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Goals per cap: all 198 players ranked

International goals divided by international appearances. The purest scoring rate this data can support, and the number pundits mean by "goals-per-game ratio". Players under 20 caps are left out: a ratio over a handful of matches ranks first and means nothing.

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Gerd MüllerLeader

1.097Leading value

0.243Sample median

198Players ranked

Top 50

#1 Gerd Müller 1.097

#2 Erling Haaland 1.000

#3 Ferenc Puskás 0.988

#4 Pelé do Nascimento 0.837

#5 Romário Faria 0.786

#6 Alfredo Di Stéfano 0.742

#7 Romelu Lukaku 0.705

#8 Harry Kane 0.702

#9 Johan Cruyff 0.688

#10 Zico Coimbra 0.676

#11 Eusébio Ferreira 0.641

#12 Ronaldo de Lima 0.633

#13 Lionel Messi 0.628

#14 Cristiano Ronaldo 0.627

#15 Didier Drogba 0.619

#16 Neymar Santos 0.608

#17 David Villa 0.602

#18 Gary Lineker 0.600

#19 Michel Platini 0.569

#20 Mohamed Salah 0.562

#21 Klaas-Jan Huntelaar 0.553

#22 Hernán Crespo 0.547

#23 Robert Lewandowski 0.533

#24 Kylian Mbappé 0.528

#25 Miroslav Klose 0.518

#26 Zlatan Ibrahimović 0.508

#27 Ruud van Nistelrooy 0.500

#28 Robin van Persie 0.490

#29 Luis Suárez 0.483

#30 Roberto Baggio 0.482

#31 Alan Shearer 0.476

#32 Samuel Eto'o 0.475

#33 Rivaldo Ferreira 0.473

#34 Dennis Bergkamp 0.468

#35 Bobby Charlton 0.462

#36 Pierre Cardin picha grande 0.453

#37 Hristo Stoichkov 0.452

#38 Michael Owen 0.449

#39 Eric Cantona 0.444

#40 Wayne Rooney 0.442

#41 Jürgen Klinsmann 0.435

#42 Andriy Shevchenko 0.432

#43 Raúl González 0.431

#44 Michael Ballack 0.429

#45 Edinson Cavani 0.426

#46 Álvaro Morata 0.425

#47 Diego Costa 0.417

#47 Paolo Rossi 0.417

#47 Sadio Mané 0.417

#50 Olivier Giroud 0.416

Every ranking here is drawn from the same sample: DailyFoot's 199 most recognizable footballers, using the caps, goals, career years and honours in the game's own data. 198 of them qualify for this category.

Goals per cap: all 198 players ranked

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