Lewandowski, Ronaldo, Messi, Pele: Who are football's record scorers? | OneFootball

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·21 October 2022

Lewandowski, Ronaldo, Messi, Pele: Who are football's record scorers?

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Robert Lewandowski is certainly enjoying life at Barcelona.

While the team trail Real Madrid in the La Liga title race and are on the verge of exiting the Champions League, the striker has been in supreme form.


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In his first 16 games wearing Barcelona colours, Lewandowski has scored 16 goals, the master marksman adding another brace to his collection on Thursday evening.

The former Bayern Munich scored two quickfire goals in a comfortable 3-0 victory over Villarreal at Camp Nou.

Lewandowski's strikes against the Yellow Submarine have now seen him join one of football's most exclusive clubs.

He's now surpassed the 600-goal mark for club and country combined, which is a quite spectacular achievement.

Lewandowski is only the 11th man to hit that three-figure total and just the third in the 21st century.

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Who're the others? Well, let's find out...

The 11 highest scorers in men's professional football

11. Robert Lewandowski (Poland) - 601 goals

10. Joe Bambrick (Northern Ireland) - 611 goals

9. Eusebio (Portugal) - 619 goals

8. Gerd Muller (Germany) - 634 goals

7. Jimmy Jones (Northern Ireland) - 647 goals

6. Josef Bican (Austria, Czech Republic) - 720 goals

5. Ferenc Puskas (Hungary) - 729 goals

4. Romario (Brazil) - 755 goals

3. Pele (Brazil) - 762 goals

2. Lionel Messi (Argentina) - 781 goals

  1. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) - 817 goals
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Lewandowski now has a seat among a pantheon of greats.

And given the fact he's still firing on all cylinders, Poland's record scorer will likely occupy seventh spot on the list by the time he calls it quits.

Who knows, Lewandowski may even become the seventh man to bag 700 goals for club and country combined, although that certainly won't be easy to achieve and will rely on him avoiding injury over the next few years.

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As we previously mentioned, Lewandowski has 16 goals from his first 14 appearances in a Barcelona shirt, a continuation of his outrageous form at Bayern.

In 375 matches across all competitions with the German outfit, the 34-year-old rippled the back of the net a whopping 344 times.

At Borussia Dortmund, Lewandowski scored 103 goals in 187 games, while he bagged 62 in 114 during his time in Poland with Lech Poznan and Znicz Pruszkow.

And on international duty, the winner of the inaugural Gerd Muller Trophy's current record reads 76 goals in 134 appearances.

What a ridiculously good footballer he is.

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