NATIONS SCORING RUNS
Picture : Lionel Messi and Mohamed Salah made it to a run of 8 games !
Nations’ best scoring runs in XXI century
As we recently noted, Aymen Hussеin exploded this year with a 10-game scoring streak for Iraq. He is the first player in XXI century to stretch such a run in double-digit number of games.
Before Hussеin, the maximum individual feat in XXI century was 8 scoring games in a row, achieved by 4 players.
Here we update the current century's rankings for the nation's top serial scorers.
| LONGEST | SCORING | STREAKS | |||
| NATIONAL | TEAMS | XXI | CENTURY | ||
| Player | Team | Games | From | To | |
| Aymen Hussein | Iraq | 10 | 15/01/2024 | 15/10/2024 | |
| Edin Džeko | Bosnia and H | 8 | 10/09/2008 | 12/08/2009 | |
| Mohamed Salah | Egypt | 8 | 05/09/2017 | 16/11/2018 | |
| Aleksandar Mitrović | Serbia | 8 | 10/06/2019 | 03/09/2020 | |
| Lionel Messi | Argentina | 8 | 03/12/2022 | 08/09/2023 | |
| Jan Koller | Czech Republic | 7 | 09/10/2004 | 17/08/2005 | |
| Mohammad Al-Sahlawi | Saudi Arabia | 7 | 14/01/2015 | 08/10/2015 | |
| Robert Lewandowski | Poland | 7 | 30/06/2016 | 10/06/2017 | |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | 7 | 07/09/2019 | 08/09/2020 | |
| Riyad Mahrez | Algeria | 7 | 13/10/2020 | 02/09/2021 | |
| Erling Haaland | Norway | 7 | 01/09/2021 | 05/06/2022 | |
| Darwin Núñez | Uruguay | 7 | 12/10/2023 | 28/06/2024 |