Belgium finished their Euro 2024 qualification campaign with a 5-0 home win over Azerbaijan on Sunday, with Romelu Lukaku scoring four goals.
Lukaku scored all four goals in the first 37 minutes of the game before being replaced at halftime, with Leandro Trossard completing the scoring in the 90th minute.
Belgium won Euro 2024 Qualifying Group F with 20 points after scoring 22 goals and conceding only four, with Lukaku scoring 14 of those goals.
His haul also moved him up to joint-seventh on the all-time list of men’s international football goal scorers.
Before the weekend, Lukaku was tied on 79 goals with Brazil’s Neymar and former Zambia forward late Godfrey Chitalu, who is Africa’s greatest scorer of all time.
Lukaku has also surpassed Poland’s Robert Lewandowski on the list. He is now level with UAE striker Ali Mabkhout on 83 goals in 113 games.
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Only Ferenc Puskas (84), Mokhtar Dahari (89), Sunil Chhetri (93), Lionel Messi (106), Ali Daei (108), and Cristiano Ronaldo (128) have scored more goals in men’s international football history than Lukaku.
Top Goalscorers In Men’s International Soccer
| Player | Country | Goals |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Cristiano Ronaldo* | Portugal | 128 |
| 2. Ali Daei | Iran | 108 |
| 3. Lionel Messi* | Argentina | 106 |
| 4. Sunil Chhetri* | India | 93 |
| 5. Mokhtar Dahari | Malaysia | 89 |
| 6. Ferenc Puskas | Hungary | 84 |
| =7. Romelu Lukaku* | Belgium | 83 |
| =7. Ali Mabkhout* | UAE | 83 |
| 9. Robert Lewandowski* | Poland | 81 |
| =10. Godfrey Chitalu | Zambia | 79 |
| =10. Neymar* | Brazil | 79 |
| 12. Hussein Saeed | Iraq | 78 |
