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List of international goals scored by

Alexis Sánchez
Alexis Sánchez is a Chilean professional footballer who represents the Chile national
football team as a striker. Nicknamed El Niño Maravilla ("The Boy Wonder"),[1] he made
his debut for his country in a 1–0 victory over New Zealand in April 2006.[2] His first
international goal came on his eighth appearance for Chile when he scored Chile's only
goal in a 2–1 defeat to Switzerland in a friendly tournament in Vienna.[2] As of November
2018, Sánchez is his country's top scorer and has the most caps, with 41 goals in 124
appearances.[2] He passed the previous record of 37, held by Marcelo Salas,[3] when he
scored the opening goal against Germany in the group stage of the 2017 FIFA
Confederations Cup in June 2017.[4] He scored most recently against Honduras in a 4–1
win during a friendly.[2] Despite Sánchez scoring seven goals, making him second-equal
top scorer in 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying (along with Lionel Messi, Gabriel Jesus and
Felipe Caicedo), Chile failed to qualify for the finals.[5][6] Sánchez made his most recent and
Alexis Sánchez with
124th appearance for Chile in the aformentioned win against Honduras in November
Chile in 2013
2018.[2]

As of November 2018, Sánchez has not scored an international hat-trick, but has scored
twice in a match on nine occasions.[2] Sánchez has scored more goals in friendlies than in any other format, with nineteen.
He has scored fourteen goals in qualifying for the FIFA World Cup, two in FIFA World Cup finals, five in the Copa
América and one in the Confederations Cup.[2] He has scored more goals against Uruguay (five) and Bolivia (four) than
any other nation, and more times at the Estadio Nacional de Chile (nine) than any other stadium.[2]

Goals
As of 20 November 2018
Scores and results list Chile's goal tally first.[2]

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International goals by cap, date, venue, opponent, score, result and competition
Goal Cap Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Ref.
7 Ernst-Happel-
1 8 September Stadion, Switzerland 1–1 1–2 [7]
2007 Vienna, Austria

2 11 Estadio El 1–0
4 June Teniente, Guatemala [2]
2–0
2008 Rancagua, Friendly
3 11 Chile 2–0

Peter Mokaba
11
Stadium, South Africa [8]
4 19 February 2–0 2–0
Polokwane,
2009
South Africa
Estadio
28 March Peru [9]
5 20 Monumental 1–0 3–1
2009
"U", Lima, Peru 2010 FIFA
Estadio World Cup
6 23 3–0 qualification
10 June Nacional de Bolivia [10]
4–0
2009 Chile,
7 23 Santiago, Chile 4–0

Brøndby
12 August Stadium, Denmark [11]
8 24 2–1 2–1
2009 Brøndby,
Denmark

9 28 Estadio 1–0
26 May Municipal de Zambia [12]
3–0
2010 Calama,
10 28 Calama, Chile 2–0

Estadio
Friendly
Municipal de
30 May Israel [13]
11 29 Concepción, 2–0 3–0
2010
Concepción,
Chile
17
12 34 November Estadio Uruguay 1–0 2–0 [14]
2010 Monumental
David Arellano,
19 June Santiago, Chile Estonia [15]
13 37 4–0 4–0
2011
Estadio
Malvinas
8 July Uruguay 2011 Copa [10]
14 39 Argentinas, 1–1 1–1
2011 América
Mendoza,
Argentina
Estadio
2014 FIFA
11 June Nacional de Bolivia [16]
15 57 2–0 3–1 World Cup
2013 Chile,
qualification
Santiago, Chile

16 58 Brøndby 2–0
14 August Stadium, Iraq [17]
6–0 Friendly
2013 Brøndby,
17 58 Denmark 3–0

11 October Estadio Colombia 3–3 2014 FIFA [18]

18 61 2–0
2013 Metropolitano World Cup
Roberto qualification
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Goal Cap Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Ref.

Meléndez,
Barranquilla,
19 61 Colombia 3–0

Estadio
15 October Nacional de Ecuador [10]
20 62 1–0 2–1
2013 Chile,
Santiago, Chile

21 63 Wembley 1–0
15
Stadium, England [10]
November 2–0 Friendly
London,
22 63 2013 2–0
England
Arena 2014 FIFA
13 June [19]
23 68 Pantanal, Australia 1–0 3–1 World Cup
2014
Cuiabá, Brazil group stage
Mineirão, Belo 2014 FIFA
28 June Brazil [20]
24 71 Horizonte, 1–1 1–1 World Cup
2014
Brazil knockout stage
14 Estadio CAP,
25 76 November Talcahuano, Venezuela 1–0 5–0 [21]
2014 Chile
Estadio Friendly
18
Monumental Uruguay [22]
26 77 November 1–0 1–2
David Arellano,
2014
Santiago, Chile
20 June Bolivia 2015 Copa [23]
27 83 2–0 5–0
2015 América
Estadio
5
Nacional de [24]
28 87 September Paraguay 3–2 3–2 Friendly
Chile,
2015
Santiago, Chile
8 October Brazil [25]
29 88 2–0 2–0
2015
2018 FIFA
30 89 Estadio 1–0 World Cup
13 October Nacional de Peru qualification [26]
4–3
2015 Lima, Lima,
31 89 Peru 3–2

32 98 Lincoln 3–1
14 June Financial Field, Panama [27]
4–2
2016 Philadelphia,
33 98 United States 4–2 Copa América
Centenario
Levi's Stadium,
18 June [28]
34 99 Santa Clara, Mexico 3–0 7–0
2016
United States

35 106 Estadio 2–1

15
Nacional de Uruguay [29]
November 3–1
Chile,
36 106 2016 3–1 2018 FIFA
Santiago, Chile
World Cup
Estadio qualification
28 March Monumental Venezuela [30]
37 108 1–0 3–1
2017 David Arellano,
Santiago, Chile

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Goal Cap Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Ref.

2017 FIFA
22 June Kazan Arena, [31]
38 112 Germany 1–0 1–1 Confederations
2017 Kazan, Russia
Cup
Estadio
2018 FIFA
5 October Monumental Ecuador [32]
39 118 2–1 2–1 World Cup
2017 David Arellano,
qualification
Santiago, Chile
Estadio El
16
Teniente, Costa Rica [33]
40 123 November 2–3 2–3 Friendly
Rancagua,
2018
Chile
Estadio
20
Germán [34]
41 124 November Honduras 3–1 4–1 Friendly
Becker,
2018
Temuco, Chile

Statistics
Goals by year Goals by competition
Year Apps Goals Competition Goals
2006 5 0 Friendlies 19
2007 4 1 FIFA World Cup qualifiers 14
2008 9 2 Copa América 5
2009 9 5 FIFA World Cup finals 2
2010 7 4 FIFA Confederations Cup 1
2011 11 2 Total 41
2012 8 0
2013 11 9
2014 13 4
2015 14 5
2016 15 5
2017 13 3
2018 5 2
Total 124 41

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