List of international goals scored by Wayne Rooney

Rooney in 2012

Wayne Rooney, an English association footballer, made his debut for England in a 3–1 defeat to Australia on 13 February 2003.^[1] He scored his first international goal later that year, in his sixth appearance for his country, against Macedonia. As of October 2016, he has scored 53 goals in 117 international appearances, making him England's all-time top scorer,^[2] surpassing Bobby Charlton's record with a penalty against Switzerland at Wembley Stadium during UEFA Euro 2016 qualification.^[3]

Rooney's goal against Macedonia made him the youngest-ever male scorer for England, aged 17 years 317 days, surpassing the record set by Michael Owen who had scored against Morocco in 1998 during the King Hassan II International Cup Tournament.^[4][5] It also made Rooney the youngest scorer in qualifying for the European Championships, a record he held until Israel's Ben Sahar scored against Estonia in March 2007.^[6] In June 2004, Rooney scored the first of England's three goals in a victory over Switzerland during Euro 2004, and in doing so became the youngest player to score in a European Championship match.^[7] It was a brief record: Switzerland's Johan Vonlanthen, three months younger than Rooney, scored four days later.^[8]

Rooney has never scored an international hat-trick, although he has scored twice in a match on ten occasions.^[9] He has scored more times against San Marino than any other team, with five goals against them.^[9] More than half of Rooney's goals have come away from home, having scored 18 at Wembley Stadium and 4 in Manchester, 2 each at Old Trafford and the City of Manchester Stadium.^[9]

The majority of Rooney's goals have come in qualifying matches. He has scored 16 in World Cup qualifiers, including 9 during the 2010 World Cup qualification round where he finished as the second-equal top scorer, alongside Bosnia and Herzegovina's Edin Džeko and one behind Greece's Theofanis Gekas.^[10] Rooney has also scored 14 times in European Championship qualifiers. He scored four times in Euro 2004, ending the tournament as the second-equal top scorer alongside the Netherlands' Ruud van Nistelrooy and one behind the Czech Republic's Milan Baroš.^[11] He has only scored once in the World Cup finals, in a 2–1 loss to Uruguay in the 2014 tournament.^[12] The remainder of Rooney's goals, 16, have come in friendlies.^[2][13]

International goals

Updated to game played 8 October 2016. England score listed first, score column indicates score after each Rooney goal.^[9][14]

List of international goals scored by Wayne Rooney

No.	Date	Venue	Cap	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref
1	6 September 2003	Gradski Stadium, Skopje, Macedonia	6	Macedonia	1–1	2–1	UEFA Euro 2004 qualification	[4]
2	10 September 2003	Old Trafford, Manchester, England	7	Liechtenstein	2–0	2–0		[15]
3	16 November 2003		9	Denmark	1–0	2–3	Friendly	[16]
4	5 June 2004	City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester, England	13	Iceland	2–0	6–1		[17]
5					3–0
6	17 June 2004	Estádio Cidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal	15	Switzerland	1–0	3–0	UEFA Euro 2004	[7]
7					2–0
8	21 June 2004	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon, Portugal	16	Croatia	2–1	4–2		[18]
9					3–1
10	17 August 2005	Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark	24	Denmark	1–3	1–4	Friendly	[19]
11	12 November 2005	Stade de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland	28	Argentina	1–1	3–2		[20]
12	15 November 2006	Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands	36	Netherlands	1–0	1–1		[21]
13	13 October 2007	Wembley Stadium, London, England	39	Estonia	2–0	3–0	UEFA Euro 2008 qualification	[22]
14	17 October 2007	Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia	40	Russia	1–0	1–2		[23]
15	10 September 2008	Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb, Croatia	46	Croatia	3–0	4–1	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification	[24]
16	11 October 2008	Wembley Stadium, London, England	47	Kazakhstan	3–1	5–1		[25]
17					4–1
18	15 October 2008	Dinamo Stadium, Minsk, Belarus	48	Belarus	2–1	3–1		[26]
19					3–1
20	28 March 2009	Wembley Stadium, London, England	49	Slovakia	2–0	4–0	Friendly	[27]
21					4–0
22	6 June 2009	Almaty Central Stadium, Almaty, Kazakhstan	51	Kazakhstan	3–0	4–0	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification	[28]
23	10 June 2009	Wembley Stadium, London, England	52	Andorra	1–0	6–0		[29]
24					3–0
25	9 September 2009		55	Croatia	5–1	5–1		[30]
26	7 September 2010	St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland	67	Switzerland	1–0	3–1	UEFA Euro 2012 qualification	[31]
27	2 September 2011	Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria	71	Bulgaria	2–0	3–0		[32]
28					3–0
29	19 June 2012	Donbass Arena, Donetsk, Ukraine	75	Ukraine	1–0	1–0	UEFA Euro 2012	[33]
30	12 October 2012	Wembley Stadium, London, England	77	San Marino	1–0	5–0	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification	[34]
31					3–0
32	17 October 2012	National Stadium, Warsaw, Poland	78	Poland	1–0	1–1		[35]
33	6 February 2013	Wembley Stadium, London, England	79	Brazil	1–0	2–1	Friendly	[36]
34	22 March 2013	San Marino Stadium, Serravalle, San Marino	80	San Marino	6–0	8–0	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification	[37]
35	26 March 2013	Podgorica City Stadium, Podgorica, Montenegro	81	Montenegro	1–0	1–1		[38]
36	2 June 2013	Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	83	Brazil	2–1	2–2	Friendly	[39]
37	11 October 2013	Wembley Stadium, London, England	85	Montenegro	1–0	4–1	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification	[40]
38	15 October 2013		86	Poland	1–0	2–0		[41]
39	4 June 2014	Sun Life Stadium, Miami, United States	91	Ecuador	1–1	2–2	Friendly	[42]
40	19 June 2014	Arena Corinthians, São Paulo, Brazil	94	Uruguay	1–1	1–2	2014 FIFA World Cup	[12]
41	3 September 2014	Wembley Stadium, London, England	96	Norway	1–0	1–0	Friendly	[43]
42	9 October 2014		98	San Marino	2–0	5–0	UEFA Euro 2016 qualification	[44]
43	12 October 2014	A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn, Estonia	99	Estonia	1–0	1–0		[45]
44	15 November 2014	Wembley Stadium, London, England	100	Slovenia	1–1	3–1		[46]
45	18 November 2014	Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland	101	Scotland	2–0	3–1	Friendly	[47]
46					3–1
47	27 March 2015	Wembley Stadium, London, England	102	Lithuania	1–0	4–0	UEFA Euro 2016 qualification	[48]
48	15 June 2015	Stožice Stadium, Ljubljana, Slovenia	105	Slovenia	3–2	3–2		[49]
49	5 September 2015	San Marino Stadium, Serravalle, San Marino	106	San Marino	1–0	6–0		[50]
50	8 September 2015	Wembley Stadium, London, England	107	Switzerland	2–0	2–0		[3]
51	17 November 2015		109	France	2–0	2–0	Friendly	[51]
52	27 May 2016	Stadium of Light, Sunderland, England	110	Australia	2–0	2–1	Friendly	[52]
53	27 June 2016	Stade de Nice, Nice, France	115	Iceland	1–0	1–2	UEFA Euro 2016	[53]

Statistics

Updated to game played 8 October 2016.^[9]

Goals by year Year Apps Goals 2003 9 3 2004 11 6 2005 8 2 2006 8 1 2007 4 2 2008 8 5 2009 9 6 2010 11 1 2011 5 2 2012 5 4 2013 10 6 2014 13 8 2015 8 5 2016 8 2 Total 117 53

Goals by competition Competition Goals UEFA European Championship qualification 14 Friendlies 16 UEFA European Championship tournaments 6 FIFA World Cup qualification 16 FIFA World Cup tournaments 1 Total 53

Rooney being tackled by Italian Daniele De Rossi in Euro 2012

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