Cristiano Ronaldo has 9 World Cup goals after scoring against Uzbekistan in Portugal's second group-stage match at the 2026 tournament. How many World Cup goals does Ronaldo have now matters because the finish also made him the first person to score in six different World Cups.
Ronaldo's latest strike lifted his World Cup total from 8 to 9 and kept Portugal in the middle of a tournament run that has already stretched across six editions. He also has 144 international goals, a total that sits beside the World Cup marker rather than replacing it.
Ronaldo and Portugal
The goal against Uzbekistan followed a scoreless opener against DR Congo. In the 2026 tournament, that made the second group-stage match the one that changed the record, not the first one that set up the chase.
His World Cup scoring line now runs through 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022 and 2026, with at least one goal in each of those tournaments. In the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he scored once in Portugal's 7-0 win over North Korea. In 2014, he scored once against Ghana. In 2022, he scored once from the penalty spot against Ghana in Portugal's opening match.
Six World Cups for Ronaldo
The 2018 World Cup was his biggest scoring tournament, with four goals. That included a hat trick against Spain and one goal against Morocco. Across the five World Cups already on the page, the distribution is 1, 1, 4, 1 and now 1 more in 2026.
That timeline gives the record its shape. Ronaldo did not need a big tournament every time to keep the streak alive; he needed one goal in enough different editions to turn longevity into a scoring record. Pelé and Romário remain part of the wider World Cup scoring conversation, but Ronaldo's six-tournament run is the new line in the record book.
World Cup scoring total
Ronaldo is still not among the top goalscorers at soccer's biggest tournament, even with 9 goals. That gap is the complication inside the milestone: he has set the six-tournament record, yet the total still leaves him outside the tournament's leading scorers.
For Ronaldo, the next chance to add to the tally comes in Portugal's next match, with the opponent not named in the source. His chase for 1,000 official career goals in competitive football keeps the World Cup count part of a larger finish line, but the number readers have now is simple: 9.
