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Goals per centimetre of height: all 184 players ranked

International goals divided by height in centimetres. Nothing about football says a shorter player should score more, which is exactly what makes the ranking readable: it is the goal tally with the tall forwards handicapped, and the smallest names on it climb.

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Cristiano RonaldoLeader

0.789Leading value

0.100Sample median

184Players ranked

Top 50

#1 Cristiano Ronaldo 0.789

#2 Lionel Messi 0.740

#3 Ferenc Puskás 0.488

#4 Romelu Lukaku 0.487

#5 Robert Lewandowski 0.481

#6 Harry Kane 0.452

#7 Mohamed Salah 0.389

#8 Gerd Müller 0.386

#8 Miroslav Klose 0.386

#10 Luis Suárez 0.379

#11 Didier Drogba 0.344

#12 Ronaldo de Lima 0.339

#13 David Villa 0.337

#14 Romário Faria 0.327

#15 Zlatan Ibrahimović 0.318

#16 Sadio Mané 0.316

#17 Edinson Cavani 0.315

#17 Kylian Mbappé 0.315

#19 Samuel Eto'o 0.311

#20 Son Heung-min 0.306

#21 Alexis Sánchez 0.304

#22 Wayne Rooney 0.301

#23 Olivier Giroud 0.295

#24 Bobby Charlton 0.283

#25 Erling Haaland 0.282

#26 Robin van Persie 0.273

#27 Thierry Henry 0.271

#27 Gary Lineker 0.271

#29 Lukas Podolski 0.269

#30 Andriy Shevchenko 0.262

#31 Jürgen Klinsmann 0.260

#32 Antoine Griezmann 0.250

#33 Raúl González 0.247

#34 Thomas Müller 0.243

#35 Sergio Agüero 0.241

#36 Michael Owen 0.233

#37 Michel Platini 0.229

#38 Klaas-Jan Huntelaar 0.226

#39 Michael Ballack 0.222

#39 Gareth Bale 0.222

#41 Riyad Mahrez 0.221

#42 Hristo Stoichkov 0.213

#43 Kevin De Bruyne 0.210

#43 Ivan Perišić 0.210

#45 Keisuke Honda 0.209

#46 Diego Maradona 0.206

#46 David Silva 0.206

#46 Arjen Robben 0.206

#49 Fernando Torres 0.204

#50 Dennis Bergkamp 0.202

Every ranking here is drawn from the same sample: DailyFoot's 199 most recognizable footballers, using the caps, goals, career years and honours in the game's own data. 184 of them qualify for this category.

Goals per centimetre of height: all 184 players ranked

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