IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer

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The IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer is a football award given annually since 2020, and retroactively for the years 2011 to 2019, to the world's top goalscorer in the calendar year. The award is given by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). All international goals and all competitive goals for clubs playing in their country's top level division scored from 1 January to 31 December are taken into consideration. Cristiano Ronaldo holds the record for most wins (5) while Lionel Messi holds the record for most goals in a calendar year (91 in 2012). Robert Lewandowski won the award with the fewest goals (47 in 2020). Ronaldo (5), Messi (2), Lewandowski (2) and Kylian Mbappé (2) are the only players who have won the award more than once. Ronaldo (Real Madrid and Al Nassr) and Mbappė (PSG and Real Madrid) are the only players to win the award with multiple clubs. Meanwhile, Al Nassr (Abderrazak Hamdallah in 2019 and Ronaldo in 2023) & Real Madrid (Ronaldo...

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