Career statistics

Goalscoring and appearance record

Pelé dribbling past a defender during Malmö-Brazil 1-7 in May, 1960. Pelé scored 2 goals.

Pelé's goalscoring record is often reported as being 1280 goals in 1363 games. This figure includes goals scored by Pelé in non-competitive club matches, for example, international tours Pelé completed with Santos and the New York Cosmos, and a few games Pelé played in for armed forces teams during his national service in Brazil.
The tables below record every goal Pelé scored in major club competitions for Santos and the New York Cosmos. During much of Pelé's playing career in Brazil there was no national league championship. From 1960 onwards the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) were required to provide meritocratic entrants for the then-new Copa Libertadores, a South American international club competition broadly equivalent to the European Cup. To enable them to do this, the CBF organised two national competitions: the Taça de Prata and Taça Brasil. A national league championship, the Campeonato Brasileiro, was first played in 1971, alongside traditional state and interstate competitions such as the Campeonato Paulista and the Torneio Rio-São Paulo.
The number of league goals scored by Pelé is listed as 589 in 605 games. This number is the sum of the goals scored by Pelé in domestic league-based competitions: the Campeonato Paulista (SPS), Torneio Rio-São Paulo (RSPS), Taça de Prata and Campeonato Brasileiro. The Taça Brasil was a national competition organised on a knockout basis.

Club	Season	Domestic League Competitions								Domestic League Sub-total			Domestic Cup		International Club Competitions				Official Total			Total inc. Friendlies
		SPS		RSPS		T. de Prata		Camp. Brasil.					T. Brasil		Copa Libertadores		Intercontinental Cup
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals		Apps	Goals
Santos	1956	0*	0*							0*	0*								2*	2*		2*	2*
	1957	14+15*	19+17*	9	5					38*	41*								29*	16*		67*	57*
	1958	38	58	8	8					46	66								14*	14*		60*	80*
	1959	32	45	7	6					39	51		4*	2*					40*	47*		83*	100*
	1960	30	33	3	0					33	33		0	0	0	0	0	0	34*	26*		67*	59*
	1961	26	47	7	8					33	55		5*	7	0	0	0	0	36*	48*		74*	110*
	1962	26	37	0	0					26	37		5*	2*	4*	4*	2	5	13*	14*		50*	62*
	1963	19	22	8	14					27	36		4*	8	4*	5*	1	2	16	16*		52*	67*
	1964	21	34	4	3					25	37		6*	7	0*	0*	0	0	16*	13*		47*	57*
	1965	30	49	7	5					37	54		4*	2*	7*	8	0	0	18*	33*		66*	97*
	1966	14	13	0*	0*					14*	13*		5*	2*	0	0	0	0	19*	16*		38*	31*
	1967	18	17			14*	9*			32*	26*		0	0	0	0	0	0	32*	26*		65*	56*
	1968	21	17			17*	11*			38*	28*		0	0	0	0	0	0	38*	28*		73*	55*
	1969	25	26			12*	12*			37*	38*				0	0	0	0	37*	38*		61*	57*
	1970	15	7			13*	4*			28*	11*				0	0	0	0	28*	11*		54*	47*
	1971	19	8					21	1	40	9				0	0	0	0	40	9		72*	29*
	1972	20	9					16	5	36	14				0	0	0	0	36	14		74*	50*
	1973	19	11					30	19	49	30				0	0	0	0	49	30		66*	52*
	1974	10	1					17	9	27	10				0	0	0	0	27	10		49*	19*
	All	412	470	53	49	56*	36*	84	34	605*	589*		33	30	15	17	3	7	656	643		1120	1087

• A dark grey cell in the table indicates that the relevant competition did not take place that year.
• * indicates this number was inferred from a Santos fixture list from rsssf.com and this list of games Pelé played.

Club	Season	NASL		Other		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
NY Cosmos	1975	9	5	14*	10*	23*	15*
	1976	24	15	18*	11*	42*	26*
	1977	31	17	11*	6*	42*	23*
	All	64	37	43*	27*	107*	64*

Brazil national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1957	2	2
1958	7	9
1959	9	11
1960	6	4
1961	0	0
1962	8	8
1963	7	7
1964	3	2
1965	8	9
1966	9	5
1967	0	0
1968	7	4
1969	9	7
1970	15	8
1971	2	1
Total	92	77

World Cup goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	World Cup	Round
1.	19 June 1958	Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden	Wales	1 - 0	1 – 0	1958	Quarter-Final
2.	24 June 1958	Rasunda Stadium, Solna, Sweden	France	1 - 3	2 - 5	1958	Semi-Final
3.	24 June 1958	Rasunda Stadium, Solna, Sweden	France	1 - 4	2 - 5	1958	Semi-Final
4.	24 June 1958	Rasunda Stadium, Solna, Sweden	France	1 - 5	2 - 5	1958	Semi-Final
5.	29 June 1958	Rasunda Stadium, Solna, Sweden	Sweden	1 - 3	2 - 5	1958	Final
6.	29 June 1958	Rasunda Stadium, Solna, Sweden	Sweden	2 - 5	2 - 5	1958	Final
7.	30 May 1962	Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar, Chile	Mexico	2 - 0	2 - 0	1962	Group Stage
8.	12 July 1966	Goodison Park, Liverpool, England	Bulgaria	1 - 0	2 – 0	1966	Group Stage
9.	3 June 1970	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico	Czechoslovakia	2 – 1	4 – 1	1970	Group Stage
10.	10 June 1970	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico	Romania	1 - 0	3 – 2	1970	Group Stage
11.	10 June 1970	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico	Romania	3 - 1	3 – 2	1970	Group Stage
12.	21 June 1970	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, Mexico	Italy	1 - 0	4 – 1	1970	Final