Top 5 Highest Goal Scorer in the history of Football

The world's most well-known sport is football. Nearly every country in the world has a football league. There are many football players, but only a few will go down in the annals of the game. Goals are key when discussing football because they are what matter most. The difference between a team winning and losing is the goal. At the professional level, scoring goals is not easy, but some ballers have left their mark on the sport's history as some of the finest players to have ever donned this sport. We have therefore ranked the top 10 goal scorers of all time to honor the players. 

1. Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese football player who is considered to be one of the greatest footballers in the world. He has won 5 champions league trophies throughout his career with being the top goal scorer. He has played professional football for Sporting CP, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Juventus, and Al Naseer FC. He has scored a total of 837 professional goals in 1165 football games. He has an average of 0.72 goals per game. He has been playing professional football since 2002. He has a prestigious trophy cabinet where a World Cup trophy for his country is the only missing one. He has won 5 Ballon d'Or awards. He is the most famous footballer in the world.

2. Lionel Messi

   Lionel Messi is an Argentine football player who is also considered to be one of the greatest footballers in the world. He has won all the major trophies in his career. He has won 4 champions league trophies and a 2022 World Cup trophy among others. He has also won seven Ballon d'Or awards, most by any player. He has played professional football for his boyhood club, FC Barcelona, and later for Paris Saint-German. He has played around 1026 professional games throughout his career and scored 806 goals with an average of 0.79 goals per game. He has been a professional footballer since 2004. 

3. Josef Bican

Josef Bican was an Austrian-Czech professional football player who played as a striker. He is the all-time highest scorer in European top-flight leagues, according to UEFA, the organization that governs European football, with 518 goals (447 in Czechoslovakia and 71 in Austria), just ahead of Hungarian Ferenc Puskás. As the greatest goal scorer of the 20th century, Bican received the "Golden Ball" from the IFFHS in 2000. The prize was given based on how frequently a player had led his domestic league in scoring, a distinction that Bican held 12 times. He had scored 805 official professional goals in 530 football games with an average of 1.52.

4. Pelé

   Pelé was a Brazilian professional football player who was considered to be one of the greatest players of all time. He started his career at the age of 15 by playing for Santos and the Brazil national team at 16. He had won three FIFA World Cups. His feet were given the nickname "golden feet". Pelé had scored 765 official goals in 812 professional football games with an average of 0.94 goals per game. He also won the World Player of the Century voted by the International International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) and was one of the two joint winners of the FIFA Player of the Century.

5. Romário

 Romário is a Brazilian former professional footballer who is known for his clinical finishing. When Brazil won the FIFA World Cup in 1994, Romário was a key member of the team and was awarded the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player. The following year, he received the FIFA World Player of the Year award. He was chosen for the FIFA World Cup Dream Team in 2002, placed fifth in the FIFA Player of the Century online vote in 1999, and was included in the FIFA 100 list of the top players in the world today in 2004. He has scored 753 goals in 963 games with an average of 0.78 goals per game. He is one of the greatest Brazilian footballers in the world. He made his retirement from football in 2009.