PERSON
SoccerJosef Bican
🇨🇿 CZ • 1913–2001 (age 88)
Josef Bican was a Czech professional footballer who played primarily in the mid-20th century. He scored 805 career goals, a record recognized as of 1968.
- Nationality
- CZ
Records
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Career Goals
1 recordWhat countsAll competitive club + international goals (friendly/exhibition goals excluded).
- 1968722 official-competition goals per IFFHS (515 league + 137 cup + 38 other + 32 international for Austria and Czechoslovakia), per Wikipedia's List of footballers with 500 or more goals; RSSSF's official-match methodology counts 950+ (and 1,813+ across all matches, rsssf.org/players/prolific.html). Retired-goals audit 2026-06-09 — the once-cited 805 figure is an outdated count no longer supported by current sources. | Correction applied: Retired-goals audit 2026-06-09: stored 805 ('IFFHS reports up to 805') is an outdated count no longer supported by current sources. 722 = IFFHS official-competition total (515 league + 137 cup + 38 other + 32 international for Austria and Czechoslovakia) per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_footballers_with_500_or_more_goals; RSSSF official-match count is 950+ (https://www.rsssf.org/players/prolific.html).722countsrc
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