IFFHS MEN'S WORLD BEST GOAL SCORER 2024 at FEBRUARY 29
IFFHS Men's World Best Goal Scorer 2024 at 29 February: Martín Cauteruccio
Martín Cauteruccio (picture) was very sensational in February with his 14 goals scored for Sporting Cristal during a single month (10 in the national league, 4 in Copa Libertadores).
No one has ever scored so many goals in a calendar month over the current decade!
In total, the 36-year-old Uruguayan striker has already scored 17 goals since the beginning of the year, breaking away from the other scorers by a solid distance of 4 goals.
His two-month goal collection includes as many as 4 hat-tricks.
What makes his feat even more surprising is that Cauteruccio has never appeared in the IFFHS rankings before.
Before his arrival in Peru early this year, he didn’t score a single goal in his last 15 games for his previous club Independiente (Argentina).
THE RANKING 2024
| Player | Goals | DL | DC | ICC | NT | Nationality | Club (League) | |
| 1 | Martín Cauteruccio | 17 | 13 | 4 | Uruguay | Sporting Cristal (Peru) | ||
| 2 | Viktor Gyökeres | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | Sweden | Sporting (Portugal) | |
| 3 | Luuk de Jong | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | Netherlands | PSV | |
| 4 | Imre Badalassi | 12 | 12 | Italy | Tre Penne (San Marino) | |||
| 5 | Kylian Mbappé | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | France | PSG | |
| 6 | Brad Young | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | England | The New Saints (Wales) | |
| 7 | Aymen Hussein | 10 | 4 | 6 | Iraq | Al Quwa Al Jawiya | ||
| 8 | Frantzdy Pierrot | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | Haiti | Maccabi Haifa | |
| 9 | Evanílson | 10 | 6 | 4 | Brazil | Porto (Portugal) | ||
| 10 | Michy Batshuayi | 10 | 4 | 6 | Belgium | Fenerbahçe (Turkey) | ||
| 11 | Akram Afif | 9 | 9 | Qatar | Al Sadd | |||
| 12 | Robert Lewandowski | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | Poland | Barcelona (Spain) | |
| 13 | Dušan Vlahović | 9 | 9 | Serbia | Juventus (Italy) | |||
| 14 | Lautaro Martínez | 9 | 8 | 1 | Argentina | Inter (Italy) | ||
| 15 | Jonathan David | 9 | 6 | 3 | Canada | Lille (France) | ||
| 16 | Rey Manaj | 9 | 8 | 1 | Albania | Sivasspor (Turkey) | ||
| 17 | Ezequiel Ponce | 9 | 9 | Argentina | AEK Athens (Greece) | |||
| 18 | Lawrence Shankland | 9 | 7 | 2 | Scotland | Hearts | ||
| 19 | Robson | 9 | 9 | Brazil | Coritiba | |||
| Paulo Baya | 9 | 9 | Brazil | Goiás | ||||
| 21 | Carlinhos | 9 | 8 | 1 | Brazil | Nova Iguaçu | ||
| 22 | Ronan Hale | 9 | 4 | 5 | Republic of Ireland | Cliftonville (Northern Ireland) | ||
| 23 | Samuel Pancotti | 9 | 9 | San Marino | Folgore | |||
| 24 | Luke Montebello | 9 | 7 | 2 | Malta | Hamrun Spartans | ||
| 25 | Benjamin Bourigeaud | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | France | Rennes | |
| 26 | Ayoub El Kaabi | 8 | 6 | 2 | Morocco | Olympiakos (Greece) | ||
| 27 | Ulises Dávila | 8 | 6 | 2 | Mexico | Macarthur (Australia) | ||
| 28 | Paulo Dybala | 8 | 7 | 1 | Argentina | Roma (Italy) | ||
| 29 | Erling Haaland | 8 | 3 | 5 | Norway | Manchester City (England) | ||
| 30 | Rafa | 8 | 7 | 1 | Portugal | Benfica | ||
| 31 | Pedro Gonçalves | 8 | 4 | 4 | Portugal | Sporting Lisbon | ||
| 32 | Semih Kılıçsoy | 8 | 8 | Turkey | Beşiktaş | |||
| 33 | Levi García | 8 | 8 | Trinidad and Tobago | AEK Athens (Greece) | |||
| 34 | Bojan Miovski | 8 | 5 | 3 | North Macedonia | Aberdeen (Scotland) | ||
| 35 | Gonzalo Mastriani | 8 | 8 | Uruguay | América Mineiro (Brazil) | |||
| 36 | David Fisher | 8 | 7 | 1 | England | Glentoran (Northern Ireland) | ||
| 37 | Andy Ryan | 8 | 4 | 4 | Scotland | Larne (Northern Ireland) | ||
| 38 | Guilherme Bissoli | 8 | 8 | Brazil | Buriram United (Thailand) | |||
| 39 | Pablo Rodríguez | 8 | 7 | 1 | Spain | St Joseph's (Gibraltar) |
All goals at top senior level are counted: domestic (top national and regional) leagues (DL), domestic cups (DC), official international club tournaments (ICC), official games between national teams (NT).
Period: from 1 January to 31 December 2024.
Tie-breakers: 1) more international goals (ICC + NT), 2) more goals for national team (NT), 3) stronger league (by IFFHS ranking), 4) goals in domestic leagues (DL), 5) number of total games.