Of every 100 players who scored in an international match since 2010, 88 scored once. Ten scored twice, two completed a hat-trick or better, and across 6,123 matches with a goal there was a hat-trick in one match out of every 20. Backing a player to score more than once means backing something that happens to about one scorer in eight.
Today’s tips
Gt1
CSD Municipal
Cobán Imperial

Ni1
San Marcos
UNAN Managua

Pa1
Sporting SM FC
Alianza FC (PAN)

Bo1
Oriente Petrolero
Univ de Vinto

Cr1
CS Herediano
LD Alajuelense

Cl1
Univ de Chile
Palestino

Ec1
Guayaquil City
CS Emelec

Ni1
Matagalpa FC
Managua FC
Ua1
Polissya Zhy
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv

Am2
Andranik
Shirak-2

Am2
Mika Yerevan
Pyunik-2

Bg2
PFK Nesebar
Dobrudzha

Sk2
MŠK Považská Bystrica
Zlate Moravce

Am2
Urartu-2
Noah II

Ro1
FC Botosani
Corvinul Hunedoara

Lt1
Transinvest
Panevezys

Si1
ND Mura
NK Radomlje

Am1
Alashkert
BKMA Yerevan

Lt2
Zalgiris-2
Kauno Zalgiris-2

Cl3
Real San Joaquín
Santiago Morning

Ru1
Fakel Voronezh
Akhmat Grozny

Lv1
Rigas Futbola skola
Grobinas SC

Lt1
FK Riteriai
Zalgiris

Se1
Sirius IK
Brommapojkarna

Se1
Vasteras SK FK
Djurgårdens

Dk1
Silkeborg
Odense BK

Bg2
Beroe Stara Zagora
Ludogorets II

Se2
Norrby IF
Örebro SK

Pt2
Lusitânia FC
FC Porto B

Pt2
SL Benfica B
Leixões SC

Pl2
Unia Skierniewice
Arka Gdynia

No2
Moss FK
Odd BK

Nl2
Jong PSV
Volendam

Nl2
Jong AZ Alkmaar
FC Eindhoven

Ar2
Gimnasia Jujuy
Tristán Suárez

Ar2
All Boys
Central Norte Salta

Bg1
Botev Plovdiv
Spartak Varna

Ro1
Cluj
Univ Cluj-Napoca

Ro1
Sepsi OSK
FCSB

Tr2
Pendikspor
Batman Petrolspor

IL
Carshalton
Wingate & Finchley

Ec1
Tecnico
Mushuc Runa

PtU
Academico Viseu U23
Estrela U23

Pt1
Santa Clara
Nacional Madeira

Is1
Fram Reykjavik
KR Reykjavik

Ve1
Rayo Zuliano
Estudiantes FC

Py2
Tacuary FBC
Guaireña FC

Ec1
Libertad FC (ECU)
Univ Católica Quito

Py1
Libertad
Sportivo Trinidense

Uy1
CD Maldonado
Racing Club (URU)

Py2
CA Tembetary
General Caballero JLM

Ve1
Caracas
Deportivo La Guaira

Br2
Goiás
Londrina

Weekend tips
| Weekend HT/FT | Weekend Double Chance | Weekend Asian Handicap |
| Weekend Both Teams To Score | Weekend 1X2 | Weekend Goalscorer Tips |
| Weekend Yellow Card Tips | Weekend Corner Tips | Weekend Half-Time Tips |
How many goals a scorer gets
| Goals by one player in a match | Share of players who scored |
|---|---|
| 1 | 87.9% |
| 2 | 10.1% |
| 3 | 1.7% |
| 4 or more | 0.3% |
The sample is 15,382 player performances in which a player scored, excluding own goals. It covers international football only, since club-level scorer records at this scale aren’t freely available, and it includes only matches that had at least one goal.
The 303 hat-tricks in the sample show how rare the top end is: about one for every 20 matches with a goal.
How a team’s goals are shared
When a team scores, it usually scores once. Of 8,920 team performances with a goal, 46.6% were single-goal games. How much one player dominates depends on the total:
| Goals scored by the team | Share in which one player scored at least twice |
|---|---|
| 2 | 16.3% |
| 3 | 39.1% |
| 4 | 61.7% |
| 5 or more | 83.5% |
Two goals are usually shared between two different scorers, with the same player getting both just 16.3% of the time. By four goals the chance that someone has scored twice is nearly two in three, and at five or more it is more than four in five.
A repeat scorer becomes likely as the total rises, probably because several goals have to be shared among only a handful of attackers.
Reading the scorer tips for tomorrow
An anytime-scorer pick is a one-goal question, and one goal is by far the most common scorer outcome. About one scorer in eight got more than one, but that’s a figure for players who had already scored. For a player picked before kick-off, most of whom don’t score at all, a brace or hat-trick is much rarer. If a brace is the aim, a heavy mismatch is the best setting, because that is where the data shows a team’s scoring becoming concentrated.
Prices for a brace or a hat-trick are long because they rarely happen. Scorer bets are for over-18s only, with money you could lose.