Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro GOIH ComM (European Portuguese: [kɾiʃˈtjɐnu ʁɔˈnaɫdu] ; born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Juventus and captains the Portugal national team . Often considered the best player in the world and widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.
Cristiano Rinaldo breaks football history as the the active player with the highest goal plus the one he scored last night. No one has near him, he keeps on scoring to be the best.
He’s still got a little way to go if he wants to beat Josef Bican’s record of 805 goals, though.
But with Ronaldo showing no signs of slowing down at the age of 34, you certainly wouldn’t put it past him.
In terms of active players, however, Ronaldo reigns supreme.
When you take into account goals scored at international youth level, Ronaldo has now scored 745.
Top-level football , 10 active players have scored 415 or more goals over the course of their career, according (in most cases) to research by the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Only those who were active in the highest level football for most of their careers are considered.
He is one of the few recorded players to have made over 1,000 professional career appearances and has scored over 745 senior career goals for club and country.
Including national team and club goals at youth level, the Portuguese superstar has reached a staggering 745 goals in 1040 games at the top level.
Rank Player Total goals Total matches Ratio Years
1 Cristiano Ronaldo 745 [14] 1040 0.72 2001–
2 Lionel Messi 726 [15] 915 0.79 2003–
3 Zlatan Ibrahimović 547 [16] 925 0.59 1999–
4 Robert Lewandowski 481 [17] 730 0.66 2006–
5 Luis Suárez 475 [18] 759 0.63 2005–
6 Ali Ashfaq 463 [19] 544 0.85 2001