Cristiano Ronaldo’s career total has been updated to 967 goals after Sofascore said it would add the six strikes he scored in the 2023 Arab Club Champions Cup. The change closes a gap that had left the Saudi league star listed at 961 goals in Sofascore’s system even as other statistics outlets had already placed him at 967.
The six missing goals came in 2023, when Ronaldo won the Arab Club Champions Cup with Al Nassr, took the tournament’s Golden Boot and helped push his team to the title. Sofascore had classified the competition as a friendly match and said the six goals were in its database but did not appear in its official career totals until now.
The correction matters because the dispute was never about whether Ronaldo scored them. It was about whether the tournament should count. Sofascore said the six goals had “disappeared” from its official statistics, then said it will update Ronaldo’s record and add those goals to the career totals of every player who took part in the tournament. FIFA has not issued an official classification for the event, leaving the status of the 2023 Arab Club Champions Cup at the center of the debate.
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IFFHS said all of Ronaldo’s goals, including the six from the 2023 Arab Club Champions Cup, were valid and officially recorded. FIFA also publicly congratulated Ronaldo for reaching 950 goals, including the goals from that tournament. With Sofascore’s latest update, its own record now matches the broader total of 967 goals, ending the mismatch that had fueled the controversy across statistics platforms.
For Ronaldo, the number has become part of the story itself: 961 in one database, 967 in the broader record, and a tournament that can shift a career tally depending on who is doing the counting. The only unresolved issue is the one that started the dispute in the first place — whether football’s governing authorities will ever formally settle how the primera división de arabia saudita-linked competition should be classified in the record books.
