Based on goals from domestic league and caps. For some players, I also have the goals from domestic cup and international club games, these are indicated with an *. Rank-Goals-Player-Career Span 01---758---PELÉ from 21 years [1956-1977]* 02---681---Ferenc PUSKÁS from 23 years [1943-1966] 03---617---Gerd MÜLLER from 16 years [1965-1981]* 04---553---Uwe SEELER from 18 years [1954-1972]* 05---544---Josef BICAN from 24 years [1931-1955] 06---539---EUSÉBIO from 17 years [1960-1977]* 07---504---Alfredo DI STÉFANO from 21 years [1945-1966]* 08---484---ZICO from 23 years [1971-1994]* 09---477---Imre SCHLOSSER from 23 years [1905-1928] 10---448---Gyula ZSENGELLER from 17 years [1935-1952] 11---448---Fritz WALTER from 20 years [1939-1959]* 12---419---Gunnar NORDAHL from 18 years [1940-1958] 13---416---James McGRORY from 16 years [1922-1938] 14---411---Hugo SÁNCHEZ from 21 years [1976-1997] 15---411---Ferenc SZUSZA from 21 years [1940-1961] 16---410---Jimmy GREAVES from 14 years [1957-1971] 17---402---Johan CRUIJFF from 20 years [1964-1984]* 18---393---Dr. György SÁROSI from 18 years [1930-1948] 19---388---Hans KRANKL from 18 years [1970-1988] 20---388---Ferenc BENE from 19 years [1961-1978 & 1981-1982] Note: Ferenc Puskás' total lacks goals scored in the Hungarian Cup. Pelé's total additionally includes goals from several tournaments unique to Brazil.
Are you only including top division games? Arthur Rowley scored 434 goals for West Brom, Fulham, Leicester and Shrewsbury from 1946-65.
Only top division goals are counted. Dixie Dean scored 320 first division goals, his 39 second division goals from the 1930-31 season are not included (and also not his goals from 3rd division for Notts County in 1938-39).
you forgot the best center forward for Portugal ever, the captain of the CL Benfica, he raise the trophy twice and then retired, Eusebio only won one CL Jose Aguas close to 500 goals his named is all over the European cup final, Benfica -3-Barcelona-2 Benfica -5-Real Madrid -3 here is a link https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88763
Aguas scored 292 league goals. Those close to 500 goals must be due to inclusion of non-competitive games. This list only looks at competitive goals. Aguas scored 11 times for Portugal, which would lift his total to 303 goals. Though I don`t know exactly how many goals he scored from European Cup games, it must be under 30. New total: 329 goals (maximum). Maybe you know how many EC-goals he scored and how often he scored in the Portuguese Cup? Thanks for that link.
But surely Dixies second division goals should count, as he did score 60 goals in the 1st Division. He is definately up there with the best. What about that guy who played for Middlesbrough and scored 59 in a season, Dixie beat his record by scoring 6 or 9 goals in the last 3 games. And I remember reading somewhere that Pele scored over 1000 total career goals.
And looking at that list, man scoring 410 goals in 14 years (Greaves) is one of the best records I have ever seen. Geez.
Camsell only had a few seaons of First Division football, and I don't think his total would be enough anyway (it was in the mid 300's). His international record is extraordinary, however, 9 caps 18 goals.
Dean scored 60 goals in the 1927-28 season, and these goals are included in his total of 320 first league goals. I wouldn`t know why his second division goals should be included because of that? Do you know how many goals he scored in the FA-Cup? Pelé scored 1,279 goals, but 521 of them are from all-sorts of non-competitive games. This list only included goals from competitive games.
It is well-known that Pelé scored 1,279 goals over the course of his career. But of course not all of these goals came from competitive matches. Competitive matches would be: -official FIFA-A matches (World Cup and World Cup Qualifying and friendlies against other nations as well as South America Championship plus Qualifying) -domestic league football (Campeonato Sao Paulo, 1. Division Brazil & NASL) -domestic cup tournaments, including several Brazil Club tournaments (Taca do Brasil, Taca do Prata etc.) - international Club games (Copa Libertadores, World Club Cup) In these official competitions, Pelé scored 758 goals. The remaining 521 goals are from non-competitive matches, e.g. exhibition or practice games for Santos or Brazil, unofficial Brazil matches against Club teams, Santos friendlies against other clubs, games for the Brazil Army team, unofficial games for several selections (e.g. Estado Sao Paulo), NASL All-Stars and so on. In these unofficial games he scored 521 goals.
all of Jose Aguas are official goals including Portuguese Cup, the old Lisbon Cup etc close to 500 Jose Aguas also played for Rapid Vienna I got the Benfica link the record ever goal for the last 100 years http://www.slbenfica.pt/Info/Futebo..._futslbscpmelhoresmarcadores_261203_14627.asp let's not take anything away from the best central forward that European cup finals ever see the captain the raise the cup against Barcelona and Real Madrid a “pantera negra” marcou 727 golos e o capitão europeu 482). E por falar no melhor
http://www.sl-benfica.net/club_history/legendary_players.php Unless Benfica played a lot of cup games then I doubt he scored 500 excluding frendlies.
Interesting concept. However, it will take a lot of time and research to get all of the accurate stats. You should limit it to a set number (ie, top 20) and keep it like that until we get all of the accurate stats. Then extend it to include other players that people are suggesting.
Roberto Baggio scored 319 if you include all competitions, he scored 218 in Serie A (5th All-time)...
Thanks mate. Additionally, Dean scored 18 goals for England, which increases his total from 320 to 366 - still not enough! Do you have the FA goals for Jimmy Greaves? (did a quick google on him, but no word on how many times he scored in the FA cup).
Here`s a quick calculation about the yearly average number of goals each player in this list scored. The full info on all competitions is only available on the players marked with *. 38.6 MÜLLER* 36.0 PELÉ* 31.7 EUSÉBIO* 30.7 SEELER* 29.6 PUSKÁS 29.3 GREAVES 26.3 ZSENGELLER 26.0 McGRORY 24.0 DI STÉFANO* 23.3 NORDAHL 22.7 BICAN 22.4 WALTER* 21.8 SAROSI 21.5 KRANKL 21.0 ZICO* 20.7 SCHLOSSER 20.4 BENE 20.1 CRUIJFF* 19.6 SÁNCHEZ 19.6 SZUSZA
Looked into this a bit and found that Greaves scored 22 or 32 FA Cup goals (two sites, two conflicting numbers), 5 League Cup goals and 9 European goals for Spurs. I couldn't find his Chelsea stats anywhere and he only scored in the League for West Ham. I don't know if he played any cup games in for Milan in his short time there. The National Football Museum has Greaves with a career total of 491 goals. I imagine this probably includes his goals for England under-23's and other representative games as it would leave him with around 50 goals to find from his cup games with Chelsea and Milan (highly unlikely). Greaves scored on his debut for every club he played for and also for England at both under-23 and full levels. On a lighter note, he played for England against Brazil in the 1962 World Cup quarterfinal, which was interupted by a dog on the pitch. Greaves caught the dog and was promptly urinated on by it as he carried it off. Garrincha found the incident so funny he took the dog home with him after the game and kept it as a pet.