List of international goals scored by Ali Ashfaq

Ali Ashfaq is the top goalscorer of all time for the Maldives national football team, with 58 goals in 95 appearances since his debut in 2003.^[1]

Ali Ashfaq, the all time top scorer for Maldives.

On 3 December 2003, Ashfaq scored his debut goal, yet his first hat-trick for Maldives against Mongolia in 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifier. In September 2013, Ashfaq netted six times against Sri Lanka in 2013 SAFF Championship, thus becoming the only player ever for Maldives to score a double hat-trick. In the same tournament, he netted four goals against Bhutan and became the all-time top scorer of SAFF Championship with 23 goals, surpassing the record previously held by India's Bhaichung Bhutia.

International goals

Scores and results list Maldives' goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Ashfaq goal

List of international goals scored by Ali Ashfaq^[1][2]

No.	Cap	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref.
1	3	3 December 2003	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	Mongolia	1–0	12–0	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification	[3]
2					5–0
3					6–0
4					8–0
5	6	13 October 2004	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	Vietnam	2–0	3–0	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification	[4]
6					3–0
7	8	7 December 2005	People's Football Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan	Afghanistan	3–0	9–1	2005 SAFF Gold Cup	[5]
8					9–1
9	9	9 December 2005	People's Football Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan	Sri Lanka	1–0	2–0	2005 SAFF Gold Cup	[6]
10	13	28 October 2007	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	Yemen	2–0	2–0	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification	[7]
11	22	16 April 2009	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	Philippines	2–1	3–2	2010 AFC Challenge Cup qualification	[8]
12	23	18 April 2009	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	Bhutan	1–0	5–0	2010 AFC Challenge Cup qualification	[9]
13					2–0
14	24	26 November 2009	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Malaysia	1–0	1–0	Friendly	[10]
15	26	7 December 2009	Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh	Afghanistan	2–1	3–1	2009 SAFF Championship	[11]
16					3–1
17	28	11 December 2009	Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh	Sri Lanka	3–1	5–1	2009 SAFF Championship	[12]
18	31	21 March 2011	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	Cambodia	2–0	4–0	2012 AFC Challenge Cup qualification	[13]
19					3–0
20					4–0
21	41	22 November 2011	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	Seychelles	3–0	3–0	Friendly	[14]
22	43	2 December 2011	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi, India	Nepal	1–0	1–1	2011 SAFF Championship	[15]
23	45	6 December 2011	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi, India	Bangladesh	3–1	3–1	2011 SAFF Championship	[16]
24	51	27 August 2012	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi, India	Syria	1–0	2–1	Friendly	[17]
25	54	14 February 2013	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	Pakistan	2–0	3–0	Friendly	[18]
26					3–0
27	55	2 September 2013	Dasharath Rangasala, Kathmandu, Nepal	Sri Lanka	2–0	10–0	2013 SAFF Championship	[19]
28					3–0
29					4–0
30					5–0
31					6–0
32					10–0
33	56	4 September 2013	Dasharath Rangasala, Kathmandu, Nepal	Bhutan	3–2	8–2	2013 SAFF Championship	[20]
34					4–2
35					6–2
36					7–2
37	58	27 November 2013	Stade Linité, Victoria, Seychelles	Seychelles	1–1	1–3	Friendly	[21]
38	59	29 November 2013	Stade Linité, Victoria, Seychelles	Seychelles	1–1	1–2	Friendly	[22]
39	60	13 May 2014	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	Laos	3–1	7–1	Friendly	[23]
40					4–1
41	61	19 May 2014	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	Myanmar	2–3	2–3	2014 AFC Challenge Cup	[24]
42	62	21 May 2014	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	Kyrgyzstan	1–0	2–0	2014 AFC Challenge Cup	[25]
43					2–0
44	68	8 October 2015	Changlimithang Stadium, Thimphu, Bhutan	Bhutan	2–0	4–3	2018 FIFA World Cup qualification	[26]
45					3–0
46					4–0
47	71	24 December 2015	Trivandrum International Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram, India	Bhutan	3–1	3–1	2015 SAFF Championship	[27]
48	72	26 December 2015	Trivandrum International Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram, India	Bangladesh	1–0	3–1	2015 SAFF Championship	[28]
49	75	29 March 2016	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	Bhutan	2–2	4–2	2018 FIFA World Cup qualification	[29]
50					4–2
51	77	6 September 2016	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	Laos	2–0	4–0	2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification	[30]
52					4–0
53	81	10 October 2019	Rashid Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Syria	1–2	1–2	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification	[31]
54	83	19 November 2019	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	Guam	3–1	3–1	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification	[32]
55	87	7 October 2021	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	Bangladesh	2–0	2–0	2021 SAFF Championship	[33]
56	88	10 October 2021	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	Sri Lanka	1–0	1–0	2021 SAFF Championship	[34]
57	89	13 October 2021	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	India	1–1	1–3	2021 SAFF Championship	[35]
58	90	9 November 2021	Colombo Racecourse, Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	4–0	4–4	Friendly	[36]

Hat-tricks

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Goals	Result	Competition	Ref.
1	3 December 2003	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	Mongolia	4 - (4', 61', 63', 68')	12–0	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification	[3]
2	21 March 2011	National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives	Cambodia	3 - (41', 84', 88')	4–0	2012 AFC Challenge Cup qualification	[13]
3	2 September 2013	Dasharath Rangasala, Kathmandu, Nepal	Sri Lanka	6 - (21' pen, 46' pen, 51', 53', 58', 87')	10–0	2013 SAFF Championship	[19]
4	4 September 2013	Dasharath Rangasala, Kathmandu, Nepal	Bhutan	4 - (48', 51', 76', 79')	8–2	2013 SAFF Championship	[20]
5	8 October 2015	Changlimithang Stadium, Thimphu, Bhutan	Bhutan	3 - (23', 33', 57' pen)	4–3	2018 FIFA World Cup qualification	[26]

Statistics

Appearances and goals by year[1] National team Year Apps Goals Maldives 2003 3 4 2004 4 2 2005 4 3 2007 2 1 2008 7 0 2009 9 7 2010 1 0 2011 16 7 2012 6 1 2013 7 14 2014 6 5 2015 9 5 2016 3 4 2017 2 0 2019 4 2 2021 9 4 2022 2 0 2023 1 0 Total 95 58 Goals by competition Competition Goals AFC Challenge Cup qualification 6 AFC Asian Cup qualification 2 FIFA World Cup qualification 14 Friendlies 10 SAFF Championship 23 AFC Challenge Cup 3 Total 58

Goals by opponent Opponent Goals  Bhutan 12  Sri Lanka 10  Afghanistan 4  Laos 4  Mongolia 4  Bangladesh 3  Cambodia 3  Seychelles 3  Kyrgyzstan 2  Pakistan 2  Syria 2  Vietnam 2  Guam 1  India 1  Malaysia 1  Myanmar 1    Nepal 1  Philippines 1  Yemen 1 Total 58

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