Monday, December 8, 2008

Highest Active International Strike Rates

These are the highest active strike rates (goals per game) in world soccer on the international level (minimum 20 games played and strike rate of 0.50).

Strike Rate - Player - Nation - Games (Goals)

0.84 - Yasser Al-Qahtani - Saudi Arabia - 55 (46)
0.81 - Chan Siu Ki - Hong Kong - 26 (21)
0.79 - Commins Menapi - Solomon Islands - 33 (26)
0.74 - Sarayoot Chaikamdee - Thailand - 35 (26)
0.71 - Maksim Shatskikh - Uzbekistan - 42 (30)
0.70 - Baichung Bhutia - India - 57 (40)
0.70 - Archie Thompson - Australia - 30 (21)
0.67 - Ali Nasseredine - Lebanon - 32 (21)
0.66 - Stern John - Trinidad and Tobago - 104 (69)
0.65 - Luton Shelton - Jamaica - 31 (20)
0.64 - Ronaldo - Brazil - 97 (62)
0.64 - Didier Drogba - Cote D'Ivoire - 52 (33)
0.62 - Adriano - Brazil - 47 (29)
0.62 - Daniel Cousin - Gabon - 37 (23)
0.62 - Obafemi Martins - Nigeria - 21 (13)
0.62 - Dimitar Berbatov - Bulgaria 66 (41)
0.61 - Amr Zaki - Egypt - 48 (29)
0.59 - Eduardo - Croatia - 22 (13)
0.59 - David Villa - Spain - 41 (24)
0.59 - Karim Bagheri - Iran - 82 (48)
0.58 - Lomana Lua-Lua - Congo DR - 31 (18)
0.58 - Carlos Pavón - Honduras - 79 (46)
0.57 - Alexander Frei - Switzerland - 61 (35)
0.57 - Fernando Morientes - Spain - 47 (27)
0.57 - Sebastián Abreu - Uruguay - 47 (27)
0.55 - Emad Motaeb - Egypt - 49 (27)
0.55 - Francileudo Dos Santos - Tunisia - 40 (22)
0.55 - Hernán Crespo - Argentina - 65 (36)
0.55 - Bambang Pamungkas - Indonesia - 56 (31)
0.53 - Marcelo Salas - Chile - 70 (37)
0.53 - Peter Ofori-Quaye - Ghana - 32 (17)
0.52 - Jared Borgetti - Mexico - 89 (46)
0.52 - Lukas Podolski - Germany - 60 (31)
0.52 - Ruud van Nistelrooy - Netherlands - 64 (33)
0.52 - David Healy - Northern Ireland - 65 (34)
0.51 - Miroslav Klose - Germany - 87 (44)
0.50 - Jon Dahl Tomasson - Denmark - 102 (51)
0.50 - Jafar Irismetov - Uzbekistan - 36 (18)


Highest Strike Rate By Confederation
AFC - Yasser Al-Qahtani - 0.84
OCEANIA - Commins Menapi - 0.79
CONCACAF - Stern John - 0.66
CAF - Didier Drogba - 0.64
CONMEBOL - Ronaldo - 0.64
UEFA - Dimitar Berbatov - 0.62


Close.....
0.49 - Samuel Eto'o - Cameroon - 73 (36)
0.49 - Carlos Ruíz - Guatemala - 83 (41)
0.49 - Francisco Fonseca - Mexico - 43 (21)
0.49 - John Aloisi - Australia - 55 (27)
0.48 - Asamoah Gyan - Ghana - 27 (13)
0.48 - Mamadou Niang - Senegal - 27 (13)
0.48 - Roda Antar - Lebanon 48 (23)


I should note that many of these stats were gathered from wikipedia because, although I searched for a few days, I was unable to find quality, comprehensive, up-to-date, international goal stats anywhere. Can anyone point me to a good site for international caps and goals information? Thanks in advance.

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