Official senior-career goals
Mechanical register · all official competitions · 2002 – present
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 981 official senior career goals
Every goal, registered.
LEAGUE · CUPS · CONTINENTAL · INTERNATIONAL
FIGURES PER WIKIPEDIA · UPDATED —
- League goals
five clubs - —
- Cup goals
the domestic cups - —
- Continental goals
the European nights - —
- Portugal
the record international column - —
Count definition — engraved plate
● League goals
● Domestic cups & super cups
● UEFA, AFC & world club competitions
● Official Portugal internationals
○ Unofficial matches
○ Youth & reserve football
The record, in full
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 981 official senior-career goals for club and country between 2002 and the present day. The total breaks down as 604 in league competitions, 57 in domestic cups, 174 in continental competitions and 146 in official matches for Portugal.
The register counts top-level official senior competitions only. Unofficial matches and youth or reserve football are excluded, which is why some other sources publish a lower or higher number: they are counting a different set, not correcting this one.
How this register counts — the full definition, the source, and how often it is checked
Questions
- How many goals has Cristiano Ronaldo scored?
- 981 official senior-career goals for club and country, between 2002 and the present day.
- What is Ronaldo's career goal breakdown?
- 604 in league competitions, 57 in domestic cups, 174 in continental competitions and 146 in official matches for Portugal. Those four columns add to the career total exactly: 981.
- How many goals does Cristiano Ronaldo need to reach 1000?
- 19. The register reads 981, so 19 more official senior goals stand between the current total and 1,000.
- In which year did Ronaldo score the most goals?
- 2013, with 69 goals — his best year by a distance. The sharpest fall from that peak came in 2022, when he scored 16, before recovering to 54 in 2023, his first season with Al-Nassr.
- How many Champions League goals has Ronaldo scored?
- 140 in the UEFA Champions League — the competition record. His wider 174 continental goals also cover AFC and world club competitions.
- How many goals has Cristiano Ronaldo scored for Portugal?
- 146 in official senior internationals for the Portuguese national team — the highest total for men's international goals in the sport.
- Which clubs has Ronaldo scored goals for, and how many for each?
- Five clubs, by career goals: Real Madrid 450, Manchester United 145, Al-Nassr 134, Juventus 101, Sporting CP 5. Each figure includes that club's league, domestic cup and continental goals.
- How many goals has Cristiano Ronaldo scored this year?
- 24 in 2026 so far. His busiest calendar year was 2013, when he scored 69.
- What counts as an official goal on this site, and what doesn't?
- Counted: top-level official senior club competitions — league, domestic cups and super cups, and continental competitions — plus official senior internationals for Portugal. Not counted: unofficial matches, and youth or reserve football. That definition is why totals differ between sources: they are counting different sets.
- How current is this figure?
- Figures were last retrieved on 13 October 2026 and are re-verified every day. The site is republished whenever the career total changes.
- Where does the number come from?
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). This page is a tracker and an explainer; Wikipedia is the source.