Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 900th career goal on September 5, 2024, during the UEFA Nations League match between Portugal and Croatia, at Estádio da Luz in Lisbon. The iconic forward managed to get to this mark in the 34 minutes as he finished a pinpoint cross from Nuno Mendes with precision that gave no chance to the Croatian goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic. At this moment, Ronaldo celebrated in emotional motion onto one knee, visibly choked with emotion, at age 39.
This latest goal made Ronaldo’s 131st strike for Portugal in 213 appearances as he extends his lead as the all-time leading scorer in international football. In all, across the five clubs that he has represented since going professional in 2002, this winner of five Ballon d’Or awards has netted 769 goals: Sporting 5; Manchester United 145; Real Madrid 450; Juventus 101, and Al Nassr 68.
Therefore, Ronaldo’s 900 goals in 1,238 official games give him an incredible average of 0.73 goals per game-a truly remarkable level of consistency over two decades at the elite level of the game.
Ronaldo’s name has now been engraved much deeper into the annals of football history as the world celebrated one of its greatest-ever goalscorers.
