List of world association football records

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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, and amateurs. Friendly club matches are generally not eligible for the records. The article includes comprehensive statistics on official football leagues worldwide in general, without taking league rankings or coefficients into account.

Contents

These records are divided based on whether they relate to players, coaches, clubs, or stadiums.

Players

Players in bold are still active.

As of 26 January 2025

Goals records

Most goals

Cristiano Ronaldo the all-time top scorer in official football history, with over 900 goals. Cristiano Ronaldo in 2023.jpg
Cristiano Ronaldo the all-time top scorer in official football history, with over 900 goals.

In a year / season

Sandor Kocsis, the player with the most international goals in a single year, scoring 23 goals in 1954 with Hungary. Kocsis Sandor Fortepan 261526.jpg
Sándor Kocsis, the player with the most international goals in a single year, scoring 23 goals in 1954 with Hungary.
Lionel Messi, the player with the most official goals in a single year, scoring 91 goals in 2012. FRA-ARG (22).jpg
Lionel Messi, the player with the most official goals in a single year, scoring 91 goals in 2012.

In a match

Youngest and oldest

By method

Others

Appearances records

Most appearances

Peter Shilton the player with most appearances in official football history, with 1,397 matches. Peter Shilton.png
Peter Shilton the player with most appearances in official football history, with 1,397 matches.

Youngest and oldest

Others

Other players records

Titles

Goalkeeping

Ray Clemence holds the record for the most clean sheets in football history with 537. Ray Clemence (1981).jpg
Ray Clemence holds the record for the most clean sheets in football history with 537.

Matches Results

Trivia

Flag of Austria.svg Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Josef Bican, Austrian Championship in 1934; Czechoslovak First League in 1938, 1939, 1946, 1947, 1948 and 1950; Bohemian/Moravian league in 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943 and 1944; Czechoslovak Second League in 1949 and 1952
Flag of Brazil.svg Romário, Campeonato Carioca in 1986, 1987, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000; Eredivisie in 1988–89, 1989–90 and 1990–91; La Liga in 1993–94; Campeonato Brasileiro Série A in 2000, 2001 and 2005 [98] [note 26]

Managers

Alex Ferguson is most decorated manager, with 49 titles. Alex Ferguson.jpg
Alex Ferguson is most decorated manager, with 49 titles.

Coaches in bold are still active.

Clubs

Streaks

Other world records

Stadiums

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Erwin Helmchen could have scored 989 goals in his career. [2]
  2. ↑ Including friendly matches and competitions.
  3. ↑ Erwin Helmchen could have scored 870 club goals.
  4. ↑ According to other sources, Bican could be the leader with 728 goals.
  5. ↑ Including other categories than top-tier division, except regional and local leagues.
  6. ↑ Erwin Helmchen scored 713 goals of which 690 in German regional leagues. [8]
  7. ↑ Pelé scored the vast majority of his goals in Campeonato Paulista, but Série A still wasn't the top-tier league in Brazil in those years. If we exclude that goals, Cristiano Ronaldo would be the record holder with 558 goals. [10]
  8. ↑ Erwin Helmchen scored at least 667 goals with PSV Chemnitz in official matches; it's very likely that due to the lack of reliable information he hasn't surpassed officially the amount Messi reached but actually he did it. [14] Counting all matches in one club, Gerd Müller scored 1256 goals for Bayern Munich. [15]
  9. ↑ Godfrey Chitalu is claimed to have scored 109 official goals in 1972 for Kabwe Warriors and Zambia. However, the officiality of this tally is disputed. [20] [21] Other sources, such as FIFA, name Pelé as the best in this category with 127 goals scored in 1959, but this amount includes goals in friendly matches. [22]
  10. ↑ This tally includes 35 goals at regional and local cups, which are in any case official competitions.
  11. ↑ At top-level football, excluding regional and local competitions, the most widely recognized record is Lionel Messi's 73 goals for Barcelona during the 2011–12 season. [26] [27] Godfrey Chitalu is also claimed to have scored 97 official goals in the 1972 season for Kabwe Warriors. However, the officiality of this tally is disputed. [20]
  12. ↑ The Guinness World Records named Dixie Dean with 60 goals in 39 games in 1927–28 First Division for Everton. [28]
  13. ↑ 10 goals scored in 1997 UEFA Intertoto Cup and 7 goals in 1997–98 UEFA Cup.
  14. ↑ 14 goals scored in 2011–12 UEFA Champions League, 2 goals in 2011 FIFA Club World Cup and 1 goal in 2011 UEFA Super Cup.
  15. ↑ 15 goals scored in 2017–18 UEFA Champions League and 2 goals in 2017 FIFA Club World Cup.
  16. ↑ This match was not a full international (instead termed a "Victory international"). The U.S. Virgin Islander Keithroy Cornelius could be the record holder with a goal scored against Curaçao national football team with 43 years and 196 days. [39]
  17. ↑ Other sources show Zico as the footballer with more free kicks scored in history with 101. [42] Even Marcelinho Carioca could have that honour with 86 free kicks, depending on the source. [43]
  18. ↑ Counting only top matches, Pelé with 92 hat-tricks is the record holder.
  19. ↑ The Guinness World Records named David Mudge as the oldest competitive football player with 79 years and 89 days. Nevertheless, he took part in a Northern Suburbs Football Association match, which is an Australian non-professional competition. [63]
  20. ↑ Mathieu Enguérran Edjekpan is claimed to be the youngest ever international footballer according to some sources, making his debut with Benin national team at the age of 13 years and 213 days, but his date of birth is not clear. 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. [38] [70] Souleymane Mamam is claimed by FIFA to have debuted with Togo in 2021 in a FIFA World Cup qualifier match, aged 13 years and 310 days. However, there is controversy whether he was born in 1987 or in 1985. [71] [72] Abel Josiah Samson was also suposed to have played an international match with Tanzania national football team at 14 years old. [73]
  21. ↑ The Sercquiais Barrie Dewsbury played a game with 52 years and 11 days in 2003 but Sark football team is not recognised by FIFA.
  22. ↑ Robert Carmona holds the Guinness World Record for the longest football career but his career includes lower leagues and amateur teams. [78]
  23. ↑ George Weah, James Debbah and Giorgos Koudas had an international career span of 32, 31 and 27 years long respectively but they all were given a farewell cameo appearance several years after their regular career had already ended. Billy Bohan, who played for the non-FIFA nor UEFA Alderney official football team, had an international career of 27 years and 339 days.
  24. ↑ At top-level football, the most widely recognized record is Lionel Messi's 45 trophies. [81]
  25. ↑ 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. [94] [95]
  26. ↑ Romário also won the top scorer award in USL First Division 2006.
  27. ↑ Imre Schlosser won 10 consecutive top scorer award in Hungarian National Championship between 1908 and 1917 but 1914 and 1915 Championships are considered unofficial due to the World War.
  28. ↑ Paulo da Silva left Paraguayan club Atlántida in 1995 and returned in 2024, after 29 years.
  29. ↑ Gutendorf holds the Guinness World Record for being in charge of 55 teams in 32 countries spanning six continental associations. Among them, he coached 18 different national teams but he only contested in official matches with 9 of them.
  30. ↑ Stábile won the Copa America with Argentina (1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1955, 1957), the Pan American Games (1951, 1955) and the Panamerican Championship (1960).
  31. ↑ Including nineteen Glasgow Cups and seventeen Glasgow Charity Cups, which are regional tournaments.
  32. ↑ Otto Rehhagel played for Hertha BSC until 1965 and coached the club in 2012, making a 47 years span between both calls.
  33. ↑ 2 CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions, 3 FIFA World Cups, 1 FIFA Confederations Cup, 1 Panamerican Championship, 16 Copa América.
  34. ↑ 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, [130] and in the 1916–17 Glasgow Cup, in October 1916, [131] Celtic was unbeaten for 66 games. [129]
  35. ↑ 62 consecutive losses at Paulista third level.
  36. ↑ Football World Championship, a competition between English and Scottish club champions, was created in 1886 but it was considered an exhibition association football match and it wasn't held annually.
  37. ↑ More than 20,000 at the District stage.
  38. ↑ Only two clubs contests the league: Woolpack Wanderers and the Garrison Gunners, playing each other eighteen times every season.
  39. ↑ The championship is played out in a tournament between the champions of the nine islands.
  40. ↑ 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.
  41. ↑ 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.
  42. ↑ The stadium opened in 1804 but it was not until 26 December 1860, that the world's first inter-club football match was played at the ground.
  43. ↑ Since it was remodelled in 2014 the official capacity is 114,000 spectators, which is also a record for a football pitch, but the stadium is still expandable up to 150,000.
  44. ↑ Despite holding the Guinness World Record, it is uncertain to ensure there were such amount of spectators that day. The same institution contradicts itself. [160] According to other sources, there are other matches which are the record holders.

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