Talk:List of world association football records

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Top scorer in most continents
Sam Kerr (Australian Womans player) was top goal scorer in top flight womans professional leagues across 3 continents. And has done so more than once. Top scorer in WSL (Eng) 2021, 2022 - Europe Top Scorer - US 2018, 2019, Top Scorer - W League (Australia) 2018, 2019 49.179.29.84 (talk) 10:41, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Removed content
You're more than welcome to discuss here why you think this info shouldn't be removed. All my warmest wishes, ItsKesha (talk) 15:47, 17 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Pinging, , , , , who previously provided excellent guidance and actions over at FIFA World Cup records and statistics. All my warmest wishes, ItsKesha (talk) 15:59, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
 * It's absolutely no secret that I really don't like these WP:INDISCRIMINATE lists of WP:TRIVIA. I don't really understand how we can have a scope for "all of the records" for football. It ends up being full of ridiculous stats that are fluff that have no sporting merit at all. See Highest number of siblings to score on the same day, and of a player playing two matches on the same day. Why do we need an image next to every stat? And, more to the point, why do we have just SO MANY articles on random tidbits in different competitions.  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 16:23, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Would this page be sufficiently replaced with a template that would have key records pages on it? --Super Nintendo Chalmers (talk) 09:22, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
 * please discuss here. All my warmest wishes, ItsKesha (talk) 21:51, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Any comment, ? All my warmest wishes, ItsKesha (talk) 18:31, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 * My first comment is that ItsKesha should start writing, looking for and adding references, creating articles, instead of constantly going and removing tons of content and sources from various pages. More specifically, you cannot just go to an article that you never ever contributed to and delete half of it and on top of that to expect users who actually contribute to accept your preferred (deleted) version - and then you keep reverting.
 * Secondly, I am pinging users who have contributed to this specific article to see what they think, , , , , , , , , , , , . Thirdly, this specific arrticle is about world records in various domestic competitions and divisions all over the world and the records do not have to be only about goalscoring. If there is content that really has to be deleted could be the World competitions section as these records are already part of ie World Cup records etc. I don't think there is an Olympics records article for football, so this is something that could be created (maybe ItsKesha could start searching for sources and writing this article, for a change from only deleting content - just a suggestion). Vsatin (talk) 00:04, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * You have addressed none of the concerns raised, and you have failed to explain why the deleted content shouldn't be deleted. All my warmest wishes, ItsKesha (talk) 00:46, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Issues with the page
Also, the title of the article doesn't even make sense, what is "world association football"? All my warmest wishes, ItsKesha (talk) 12:42, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Lead too short - I mean, it's one sentence, this is indisputable
 * Original research - right out the gate, Lewandowski and Hubner being top-scorer in three divisions
 * Trivial content - much of the content might be "interesting" but is simply not encyclopaedic. Highest goalscoring defender (he isn't, the source actually says Yet Koeman was still first and foremost a defensive player, whether it be as a holding midfielder, centre-back or sweeper), RSSSF record goalscorer, "Player to win top-scorer awards in most continents"?
 * Too broad - one minute the page is discussing the all-time leading goalscorers and appearance makers, valid things here even if there is already an article about those, to then mentioning that Juninho once placed for club and country and the same day (he isn't the only one), and that the Gudjohnsens once played in the same match (also, not the only ones). There is no coherency at all. Also, why are some random previous record holders mentioned but basically no others? Why are Sunday league and amateur and reserve team records in this article?
 * Unreliable sources - YouTube, Sport Bible, Twitter, Michela Costa, Tribuna, The Sporting Blog, 90Soccer, Daily Nation Today, Foot The Ball... and many more
 * Additional sources needed - as an example, the first table has 48 records and only 46 sources, many are completely unsourced
 * Too many pictures - there simply isn't any need to have a 100 pictures in any article, it's too many
 * Copy editing required - the details section specifically, numbers one to nine should be spelt out, don't use a footballer's first name, don't need to use full names or nationalities when already mentioned in the preceding columns. Also, there's no need to mention any ages unless specific to a record
 * Overlinking - e.g. why is there eight links to Cristiano Ronaldo?
 * The sentence "world association football" has no meaning on any dictionary. Achmad Rachmani (talk) 07:50, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Most of the issues you have raised can be fixed without the need of heavy content removal. Examples
 * Copy editing can be fixed
 * Overlinking can be corrected by unlinking the overlinked characters
 * It is okay to have a short lead since details have been covered in the article
 * By pictures you mean flags? Most of pages(if not all) about football use flags for easy identification. Take note of the flags in FIFA World Cup
 * EverJoking (talk) 15:04, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

It is a mistake to consider the RSSSF or Guinness Book statistical goal count as trivia, as the counting method used is different from the IFFHS. There is no single, unambiguous method. I have re-added this and the fastest recorded goal as they have more detailed articles explaining the criteria. Svartner (talk) 03:48, 11 January 2023 (UTC)


 * There aren't three sources for who the top goalscorer is. There's dozens, probably hundreds. RSSSF and Guinness are fringe sources. All my warmest wishes, ItsKesha (talk) 19:06, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I insist, based on what do you consider this? RSSSF has the largest collection of football data in the world, the Guinness Book due to antiquity is also well accepted in most parts of the world too. Football has changed over the years, and the IFFHS criteria only makes sense for football for a few decades now.
 * There really was unfortunate/exaggerated information in the list previously, but in my opinion, you removed legitimate content along with it. Here I end my collaboration on this article, and I leave the reflection to the other members. Svartner (talk) 15:58, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I base it on the reliable sources? What do the reliable sources say. All my warmest wishes, ItsKesha (talk) 18:34, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

Oldest footballer according to Guinness World Records
Hello!

The record in the subject was recently broken by another player. Whoever is willing to make the update, as at the moment I have no time to do it myself, but maybe I will do it myself later when there is time if no-one else does it, here are a couple of sources, as direct links/hyperlinks below:

Guinness World Records

Essentialy Sports

Kind regards,

Lorry Gundersen (talk) 15:55, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

Zico
Hello Thank you for your beautiful edits. I have a few notes. Zico scored 62 goals from a free kick, not 101. I counted his 30 official goals with Udinese and found that he scored 12 goals, not 17 as you mentioned. After researching, I discovered that he scored a number of goals in friendly matches (one of which was against Real Madrid on August 5, 1983), so it seems that the number you put included friendly and official matches, and the consideration in this article is for official matches, so I will retrieve your edit, thank you. --Mishary94 (talk) 10:55, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

Different category for player with more thropies won
Any serious journalistic article, doesn't consider Lee Casciaro the player with most titles. This is logical, because it's Gibraltar League. It's a nearly amateur league. In 2013 has been acepted to enter FIFA and in 2016 they officialy joined. It's still changing rules, teams, etc to adapt to Europe standards. But let's say that Casciaro titles are official. This is are not top titles. There's no way you can put them along with titles won by Messi, Dani Alves, Iniesta, Benzema, Cristiano, etc. Gibraltar League is no where near as competitive Spanish B League, or even German C league. So let's find a category to agree so we can put the player who won most top competitive titles, as mayor leagues, mayor cups, etc. Another example is Ángel Romano from Uruguay. He won 50 titles. But in his time, football was amateur. There's no way you can compare to actual standards. If you put a record category, there must be the same way to judge contendants. That's why if you seach "most title winners" you will find thousands of articles about Messi, Alves, Iniesta, Maxwell, Cristiano, Kroos, etc, and none about Casciaro. Adannoes (talk) 13:56, 8 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Competitive titles? We're talking about official titles, no matter what they are. Wikipedia only mentions facts and does not take into account the standards of journalism. If the tournaments are local, they must be recognized by the official federation of the country itself, and if they are continental, they must be recognized by the continental federation (UEFA, CONMEBOL, etc.), we do not look at the titles. From a competitive standpoint, but from being an official, approved title, no matter how competitive or popular it is. As for Angel Romano, he has won 32 official titles, not 50. --Mishary94 (talk) 16:51, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Players to win top-scorer awards in third, second, first division topscorer award
At least one player is missing from this list: Igor Protti.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Protti

Citing from the article: Along with Dario Hübner, Protti is the only player to have won the top scoring titles in Serie A, Serie B, and Serie C1. 87.19.203.116 (talk) 07:30, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Done, Thank you for your note. --Mishary94 (talk) 18:33, 9 March 2024 (UTC)