The top international goals scorer in classic field hockey is Dhyan Chand of India, he scored 570 goals in 185 international matches. However Balbir Singh Senior only played 61 games in his career and scored 264 goals. The player who was the second top international goals scorer in hockey and the top goal scorer in modern hockey on artificial turf was Paul Litjens of Netherlands. He scored a total of 268 international goals in 177 matches. He remained the top international goals scorer on artificial turf for 22 years, from 1982 to 2004, until Sohail Abbas of Pakistan broke the record against India at Amritsar in 2004.^[1] Abbas became the sixth Pakistani to achieve 100 international goals in his career when he scored a hat-trick against Great Britain at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He scored a record 348 international goals. He also played the fewest matches to score 100 goals on artificial turf.^[2]

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The first player from India to score 100 goals on artificial turf is Dhanraj Pillay, who scored a total of 170 international goals. Manzoor-ul-Hassan of Pakistan was the first player from Asia to score 100 international goals on artificial turf. The first player outside of Asia and Europe to score 100 international goals was Mark Hager of Australia. To date, eleven players representing India and ten from Netherlands and Pakistan each have scored 100 or more international goals, the most of any country. The Asian Hockey Federation and European Hockey Federation has the highest number of players who have scored 100 goals in their international career, with 23 players from AHF and 22 from EHF. The confederation having achieving the feat so far.

As of 4 April 2022 (UTC)

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Rank	Player	Nation	Confederation	Goals	Caps	Goals per match	Career span	Ref.
1	Dhyan Chand	India	AHF	570	185	3.08	1926–1949	[3]
2	Sohail Abbas	Pakistan	AHF	348	311	1.12	1998–2012	[4]
3	Paul Litjens	Netherlands	EHF	268	177	1.51	1982–2004	[5]
4	Balbir Singh Sr.	India	AHF	246	61	4.03	1947–1958	[6]
5	Greg Nicol	South Africa	AfHF	245	200	1.23	1994–2004	[7]
6	Jamie Dwyer	Australia	OHF	244	365	0.67	2001–2016	[8]
7	Jorge Lombi	Argentina	PAHF	231	223	1.04	1991–2004	[9]
8	Björn Michel	Germany	EHF	229	307	0.75	1993–2004	[10]
9	Taeke Taekema	Netherlands	EHF	221	242	0.91	2000–2011	[11]
10	Teun de Nooijer	Netherlands	EHF	219	453	0.48	1994–2012	[12]
11	Floris Jan Bovelander	Netherlands	EHF	215	241	0.89	1985–1996	[13]
12	Mark Hager	Australia	OHF	181	231	0.78	1988–1999	[8]
13	Harmanpreet Singh	India	AHF	179	206	0.87	2016–	[14]
14	Gonzalo Peillat	Argentina  Germany	PAHF/EHF	178	155	1.15	2011–	[15]
15	Jay Stacy	Australia	OHF	172	321	0.54	1988–2000	[16][8]
16	Dhanraj Pillay	India	AHF	170	339	0.5	1989–2004	[17]
17	Ties Kruize	Netherlands	EHF	167	202	0.83	1972–1986	[18]
18	Christopher Zeller	Germany	EHF	158	204	0.77	2003–2016	[19]
19	Carsten Fischer	Germany	EHF	154	246	0.63	1982–1996	[citation needed]
20	Stephen Davies	Australia	OHF	151	274	0.55	1989–2000	[8]
21	Hassan Sardar	Pakistan	AHF	150	148	1.01	1979–1987	[20][21]
	Phil Burrows	New Zealand	OHF	150	343	0.44	2000–2015	[22]
22	Simon Child	New Zealand	OHF	142	274	0.52	2005–2016	[23]
23	Bram Lomans	Netherlands	EHF	141	205	0.69	1995–2007	[24][25]
24	Sandeep Singh	India	AHF	138	186	0.74	2004–2012	[26]
25	Ashley Jackson	England  Great Britain	EHF	137	250	0.55	2006–2021	[27]
26	Tahir Zaman	Pakistan	AHF	134	252	0.53	1987–1998	[20]
27	V. R. Raghunath	India	AHF	132	228	0.58	2005–2017	[28]
28	Kamran Ashraf	Pakistan	AHF	129	166	0.78	1993–2002	[29]
29	Hanif Khan	Pakistan	AHF	127	177	0.72	1976–1985	[30]
	Hayden Shaw	New Zealand	OHF	127	178	0.71	2002–2011	[23]
30	Santi Freixa	Spain	EHF	126	193	0.65	2000–2014	[31]
31	Rupinder Pal Singh	India	AHF	125	223	0.56	2010–2022	[32]
32	Tom Boon	Belgium	EHF	124	304	0.41	2012–	[19]
33	Pau Quemada	Spain	EHF	119	293	0.41	2003–2021	[19]
	Barry Middleton	England  Great Britain	EHF	119	432	0.28	2003–2018	[33][34]
34	Taco van den Honert	Netherlands	EHF	118	215	0.55	1987–1996	[19]
35	Luke Doerner	Australia	OHF	117	175	0.67	2005–2012	[8]
36	Florian Fuchs	Germany	EHF	116	239	0.49	2009–2021	[35]
	Stephan Veen	Netherlands	EHF	116	275	0.42	1989–2000	[36]
37	Mink van der Weerden	Netherlands	EHF	115	191	0.6	2010–2021	[19]
	Chris Ciriello	Australia	OHF	115	195	0.59	2008–2017	[8]
38	Mandeep Singh	India	AHF	114	225	0.51	2013–
39	Moritz Fürste	Germany	EHF	112	262	0.43	2005–2016	[37]
40	Calum Giles	England  Great Britain	EHF	110	143	0.77	1995–2000	[38]
	Rehan Butt	Pakistan	AHF	110	272	0.4	2001–2012
41	Jang Jong-hyun	South Korea	AHF	109	287	0.38	2004–2012	[19]
42	Gagan Ajit Singh	India	AHF	108	157	0.69	1997–2007
43	Prabhjot Singh	India	AHF	107	250	0.43	2016–
44	Razie Rahim	Malaysia	AHF	107	309	0.35	2006–	[19]
45	Tom van 't Hek	Netherlands	EHF	106	221	0.48	1976–1990	[39]
	Muhammad Imran	Pakistan	AHF	106	296	0.36
46	Troy Elder	Australia	OHF	103	169	0.61	1998–2007	[8]
	Shakeel Abbasi	Pakistan	AHF	103	309	0.33	2003–2014
47	Manzoor-ul-Hassan	Pakistan	AHF	101	154	0.66	1973–1982	[30]
	Shahbaz Ahmed	Pakistan	AHF	101	304	0.33	1986–2002	[19]
	Matías Paredes	Argentina	PAHF	101	356	0.28	2001–	[20]
48	Baljit Singh Dhillon	India	AHF	100	327	0.31	1993–2004

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