pele scored most goals in international football history.
pele scored most goals in international football history.
who scored most goals in international football history?
pele
daei was named the world's top scorer in official international competitions by the international federation of football history and statistics (iffhs), having scored 20 goals in competitive matches for iran in 1996, including his famous 4 goal haul against south korea in asian cup 1996. by the end of the 1996 asian cup, he had scored 29 goals in 38 appearances for iran. in the 1998 world cup qualifying campaign, he was again on top of the charts, scoring 9 goals in 17 matches for iran, reaching his impressive record of 38 goals in 52 appearances for his country. he is ranked first in most goals in international matches.
ali daei
their next match produced an even more one-sided result, indeed to that point the most one-sided result in international football history, as they lost fiji 0–38, with goalkeeper walter pengelbew conceding 21 goals in the first half before being replaced in goal by erstwhile midfielder dominic gadad, who himself went on to concede a further 17 goals as micronesia eclipsed the former world record for number of goals conceded in official competition set by american samoa when they conceded 31 against australia in 2001. however, this result did not replace the american samoa match in the record books firstly as micronesia are not affiliated to fifa and secondly as the competition, since it is doubling up as a qualifying tournament for the 2016 summer olympics, is being contested by under-23 teams. however, the scoreline was deemed an official record for the pacific games. tony tuivuna scored ten goals for fiji, narrowly beating chris wasasala, who scored nine goals on his international debut to top scorer. also scoring were iosefo verevou and garish prasad with five each, napolioni qasevakatini with four, masana nawakula with two, while savenaca nakalevu and tevita waranaivalu scored one each.
federated states of micronesia national under-23 football team