List of men's field hockey players with 100 or more international goals

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The first player to score 100 international goals was Paul Litjens of Netherlands. He scored a total of 267 international goals in 177 matches. He remained highest international goalscorer for 22 years from 1982 to 2004 until Sohail Abbas of Pakistan broke the record against India at Amritsar in 2004.^[1] Abbas was the sixth Pakistani to achieve 100 international goals in career when he scored a hat-trick against Great Britain at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He scored a record 348 international goals he also played the fewest matches by any player to score 100 goals.^[2]

Post War era first player to score 100 goals for India was Dhanraj Pillay who scored a total of 170 international goals. Manzoor-ul-Hassan of Pakistan was the first player from Asia to score 100 international goals. The first player outside of Europe and Asia to score 100 international goals was Mark Hager of Australia. To date eleven players representing Netherlands have scored 100 or more international goals most by any country. The European Hockey Federation has the highest number of players who have scored 100 goals in their international career with 22 players achieving the feat so far.

By Player[]

As of 4 April 2020

Players in bold are still active at international level.

Rank	Name	Nation	Confederation	International goals	International caps	Career]]	Asia
1	Major Dhyan Chand	India	Asia	570	185	1926-1949	[3]
2	Sohail Abbas	Pakistan	Asia	348	311	1998-2012	[4]
3	Paul Litjens	Netherlands	Europe	-
4	Balbir Singh Sr.	India	Asia	246	61	1948-1960
5	Greg Nicol	South Africa	Africa	245	200	1994-2004	[5]
6	Jamie Dwyer	Australia	Oceania	244	365	2001-2016	[6]
7	Jorgi Lombi	Argentina	Americas	231	223	1991-2004	[7]
8	Björn Michel	Germany	Europe	229	307	1993-2004	[8][9]
9	Taeke Taekema	Netherlands	Europe	221	242	2000-2011	[10]
10	Teun de Nooijer	Netherlands	Europe	219	453	1994-2012	[11]
11	Floris Jan Bovelander	Netherlands	Europe	215	241	1985-1996	[12]
12	Mark Hager	Australia	Oceania	181	231	1988-1999	[6]
13	Gonzalo Peillat	Argentina	Americas	176	153	2011-present	[13]
14	Jay Stacy	Australia	Oceania	172	321	1988-2000	[14][6]
15	Dhanraj Pillay	India	Asia	170	339	1989-2004	[15]
16	Ties Kruize	Netherlands	Europe	167	202	1972-1986	[16]
17	Christopher Zeller	Germany	Europe	158	204	2003-2016	[17]
18	Carsten Fischer	Germany	Europe	154	246	1982-1996	[18]
19	Stephen Davies	Australia	Oceania	151	274	1989-2000	[6]
18	Hassan Sardar	Pakistan	Asia	150	148	1979-1987	[19][20]
	Phil Burrows	New Zealand	Oceania	150	343	2000-2015	[21]
20	Simon Child	New Zealand	Oceania	142	274	2005-2016	[22]
21	Bram Lomans	Netherlands	Europe	141	205	1995-2007	[23][24]
22	Tom Boon	Belgium	Europe	140	295	2012-present	[17]
23	Ashley Jackson	England  Great Britain	Europe	137	250	2006-present	[25]
24	Tahir Zaman	Pakistan	Asia	134	252	1987-1998	[19]
25	V. R. Raghunath	India	Asia	132	228	2005-2017	[26]
26	Pau Quemada	Spain	Europe	131	274	2003-present	[17]
27	Kamran Ashraf	Pakistan	Asia	129	166	1993-2002	[27]
28	Hanif Khan	Pakistan	Asia	127	177	1976-1985	[28]
	Hayden Shaw	New Zealand	Oceania	127	178	2002-2011	[22]
30	Santi Freixa	Spain	Europe	126	193	2000-2014	[29]
31	Barry Middleton	England  Great Britain	Europe	119	432	2003-2018	[30][31]
32	Taco van den Honert	Netherlands	Europe	118	215	1987-1996	[17]
33	Luke Doerner	Australia	Oceania	117	175	2005-2012	[6]
34	Stephan Veen	Netherlands	Europe	116	275	1989-2000	[32]
35	Chris Ciriello	Australia	Oceania	115	195	2008-2017	[6]
36	Jeroen Hertzberger	Netherlands	Europe	113	233	2007-present	[33]
37	Moritz Fürste	Germany	Europe	112	262	2005-2016	[34]
38	Mink van der Weerden	Netherlands	Europe	111	173	2010-present	[17]
39	Calum Giles	England  Great Britain	Europe	110	143	1995-2000	[35]
	Sandeep Singh	India	Asia	110	147	2004-2012	[36]
	Rehan Butt	Pakistan	Asia	110	272	2001-2012
42	Jang Jong Hyun	South Korea	Asia	109	287	2004-2012	[17]
43	Razie Rahim	Malaysia	Asia	107	281	2006-present	[17]
44	Rupinderpal Singh	India	Asia	108	215	2010-present	[37]
	Florian Fuchs	Germany	Europe	108	221	2009-present	[38]
46	Tom van 't Hek	Netherlands	Europe	106	221	1976-1990	[39]
	Muhmmad Imran	Pakistan	Asia	106	296	2004-2015
48	Troy Elder	Australia	Oceania	103	169	1998-2007	[6]
	Shakeel Abbasi	Pakistan	Asia	103	309	2003-2014
50	Manzoor-ul-Hassan	Pakistan	Asia	101	154	1973-1982	[28]
	Matías Paredes	Argentina	Americas	101	356	2001-present	[17]

By Country[]

Country	Players
Netherlands	11
Pakistan	9
Australia	7
India	6
Germany	5
Argentina	3
England
New Zealand
Spain	2
Belgium	1
Malaysia
South Africa
South Korea
Total	51

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