List of leading rugby union test point scorers

This is a list of the leading scorers in rugby union Test matches.

Players currently active at international level are listed in bold; those not playing at international level but still active at club level are listed in italics.

Top twenty scoring international players (Tier 1)

Updated: 21 March 2015

World Rank	Tier Rank	Points	Player	International team(s)	Years active	Caps	Tries	Con	Pen	DG	Avg. PTS (per game)	Source(s)
1	1	1457	Dan Carter	New Zealand	2003–	102	29	260	258	6	14.28	^[1]
2	2	1246	Jonny Wilkinson	England (1179) British and Irish Lions (67)	1998–2011	91	7	169	255	36	13.69	^[2]
3	3	1090	Neil Jenkins	Wales (1049) British and Irish Lions (41)	1990–2003	87	11	131	248	10	12.53	^[3]
4	4	1083	Ronan O'Gara	Ireland (1083) British and Irish Lions (0)	2000–2013	130	16	176	202	15	8.33	^[4]
5	5	1010	Diego Dominguez	Italy (983) Argentina (27)	1991–2003 1989	76	9	133	209	20	13.29	^[5]
6	6	970	Stephen Jones	Wales (917) British and Irish Lions (53)	1998–2011	110	7	160	198	7	8.82	^[6]
7	7	967	Andrew Mehrtens	New Zealand	1995–2004	70	7	169	186	12	13.81	^[7]
8	8	911	Michael Lynagh	Australia	1984–1995	72	17	140	177	9	12.65	^[8]
9	9	893	Percy Montgomery	South Africa	1997–2008	102	25	153	148	6	8.75	^[9]
10	10	878	Matt Burke	Australia	1993–2004	81	29	104	174	1	10.84	^[10]
11	11	809	Chris Paterson	Scotland	1999–2011	109	22	90	170	3	7.42	^[11]
12	12	733	Gavin Hastings	Scotland (667) British Lions (66)	1986–1995	67	18	87	160	0	10.94	^[12]
13	13	688	Morne Steyn	South Africa	2009–	59	8	99	142	8	11.66	^[13]
14	14	684	Matt Giteau	Australia	2002–2011	92	29	103	107	4	7.43	^[14]
16	15	651	Felipe Contepomi	Argentina	1998–2013	85	16	74	139	2	7.66	^[15]
17	16	651	Hugo Porta	Argentina (592) South American Jaguars (61)	1971–1990	68	12	91	114	28	9.57	^[16]
18	17	645	Grant Fox	New Zealand	1985–1993	46	1	118	128	7	14.02	^[17]
21	18	560	David Humphreys	Ireland	1996–2005	70	6	88	110	8	8.00	^[18]
24	19	531	Leigh Halfpenny	Wales (482) British and Irish Lions (49)	2008–	63	12	39	131	0	8.43	^[19]
27	20	489	Stirling Mortlock	Australia	2000–2009	80	29	61	74	0	6.11	^[20]

Top ten scoring international players (Tier 2)^[21]

There are eight 'Tier 2' countries: Canada, Fiji, Japan, Georgia, Romania, Samoa, Tonga and the USA.

Updated: 21 March 2015

World Rank	Tier Rank	Points	Player	International team(s)	Years active	Caps	Tries	Con	Pe	DG	Avg. PTS (per game)	Source(s)
15	1	670	Nicky Little	Fiji	1996–2011	71	2	117	140	2	9.44	^[22]
19	2	629	Merab Kvirikashvili	Georgia	2003–	83	12	109	114	3	7.58	^[23]
20	3	597	James Pritchard	Canada	2003–	59	18	102	101	0	10.12	^[24]
21	4	566	Florin Vlaicu	Romania	2006–	77	6	94	112	4	7.35	^[25]
23	5	532	Ayumu Goromaru	Japan	2005–	43	15	131	65	0	12.37	^[26]
26	6	491	Gareth Rees	Canada	1986–1999	55	7	51	110	9	8.92	^[27]
31	7	465	Mike Hercus	United States	2002–2009	48	9	90	76	4	9.69	^[28]
32	8	422	Keiji Hirose	Japan	1994–2005	40	5	77	79	2	10.55	^[29]
33	9	419	Bobby Ross	Canada	1989–2003	58	7	51	84	10	7.22	^[30]
36	10	380	Dănuţ Dumbravă	Romania	2002–	67	3	70	73	2	5.67	^[31]

Top five scoring international players (Tier 3)^[32]

Updated: 21 March 2015

World Rank	Tier Rank	Points	Player	International team(s)	Years active	Caps	Tries	Con	Pen	DG	Avg. PTS (per game)	Source(s)
25	1	513	Yuri Kushnarev	Russia	2005–	71	9	69	110	0	7.26	^[33]
47	2	335	Jaco Coetzee	Namibia	1990–1995	28	6	81	45	3	11.96	^[34]
54	3	316	Konstantin Rachkov	Russia	1997–2011	40	10	51	36	10	7.90	^[35]
72	4	279	Gonçalo Malheiro	Portugal	1998–2007	40	8	25	46	17	6.98	^[36]
74	5	270	Esteban Roque Segovia	Spain	2004–2007	20	1	53	52	1	13.50	^[37]