5. Zlatan Ibrahimović – 19 goals The Swedish superstar is still going strong at the age of 38, though the former Manchester United man called time on his international career as arguably his country’s greatest ever player back in 2016. Football fans around the world can buy Euro 2020 Tickets online to enjoy its outstanding […]
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]]>5. Zlatan Ibrahimović – 19 goals
The Swedish superstar is still going strong at the age of 38, though the former Manchester United man called time on his international career as arguably his country’s greatest ever player back in 2016. Football fans around the world can buy Euro 2020 Tickets online to enjoy its outstanding performances.
Comfortably Sweden’s all-time great goal scorer following a 15-year international career that delivered 62 goals in 166 caps, Ibrahimović fired 19 goals during Euro qualifying as Sweden qualified for four successive finals between 2004 and 2016.
One of the greatest forwards of his generation, 11 of Ibrahimović’s qualifying goals would come as Sweden reached the 2016 finals, though, after a disappointing group-stage exit, he would retire from international duty at the conclusion of the tournament.
4. Hakan Sukur – 19 goals
Known as the ‘Bull of Bosporus’, Sukur broke several goalscoring records in a career that spanned more than two decades, including becoming the greatest goal scorer in the history of the Turkish national team during a memorable international career.
Sukur would net seven times as Turkey qualified for the 1996 championships in England, though failed to replicate that form at the finals as his side were eliminated without scoring a single goal.
Capped 112 times, Sukur would score 51 international goals, including a huge 19 in Euro Cup qualifying. His goals would help Turkey once again reach the finals in 2000, where they were eliminated in the quarter-finals by Portugal.
3. Jon Dahl Tomasson – 19 goals
The Danish forward couldn’t buy a goal during a disappointing Premier League spell at Newcastle, though Tomasson was a different proposition in the red shirt of his national team.
He would fire six goals as Denmark qualified for the finals in 2000, while another haul of five saw them once again qualify for Euro 2004, where he was named in the team of the tournament.
A deep-lying forward, Tomasson’s best personal haul would be in qualifying for Euro 2008, though Denmark failed to reach the finals despite his eight strikes.
The former AC Milan striker would remarkably never go more than two qualifiers without finding the net, retiring from international duty in 2010 as his country’s joint all-time record goalscorer with 52 goals.
2. Robbie Keane – 23 goals
The talisman for the Irish for virtually the entirety of his international career, Keane would prove prolific at international level scoring 62 times for the Boys in Green. The joint-fifth highest European international goal scorer of all-time, Keane is also the second most prolific player in the history of Euro 2020 qualifying.
Despite the regularity of his cart-wheeling celebration in qualifiers, Keane would reach just two finals, in 2012 and 2016 where a place in the last 16 was Ireland’s best finish. His 23 goals would prove the benchmark, until it was surpassed by one man in September 2019…
1. Cristiano Ronaldo – 31 goals
One of the game’s all-time greats continues to set new records and landmarks, surpassing Keane to become the greatest goal scorer in European Championship qualifiers in September 2019. He achieved the feat in typical Ronaldo fashion, hitting four goals in a thrashing of Lithuania.
The five-time Ballon d’Or winner further extended his record by scoring in October’s qualifiers with Luxembourg and Ukraine, the latter being the 700th goal of his illustrious career.
Another four goals over the latest international break mean Portugal’s all-time record goalscorer now has 99 goals in 164 caps for his national side, whilst he is quickly closing in on Iranian Ali Daei’s record of 106 goals as the greatest goal scorer in the history of international football.
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]]>Euro 2016: Goalline Technology will be Used in Tournament Goalline technology will be used at Euro 2016 and in the knockout stages of the Champions League from next season, UEFA has announced. The executive committee of European football’s governing body voted in favour of the change on Friday. Successful adoption by European leagues, plus instances […]
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]]>Euro 2016: Goalline Technology will be Used in Tournament
Goalline technology will be used at Euro 2016 and in the knockout stages of the Champions League from next season, UEFA has announced. The executive committee of European football’s governing body voted in favour of the change on Friday. Successful adoption by European leagues, plus instances of goals being wrongly disallowed at recent major tournaments, are believed to have swung the decision in favour of technology. The provider is still to be determined.
Both the Germany-based Goal Control system – which was used at the 2014 World Cup – and Britain’s Hawkeye are widely used by European leagues. The use of goalline technology has long been a contentious topic among UEFA executives. President Michel Platini, who is currently suspended, was a vocal opponent for many years, but subsequently softened his stance to allow a review of its potential use at Euro 2016.
England have been involved in two high-profile instances of goals being disallowed at recent major finals. Frank Lampard was denied a goal in the last-16 clash with Germany at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, while co-hosts Ukraine had an equalising goal disallowed in the group stage match against England at Euro 2012.
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