Progression of association football goalscoring Oceania record

This is a progressive list of men's association footballers who have held or co-held the Oceania record for international goals since 1922.

Criteria

The criteria used by national FAs in considering a match as a full international were not historically fixed. Particularly for the early decades, and until more recently for FAs outside UEFA and CONMEBOL, counts of goals were often considered unreliable. IFFHS and RSSSF have spent much effort trying to produce definitive lists of full international matches, and corresponding data on players' international caps and goals. Australia and New Zealand's FAs have their own official caps and goals database, however other OFC members' FA's do not have their own caps and goals database. Using the data by the FA, NZF RSSSF and NFT, the following records can be retrospectively produced. Note that, at the time, these records may not have been recognised.

Although Australia played in the OFC, they were moved to the AFC confederation in 2006. This affects Tim Cahill, who scored 8 Oceania goals and 42 Asian goals. Australia's player goals in the AFC have been removed for consistency and only count their players' goals from 1922 to 2005.

Oceania record

Player	Country	Goal	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Notes
Ted Cook	New Zealand	2	17-06-1922	Dunedin	Australia	3–1	Cook scored twice in this match. [1]
		3	24-06-1922	Wellington	Australia	1–1	[1]
		4	08-07-1922	Auckland	Australia	3–1	[1]
George Campbell	New Zealand	7	30-06-1923	Newcastle	Australia	4–1	Campbell scored four times in this match to overtake Cook. [1]
George Smith	Australia	7	24-06-1933	Sydney	New Zealand	4–2	Smith scored twice in this match to equal Campbell. [2]
		11	04-07-1936	Dunedin	New Zealand	7–1	Smith scored four times in this match. [2]
		16	11-07-1936	Wellington	New Zealand	10–0	Smith scored five times in this match. [2]
Jock Newall	New Zealand	17	28-09-1952	Papeete	Tahiti	5–3	Newall scored four times in this match to overtake Smith. [1]
Attila Abonyi	Australia	17	18-08-1973	Sydney	Iran	3–0	[2]
Ray Baartz	Australia	17	11-11-1973	Seoul	South Korea	2–2	Jointly with Abonyi. [2]
		18	27-04-1974	Sydney	Uruguay	2–0	[2]
Attila Abonyi	Australia	18	02-03-1976	Melbourne	New Zealand	3–1	Jointly with Baartz. [2]
		19	18-08-1976	Gosford	Hong Kong	2–0	[2]
		20	20-10-1976	Jakarta	Indonesia	1–1	[2]
		21	24-10-1976	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	2–0	[2]
		22	13-03-1977	Ba	Chinese Taipei	3–0	[2]
		23	16-03-1977	Ba	Chinese Taipei	2–1	[2]
		24	30-10-1977	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	5–2	[2]
		25	13-11-1977	Singapore	Singapore	2–0	[2]
Damian Mori	Australia	26	09-04-2001	Coffs Harbour	Tonga	22–0	Mori scored four times in this match to overtake Abonyi. [3]
		27	06-07-2002	Auckland	Vanuatu	2–0	[3]
		28	08-07-2002	Auckland	New Caledonia	11–0	[3]
		29	12-07-2002	Auckland	Tahiti	2–1	[3]
Esala Masi	Fiji	29	17-05-2004	Apia	Samoa	4–0	Jointly with Mori. [4]
		30	12-08-2005	Lautoka	India	1–0	[4]
		31	14-08-2005	Suva	India	2–1	[4]
Commins Menapi	Solomon Islands	31	13-07-2007	Apia	American Samoa	12–1	Menapi scored four times in this match to equal Masi. [5]
		33	27-08-2007	Apia	Tonga	4–0	Menapi scored twice in this match. [5]
		34	05-09-2007	Apia	New Caledonia	2–3	[5]
Chris Wood	New Zealand	34	13-10-2023	Murcia	DR Congo	1–1	Wood scored to equal Menapi. [6]
Roy Krishna	Fiji	35	18-11-2023	Honiara	Northern Mariana Islands	10–0	Krishna scored three times to overtake Wood. [7]
		36	21-03-2024	Honiara	Solomon Islands	0–2	[7]
		37	16-06-2024	Suva	Papua New Guinea	1–5	[7]
		39	19-06-2024	Suva	Samoa	1–9	Krishna scored twice in this match. [7]
		40	22-06-2024	Suva	Tahiti	1–0	[7]
		41	30-06-2024	Port Vila	Tahiti	2–1	[7]
		42	10-10-2024	Suva	Solomon Islands	0–1	[7]
		43	14-11-2024	Port Moresby	Papua New Guinea	3–3	[7]
		44	17-11-2024	Port Moresby	New Caledonia	1–1	[7]
Chris Wood	New Zealand	44	21-03-2025	Wellington	Fiji	7–0	Wood scored three times to equal Krishna. [6]
		45	09-09-2025	Auckland	Australia	1–3	[6]

See also

• Progression of association football goalscoring record
• Progression of association football caps Oceania record
• List of men's footballers with 50 or more international goals

References

• Players with 100+ Caps and 30+ International Goals RSSSF
• IFFHS ALL TIME RECORD GOAL SCORERS IN NATIONAL TEAM - OCEANIA IFFHS

1. "New Zealand Results 1904–59". ultimatenzsoccer.com.
2. Howe, Andrew (12 October 2006). "The Australian National Men's Football Team: Caps and Captains" (PDF). ozfootball.net. Football Federation Australia.
3. Damian Mori – Goals in International Matches RSSSF
4. Esala Masi at National-Football-Teams.com
5. Commins Menapi – International Goals RSSSF
6. Christopher Grant Wood - Goals in International Matches RSSSF
7. Roy Krishna - Goals in International Matches RSSSF