10 footballers with the highest number of goals (all time)

#2 Romário - 772 Career Goals

Romário is on the 2nd spot with 772 goals

Romario, the man described by former Barcelona coach Johann Cruyff as "a genius" in the penalty area. The clinical finisher has scored over 772 senior career goals for club and country, which comprises of 71 goals in 85 international matches (16 Youth/Olympics and 55 National) and 701 league goals. During his carrer, he represented in several football clubs all around the globe.

The best year of his career was 1994, when he starred for Brazil in FIFA World Cup success, receiving the FIFA Golden Ball as player of the tournament. He came fifth in the FIFA Player of the Century internet poll in 1999, was elected to the FIFA World Cup Dream Team in 2002.

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#1 Josef Bican - 805 Career Goals

Josef Bican tops the list with 805 goals

Josef Bican was most prolific goalscorer in the football history and is sometimes regarded as a forgotten legend. He had the ability to play with both feet; he also had considerable pace and was able to run 100 metres in 10.8 seconds, which was as fast as many sprinters of the time. The International Federation of Football History & Statistics awarded Bican the "Golden Ball" as the greatest goalscorer of the last century. Josef is one of those players in football history, who maintained a strike rate of more than one goal per match throughout their carrier. While In 1955 the profile goalscorer ended his career with a massive strike rate of 1.52 and three times in his career, Bican scored seven goals in a game

As per RSSSF estimates Bican scored about 1468 goals in all competitive and friendly matches, that make him the most prolific scorer in football history. While Some team-mates even claimed he'd actually scored more than 5000 - something that Bican never denied, simply saying "Who'd have believed me if I said I'd scored five times as many goals as Pele?..."