List of leading rugby union test point scorers
This is a list of the leading scorers in rugby union test matches.
Players currently active at international level are listed in bold; those not playing at international level but still active at club level are listed in italics.
Top 25 scoring international players (Tier 1)[]
Updated: 21 November 2021
World Rank |
Tier Rank |
Points | Player | Position | International team(s) | Years active | Caps | Tries | Con | Pen | DG | Avg. PTS (per game) |
Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 1598 | Dan Carter | Fly-half | New Zealand | 2003–2015 | 112 | 29 | 293 | 281 | 8 | 14.27 | [1] |
2 | 2 | 1246 | Jonny Wilkinson | Fly-half | England (1179) British and Irish Lions (67) |
1998–2011 | 97 | 7 | 169 | 255 | 36 | 12.85 | [2] |
3 | 3 | 1090 | Neil Jenkins | Fly-half | Wales (1049) British and Irish Lions (41) |
1990–2003 | 87 | 11 | 131 | 248 | 10 | 12.53 | [3] |
4 | 4 | 1083 | Ronan O'Gara | Fly-half | Ireland (1083) British and Irish Lions (0) |
2000–2013 | 130 | 16 | 176 | 202 | 15 | 8.33 | [4] |
5 | 5 | 1070 | Owen Farrell | Fly-half | England (1036) British and Irish Lions (34) |
2012- | 100 | 10 | 171 | 223 | 3 | 10.7 | [5] |
7 | 6 | 1010 | Diego Dominguez | Fly-half | Italy (983) Argentina (27) |
1991–2003 1989 |
76 | 9 | 133 | 209 | 20 | 13.29 | [6] |
8 | 7 | 970 | Stephen Jones | Fly-half | Wales (917) British and Irish Lions (53) |
1998–2011 | 110 | 7 | 160 | 198 | 7 | 8.82 | [7] |
9 | 8 | 967 | Andrew Mehrtens | Fly-half | New Zealand | 1995–2004 | 70 | 7 | 169 | 186 | 12 | 13.81 | [8] |
10 | 9 | 951 | Jonathan Sexton | Fly-half | Ireland (946) British and Irish Lions (5) |
2009- | 107 | 16 | 137 | 195 | 4 | 8.89 | [9] |
11 | 10 | 911 | Michael Lynagh | Fly-half | Australia | 1984–1995 | 72 | 17 | 140 | 177 | 9 | 12.65 | [10] |
12 | 11 | 893 | Percy Montgomery | Fullback | South Africa | 1997–2008 | 102 | 25 | 153 | 148 | 6 | 8.75 | [11] |
13 | 12 | 878 | Matt Burke | Fullback | Australia | 1993–2004 | 81 | 29 | 104 | 174 | 1 | 10.84 | [12] |
15 | 13 | 838 | Nicolas Sanchez | Fly-half | Argentina | 2010- | 93 | 13 | 115 | 169 | 12 | 9.01 | |
16 | 14 | 827 | Leigh Halfpenny | Fullback | Wales (778) British and Irish Lions (49) |
2008- | 100 | 15 | 79 | 198 | 0 | 8.27 | [13] |
17 | 15 | 809 | Chris Paterson | Fullback | Scotland | 1999–2011 | 109 | 22 | 90 | 170 | 3 | 7.42 | [14] |
19 | 16 | 742 | Morne Steyn | Fly-half | South Africa | 2009–2021 | 68 | 8 | 102 | 156 | 10 | 10.91 | [15] |
20 | 17 | 736 | Gavin Hastings | Fullback | Scotland (667) British and Irish Lions (69) |
1986–1995 | 68 | 18 | 87 | 161 | 0 | 10.82 | [16] |
21 | 18 | 714 | Greig Laidlaw | Scrum-half | Scotland | 2010-2019 | 76 | 5 | 106 | 159 | 0 | 9.39 | |
23 | 19 | 703 | Beauden Barrett | Fly-half | New Zealand | 2012- | 101 | 39 | 164 | 58 | 2 | 6.96 | |
24 | 20 | 698 | Matt Giteau | Center | Australia | 2002–2016 | 103 | 30 | 106 | 108 | 4 | 6.78 | [17] |
26 | 21 | 656 | Hugo Porta | Fly-half | Argentina (590) South American Jaguars (66) |
1971–1990 | 66 | 12 | 91 | 115 | 28 | 9.94 | [18] |
27 | 22 | 651 | Felipe Contepomi | Fly-half | Argentina | 1998–2013 | 85 | 16 | 74 | 139 | 2 | 7.66 | [19] |
28 | 23 | 645 | Grant Fox | Fly-half | New Zealand | 1985–1993 | 46 | 1 | 118 | 128 | 7 | 14.02 | [20] |
29 | 24 | 622 | Bernard Foley | Fly-half | Australia | 2013-2019 | 71 | 16 | 124 | 97 | 1 | 8.76 | |
31 | 25 | 601 | Handré Pollard | Fly-half | South Africa | 2014- | 60 | 6 | 83 | 131 | 4 | 10.02 |
Top ten scoring international players (Tier 2)[]
[21] There are eight 'Tier 2' countries: Canada, Fiji, Japan, Georgia, Romania, Samoa, Tonga and the USA.
Updated: 12 September 2021
World Rank |
Tier Rank |
Points | Player | International team(s) | Years active | Caps | Tries | Con | Pe | DG | Avg. PTS (per game) |
Source(s) |
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6 | 1 | 1024 | Florin Vlaicu | Romania | 2006– | 128 | 14 | 173 | 201 | 4 | 8 | [22] |
14 | 2 | 840 | Merab Kvirikashvili | Georgia | 2003–2018 | 115 | 17 | 148 | 150 | 3 | 7.3 | [23] |
22 | 3 | 711 | Ayumu Goromaru | Japan | 2005–2015 | 57 | 18 | 162 | 99 | 0 | 12.47 | [24] |
25 | 4 | 670 | Nicky Little | Fiji | 1996–2011 | 71 | 2 | 117 | 140 | 2 | 9.44 | [25] |
30 | 5 | 607 | James Pritchard | Canada | 2003–2015 | 62 | 18 | 104 | 103 | 0 | 9.79 | [26] |
34 | 6 | 491 | Gareth Rees | Canada | 1986–1999 | 55 | 7 | 51 | 110 | 9 | 8.93 | [27] |
38 | 7 | 465 | Mike Hercus | United States | 2002–2009 | 48 | 9 | 90 | 76 | 4 | 9.69 | [28] |
41 | 8 | 422 | Keiji Hirose | Japan | 1994–2005 | 40 | 5 | 77 | 79 | 2 | 10.55 | [29] |
42 | 9 | 419 | Bobby Ross | Canada | 1989–2003 | 58 | 7 | 51 | 84 | 10 | 7.22 | [30] |
45 | 10 | 389 | Dănuţ Dumbravă | Romania | 2002–2015 | 73 | 3 | 73 | 74 | 2 | 5.33 | [31] |
Top five scoring international players (Tier 3)[]
Updated: 26 November 2021
World Rank |
Tier Rank |
Points | Player | International team(s) | Years active | Caps | Tries | Con | Pen | DG | Avg. PTS (per game) |
Source(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
18 | 1 | 797 | Yuri Kushnarev | Russia | 2005– | 120 | 11 | 155 | 142 | 2 | 6.64 | [33] |
40 | 2 | 430 | Theuns Kotzé | Namibia | 2011–2017 | 40 | 6 | 110 | 55 | 5 | 10.75 | [34] |
58 | 3 | 337 | Felipe Berchesi | Uruguay | 2011- | 39 | 2 | 48 | 76 | 1 | 8.64 | |
59 | 4 | 335 | Namibia | 1990–1996 | 28 | 6 | 81 | 45 | 3 | 11.96 | [35] | |
59 | 4 | 335 | Raynor Parkinson | Germany | 2011-2019 | 37 | 6 | 88 | 41 | 2 | 9.05 |
See also[]
- List of leading rugby union test try scorers
- List of leading international rugby union drop goal scorers
- List of rugby union test caps leaders
- International rugby union player records
References[]
- ^ "Dan Carter career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Jonny Wilkinson career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Neil Jenkins career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Ronan O'Gara career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Owen Farrell career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Diego Diminguez career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Stephen Jones career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Andrew Mehrtens career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Johnny Sexton career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Michael Lynagh career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Percy Montgomery career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Matt Burke career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Leigh Halfpenny career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Chris Paterson career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Morne Steyn career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Gavin Hastings career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Matt Giteau career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Leigh Halfpenny career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Felipe Contepomi career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Grant Fox career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
- ^ "Statsguru/Test matches/Player records". ESPN Scrum.com. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
- ^ "Florin Vlaicu career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Merab Kvirikashvili career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Ayumu Goromaru career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-05-22.
- ^ "Nicky Little career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "James Pritchard career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Gareth Rees career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Mike Hercus career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Keiji Hirose career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Bobby Ross career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Dănuţ Dumbravă career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Statsguru/Test matches/Player records". ESPN Scrum.com. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
- ^ "Yuri Kushnarev career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Theuns Kotzé Segovia career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2015-07-26.
- ^ "Jaco Coetzee career figures". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
External links[]
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