Cristiano Ronaldo scored his ninth World Cup goal against Uzbekistan in Portugal's second group-stage match of the 2026 tournament, adding another line to a record that already stretches across six different World Cups. The goal made him the first man or woman to score in six separate editions of the event.
That is the answer to the question many readers are asking now: how many World Cup goals does Ronaldo have? The total is nine, and the latest one came while Portugal was still working through the group stage. It also pushed his international tally to 144 goals, a reminder that even in a tournament where he has not matched the very top finishers, he keeps finding ways to add to a career that keeps moving forward.
Ronaldo's World Cup scoring has been built in pieces rather than in one long burst. He scored one goal at the 2010 World Cup, when Portugal beat North Korea 7-0. Four years later he added one more against Ghana in Brazil. His biggest tournament came in 2018, when he scored four times, including a hat trick against Spain in Portugal's opening group match and another goal against Morocco. In the 2022 World Cup, he scored once from the penalty spot against Ghana in Portugal's opening match.
That spread matters because it shows why nine goals do not tell the whole story. Ronaldo has played in six World Cups, but he is still not among the tournament's top goalscorers. The gap is not small enough to ignore, and it sits beside the larger chase that still frames his career: he is still working toward 1,000 official goals in competitive football. The World Cup figure is growing, but it is growing more slowly than the legend around it.
For Portugal, the immediate next date is June 23, when it faces Uzbekistan again in the group stage. For Ronaldo, the next goal would not just move the number. It would be another step in a World Cup ledger that now has nine entries, spread across 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022 and 2026, with the next chapter still open.
