A NEW RECORD FOR CRISTIANO RONALDO
Cristiano Ronaldo, oldest player to score 10+ goals for NT in a year
This year, Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 10 goals for Portugal at the age of 38. No one in the history of world football has ever managed to score double-digit goals for a national team in a calendar year while being so old.
The previous record belonged to Cristiano Ronaldo himself and dates back to 2021, when he found the net 13 times at 36 years.
Here we provide the historical ranking for this category of players. They are arranged according to age on the last day of the year in which they accomplished their feat.
| NATIONAL TEAM | AT OLDEST | AGE | ||||
| Player | Country | Goals | Year | Games | Age | |
| 1 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | 10 | 2023 | 9 | 38-329 |
| 2 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | 13 | 2021 | 14 | 36-329 |
| 3 | Ali Daei | Iran | 17 | 2004 | 16 | 35-284 |
| 4 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | 18 | 2022 | 14 | 35-190 |
| 5 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | 14 | 2019 | 10 | 34-329 |
| 6 | Zlatan Ibrahimović | Sweden | 11 | 2015 | 10 | 34-089 |
| 7 | Piyapong Pue-on | Thailand | 14 | 1993 | 11 | 34-047 |
| 8 | Wilmer Velásquez | Honduras | 13 | 2005 | 11 | 33-247 |
| 9 | Robert Lewandowski | Poland | 11 | 2021 | 12 | 33-132 |
| 10 | Carlos Hermosillo | Mexico | 10 | 1997 | 16 | 33-129 |
| 11 | Carlos Ruíz | Guatemala | 10 | 2012 | 12 | 33-107 |
| 12 | Godfrey Chitalu | Zambia | 12 | 1980 | 20 | 33-070 |