The single-term scoring list in the history of the World Cup preliminaries: Haaland and Lewandowski are second with 16 goals, and Ronaldo is fifth with 15 goals.

The German transfer market counted the number of goals scored by players in a single World Cup preliminaries and listed the list. Haaland scored 16 goals in this World Cup preliminaries and ranked tied for second.

Single World Cup qualifying scoring list:

1998 World Cup Qualifying Tournament - Bagheri (Iran) - 18 goals in 13 games

2002 World Cup Qualifying Tournament - Thompson (Australia) - 16 goals in 4 games

2026 World Cup Qualifiers - Haaland (Norway) - 16 goals in 8 games

2018 World Cup Qualifiers - Lewandowski (Poland) - 16 goals in 10 games

2018 World Cup Qualifiers - Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) - 9 games and 1 5 goals

2002 World Cup Qualifiers - Pavon (Honduras) - 15 goals in 17 games

2002 World Cup Qualifiers - Zdrilic (Australia) - 14 goals in 5 games

2014 World Cup Qualifiers ——Al-Sahrawi (Saudi Arabia) - 14 goals in 8 games

1998 World Cup Qualifiers - Miura Chiyoshi (Japan) - 14 goals in 13 games

2006 World Cup Qualifiers - Borgetti (Mexico) - 14 goals in 14 games