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, amateurs, and women's football. These records are divided based on whether they relate to players, coaches, or clubs.
The list contains the most prominent records in the world without taking into account the classification of leagues or championships.

Players[edit]

Players in bold are still active.

As of 27 April 2024

Goals and goalscoring records[edit]

Record Player Nationality Year(s) Details Ref
Most official goals Cristiano Ronaldo  Portugal 2002– Ronaldo scored 885 goals in his career. [1]
Highest goal-scorer in history overall Lajos Tichy  Hungary 1953–1971 1,917 goals in 1,307 games based on stats by RSSSF. [2]
Most club goals Josef Bican Austria Austria
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
1931–1957 Bican scored 781 goals in 493 matches with ten different clubs during his long 27-year career. [3][note 1]
Most international goals Cristiano Ronaldo  Portugal 2003– 128 goals International goals in 206 games. [4]
Most goals scored in a calendar year Lionel Messi  Argentina 2012 Messi scored 91 goals in 69 matches in 2012 for Barcelona and Argentina [5][6]
Most club goals scored in a football season Lionel Messi  Argentina 2011–12 Messi scored 73 goals with Barcelona during the 2011–12 season. [7][8][9][10]
Most international goals in a calendar year Sándor Kocsis  Hungary 1954 Kocsis scored 23 goals in 14 games in 1954 with the Hungary national football team. [11]
Most goals scored for a single club Lionel Messi  Argentina 2004–2021 Messi scored 672 goals for Barcelona during 17 seasons. [12]
Most goals scored in an international match Archie Thompson  Australia 2001 On 11 April 2001, Thompson scored 13 goals in the Australia 31–0 American Samoa match during the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification. [13]
Most goals scored in a top-tier league match Hacène Lalmas (men)  Algeria 1962 Scored 14 goals in the match Ruisseau 18–0 Birtouta in 1962–63 Algerian Championnat National. [14]
Shokhan Salihi (women)  Iraq 2022 Scored 15 goals with Al-Hilal against Sama in the 2022–23 Saudi Women's Premier League. [15]
Most goals scored in any division-tier league match Yanick Manzizila  Democratic Republic of the Congo
 Sweden
2014 Scored 21 goals in the match Kongo United 30–0 Balrog Botkyrka in the Swedish seventh division, on 11 August 2014. [16][17][18]
Most goals scored in a domestic cup match Stefan Dembicki  France 1942 In the preliminary round of the 1942–43 French Cup, Dembicki scored 16 goals in the RC Lens - Auby Asturies match (32–0). [19]
Most penalty kick goals Cristiano Ronaldo  Portugal 2002– Cristiano scored 164 penalty goals. [20]
Most penalty kicks with a 100% success rate Ledio Pano  Albania
 Greece
1986–2002 Ledio Pano scored 50 penalties in 50 attempts during his career in Albania and Greece. [21]
Most free kick goals Juninho  Brazil 1993–2013 Juninho scored 77 free kick goals. [22]
Most direct corner-kick goals Şükrü Gülesin  Turkey 1940–1955 32 goals [23][24]
Most international goals for an amateur national team Vivian Woodward  England 1906–1914 57 goals for the England national amateur football team.
Highest goal-scoring goalkeeper of all time Rogério Ceni  Brazil 1990–2015 Ceni scored 129 goals in 1,236 games. [1][25]
Youngest international goalscorer Aung Kyaw Tun  Myanmar 2000 On 6 November 2000, Aung Kyaw Tun scored for Myanmar in the 2000 AFF Championship match against Thailand (3–1 defeat) at 14 years and 93 days. [26]
Oldest international goalscorer Billy Meredith  Wales 1919 On 11 October 1919, Billy Meredith scored for Wales in the 1919–20 British Home Championship match against England (6–1 win) at 45 years and 73 days.[note 2] [27]
Most goals scored by a substitute in a single game Robert Lewandowski  Poland 2015 On 24 September 2015, during a Bundesliga game between Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg (5-1), Lewandowski came on as a substitute in the second half and scored five goals in nine minutes. 4 of them were scored within five minutes and 42 seconds. [28]
Most competitions scored in one season Fernando Torres  Spain 2012–2013 8 competitions: Premier League, FA Cup, Football League Cup, FA Community Shield, FIFA Club World Cup, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, FIFA Confederations Cup. [29]

Appearances records[edit]

Record Player Nationality Year(s) Details Ref
Most matches of all time Peter Shilton  England 1966–1997 1,390 games over 31 seasons [30]
Most international caps Soh Chin Ann (men)  Malaysia 1969–1984 219 caps. [31]
Kristine Lilly (women)  United States 1987–2010 354 caps. [32]
Most international caps for an amateur national team Billy Neil  Scotland 1957–1969 45 caps for the Scotland national amateur football team.
Most matches for one club Rogério Ceni  Brazil 1992–2015 1,197 games with São Paulo [33][34]
Most seasons as captain for one club Francesco Totti  Italy 1998–2017 19 seasons: Totti captained Roma from 1998 until his retirement in 2017
Most matches as captain for one club Rogério Ceni  Brazil 2001–2015 978 games: captained São Paulo from 2001 until 2015 [33][34]
Most international club competition appearances in history Cristiano Ronaldo  Portugal 2002– 220 appearances: 197 in UEFA club competitions, 8 in FIFA Club World Cup, 6 in UAFA club competitions, 9 in AFC club competitions. [35]
Youngest footballer to ever play at senior level Eric Godpower Marshall  Liberia 2021 On 7 April 2021, Marshall debuted for Gar'ou in their win over Haifa 4–1 in Liberia's fourth division at 10 years and 11 months. [36][37][38][39]
Youngest footballer to play in first division Mauricio Baldivieso  Bolivia 2009 On 19 July 2009, Baldivieso aged 12, debuted as a substitute in the Bolivian first division for Aurora in their away match against La Paz. Aurora lost 1–0. [40]
Oldest professional football player Kazuyoshi Miura  Japan 1986– Striker Miura continues playing football for Oliveirense, having surpassed the age of 57. [41][42]
Mykola Lykhovydov  Ukraine 2011– Lykhovydov continues playing football for FC Real Pharma Odesa, having surpassed the age of 57. [43]

Other records[edit]

Record Player Nationality Year(s) Details Ref
Most decorated player Lee Casciaro  Gibraltar 1998– 57 titles won [44]
Most matches wins Cristiano Ronaldo  Portugal 2002– 805 matches wins in his career [45][46][47]
Most club matches wins Cristiano Ronaldo  Portugal 2002– 679 club matches wins in his career [48]
Most unbeaten matches Cristiano Ronaldo  Portugal 2002– 1032 unbeaten matches in his career [49]
Most top-level club games scoring Cristiano Ronaldo  Portugal 2002– 502 top-level club games scoring in his career [50][51]
Players to win top-scorer awards in third, second, and first division Robert Lewandowski  Poland 2005– Lewandowski won the award in the 2007 Polish third division, 2008 second division and 2010 first division, the Bundesliga in 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and also the La Liga in 2023.
Dario Hübner  Italy 1987–2011 Hübner was Italian third division's topscorer in 1992, won the Serie B award in 1996 and the Capocannoniere in 2002 (joint winner with David Trezeguet).
Igor Protti  Italy 1983–2005 Protti won Capocannoniere in 1996 (joint winner with Giuseppe Signori), won Italian third division's topscorer in 2001 and 2002 and won the Serie B award in 2003.
Player to win top-scorer awards in most continents Isidro Lángara  Spain 1930–1948 Three: with Real Club España in Mexico (CONCACAF zone) in 1944, 1946, Real Oviedo in Spain (UEFA) in 1934, 1935, 1936 and San Lorenzo in Argentina (CONMEBOL) in 1940.
Most domestic top-scorer awards Josef Bican  Austria
 Czechoslovakia
1931–1955 12 wins: Czechoslovakian league in 1938, 1939, 1946, 1947, 1950; Austrian league in 1934; Bohemian/Moravian league in 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944; Czechoslovakian second division in 1949
Youngest player to score a hat trick Ntinos Pontikas  Greece 1996 On 24 September 1996, Ntinos Pontikas debuted at 14 years and 198 days and scored a hat-trick for Haravgi in their away defeat to Ampelokipoi (4–3), in the fifth division of the Greek championship. [52][53]
Fastest hat-trick in history Alex Torr  England 2013 On 4 May 2013, 20-year old Alex Torr scored a hat-trick in 70 seconds during the match between Rawson Springs and Meadowhall (7–1), in the English Sunday league of Sheffield. [54][55]
Most consecutive hat-tricks Bohemia Josef Bican 1940 5 Josef Bican set the record after scoring 5 consecutive hat-tricks and 19 goals in total in the Bohemia and Moravia league between 17 November 1939 and 19 March 1940.[56]
Croatia Stjepan Lucijanić 2016 5 Stjepan Lucijanic scored his fifth consecutive hat-trick in the NK Dračice Dakovo's 10–0 win over NK Zrinski Drenje in the Croatian seventh division on 6 November 2016, equalizing Josef Bican's record from 1940. Lucijanic had scored 20 goals in those 5 matches.[57][58]
Maldives Ahmed Rizwan 2018 5 Club Eagles' striker Ahmed Rizwan also equalized the record in October 2018, after scoring five hat-tricks in five consecutive matches of the Dhiraagu Dhivehi Premier League.[59][60][61][62]
Goalkeepers who scored a hat-trick Ilija Pantelić  Yugoslavia 1963 First goalkeeper to score a hat-trick for FK Vojvodina against NK Trešnjevka in the Yugoslav first division.
José Luis Chilavert  Paraguay 1999 On 28 November 1999, Chilavert scored a hat-trick of penalties for Vélez Sársfield against Ferro Carril Oeste (6–1) [63][64]
Grigoris Athanasiou  Greece 2022 Grigorios Athanasiou scored a hat-trick of penalties on 12 February 2022 in the Greek fourth division. [65]
Goalkeeper with most clean sheets Gianluigi Buffon  Italy 1995–2023 501 matches without a goal [66]
Goalkeeper with most consecutive minutes without conceding a goal Mazaropi  Brazil 1977–1978 1,816 minutes without a goal [67]
Goalkeeper who saved most penalties Lev Yashin  Soviet Union 1949–1971 Yashin saved a world-record 150-plus penalties for Dynamo Moscow and Soviet Union [68]
Most headers scored in a single game Dondinho  Brazil 1939 Dondinho scored 5 goals with headers in Yuracan's 6-2 win against Smart Futebol Clube in the 1938 regional interior Championship of Itajubá, Minas Gerais. [69]
Most sent-off Gerardo Bedoya  Colombia 1995–2015 46 red cards in total during his career [70]
Most own goals in a match[note 3] Meikayla Moore (women)  New Zealand 2022 Moore scored three own goals against USA [71]
Longest distance goal scored Tom King  Wales 2021 On 21 January 2021, goalkeeper King scored from own six-yard box, a distance of 96.01 meters (105 yds) for Newport County in the 1–1 draw with Cheltenham Town, in League Two. [72]
Player who played for most clubs during his professional career Sebastián Abreu  Uruguay 1993–2021 31 clubs[note 4] [74][75][76]
Player who played for a professional football club in each of the six recognized continental associations Lutz Pfannenstiel  Germany 1991–2011 25 clubs in 6 continental associations
Player with biggest gap between spells at a club Robert Carmona  Uruguay 1985–2009 Robert Carmona left Uruguayan club La Luz in 1985 and returned in 2009, after 24 years [77]

Coaches[edit]

Coaches in bold are still active.

Record Manager Nationality Details Ref
Manager with most international games in charge Bora Milutinovic  Serbia 286 matches for national teams from 1983 until 2009: Mexico (104 games), USA (96), China (46), Nigeria (11), Honduras (10), Costa Rica (9), Jamaica (6) and Iraq (4). [78][79]
Longest-serving manager in history Amadeu Teixeira  Brazil Teixeira was in charge of América de Manaus for 53 years (1955–2008), and he was also one of the founders of the club in 1939. [80]
Most decorated manager Alex Ferguson  Scotland He won 49 titles, including 13 Premier League, 2 UEFA Champions League, 1 Intercontinental Cup and 1 FIFA Club World Cup. [81]
Manager who won the most first-division league titles Bill Struth  Scotland 18 league titles: he won the Scottish first division with Rangers in 1921, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1947, 1949, 1950, and 1953.
Manager with most major international titles (national team) Guillermo Stábile  Argentina 9 titles: Stábile won the Copa America with Argentina (1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1955, 1957), the Pan American Games (1951, 1955) and the Panamerican Championship (1960).
Manager who won most finals Bill Struth  Scotland 64 winning finals: Struth won 10 Scottish FA Cups, 2 Scottish League Cups, 23 Glasgow Cups, 20 Glasgow Merchants Charity Cups, 4 Southern League Cups, 1 Emergency War Cup, 1 Victory Cup, 1 Summer Cup and also 1 Sir Archibald Sinclair Cup, and 1 British Champions' Challenge.
Manager with most international club titles Carlo Ancelotti  Italy 12 titles: Ancelotti won the UEFA Intertoto Cup (1999), the Champions League (2003, 2007, 2014, 2022), the UEFA Super Cup (2003, 2014, 2007, 2022), and the FIFA Club World Cup (2007, 2014, 2022)
Only manager in history to win all six available titles in one calendar year Pep Guardiola  Spain In his first season in charge, Pep Guardiola completed a historic double treble, winning the Copa del Rey, La Liga, the Champions League, the Spanish Super Cup, the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup: six trophies out of six in the 2009 calendar year.
Manager with most The Best FIFA Football Coach awards Jürgen Klopp  Germany Klopp won the award twice, in 2019 and 2020 as a Liverpool manager.
Manager with the highest fee paid for his transfer Julian Nagelsmann  Germany Bayern Munich paid RB Leipzig €25 million to release Nagelsmann's clause in the summer of 2021. [82]

Clubs[edit]

Record Club Nationality Year(s) Details Ref
Club that has scored the most goals in football history Flamengo  Brazil 1912–2024 13,010 (up to April 2024) [83][84][85]
Club that has scored the most goals in history in top-level competitions Liverpool  England 9,219 (up to 2023) [86]
Club with the most international major trophies won Real Madrid  Spain 32 trophies: [87]
Club with the most trophies won in top level competitions Al Ahly  Egypt 126 trophies [88]
Club with the most titles in the same competition ABC  Brazil 57 Campeonato Potiguar titles. [89]
Club with the most national championships won in a row Tafea  Vanuatu 1994 to 2008–09 15 Port Vila Football League consecutive titles. [90]
Club with the most top tier-level titles Arsenal de Sarandí  Argentina Arsenal de Sarandi won four Argentinian football tier levels [91]
Oldest football club that is still active Sheffield  England Since 1848 [92]
Longest winning streak for a first-division club Barcelona (women)  Spain 2021–22 45 consecutive wins [93]
Longest streak for a club scoring at least 1 goal River Plate  Argentina 1936–1939 96 consecutive games [94]
Longest losing streak for a club Corintians de Casa Branca  Brazil 1980–1984 62 consecutive losses at Paulista third level [95]

Other world records[edit]

Record Name Nationality Year(s) Details Ref
Highest score in a single match AS Adema 149–0 SO l'Emyrne  Madagascar 2002 On 31 October 2002, arch-rivals AS Adema and SO Emyrne played each other. In a pre-planned protest, SO Emyrne scored 149 own goals against the referee's decisions in their four-team playoff tournament.

[96]

Highest score in a single match (youth international) Vanuatu 46–0 Micronesia (U–23)  Vanuatu 2015 On 7 July 2015, Vanuatu beat Micronesia by 46–0 in a match in the 2015 Pacific Games. Micronesia also lost by 0–30 and 0–38 against Tahiti and Fiji, respectively.[97]
Highest score in a penalty shootout in history Washington 3–3 Bedlington, penalties 25–24.  England 2022 On 9 March 2022, at the end of the Ernest Armstrong Memorial Cup tie 2021/22, Washington played Bedlington in England's North-East, and the match finished in a 3–3 draw. A total of 54 penalties were taken, with Washington winning 25–24. [98]
Longest penalty shootout in history Washington 3–3 Bedlington, 54 penalties taken
Most red cards given in a match ClaypoleVictoriano Arenas  Argentina 2011 On 3 March 2011, 36 players were shown a red card by referee Damian Rubino in a match between Victoriano Arenas and Claypole, in the Argentine fifth division. All 22 players on the pitch and a combination of 14 subs and coaches received red cards. The match was eventually abandoned. [99]
Competition with most clubs participated in total Copa Perú  Peru More than 20,000 at the District stage [100]
Shortest National Championship Greenlandic Football Championship  Greenland 7 days [101]
Football League with less clubs Isles of Scilly Football League Isles of Scilly Only two clubs contests the league: Woolpack Wanderers and the Garrison Gunners, playing each other eighteen times every season. [102]
Longest football match Stockport County 3–2 Doncaster Rovers, 3 hours and 23 minutes  England 1946 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. [103][104]
Team that played most games on the same day Grêmio  Brazil 1994 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. [105]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Erwin Helmchen could have scored 826 goals in German regional leagues.
  2. ^ This match was not a full international (instead termed a "Victory international").
  3. ^ Not include own goals that were deliberately scored by defenders, for example, as happened in the AS Adema 149–0 SO l'Emyrne.
  4. ^ The Argentine player, Pablo Frontini, might have played for 34 clubs as suggested in the following reference, but in any case they are not all top-level clubs.[73]

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