My GOAT sunil chettri is not top3 players of all time anymore. Pains.
On the plus side, his goals/games ratio is better than Messi and Ronaldo.
Chettri is the true GOAT🐐🐐🐐
Who does Chhetri even score against?
Messi is the Argentinian Chettri.
Super Mokh!
I do think international goals hold less weight these days, due to the amount of games played. Especially European nations playing the likes of San Marino, Luxembourg, Andorra etc more often.
Lukaku ends his career at the top of this list
I’d bet Mbappé will have more than Lukaku then.
49 goals behind Ronaldo and he’s already 30, he needs to score more international goals than Bobby Charlton did in his entire career between now and retirement to do that and that’s only if Ronaldo doesn’t score another one
Ronaldo started scoring more after turning 30, lord Lakaka can easily replicate that
Bringing Bobby Charlton who wasn’t a striker into this is just silly.
It all depends if he can keep up his current form this year. If he plays for 5 more years roughly, it’s 10 goals a year which is a big ask but not out of the question.
Never
Lukaku is 8th in the world???
In history
No harm but look at some of the teams he gets to play against in qualifying games. With Hazard and KDB and others of that quality around you it isn’t too surprising. Also helps that he’s a top class striker
Scoring in Europe is much easier than SA due to numerous bad countries, and most of the all time great forwards came from SA (Messi, Pele, R9, Rivaldo, Maradona, Ronaldinho, Suarez, Milito, Forlan) so yeah.
Idk why you’re getting downvoted, you’re right. If the likes of Messi and Neymar regularly played against the likes of Andorra and Malta, they’d have significantly more goals than they do now.
Neymar is the most ridiculous one on this list. He isnt even a striker and has an insane goal per game ratio
The craziest thing is that he has around 16 goals in his first 50 games and has been averaging around one goal per game since 2016 now.
Reached 50 goals 4 years ago, is at 83 today. Really impressive
He started off pretty slow considering where he is now.
How are you suprised
Greatest stat padder of all time.
You laugh, but if he maintains his current trajectory, he will be number one in about five years’ time.
Man’s got a goals per game ratio that Ali Daei himself would be proud of.
He won’t overtake Ronaldo, no chance
I mean, he’s just turned 30, and he needs 46 more goals to overtake him. Ronaldo probably can’t keep going past the next euros you would have thought, so maybe the target will end up around 50.
Lukaku’s averaging about 8 goals per year, and it’s not like there are any red hot young Belgian strikers in place to surpass him. So if he keeps going past the next world cup, then there is a small chance; weirder things have happened.
Lukaku has been playing regularly since he was 17 or something, he doesn’t have that much time ahead of him. Don’t see him being able to score 50 more international goals in his life.
Not everyone keeps scoring regularly until 39 like Ronaldo
Damn lukaky is just 30? I thought he was much older
He’s been playing for the Belgian NT since he was 17 and moved from Anderlecht to Chelsea when he was only 18. He was only 16 when he played with Anderlecht in the Europa League. He had his breakthrough seasons at West Brom and Everton when he was only 19 and 20 and was only 23 when he broke Everton’s topscorer record and finished second behind Kane in the seasonal topscorer list (who by the way is the same age). He was also the first non-English player ever to reach 50 PL goals before 23.
Lukaku seems like he’s been around for ages because he has been around for ages. Lukaku is that rare type of player that was already elite at an age where most players are still looking for their breakthrough.
and it’s not like there are any red hot young Belgian strikers
Well, there is Openda who is very much on an upwards trajectory. I could see him take Lukaku’s starting spot when Lukaku gets a bit older and Openda gets even better. But even in that scenario, Lukaku will definitely still be in the squad and get playing time.
HUGE if
People here don’t like to hear it, but it’s simply so much easier to get goals now than 20-40 years ago.
It’s not like he’s the only one playing today
is it? 40 years ago scorelines 10:0 were pretty normal, nowadays I would only say it’s easier because there are more competitions which means more matches
40 years ago was the 80s bro.
Without trying to offend anyone but, EU qualifiers have a ton of really low level punching bags (we just seen France beat someone 14-0) and that is just not possible in other confederations
It’s very possible also in Asia and North America, it’s just South America which is unlucky (and partly also Africa, but they have Djbouti and Seychelles)
I hope Lewandowski can be 3rd on this list by the end of his career
I don’t know why, but is there a problem in CAF? How come we don’t have prolific goal scorers?
Chhetri my Goat
205 caps is mad, that record will probably stay for a loong time. (if it is a record, im not sure but you’d think it is)
He was going toe to toe with a player from Kuwait I think, but seems the latter slowed down.
EDIT: his name is Bader Al-Mutawa and he has 196 caps but the last was in June 2022, probably won’t reach Ronaldo.
Upon my name as Godfrey
200+ appearances for a national team as an outfield player is insane.
It’s honestly fitting that only Ronaldo, and probably Messi, will get to that number, at least for a few years.
Top two goalscorers as well, even more probable.
I know it’s not the most immediately eye-catching number on this list, but Lewandowski scoring over 80 goals for a country that hasn’t been consistently able to create chances since the early Eighties is absolutely insane.
Proof that this state doesn’t mean anything about actual quality
Are this official games?
Arent all international games “official” games?
All games count for NT.
Neymar is catching up. There is a good chance, by the end of their careers, the top 3 will be Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar.
Odds are he’ll retire before Ronaldo
Never. He is too often injured and Brazil doesn’t get easy fixtures
Neymar’s decline has already started. I HIGHLY doubt he’s gonna get close.