#6 Godfrey Chitalu (Zambia) - 76 goals
At number six, we have Zambia’s all time top scorer Godfrey Chitalu. Considered as Zambia’s greatest player of all time and one of the best African players of his generation, Chitalu scored a total of 76 goals in 108 appearances with a goals/game average of 0.704 during his international career that lasted from 1968 till 1980.
Chitalu helped Zambia qualify for their first ever African Cup on Nations in 1974 where they went on to reach the final only to lose to Zaire after a replay.
He also represented Zambia in their first ever appearance at the Olympics in the 1980 Moscow Games where he scored both of Zambia’s goals in their 3-1 and 2-1 losses to Soviet Union and Venezuela respectively. He retired from the national team in 1980 aged 33.
He was awarded the Zambian Footballer of the Year five times and after his retirement from football, he coached the national team for three matches before the entire team including Chitalu plummeted to their deaths in a plane crash across the Gabonese coast in 1993.
