World’s Top Goal Scorer According to IFFHS: The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) is a group in Switzerland that gathers and studies soccer stats. They make lists, like the IFFHS World’s Best Top Goal Scorer ranking. This list shows who scored the most goals in all the games they played for their club and their country.
World’s Top Goal Scorer According to IFFHS
The IFFHS World’s Best Top Goal Scorer ranking is a very important award in soccer. It shows how good a player is at scoring goals, how long they’ve been doing it, and how often they do it.
Men’s Winners
The award started in 2011, and since then, many great players have won it. Here’s a list of the winners of the IFFHS World’s Best Top Goal Scorer award, in order of the years they won it:
List of Winners
Year
Rank
Player
Club(s)
Goals
2011
1st
Cristiano Ronaldo
Real Madrid
60
2011
2nd
Lionel Messi
FC Barcelona
59
2011
3rd
Aleksandrs Čekulajevs
Narva Trans
56
2012
1st
Lionel Messi
Barcelona
91
2012
2nd
Cristiano Ronaldo
Real Madrid
63
2012
3rd
Neymar
Santos
55
2013
1st
Cristiano Ronaldo
Real Madrid
69
2013
2nd
Ali Ashfaq
New Radiant
58
2013
3rd
Zlatan Ibrahimović
Paris Saint-Germain
47
2014
1st
Cristiano Ronaldo
Real Madrid
61
2014
2nd
Lionel Messi
Barcelona
58
2014
3rd
Jonathan Soriano
Red Bull Salzburg
55
2015
1st
Cristiano Ronaldo
Real Madrid
57
2015
2nd
Lionel Messi
Barcelona
52
2015
3rd
Robert Lewandowski
Bayern Munich
49
2016
1st
Lionel Messi
Barcelona
58
2016
2nd
Cristiano Ronaldo
Real Madrid
55
2016
3rd
Luis Suárez
Barcelona
51
2017
1st
Harry Kane
Tottenham Hotspur
56
2017
2nd
Lionel Messi
Barcelona
54
2017
3rd
Cristiano Ronaldo
Real Madrid
53
2018
1st
Baghdad Bounedjah
Al-Sadd
58
2018
2nd
Lionel Messi
Barcelona
51
2018
3rd
Cristiano Ronaldo
Real Madrid, Juventus
49
2019
1st
Abderrazak Hamdallah
Al Nassr
57
2019
2nd
Robert Lewandowski
Bayern Munich
54
2019
3rd
Lionel Messi
Barcelona
50
2020
1st
Robert Lewandowski
Bayern Munich
47
2020
2nd
Cristiano Ronaldo
Juventus
44
2020
3rd
Romelu Lukaku
Inter Milan
40
2021
1st
Robert Lewandowski
Bayern Munich
69
2021
2nd
Kylian Mbappé
Paris Saint-Germain
51
2021
3rd
Erling Haaland
Borussia Dortmund
49
2022
1st
Kylian Mbappé
Paris Saint-Germain
56
2022
2nd
Erling Haaland
Borussia Dortmund Manchester City
46
2022
3rd
Bergson
Johor Darul Ta’zim
46
The Men’s Players With Most Wins
Seven players have won the IFFHS Men’s Players With Top Goal Scorers award, and their goal-scoring records are incredibly impressive. Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are still playing, and they keep scoring goals regularly.
Here are the top 7 players on the IFFHS Men’s Players With Most Wins Top Goal Scorers Ranking:
Player
Country
Wins (Years)
Cristiano Ronaldo
Portugal
4x (2011, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Lionel Messi
Argentina
2x (2012, 2016)
Robert Lewandowski
Poland
2x (2020, 2021)
Harry Kane
England
1x (2017)
Baghdad Bounedjah
Algeria
1x (2018)
Abderrazak Hamdallah
Morocco
1x (2019)
Kylian Mbappé
France
1x (2022)
The Clubs With the Most Wins
Club
Total
Players
Real Madrid
4
1
Barcelona
2
1
Bayern Munich
2
1
Al Nassr
1
1
Al Sadd
1
1
Paris Saint-Germain
1
1
Tottenham Hotspur
1
1
The Countries With the Most Wins
Nationality
Total
Players
Portugal
4
1
Argentina
2
1
Poland
2
1
Algeria
1
1
England
1
1
France
1
1
Morocco
1
1
Women’s Winners
List of Winners
Year
Rank
Player
Club(s)
Goals
2021
1st
Jennifer Hermoso
Barcelona
48
2021
2nd
Lea Schüller
Bayern Munich
47
2021
3rd
Alexia Putellas
Barcelona
43
2022
1st
Fenna Kalma
Twente
45
2022
2nd
Sam Kerr
Chelsea
38
2022
3rd
Tessa Wullaert
Anderlecht, Fortuna Sittard
38
Women’s Players With Most Wins
Jennifer Hermoso and Fenna Kalma are two female players who have achieved the IFFHS award.