List of international goals scored by Neymar

Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior commonly known as Neymar or Neymar Jr, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward since his debut in 2010. Neymar has scored 64 goals from 103 appearances,[1] making himself the second all-time top scorer for the Brazil national football team, surpassing Ronaldo's record with a hat-trick in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Peru on 14 October 2020.[2] Neymar is the fifth most active top scorer in international football. Neymar made his debut for Brazil in a 1–0 win over United States on 10 August 2010 where he scored his debut goal.[3]

Neymar lining up for Brazil's friendly match against Austria in 2018. Neymar has scored 64 goals in 103 caps for Brazil.

Neymar has scored four international hat-tricks, and net twice in a match (also known as brace) on eight occasions.[4] He has scored the most time against Japan, having scored eight goals against them on several occasion.[5]

Neymar scored most of his goals in friendlies, having scored 42 times out of his 64 international goals. He has scored 3 times in the Copa América tournaments and 19 times at FIFA tournaments, which comprises of FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup qualifiers and FIFA Confederations Cup.[6]

Neymar led Brazil national team in the 2016 Summer Olympics, and scored the decisive penalty in the shoot out in the final against Germany, which gave Brazil their first football Olympic gold medal.[7][8]

List of goals
Scores and results list Brazil's goal tally first.[9]
No. Cap Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Ref(s)
1 1 10 August 2010New Meadowlands Stadium, East Rutherford, United States United States1–02–0Friendly[10]
2 3 27 March 2011Emirates Stadium, London, England Scotland1–02–0[11]
3 2–0
4 8 13 July 2011Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes, Córdoba, Argentina Ecuador2–14–22011 Copa América[12]
5 4–2
6 10 10 August 2011Mercedes-Benz Arena, Stuttgart, Germany Germany2–32–3Friendly[13]
7 13 28 September 2011Estádio Olímpico do Pará, Belém, Brazil Argentina2–02–02011 Superclásico de las Américas[14]
8 14 8 October 2011Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica Costa Rica1–01–0Friendly[15]
9 17 30 May 2012FedExField, Landover, United States United States1–04–1[16]
10 22 10 September 2012Estádio do Arruda, Recife, Brazil China PR2–08–0[17]
11 5–0
12 6–0
13 23 19 September 2012Estádio Serra Dourada, Goiânia, Brazil Argentina2–12–12012 Superclásico de las Américas[18]
14 24 11 October 2012Swedbank Stadion, Malmö, Sweden Iraq5–06–0Friendly[19]
15 25 16 October 2012Stadion Miejski, Wrocław, Poland Japan2–04–0[20]
16 3–0
17 26 15 November 2012MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, United States Colombia1–11–1[21]
18 31 6 April 2013Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia Bolivia2–04–0[22]
19 3–0
20 32 24 April 2013Estádio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Chile2–12–2[23]
21 35 15 June 2013Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha, Brasília, Brazil Japan1–03–02013 FIFA Confederations Cup[24]
22 36 19 June 2013Estádio Castelão, Fortaleza, Brazil Mexico1–02–0[25]
23 37 22 June 2013Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador, Brazil Italy2–14–2[26]
24 39 30 June 2013Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Spain2–03–0[27]
25 41 7 September 2013Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha, Brasília, Brazil Australia3–06–0Friendly[28]
26 42 10 September 2013Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, United States Portugal2–13–1[29]
27 43 12 October 2013Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul, South Korea South Korea1–02–0[30]
28 47 5 March 2014FNB Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa South Africa2–05–0[31]
29 3–0
30 5–0
31 48 3 June 2014Estádio Serra Dourada, Goiânia, Brazil Panama1–04–0[32]
32 50 12 June 2014Arena Corinthians, São Paulo, Brazil Croatia1–13–12014 FIFA World Cup[33]
33 2–1
34 52 23 June 2014Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha, Brasília, Brazil Cameroon1–04–1[34]
35 2–1
36 55 5 September 2014Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, United States Colombia1–01–0Friendly[35]
37 58 14 October 2014National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore Japan1–04–0[36]
38 2–0
39 3–0
40 4–0
41 59 12 November 2014Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, Istanbul, Turkey Turkey1–04–0[37]
42 4–0
43 61 26 March 2015Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France France2–13–1[38]
44 64 14 June 2015Estadio Municipal Germán Becker, Temuco, Chile Peru1–12–12015 Copa América[39]
45 67 8 September 2015Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, United States United States2–04–1Friendly[40]
46 4–0
47 71 1 September 2016Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito, Ecuador Ecuador1–03–02018 FIFA World Cup qualification[41]
48 72 6 September 2016Arena da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil Colombia2–12–1[42]
49 73 6 October 2016Arena das Dunas, Natal, Brazil Bolivia1–05–0[43]
50 74 10 November 2016Estádio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Argentina2–03–0[44]
51 76 23 March 2017Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay Uruguay
3–1
4–1
[45]
52 77 27 March 2017Arena Corinthians, São Paulo, Brazil Paraguay
2–0
3–0
[46]
53 82 10 November 2017Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France Japan
1–0
3–1
Friendly[47]
54 84 3 June 2018Anfield, Liverpool, England Croatia
1–0
2–0
[48]
55 85 10 June 2018Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria Austria
2–0
3–0
[49]
56 87 22 June 2018Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg, Russia Costa Rica
2–0
2–0
2018 FIFA World Cup[50]
57 89 2 July 2018Samara Arena, Samara, Russia Mexico
1–0
2–0
[51]
58 91 7 September 2018MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, United States United States2–02–0Friendly[52]
59 92 11 September 2018FedExField, Landover, United States El Salvador1–05–0[53]
60 95 16 November 2018Emirates Stadium, London, England Uruguay1–01–0[54]
61 98 6 September 2019Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, United States Colombia2–22–2[55]
62 103 13 October 2020Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru Peru1–14–22022 FIFA World Cup qualification[56]
63 3–2
64 4–2

Hat-tricks
Neymar has scored four hat-tricks for Brazil national football team.
No. Opponent Goals Score Venue Competition Date Ref(s)
1  China PR 3 – (1–0', 5–0', 6–0') 8–0 Estádio do Arruda, Recife, Brazil Friendly 10 September 2012 [57]
2  South Africa 3 – (2–0', 3–0', 5–0') 2–0 FNB Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa 5 March 2014 [58]
3  Japan 4 – (1–0', 2–0', 3–0'). (4-0') 4–0 Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City 14 October 2014 [59]
4  Peru 3 – (1–1', 3–2', 4–2') 4–2 Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification 13 October 2020 [60]

Statistics
As of 14 October 2020
  1. Appearance(s) in Copa América
  2. Appearance(s) in FIFA Confederations Cup
  3. Appearance(s) in FIFA World Cup
  4. Two appearances and one goal in Copa América, two appearances in FIFA World Cup qualification
  5. Appearance(s) in FIFA World Cup qualification

See also
  • List of men's association football players with 50 or more international goals

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