List of world association football records

This article features a list of men's professional FIFA records in association football, in any football league, cup or other official competition around the world, unless otherwise stated. This statistics does not include friendly, promotional or regional matches and tournaments. These records are divided based on whether they relate to players, coaches or clubs.

This article contains the most prominent records in the world, without taking into account the classification of leagues or championships.

Players

Players in bold are still active.

Goals and goalscoring records
Record Player Nationality Year(s) Details Ref
Player with most goals of all time Cristiano Ronaldo  Portugal 2002–present Cristiano scored 862 goals in his career. [1]
Player with most club goals Josef Bican Austria Austria
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia		 1931–1957 Bican scored 781 goals in 493 matches with ten different clubs during his 27-year long career. [2]
Player with most international goals Cristiano Ronaldo  Portugal 2003–present 127 goals International goals in 203 games.
Player with the most goals scored in a calendar year Lionel Messi  Argentina 2012 Messi scored 91 goals in 69 matches in 2012 for Barcelona and Argentina [3][4]
Player with most club-goals scored in a football season Lionel Messi  Argentina 2011–12 Messi scored 73 goals with Barcelona during the 2011-12 season. [5][6][7][8]
Player with 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.
Player with most goals scored for a single club Lionel Messi  Argentina 2004–2021 Messi scored 672 goals for Barcelona during 17 seasons.
Player with 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. [9]
Player with most goals scored in a league match Yanick Manzizila  Democratic Republic of the Congo 2014 Scored 21 goals in the match Kongo United 30–0 Balrog Botkyrka. [10][11][12]
Player with 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). [13]
Player with most penalty kick goals Cristiano Ronaldo  Portugal 2002–present Cristiano scored 158 penalties goals. [14]
Player with most free kick goals Juninho  Brazil 1993–2013 Juninho scored 77 free kicks goals. [15]
Highest goal-scoring goalkeeper of all time Rogério Ceni  Brazil 1990–2015 Ceni scored 129 goals in 1,236 games. [16]
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. [17]
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 1] [18]
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. [19]

Appearances records
Record Player Nationality Year(s) Details Ref
Player with most matches of all time Peter Shilton  England 1966–1997 1,390 games over 31 seasons
Player with most international caps Soh Chin Ann (men)  Malaysia 1969–1984 219 caps. [20]
Kristine Lilly (women)  United States 1987–2010 354 caps. [21]
Player with most matches for one club Rogério Ceni  Brazil 1992–2015 1,197 games with São Paulo [22][23]
Player with most matches as captain for one club Rogério Ceni  Brazil 2001–2015 978 games: captained São Paulo from 2001 until 2015 [22][23]
Player with most international club competition appearances in history Iker Casillas  Spain 1999–2019 192 appearances: 188 in UEFA club competitions, 2 in Intercontinental Cup, 2 in FIFA Club World Cup. [24]
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. [25][26][27] [28]
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. [29]
Oldest professional football player Kazuyoshi Miura  Japan 1986–present Striker Miura continues playing football for Oliveirense having surpassed the age of 56. [30]

Other records
Record Player Nationality Year(s) Details Ref
Most decorated player Lionel Messi  Argentina 2004–present 44 titles won [31]
Player with most matches wins Cristiano Ronaldo  Portugal 2002–present 783 matches wins in his career [32]
Goalkeeper with most clean sheets Gianluigi Buffon  Italy 1995–2023 501 matches without a goal
Goalkeeper with most consecutive minutes without conceding a goal Mazaropi  Brazil 1977–1978 1,816 minutes without a goal [33]
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. [34]
Player with most sent-off Gerardo Bedoya  Colombia 1995–2015 46 red cards in total during his career [35]
Player with most own goals in a match[note 2] Meikayla Moore (women)  New Zealand 2022 Moore scored three own goals against USA [36]

    Coaches

    Coaches in bold are still active.

    Record Manager Nationality Details Ref
    Manager with most international games in charge Bora Milutinovic  Serbia 287 matches for national teams from 1983 until 2009: Mexico (104 games), USA (96), China (46), Nigeria (11), Honduras (10), Costa Rica (9), Jamaica (7) and Iraq (4). [37]
    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. [38]
    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. [39]
    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 with Argentina the Copa America (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)
    Manager with the highest fee paid for his transfer Julian Nagelsmann  Germany Bayern Munich paid RB Leipzig €25million to release Nagelsmann's clause in the summer of 2021. [40]

    Clubs
    See also: List of association football teams to have won four or more trophies in one season
    Record Club Nationality Year(s) Details Ref
    Club that has scored the most goals in history Santos  Brazil 12,894 (up to 18 August 2023) [41]
    Club that has scored the most goals in history in top level competitions Liverpool  England 9,219 (up to 2023) [42]
    Club with most international major trophies won Real Madrid  Spain 32 trophies: [43]
    Club with most trophies won in top level competitions Al Ahly  Egypt 126 trophies
    Club with most titles in the same competition ABC  Brazil 57 Campeonato Potiguar titles. [44]
    Club with most national championships won in a row Tafea  Vanuatu 1994 to 2008–09 15 Port Vila Football League consecutive titles. [45]
    Club with more tier level titles Arsenal de Sarandí  Argentina Arsenal de Sarandi won four Argentinian football tier levels [46]
    Oldest football club that is still active Sheffield F.C.  England Since 1848 [47]
    Longest winning streak for a first division club FC Barcelona Femení  Spain 2021–22 45 consecutive wins [48]
    Longest streak for a club scoring at least 1 goal River Plate  Argentina 1936–1939 96 consecutive games [49]
    Longest losing streak for a club Corintians de Casa Branca  Brazil 1980–1984 62 consecutive losses at Paulista third level [50]

    Other world records
    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 referees decisions in their four-team playoff tournament.

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    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.[52]
    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. [53]
    Longest penalty shootout in history Washington 3–3 Bedlington, 54 penalties taken
    Most red cards given in a match Claypole – Victoriano 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. [54]
    Competition with most clubs participated in total Copa Perú  Peru More than 20,000 at the District stage [55]
    Shortest National Championship Greenlandic Football Championship  Greenland 7 days [56]
    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. [57]
    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. [58][59]
    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. [60]

    See also

    Notes
    1. This match was not a full international (instead termed a "Victory international").
    2. Not include own goals that were deliberately scored by defenders, for example, as happened in the AS Adema 149–0 SO l'Emyrne.

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