IFFHS MEN'S WORLD BEST GOAL SCORER 2025
Picture : Haaland, Kane, Mbappé - the currently podium.
IFFHS Men’s World Best Goal Scorer 2025 at 30 November: Kylian Mbappé
Kylian Mbappe has great prospects of winning the contest, bringing his tally to 60 and leading by a margin of 6 goals.
He has already surpassed his previous annual record (56) and became the 5th player in the current century to reach the 60-goal mark, after Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Robert Lewandowski and Viktor Gyökeres.
Now he can try to beat the all-time annual scoring record for French players, established by Just Fontaine in 1958 (66 goals for club and country).
THE RANKING 2025
| Player | Total | DL | DC | ICC | NT | Country | Clubs (Leagues) | |
| 1 | Kylian Mbappé | 60 | 35 | 3 | 15 | 7 | France | Real Madrid (Spain) |
| 2 | Harry Kane | 54 | 26 | 5 | 14 | 9 | England | Bayern (Germany) |
| 3 | Erling Haaland | 51 | 22 | 1 | 11 | 17 | Norway | Manchester City (England) |
| Kevin Hernández | 48 | 47 | 1 | Puerto Rico | Academia Quintana | |||
| 4 | Lionel Messi | 46 | 35 | 8 | 3 | Argentina | Inter Miami (USA) | |
| 5 | Victor Osimhen | 42 | 20 | 5 | 9 | 8 | Nigeria | Galatasaray (Turkey) |
| 6 | Vangelis Pavlidis | 41 | 25 | 6 | 8 | 2 | Greece | Benfica (Portugal) |
| Jorge Rivera | 40 | 40 | Puerto Rico | Metropolitan FA | ||||
| 7 | Róger Guedes | 39 | 25 | 10 | 4 | Brazil | Al Rayyan (Qatar) | |
| 8 | Cristiano Ronaldo | 38 | 25 | 1 | 4 | 8 | Portugal | Al Nassr (Saudi Arabia) |
| 9 | Guilherme Bissoli | 38 | 25 | 7 | 6 | Brazil | Buriram (Thailand) | |
| 10 | Denis Bouanga | 37 | 26 | 6 | 5 | Gabon | Los Angeles (USA) | |
| 11 | Serhou Guirassy | 36 | 20 | 1 | 14 | 1 | Guinea | Borussia Dortmund (Germany) |
| 12 | Ivan Toney | 34 | 25 | 6 | 3 | England | Al Ahli (Saudi Arabia) | |
| 13 | Barnabás Varga | 33 | 15 | 2 | 10 | 6 | Hungary | Ferencvaros |
| 14 | Bérgson | 33 | 23 | 6 | 4 | Brazil | Johor Darul Ta'zim (Malaysia) | |
| 15 | Viktor Gyökeres | 33 | 25 | 5 | 3 | Sweden | Sporting (Portugal), Arsenal (England) | |
| 16 | Marcos Leonardo | 32 | 20 | 3 | 9 | Brazil | Al Hilal (Saudi Arabia) | |
| 17 | Mohanad Ali | 32 | 27 | 1 | 4 | Iraq | Al Shorta, Dibba (UAE) | |
| 18 | Paulinho | 32 | 27 | 1 | 4 | Portugal | Toluca (Mexico) | |
| 19 | Patrick Pedersen | 32 | 18 | 14 | Denmark | Valur (Iceland) | ||
| 20 | Lautaro Martínez | 31 | 12 | 1 | 14 | 4 | Argentina | Inter (Italy) |
| 21 | Ousmane Dembélé | 31 | 15 | 4 | 11 | 1 | France | PSG |
| 22 | Robert Lewandowski | 31 | 19 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Poland | Barcelona (Spain) |
| 23 | Youssef En-Nesyri | 31 | 21 | 4 | 4 | 2 | Morocco | Fenerbahçe (Turkey) |
| Lennart Thy | 31 | 22 | 4 | 5 | Germany | Lion City Sailors (Singapore) | ||
| Peeter Phanthavong | 31 | 18 | 11 | 1 | 1 | Laos | Ezra | |
| 24 | Darko Lemajić | 31 | 29 | 2 | Serbia | RFS (Latvia) | ||
| 25 | Sam Surridge | 31 | 25 | 6 | England | Nashville (USA) | ||
| Jhonathan Rivas | 31 | 31 | Colombia | Mayagüez (Puerto Rico) | ||||
| 26 | Fabio Abreu | 30 | 28 | 1 | 1 | Angola | Beijing Guoan (China) | |
| 27 | Julián Álvarez | 29 | 19 | 2 | 6 | 2 | Argentina | Atletico Madrid (Spain) |
| 28 | Igor Sergeev | 29 | 20 | 5 | 4 | Uzbekistan | Pakhtakor | |
| 29 | Matheus Souza | 29 | 23 | 6 | Brazil | Strassen (Luxembourg) | ||
| 30 | Troy Parrott | 28 | 11 | 2 | 10 | 5 | Rep. of Ireland | AZ (Netherlands) |
| 31 | Oussama Lamlioui | 28 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 6 | Morocco | Berkane |
| 32 | Alonso Martínez | 28 | 19 | 2 | 7 | Costa Rica | New York City (USA) | |
| 33 | Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang | 28 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 6 | Gabon | Marseille (France), Al Qadisiya (Saudi Arabia) |
| 34 | Mikael Ishak | 28 | 20 | 8 | Sweden | Lech Poznan (Poland) | ||
| Alan Grafite | 28 | 19 | 6 | 3 | Brazil | Cong An Ha Noi (Vietnam) | ||
| 35 | Valeri Qazaishvili | 28 | 27 | 1 | Georgia | Shandong Taishan (China) | ||
| 36 | Dayro Moreno | 27 | 15 | 2 | 10 | Colombia | Once Caldas | |
| 37 | Ayoub El Kaabi | 27 | 17 | 2 | 5 | 3 | Morocco | Olympiakos (Greece) |
| 38 | Claudio Spinelli | 27 | 19 | 8 | Argentina | Independiente del Valle (Ecuador) | ||
| 39 | Germán Berterame | 27 | 20 | 6 | 1 | Mexico | Monterrey | |
| 40 | Mateo Retegui | 27 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 5 | Italy | Atalanta, Al Qadisiya (Saudi Arabia) |
| 41 | Rauno Sappinen | 27 | 21 | 1 | 5 | Estonia | Flora | |
| 42 | Páll Klettskarð | 27 | 21 | 3 | 3 | Faroe Islands | KÍ Klaksvík | |
| 43 | Klaemint Olsen | 27 | 26 | 1 | Faroe Islands | NSÍ | ||
| 44 | James Crole | 27 | 18 | 9 | Wales | Penybont | ||
| 45 | Ismael Díaz | 26 | 12 | 6 | 8 | Panama | Universidad Católica (Ecuador), Leon (Mexico) | |
| 46 | Mikel Oyarzabal | 26 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 9 | Spain | Real Sociedad |
| 47 | Franko Kovačević | 26 | 12 | 2 | 12 | Croatia | Gangwon (South Korea), Celje (Slovenia) | |
| 48 | Nemanja Bilbija | 26 | 16 | 2 | 8 | Bosnia and H | Zrinjski | |
| 49 | Brian White | 26 | 18 | 1 | 6 | 1 | USA | Vancouver Whitecaps |
| 50 | Patrik Schick | 26 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Czechia | Bayer Leverkusen (Germany) |
| 51 | Giorgian de Arrascaeta | 26 | 20 | 3 | 3 | Uruguay | Flamengo (Brazil) | |
| 52 | Pablo Vegetti | 26 | 20 | 1 | 5 | Argentina | Vasco da Gama (Brazil) | |
| 53 | Karim Benzema | 26 | 15 | 8 | 3 | France | Al Ittihad (Saudi Arabia) | |
| 54 | Kaio Jorge | 26 | 21 | 5 | Brazil | Cruzeiro | ||
| 55 | Abel Hernández | 26 | 25 | 1 | Uruguay | Liverpool Montevideo | ||
| 56 | Damián Villalba | 26 | 20 | 6 | Argentina | Independiente Petrolero (Bolivia) | ||
| 57 | Nicolás Martínez | 26 | 26 | Argentina | Mixco (Guatemala) | |||
| Christian Vargas | 26 | 26 | Puerto Rico | Caguas | ||||
| Martín Bueno | 26 | 26 | Uruguay | Miramar (New Zealand) |
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).
The players from the leagues below top 100 are also listed in the standings but not classified (highlighted in grey).
Period: from 1 January to 30 November 2025.
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).