Quiz! Can you name the top 40 scorers of the 21st Century for club and country?

Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney celebrate a goal during their time together at Manchester United. — (Image credit: Getty Images)

10 minutes on the clock, 40 players to guess.

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Scoring goals in the modern game is a whole different ball game to when our dads watched football – with all due respect to the likes of Gerd Muller and Gary Lineker.

Defenders might not get away with quite the crunching they used to but they're sharper, quicker and tactically, a backline is harder to beat in the 21st Century. Football evolves. Tactics have, too.

Which makes the 40 men on today's list all the more impressive. Getting to the top is one thing – staying there is quite another.

And staying at the top in the modern game is quite something else…

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Mark White is the Digital Content Editor at FourFourTwo. During his time on the brand, Mark has written three cover features on Mikel Arteta, Martin Odegaard and the Invincibles, and has written pieces on subjects ranging from Sir Bobby Robson’s time at Barcelona to the career of Robinho. An encyclopedia of football trivia and collector of shirts, he first joined the team back in 2020 as a staff writer.