• Highest goal scorer: Pelé with 1,283 goals in 1,384 games

  • Player who has scored the most official goals for a single club: Lionel Messi with ​​672 goals for Barcelona

  • Highest goal-scoring goalkeeper of all time: Rogério Ceni with 131 goals

  • Player to score most goals in international club competitions: Cristiano Ronaldo with 150 goals

  • Player to win most FIFA World’s Best player awards: Lionel Messi with 7 awards in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2022

  • Most international goals: Cristiano Ronaldo with 117 goals in 191 games

  • Fastest goal in history: Gavin Stokes with a 2.1 second goal

  • Most hat tricks (3 goals in a game): Pelé with 96

  • Fastest hat trick: Alex Torr with a 70 second hat trick

  • Most penalty kicks: Cristiano Ronaldo with 143/172 penalties scored

  • Longest distance goal scored: Ubirajara Alcântara with a 91.9 meter goal

  • Longest headed goal scored: Jone Samuelsen with a 58.13 meter goal

  • Player who played the most official games in history: Peter Shilton with 1,390 games

  • Youngest player to play professional: 11-year-old Liberian Eric Godpower Marshall

  • Oldest player to play professional: 55-year-old Kazuyoshi Miura

  • Oldest professional player according to the Guinness Book of World Records: 74-year old Ezzeldin Bahader

  • Longest career span: Robert Carmona with 45 seasons

  • Heaviest player: William Foulke (165 kg)

  • Tallest player: Simon Bloch Jørgensen (6 ft 10&1/2 in)

  • Shortest player: Bimbinha (4 ft 10 in)

  • Player who played for most clubs during his professional career: Sebastián Abreu with 31 clubs

  • Longest-serving manager: Amadeu Teixeira (53 years)

  • Shortest-serving manager: Leroy Rosenior (10 minutes)

  • Manager who won the most league titles: Bill Struth with 18 league titles

  • Club that has scored the most goals in history: 12,691 goals

  • Club with most international major trophies won: Real Madrid with 28 trophies

  • Club with most trophies won: Linfield with 272 titles

  • Longest winning streak for a first division club: The New Saints with 27 wins

  • Longest losing streak for a club: Corintians de Casa Branca with 62 losses

  • Most own goals scored in a single match: 149 (protest)

  • Highest score in a single match: 44-1

  • Highest score in a single match (international): 0-38

  • Most red cards given in a match: 36

  • Largest audience in a match: 199,854 spectators

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