Progression of Australia association football goalscoring record

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This is a progressive list of association footballers who have held or co-held the record for internationals goals scored for the Australia national soccer team, beginning with William Maunder, who scored in the 3–1 defeat by New Zealand in Australia's first international game.

The record is held by Tim Cahill, with 50 goals, a record he set after scoring twice against Syria in 2017.^[1] Cahill moved beyond Damian Mori's 29 international goals when he scored twice against Ecuador in September 2014.^[2] Mori had taken the position of Australia's leading goalscorer in April 2001, when his four goals saw him overtakes Attila Abonyi.^[3]

Criteria[]

This list contains records from only "A" internationals, as recognised by Football Federation Australia.

Australia record[]

Player	Goals	Date	Opponent	Score	Notes
William Maunder	1	17 June 1922	New Zealand	1–3
Wilfred Bratten	1	24 June 1922	New Zealand	1–1	Jointly with Maunder
George Brown	1	8 July 1922	New Zealand	1–3	Jointly with Maunder and Bratten
William Maunder	2	9 June 1923	New Zealand	2–1
Percy Lennard	2	16 June 1923	New Zealand	2–3	Jointly with Maunder
William Maunder	3	30 June 1923	New Zealand	1–4
	5	23 June 1924	Canada	4–1	2 goals
	6	12 July 1924	Canada	1–4
George Smith	7	24 June 1933	New Zealand	4–2	2 goals
	11	4 July 1936	New Zealand	7–1	4 goals
	16	11 July 1936	New Zealand	10–0	5 goals
Attila Abonyi	16	24 March 1973	Indonesia	6–0	2 goals, to equal Smith
Ray Baartz	16	24 March 1973	Indonesia	6–0	Jointly with Abonyi and Smith
Attila Abonyi	17	18 August 1973	Iran	3–0
Ray Baartz	17	11 November 1973	South Korea	2–2	Jointly with Abonyi
	18	27 April 1974	Uruguay	2–0
Attila Abonyi	18	2 March 1976	New Zealand	3–1	Jointly with Baartz
	19	18 August 1976	Hong Kong	2–0
	20	20 October 1976	Indonesia	1–1
	21	24 October 1976	Hong Kong	2–0
	22	13 March 1977	Chinese Taipei	3–0
	23	16 March 1977	Chinese Taipei	2–1
	24	30 October 1977	Hong Kong	5–2
	25	13 November 1977	Singapore	2–0
Damian Mori	26	9 April 2001	Tonga	22–0	4 goals
	27	6 July 2001	Vanuatu	2–0
	28	8 July 2001	New Caledonia	11–0
	29	14 July 2001	Tahiti	2–1
Tim Cahill	31	5 March 2014	Ecuador	3–4	2 goals
	32	26 May 2014	South Africa	1–1
	33	13 June 2014	Chile	1–3
	34	18 June 2014	Netherlands	2–3
	35	8 September 2014	Saudi Arabia	3–2
	36	18 November 2014	Japan	1–2
	37	9 January 2015	Kuwait	4–1
	39	22 January 2015	China PR	2–0	2 goals
	41	8 September 2015	Tajikistan	3–0	2 goals
	42	12 November 2015	Kyrgyzstan	3–0
	45	17 November 2015	Bangladesh	4–0	3 goals
	47	29 March 2016	Jordan	5–1	2 goals
	48	6 September 2016	United Arab Emirates	1–0
	50	10 October 2017	Syria	2–1	2 goals

See also[]

• Australia national soccer team records and statistics
• List of international goals scored by Tim Cahill

References[]

General

• Howe, Andrew (2018). Encyclopedia of Socceroos: Every national team player. Fair Play Publishing. ISBN 978-0-648-13330-8.
• Howe, Andrew. "Official Media Guide of Australia at the 2018 FIFA World Cup" (PDF). Retrieved 23 July 2020.
• Howe, Andrew. "The Australian National Men's Football Team" (PDF). ozfootball.net. Football Federation Australia.

Specific