List of international goals scored by Gerd Müller

Since then, Müller become his country's all-time top scorer with 68 goals in 62 games until being overtaken by Miroslav Klose on 6 June 2014.

[1] He held the record for goals scored in FIFA World Cup tournaments between 1974 and 2006.

[2] Müller netted eight international hat-tricks, which is a national record and the third best in Europe behind Sweden's Sven Rydell with 9 and Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo with 10.

On half of those occasions he added a fourth goal in the same match, against Albania, Cyprus, Soviet Union and Switzerland.

[3] This tally includes back-to-back hat-tricks at the 1970 FIFA World Cup against Bulgaria and Peru, being the only player alongside Sándor Kocsis to have done so.