Field hockey player Major Dhyan Chand, who represented India, is regarded as one of the all-time greats. He was renowned for his exceptional ball control and goal-scoring prowess during a time when India dominated field hockey. Beyond these triumphs, India won the field hockey competition in seven of the eight Olympics from 1928 to 1964, demonstrating the influence of this player. In this article, we will look at some of the unbreakable records set by Major Dhyan Chand in hockey.
#1 Most career goals – 570
Dhyan Chand (source: Twitter)
Major Dhyan Chand of India has the most international goals in classic field hockey with 570 goals in 185 international games. Paul Litjens of the Netherlands was the player who scored the most goals in modern hockey on artificial turf and was the second-highest international goal scorer in the sport.
In 177 games, he totalled 267 goals for his country. From 1982 to 2004, he held the record for the most goals scored by an international team on artificial turf, but Pakistan’s Sohail Abbas broke it in a match against India in Amritsar in 2004.
