Stats: Highest international goalscorers of all time

Robbie Keane after the 7-0 drubbing of Gibraltar

Republic of Ireland’s Robbie Keane has surpassed Brazil’s legenadary Ronaldo Lima in the most international goals tally thanks to a hat-trick against a hapless Gibraltar side during a 7-0 win. He got his hat-trick within the first 18 minutes but even this wasn’t enough to send Ireland on top of Group D as they remain 1 behind Poland on goal-difference.

The LA Galaxy captain now lies joint 14th on the list of top international goalscorers of all time with Ivory Coast’s Didier Drogba.

He also became the leading goalscorer in Euro qualifying history ahead of Jon Dahl Tomasson (19), ?ükür (19) & Raul (18). He also broke the record for the fastest hat-trick scored during a Euro qualifier held previously by Marco van Basten.

ALL TIME RECORD - Robbie Keane is now the leading goal scorer in Eurocup Qualifier history

— MisterChip (English) (@MisterChiping) October 12, 2014

Robbie Keane has scored 65 international goals. Germany's starting 11 only have 64 between them.

— Richard Jolly (@RichJolly) October 11, 2014

Here is a list of highest international goalscorers of all time:

Highest international goalscorers of all time

Name	Country	Goals	Appearances
Ali Daei	Iran	109	149
Ferenc Puskás	Hungary	84	85
Kunishige Kamamoto	Japan	80	84
Godfrey Chitalu	Zambia	79	108
Pelé	Brazil	77	92
Sándor Kocsis	Hungary	75	68
Bashar Abdullah	Kuwait	75	133
Majed Abdullah	Saudi Arabia	71	116
Miroslav Klose	Germany	71	137
Stern John	Trinidad and Tobago	70	115
Kiatisuk Senamuang	Thailand	70	131
Gerd Müller	West Germany	68	62
Hossam Hassan	Egypt	68	176
Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	65	104
Robbie Keane	Republic of Ireland	65	137
Jassem Al-Houwaidi	Kuwait	63	74
Ronaldo	Brazil	62	98
Hussein Saeed	Iraq	61	126
Imre Schlosser	Hungary	59	68
David Villa	Spain	59	97

For the record, Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo has 50 goals from 114 matches and Argentina’s Leo Messi has 42 goals from 94 matches.

England’s Wayne Rooney scored against Estonia and now has 43 goals to his name just 6 behind the all time record for his country held by Sir Bobby Charlton.

Trivia for Indian fans: Sunil Chhetri has 42 goals from 73 matches. Meanwhile favourites from Group D Germany lost 2-0 to Poland and superstar Mario Gotze reacted to a silly question by a journalist.

Keane, 34 is the only active footballer on the Top 20 list and looks good to move even higher up the charts with a bulk of Euro 2016 qualifiers still to be played.