List of international goals scored by Memphis Depay

Memphis Depay is a Dutch professional footballer who has represented the Netherlands national team as a forward since 2013. As of July 2024, he has scored 46 goals, ten of which were via penalty kicks, in 98 international appearances. He is the second all-time top scorer of his country, with only former teammate Robin van Persie (50) having recorded more goals for the Netherlands.

Depay during a training session with the Netherlands in March 2015.

Depay made his senior debut for his country in October 2013, coming on as a substitute for Jeremain Lens in a FIFA World Cup qualifier against Turkey. On 18 June 2014, he scored his first international goal against Australia at the World Cup finals in Brazil, becoming the Netherlands' youngest ever goalscorer at the tournament at the age of 20.^[1] He then got his second goal in the competition five days later, in a 2–0 win against Chile.

Depay scored his first brace for the Netherlands in a 3–1 World Cup qualifying win over Luxembourg in November 2016. Despite only recording three goals in his first 26 caps, Depay would go on to score sixteen goals in his following 25 appearances, including eleven goals in eighteen matches under the management of Ronald Koeman in 2018 and 2019. After the Netherlands missed out on qualification for both UEFA Euro 2016 and the 2018 World Cup, Depay scored six goals during Euro 2020 qualifying to help his side reach a first major tournament for six years. In the finals tournament, Depay got on the scoresheet against both Austria and North Macedonia during the group stage.

Depay recorded his first international hat-trick in a 6–1 World Cup qualifying win over Turkey on 7 September 2021, surpassing Wesley Sneijder and equalling Johan Cruyff and Abe Lenstra in the Netherlands' top ten all-time scorers list.^[2] He then scored a further nine goals in the 2022 World Cup qualification tournament, finishing joint-top scorer of the UEFA section alongside England's Harry Kane. Depay would finish the year of 2021 with seventeen international goals in sixteen matches, breaking Patrick Kluivert's national record of twelve for most scored in a single calendar year;^[3] only five players from any UEFA country had ever surpassed this tally.^[4] Depay scored his third World Cup goal at the 2022 tournament, coming against the United States in the round of 16. This strike saw him surpass former teammate Klaas-Jan Huntelaar as the Netherlands' second all-time top goalscorer, now trailing only Robin van Persie.^[5]

In total, Depay has scored three goals at the FIFA World Cup, fifteen during World Cup qualification, three at the UEFA European Championship, seven during European Championship qualification, and seven in the UEFA Nations League. The remainder of his goals, eleven, have come in friendlies. He has scored five goals against Gibraltar, more than against any other opponent.

International goals

As of match played 25 June 2024

Scores and results list Netherlands' goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Depay goal.

Key

‡	Indicates goal was scored from a penalty kick

Memphis Depay's international goals by cap, date, venue, opponent, score, result and competition

No.	Cap	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref.
1	7	18 June 2014	Estádio Beira-Rio, Porto Alegre, Brazil	Australia	3–2	3–2	2014 FIFA World Cup	[6]
2	8	23 June 2014	Arena Corinthians, São Paulo, Brazil	Chile	2–0	2–0		[7]
3	16	5 June 2015	Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands	United States	3–1	3–4	Friendly	[8]
4	27	13 November 2016	Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Luxembourg	2–1	3–1	2018 FIFA World Cup qualification	[9]
5					3–1
6	32	7 October 2017	Borisov Arena, Borisov, Belarus	Belarus	3–1	3–1		[10]
7	33	9 November 2017	Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen, Scotland	Scotland	1–0	1–0	Friendly	[11]
8	34	14 November 2017	Arena Națională, Bucharest, Romania	Romania	1–0	3–0		[12]
9	36	26 March 2018	Stade de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland	Portugal	1–0	3–0		[13]
10	39	6 September 2018	Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands	Peru	1–1	2–1		[14]
11					2–1
12	41	13 October 2018	Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands	Germany	2–0	3–0	2018–19 UEFA Nations League A	[15]
13	43	16 November 2018	De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands	France	2–0‡	2–0		[16]
14	45	21 March 2019	De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Belarus	1–0	4–0	UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying	[17]
15					3–0‡
16	46	24 March 2019	Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands	Germany	2–2	2–3		[18]
17	50	9 September 2019	A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn, Estonia	Estonia	3–0	4–0		[19]
18	51	10 October 2019	De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Northern Ireland	1–1	3–1		[20]
19					3–1
20	58	15 November 2020	Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3–0	3–1	2020–21 UEFA Nations League A	[21]
21	59	18 November 2020	Silesian Stadium, Chorzów, Poland	Poland	1–1‡	2–1		[22]
22	62	30 March 2021	Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar	Gibraltar	3–0	7–0	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification	[23]
23					7–0
24	63	2 June 2021	Estádio Algarve, Faro/Loulé, Portugal	Scotland	1–1	2–2	Friendly	[24]
25					2–2
26	64	6 June 2021	De Grolsch Veste, Enschede, Netherlands	Georgia	1–0‡	3–0		[25]
27	66	17 June 2021	Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands	Austria	1–0‡	2–0	UEFA Euro 2020	[26]
28	67	21 June 2021	Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands	North Macedonia	1–0	3–0		[27]
29	70	4 September 2021	Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, Netherlands	Montenegro	1–0‡	4–0	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification	[28]
30					2–0
31	71	7 September 2021	Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands	Turkey	2–0	6–1		[29]
32					3–0‡
33					4–0
34	73	11 October 2021	De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Gibraltar	2–0	6–0		[30]
35					3–0‡
36	74	13 November 2021	City Stadium, Podgorica, Montenegro	Montenegro	1–0‡	2–2		[31]
37					2–0
38	75	16 November 2021	De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Norway	2–0	2–0		[32]
39	76	26 March 2022	Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands	Denmark	3–1‡	4–2	Friendly	[33]
40	78	3 June 2022	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium	Belgium	2–0	4–1	2022–23 UEFA Nations League A	[34]
41					4–0
42	80	14 June 2022	De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Wales	3–2	3–2		[35]
43	85	3 December 2022	Khalifa International Stadium, Al Rayyan, Qatar	United States	1–0	3–1	2022 FIFA World Cup	[36]
44	88	27 March 2023	De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Gibraltar	1–0	3–0	UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying	[37]
45	91	6 June 2024	De Kuip, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Canada	1–0	4–0	Friendly	[38]
46	95	25 June 2024	Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany	Austria	2–2	2–3	UEFA Euro 2024

Hat-tricks

See also: List of Netherlands national football team hat-tricks

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Goals	Result	Competition	Ref.
1	7 September 2021	Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands	Turkey	3 (16', 38' pen., 54')	6–1	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification	[29]

Statistics

As of match played 10 July 2024

Appearances and goals by year Year Apps Goals 2013 3 0 2014 10 2 2015 8 1 2016 6 2 2017 7 3 2018 10 5 2019 8 6 2020 7 2 2021 16 17 2022 11 5 2023 2 1 2024 10 2 Total 98 46

Appearances and goals by competition Competition Apps Goals FIFA World Cup finals 9 3 FIFA World Cup qualification 15 15 UEFA European Championship finals 10 3 UEFA European Championship qualifying 16 7 UEFA Nations League 15 7 Friendlies 33 11 Total 98 46

Depay taking a free kick in a friendly against England in March 2018.

Goals by opponent Opponent Goals  Gibraltar 5  Montenegro 4  Belarus 3  Scotland  Turkey  Austria 2  Belgium  Germany  Luxembourg  Northern Ireland  Peru  United States  Australia 1  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Canada  Chile  Denmark  Estonia  France  Georgia  North Macedonia  Norway  Poland  Portugal  Romania  Wales Total 46

Appearances and goals by manager Manager Apps Goals Louis van Gaal 29 17 Ronald Koeman 29 14 Frank de Boer 14 9 Dick Advocaat 4 3 Danny Blind 10 2 Guus Hiddink 7 1 Fred Grim 3 0 Dwight Lodeweges 2 0 Total 98 46

Appearances and goals by club Club Apps Goals Lyon 41 23 Barcelona 18 15 PSV Eindhoven 17 3 Atlético Madrid 12 3 Manchester United 10 2 Total 98 46

See also

• List of international goals scored by Robin van Persie
• Netherlands national football team records and statistics

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