DailyFoot Lab · Scoring

Goals per international season: all 198 players ranked

International goals spread across the years between a first and last cap. It rewards scoring a lot in a short window, which a per-cap rate hides: two players on the same ratio can be ten years apart in how fast they got there.

Play today's grid

Gerd MüllerLeader

7.56Leading value

1.68Sample median

198Players ranked

Top 50

#1 Gerd Müller 7.56

#2 Harry Kane 7.08

#3 Ferenc Puskás 7.00

#4 Erling Haaland 6.88

#5 Cristiano Ronaldo 6.08

#6 Lionel Messi 5.68

#7 Kylian Mbappé 5.60

#8 Romelu Lukaku 5.47

#9 Gary Lineker 5.33

#10 Pelé do Nascimento 5.13

#11 Miroslav Klose 5.07

#12 Didier Drogba 5.00

#13 Robert Lewandowski 4.68

#14 Neymar Santos 4.65

#15 Alfredo Di Stéfano 4.60

#16 David Villa 4.54

#17 Zico Coimbra 4.36

#18 Mohamed Salah 4.25

#19 Klaas-Jan Huntelaar 4.20

#20 Olivier Giroud 4.07

#21 Raúl González 4.00

#22 Jürgen Klinsmann 3.92

#23 Edinson Cavani 3.87

#24 Robin van Persie 3.85

#25 Luis Suárez 3.83

#26 Bobby Charlton 3.77

#27 Sadio Mané 3.67

#28 Thierry Henry 3.64

#28 Michael Owen 3.64

#30 Lukas Podolski 3.50

#30 Michael Ballack 3.50

#32 Keisuke Honda 3.45

#33 Ronaldo de Lima 3.44

#34 Michel Platini 3.42

#35 Antoine Griezmann 3.38

#36 Dennis Bergkamp 3.36

#37 Alan Shearer 3.33

#38 Wayne Rooney 3.31

#39 Son Heung-min 3.29

#40 Rivaldo Ferreira 3.18

#41 Fernando Torres 3.17

#42 Eusébio Ferreira 3.15

#43 Samuel Eto'o 3.11

#44 Gonzalo Higuaín 3.10

#45 Álvaro Morata 3.08

#45 Riyad Mahrez 3.08

#47 Thomas Müller 3.00

#48 Romário Faria 2.89

#49 Diego Forlán 2.77

#50 André Schürrle 2.75

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. 198 of them qualify for this category.

Goals per international season: all 198 players ranked

Top 50

Leaders by position

Goalkeeper

Defender

Midfielder

Forward

The rest of the ranking

Related categories