Fantastic Erling Haaland’s national team goals for Norway

Few strikers in international football history can match Erling Haaland’s combination of volume and pace. Since his breakthrough on the national team, the Manchester City star has rewritten Norway’s record books – and become the all-time top scorer while still in his mid-20s.

Here is a complete overview of Haaland’s goals for Norway – from his youth to his position as one of the most feared strikers to ever wear the red shirt.

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Erling Haaland – The national team

Haaland’s international career didn’t start with the big opening many expected. He had to wait a full year – from his debut in September 2019 – before opening his goal account against Austria in September 2020. But once the goals came, they never stopped.

The first truly explosive season came in 2022, with nine goals in eight games – including a clash against Armenia and a productive Nations League series against Serbia and Sweden.

The year 2024 marked a historic climb on Norway’s all-time top scorer list. Haaland passed Jørgen Juve – whose record had stood since the 1930s – by two goals against Slovenia in October.

Still, 2025 stands as his most productive calendar year: 17 goals in just nine games, fueled by an insane World Cup qualifying campaign in which he scored in eight of Norway’s games. Highlights? Five goals against Moldova and a hat-trick against Israel – making him the fastest player in the 21st century to reach 50 international goals.

The qualifying effort – 16 goals alone – sent Norway to its first World Cup since 1998 and gave Haaland the chance to lead the attack in a major championship for the first time.

Erling Haaland – age-specific national team

Haaland’s most sensational youth achievement came at the U20 level, where he scored 11 goals in just five games. At the 2019 U20 World Cup, he delivered perhaps the most extraordinary performance of his career: nine goals in one game – in the 12-0 win over Honduras.

It shattered the tournament record for most goals in a single game and was the biggest win in U20 World Cup history. Remarkably, he did not score in any of the other games in the tournament, and Norway was eliminated in the group stage. But Haaland still walked away with the Golden Boot as the tournament’s top scorer.

It remains one of the most extraordinary individual scoring feats in sports history – at all age levels.

Comparison with Norway’s greats

The gap between Haaland and the rest of Norway’s goal list is now so large that it almost seems unfair. Jørgen Juve’s 33 goals – a record that survived for almost a century – took him 45 games between the late 1920s and 1930s. Haaland surpassed it in fewer than 40 caps – and has since scored around 25 more goals.

Even more striking: Several of the names behind him needed far more games to get there. John Carew needed 91 caps for 24 goals – Haaland has more than twice as many in just under half. The same goes for Harald Hennum and Einar Gundersen – both respected figures, but none came close to Haaland’s goal rate of over one goal per game.

Norway has produced outstanding strikers over the decades – from Gundersen’s pioneering days in the 1920s to Solskjaer, Flo and Carew in the 1990s and 2000s – but none have scored with anything close to Haaland’s frequency.

Unless injuries put an end to him, he will likely increase his lead at the top of this list for many years to come – and the record may ultimately be less about who is closest, and more about how far out of sight he can get.

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