The record was set there and Kylian Mbappé scored another in their win over Greece tonight. A French record that has stood for 64 years, held by the famous musician Just Fontaine, who died earlier this year at the age of 89. With his 54th minute kick, the PSG striker has scored a total of 54 goals for club and country in 2022/23 - the most goals scored by a French player in one season. Kylian's goals were distributed as follows: 41 for PSG - 29 in Ligue 1, seven in the Champions League and one in the Coupe de France. Besides that, he has scored 13 goals at international level for France. In 1957/58, Just Fontaine scored 34 league goals for Stade Reims - almost half the team's total as they were crowned Ligue 1 champions for the fourth time. in the history of the club included five others in the Coupe de France.
Mbappé’s goals for France in 2022/23
Nations League
- Austria 1-1 France
- France 2-0 Austria
2022 World Cup
- France 4-1 Australia
- Denmark 1-2 France (2)
- Poland 1-3 France (2)
- Argentina 3-3 France (3)
Euro 2024 qualifiers
- France 4-0 Netherlands (2)
- Gibraltar 0-3 France
- France 1-0 Greece
Like Mbappé, the striker also scored 13 goals for France - an even more impressive feat considering all those goals came in the same edition of the World Cup. Fontaine found the back of the net in every game for Sweden 1958 - including hat-tricks against Paraguay and Germany and assists against Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland. To this day, no player has managed to score more goals in one edition of the World Cup - one of Fontaine's records that seems safe, for now, and will never pass.
