, or clubs.

Players

Players in bold are still active.

As of 15 September 2024

Goals and goalscoring records

Record	Player	Nationality	Year(s)	Details	Ref
Most official goals	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2002–	901 goals in 1238 games.	[1] [note 1]
Most overall goals	Lajos Tichy (men)	Hungary	1953–1971	1917 goals in 1307 games based on stats by RSSSF. [note 2]	[2]
	Silvi Jan (women)	Israel	1995–2012	1010 goals goals in her career.	[3]
Most club goals	Josef Bican	Austria Czechoslovakia	1931–1957	Bican scored 780 goals in 492 games with ten different clubs.	[4] [note 3]
Most international goals	Cristiano Ronaldo (men)	Portugal	2004–	132 goals international goals in 214 games.	[5]
	Christine Sinclair (women)	Canada	2000–2023	190 goals international goals in 331 games.	[6]
Most goals scored in a football season	Ernst Wilimowski	Poland	1940–41	Ernst Wilimowski scored 107 official goals in 45 games in the 1940–41 season for PSV Chemnitz and Germany.	[7]
Most club goals scored in a football season	Lionel Messi	Argentina	2011–12	Messi scored 73 goals in 60 games with Barcelona during the 2011–12 season.	[8] [9] [note 4] [note 5]
Most domestic league goals scored in a football season	Jaap Bulder	Netherlands	1919–1920	Bulder scored 67 goals in 20 games in the 1919–20 Netherlands Football League Championship for Be Quick.	[note 6]
	Archie Stark	Scotland	1924–1925	Stark scored 67 goals in 44 games in the 1924–25 American Soccer League for Bethlehem Steel.	[14]
Most international goals in a calendar year	Sándor Kocsis	Hungary	1954	Kocsis scored 23 goals in 14 games in 1954 for Hungary.	[15]
Most goals scored for a single club	Lionel Messi	Argentina	2004–2021	Messi scored 672 goals in 778 games for Barcelona during 17 seasons.	[16] [17] [note 7]
Most goals scored in a single league	Lionel Messi	Argentina	2004–2021	Messi scored 474 goals in 520 games for Barcelona in La Liga.
Most goals scored in an international match	Archie Thompson	Australia	2001	On 11 April 2001, Thompson scored 13 goals in the Australia 31–0 American Samoa match during the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification.	[18] [19]
Most goals scored in a top-tier league match	Passang Tshering (men)	Bhutan	2007	Scored 17 goals in the match RIHS 0–20 Transport United in 2007 Bhutan A-Division.	[20]
	Shokhan Salihi (women)	Iraq	2022	Scored 15 goals in the match Al-Hilal 18–0 Sama in 2022–23 Saudi Women's Premier League.	[21]
Most goals scored in any division-tier league match	Yanick Manzizila	Democratic Republic of the Congo   Sweden	2014	Scored 21 goals in the match Kongo United 30–0 Balrog Botkyrka in the Swedish seventh division, on 11 August 2014.	[22] [23] [24]
Most goals scored in a domestic cup match	Stefan Dembicki	France	1942	In the preliminary round of the 1942–43 French Cup, Dembicki scored 16 goals in the Lens - Auby Asturies match (32–0).	[25]
Youngest international goalscorer	Aung Kyaw Tun (men)	Myanmar	2000	On 6 November 2000, Aung Kyaw Tun scored for Myanmar in the 2000 AFF Championship match against Thailand (3–1 defeat) at 14 years and 93 days.	[26]
	Alina Litvinenko (women)	Kyrgyzstan	2009	On 27 April 2009, Alina Litvinenko scored a hat-trick in a 4–1 win against Palestine for Kyrgyzstan in the 2010 Asian Cup's qualification at 13 years and 131 days.	[27]
Oldest international goalscorer	Billy Meredith	Wales	1919	On 11 October 1919, Billy Meredith scored for Wales in the 1919–20 British Home Championship match against England (6–1 win) at 45 years and 73 days. [note 8]	[28]
Oldest goalscorer in a professional match	Kazuyoshi Miura	Japan	2017	On 12 March 2017, Kazuyoshi Miura scored for Yokohama in a J2 League match against Thespa Gunma (1–0 win) at 50 years and 14 days.	[29]
Most goals scored in different seasons	Kazuyoshi Miura	Japan	1986–2022	Miura scored in 32 different seasons in his career.	[note 9]
Most penalty kick goals (excluding shoot-outs)	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2004–	Cristiano scored 164 penalty goals.	[30]
Most penalty kicks with a 100% success rate	Ledio Pano	Albania	1986–2002	Ledio Pano had a 100% success rate in over 50 penalties during his career in Albania and Greece.	[31]
Most free kick goals	Juninho	Brazil	1993–2013	Juninho scored 77 free kick goals.	[32] [note 10]
Most direct corner-kick goals	Şükrü Gülesin	Turkey	1940–1955	32 goals.	[35] [36]
Most match-winning goals in club football	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2002–	Cristiano scored 212 match-winning goals.	[37]
Most right foot goals	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2002–	Cristiano scored 575 goals by right foot.
Most left foot goals	Lionel Messi	Argentina	2004–	Messi scored 703 goals by left foot.	[38]
Most headed goals	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2002–	Cristiano scored 151 headed goals.	[39]
Most bicycle kick goals	Hugo Sánchez	Mexico	1976–1997	Sánchez scored 35 bicycle kick goals.	[40]
Most hat-tricks	Josef Bican	Austria Czechoslovakia	1931–1957	Bican scored 216 hat-tricks.	[41] [note 11]
Most goals scored by a defender	Ronald Koeman	Netherlands	1980–1997	Koeman scored 252 goals in 763 games during 17 seasons, having also the record for more free kick goals scored by a defender with 60.	[42]
Most goals scored by a goalkeeper	Rogério Ceni	Brazil	1990–2015	Ceni scored 129 goals in his career.

Appearances records

Record	Player	Nationality	Year(s)	Details	Ref
Most matches of all time	Peter Shilton	England	1966–1997	1,397 games over 31 seasons.	[43]
Most club matches of all time	Fábio	Brazil	1997–	1,323 games over 27 seasons.	[44]
Most international caps	Soh Chin Ann (men)	Malaysia	1969–1984	219 caps.	[45]
	Kristine Lilly (women)	United States	1987–2010	354 caps.	[46]
Most international caps for an amateur national team	Billy Neil	Scotland	1957–1969	45 caps for the Scotland national amateur football team.
Most matches for one club	Rogério Ceni	Brazil	1992–2015	1,197 games with São Paulo.	[47] [48]
Youngest footballer to ever play at senior level	Eric Godpower Marshall	Liberia	2021	On 7 April 2021, Marshall debuted for Gar'ou in their win over Haifa 4–1 in Liberia's fourth division at 10 years and 11 months.	[49] [50] [51] [52]
Youngest footballer to play in first division	Mauricio Baldivieso	Bolivia	2009	On 19 July 2009, Baldivieso aged 12, debuted as a substitute in the Bolivian first division for Aurora in their away match against La Paz. Aurora lost 1–0.	[53]
Youngest footballer to play in a international match	Lucas Knecht (men)	Northern Mariana Islands	2007	On 1 April 2007, Lucas Knecht aged 14 years and 2 days, debuted with the Northern Mariana Islands national team in a 9–0 defeat against Guam.	[54] [55] [note 12]
	Alyssa Chin (women)	Cayman Islands	2007	On 24 October 2007, Alyssa Chin aged 13 years and 17 days, debuted with the Cayman Islands national team in a 0–4 defeat against Puerto Rico.	[28]
Oldest footballer to play in a international match	George Weah	Liberia	2018	On 11 September 2018, George Weah played in a friendly match with Liberia against Nigeria, aged 51 years and 345 days.	[57] [58]
Professional footballer to play in five different decades	Kazuyoshi Miura	Japan	1986–	Kazuyoshi Miura has played professionally in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s.	[59]
Oldest professional football player	Kazuyoshi Miura	Japan	1986–	Striker Miura continues playing football for Oliveirense (Portuguese second tier), having surpassed the age of 57.	[60] [61] [note 13]
	Mykola Lykhovydov	Ukraine	2011–	Lykhovydov continues playing football for FC Real Pharma Odesa (Ukrainian third tier), having surpassed the age of 57.	[65]
Footballer to play more years uninterruptedly	Robert Carmona	Uruguay	1976–	Robert Carmona has been playing football for 48 years uninterruptedly.	[66] [67]

Other records

Record	Player	Nationality	Year(s)	Details	Ref
Most decorated player	Lee Casciaro	Gibraltar	2000–	59 titles won, highlighting 21 Gibraltar Leagues	[68] [note 14]
Player to win most international club titles	Toni Kroos	Germany	2013–2024	16 titles: Kroos won the UEFA Champions League (2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2024); the UEFA Super Cup (2013, 2014, 2017, 2022) and the FIFA Club World Cup (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022)
	Luka Modrić	Croatia	2014–	16 titles: Modrić won the UEFA Champions League (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2024); the UEFA Super Cup (2014, 2016, 2017, 2022, 2024) and the FIFA Club World Cup (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022)
	Dani Carvajal	Spain	2014–	16 titles: Carvajal won the UEFA Champions League (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2024); the UEFA Super Cup (2014, 2016, 2017, 2022, 2024) and the FIFA Club World Cup (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022)
Player to win most titles with his national team	Ángel Romano	Uruguay	1916–1926	7 titles with Uruguay	[70]
	Héctor Scarone	Uruguay	1917–1930	7 titles with Uruguay
	José Nasazzi	Uruguay	1923–1935	7 titles with Uruguay	[71]
Most matches won	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2002–	816 matches wins in his career	[72] [73] [74]
Most club matches won	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2002–	685 club matches wins in his career	[75]
Most international matches won	Sergio Ramos	Spain	2005–2021	131 international matches won in his career with Spain	[76]
Most unbeaten matches	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2002–	1050 unbeaten matches in his career	[77]
Most matches scoring	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2002–	596 matches scoring in his career
Goalkeeper with most clean sheets	Ray Clemence	England	1965–1988	537 matches without a goal	[78] [ better source needed ]
Goalkeeper with most clean sheets with national team	Iker Casillas	Spain	2000–2016	102 matches without a goal out of 167	[79]
Goalkeeper with most consecutive minutes without conceding a goal	Mazaropi	Brazil	1977–1978	1816 minutes without conceding a goal with Vasco da Gama	[80]
Goalkeeper who saved most penalties	Lev Yashin	Soviet Union	1949–1971	Yashin saved a world-record 150-plus penalties for Dynamo Moscow and Soviet Union	[81]
Most sent-off	Gerardo Bedoya	Colombia	1995–2015	46 red cards in total during his career	[82]
Most own goals in a match [note 15]	Meikayla Moore (women)	New Zealand	2022	Moore scored three own goals against USA in 2022 SheBelieves Cup.	[83]
Longest distance goal scored	Tom King	Wales	2021	On 21 January 2021, goalkeeper King scored from own six-yard box, a distance of 96.01 meters (105 yds) for Newport County in the 1–1 draw with Cheltenham Town, in League Two.	[84]
Player who played for most clubs during his professional career	Carlos Frontini	Argentina	2001–2020	37 clubs	[85] [note 16]
Player who played for a professional football club in each of the six recognized continental associations	Lutz Pfannenstiel	Germany	1991–2011	25 clubs in 6 continental associations	[88]
Player with biggest gap between spells at a club	Paulo da Silva	Paraguay	1995–2024	Paulo da Silva left Paraguayan club Atlántida in 1995 and returned in 2024, after 29 years	[89]
Player with biggest gap between first and last game at the same club	Salvador Reyes	Mexico	1953–2008	Salvador Reyes played his first match with Guadalajara in 1953, and in 2008 he was part of a tribute organised by the club in his honour, playing for 50 seconds in a Clausura 2008 match. Making it a gap of 55 years between both games	[90] [note 17]

Coaches

See also: List of football managers with the most games

Coaches in bold are still active.

Record	Manager	Nationality	Details	Ref
Manager with most international games in charge	Bora Milutinovic	Serbia	286 matches for national teams from 1983 until 2009: Mexico (104 games), USA (96), China (46), Nigeria (11), Honduras (10), Costa Rica (9), Jamaica (6) and Iraq (4).	[91] [92]
Longest-serving manager in history	Amadeu Teixeira	Brazil	Teixeira was in charge of América de Manaus for 53 years (1955–2008), and he was also one of the founders of the club in 1939.	[93]
Coach with biggest gap between spells at a club	Ronnie McFall	Northern Ireland	Ronnie McFall left Glentoran after a poor run of results in 1984 and returned in 2018, after 34 years	[94]
Coach with biggest gap between spells at for a national team	Mircea Lucescu	Romania	Mircea Lucescu left Romania national football team in 1986 and returned in 2024, after 38 years	[95]
Most decorated manager	Alex Ferguson	Scotland	He won 49 titles, including 13 Premier League, 2 UEFA Champions League, 1 Intercontinental Cup and 1 FIFA Club World Cup.	[96]
Manager who won the most first-division league titles	Bill Struth	Scotland	18 league titles: he won the Scottish first division with Rangers in 1921, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1947, 1949, 1950, and 1953.
Manager with most major international titles (national team)	Guillermo Stábile	Argentina	9 titles: Stábile won the Copa America with Argentina (1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1955, 1957), the Pan American Games (1951, 1955) and the Panamerican Championship (1960).
Manager who won most finals	Bill Struth	Scotland	64 winning finals: Struth won 10 Scottish FA Cups, 2 Scottish League Cups, 23 Glasgow Cups, 20 Glasgow Merchants Charity Cups, 4 Southern League Cups, 1 Emergency War Cup, 1 Victory Cup, 1 Summer Cup and also 1 Sir Archibald Sinclair Cup, and 1 British Champions' Challenge.
Manager with most international club titles	Carlo Ancelotti	Italy	14 titles: Ancelotti won the UEFA Intertoto Cup (1999); the Champions League (2003, 2007, 2014, 2022, 2024); the UEFA Super Cup (2003, 2014, 2007, 2022, 2024); and the FIFA Club World Cup (2007, 2014, 2022)	[97]
Manager with the highest fee paid for his transfer	Julian Nagelsmann	Germany	Bayern Munich paid RB Leipzig €25 million to release Nagelsmann's clause in the summer of 2021.	[98]

Clubs

See also: List of association football teams to have won four or more trophies in one season

Record	Club	Nationality	Year(s)	Details	Ref
Club that has scored the most goals in football history	Flamengo	Brazil	1912–2024	13,060 (up to 12 September 2024)	[99] [100] [101]
Club that has scored the most goals in history in top-level competitions	Liverpool	England		9,219 (up to 2023)	[102]
Club with the most international major trophies won	Real Madrid	Spain	1955–2024	34 trophies: 15 UEFA Champions League 2 UEFA Cup 6 UEFA Super Cup 3 Intercontinental Cup 5 FIFA Club World Cup 2 Latin Cup 1 Ibero-American Cup	[103]
Club with the most trophies won in top level competitions	Al Ahly	Egypt	1923–2023	131 trophies	[104]
Club with the most titles in the same competition	ABC	Brazil	1920–2022	57 Campeonato Potiguar titles.	[105]
Club with the most national championships won in a row	Tafea	Vanuatu	1994 to 2008–09	15 Port Vila Football League consecutive titles.	[106]
Club with the most top tier-level titles	Arsenal de Sarandí	Argentina		Arsenal de Sarandi won four Argentinian football tier levels	[107]
Oldest football club that is still active	Sheffield	England		Since 1848	[108]
Longest winning streak in all official competitions for a first-division club	Arkadag	Turkmenistan	2023–2024 (ongoing)	54 consecutive wins	[109] [110] [111] [112]
Longest unbeaten streak in all official competitions for a first-division club	Celtic	Scotland	1915–1917	62 consecutive matches [note 18]	[115]
Longest losing streak for a club	Corintians de Casa Branca	Brazil	1980–1984	62 consecutive losses at Paulista third level	[116]
Longest streak for a club scoring at least 1 goal	River Plate	Argentina	1936–1939	96 consecutive games	[117]

Other world records

Record	Name	Nationality	Year(s)	Details	Ref
Highest score in a single match	AS Adema 149–0 SO l'Emyrne	Madagascar	2002	On 31 October 2002, arch-rivals AS Adema and SO Emyrne played each other. In a pre-planned protest, SO Emyrne scored 149 own goals against the referee's decisions in their four-team playoff tournament.	[118]
Highest score in a single competitive match	Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord	Scotland	1885	On 12 September 1885, Arbroath F.C. and Bon Accord F.C. played each other in the first round of the Scottish Cup. It is the largest margin of victory in a genuinely competitive game.	[119]
Highest score in a single match (international)	Australia 31–0 American Samoa	Australia	2001	On 11 April 2001, Australia beat American Samoa by 31–0 in an Oceanian qualifying match for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Australia had already won 22–0 against Tonga two days before, which outcame to Australia moving from OFC to AFC due to the low level its opponents had in OFC.	[120]
Highest score in a single match (youth international)	Vanuatu 46–0 Micronesia (U–23)	Vanuatu	2015	On 7 July 2015, Vanuatu beat Micronesia by 46–0 in a match in the 2015 Pacific Games. Micronesia also lost by 0–30 and 0–38 against Tahiti and Fiji, respectively.	[121]
Highest score in a penalty shootout in history	Washington 3–3 Bedlington, (25–24 p), 54 penalties taken	England	2022	On 9 March 2022, at the end of the Ernest Armstrong Memorial Cup tie 2021/22, Washington played Bedlington in England's North-East, and the match finished in a 3–3 draw. A total of 54 penalties were taken, with Washington winning 25–24.	[122]
Longest penalty shootout in history	Dimona 2–2 Shimshon Tel Aviv (23–22 p), 56 penalties taken	Israel	2024	Match played on 20 May 2024, valid for 2023–24 Liga Alef access play-off.	[123] [124]
Most red cards given in a match	Claypole – Victoriano Arenas	Argentina	2011	On 3 March 2011, 36 players were shown a red card by referee Damian Rubino in a match between Victoriano Arenas and Claypole, in the Argentine fifth division. All 22 players on the pitch and a combination of 14 subs and coaches received red cards. The match was eventually abandoned.	[125]
Competition with most clubs participated in total	Copa Perú	Peru		More than 20000 at the District stage	[126]
Shortest National Championship	Greenlandic Football Championship	Greenland		7 days	[127]
Football League with less clubs	Isles of Scilly Football League	Isles of Scilly		Only two clubs contests the league: Woolpack Wanderers and the Garrison Gunners, playing each other eighteen times every season.	[128]
Longest football match	Stockport County 3–2 Doncaster Rovers, 3 hours and 23 minutes	England	1946	On, 30 March 1946. It was a Division Three North Cup replay, after the first game ended 2–2 and as it would turn out, 203 more minutes could not yield a victor. Tied once more at 2–2 after 90 minutes, the game between Stockport and Doncaster then went into extra time, but 30 more minutes were insufficient, with the two teams unable to score in that time period. The 'play to win' rule was commonplace in English football during the wartime period of the 1940s and it was a form of 'golden goal' – in essence, 'next goal wins'. Stockport thought they had clinched the winner on the 173rd minute.	[129] [130]
Team that played most games on the same day	Grêmio	Brazil	1994	On 11 December 1994, Grêmio played three matches on a single day during the 1994 Campeonato Gaúcho, with kick-off times of 2PM, 4PM, and 6PM, due to their extensive schedule. They won two and drew the third match, using a total of 34 different players.	[131]

See also

• Fastest goals in association football
• List of men's footballers with 1,000 or more official appearances
• List of footballers with 500 or more goals
• List of players with the most goals in an association football game
• List of most expensive association football transfers
• Lists of hat-tricks
• Progression of association football caps record
• European association football club records and statistics
• List of longest managerial reigns in association football
• List of world champion football club winning managers

Notes

1. Erwin Helmchen could have scored 989 goals in 582 games in his career.
2. Including friendly matches and competitions.
3. Erwin Helmchen could have scored 870 club goals.
4. Fred Roberts scored 96 goals in 47 games for Glentoran during the 1930–31 season, with most of these goals coming in regional and local cups, which are in any case official competitions. ^{[10] [11]}
5. Godfrey Chitalu is also claimed to have scored 97 official goals in 46 games in the 1972 season for Kabwe Warriors. However, the officiality of this tally is disputed. ^[12]
6. The Guinness World Records named Dixie Dean with 60 goals in 39 games in 1927–28 First Division for Everton. ^[13]
7. Counting all matches in one club, Gerd Müller scored 1257 goals in 1002 games for Bayern Munich during 15 seasons.
8. This match was not a full international (instead termed a "Victory international").
9. Claudio Pizarro scored in 25 different top level seasons.
10. Other sources show Zico as the footballer with more free kicks scored in history with 101. ^[33] Even Marcelinho Carioca could have that honour with 86 free kicks, depending on the source. ^[34]
11. Counting only top matches, Pelé with 92 hat-tricks is the record holder.
12. Gali Freitas is claimed by the AFF to have debuted with East Timor on 1 September 2018 in a match against Brunei, aged 13 years and 244 days. However, there is controversy whether he was born in 2004 or in 1996. ^{[28] [56]}
13. Isaak Hayik was awarded by Guinness World Records in 2019 when he played a fourth tier israeli league match with 73 years old. ^[62] Later, in 2020, Ezzeldin Bahader was also awarded by Guinness World Records for having played in Egypt third tier being 74 years old. ^[63] Neither of them played at professional level. Chava Reyes took part in a mexican first tier match when he was 71 years old in 2008 but it was a tribute and he played one minute only. Lately, in 2023, David Mudge played a Northern Suburbs Football Association match with 79 years and 89 days, surpassing Hayik's record. ^[64]
14. At top-level football, the most widely recognized record is Lionel Messi's 44 trophies. ^[69]
15. Not include own goals that were deliberately scored by defenders, for example, as happened in the AS Adema 149–0 SO l'Emyrne.
16. Sebastián Abreu has the Guinness World Record with 32 different teams, because the majority of the teams recognised to Frontini are in any case top-level clubs. ^{[86] [87]}
17. In an uninterrumped career, the record is held by Stanley Matthews, who played his first match with Stoke City in 1932, and his last in 1965, after 33 years.
18. Celtic also played in their unbeaten run, from 20 November 1915 to 14 April 1917, in two regional cups, the Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup and Glasgow Cup. Including two matches each in the 1915–16 Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup, in May 1916, ^[113] and in the 1916–17 Glasgow Cup, in October 1916, ^[114] Celtic was unbeaten for 66 games. ^[115]

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