Wayne Rooney, an English former association footballer, made his debut for England in a 3–1 defeat to Australia on 13 February 2003. He scored his first international goal later that year, in his sixth appearance for his country, against Macedonia. He retired from international football in November 2018, with a record of 53 goals in 120 international appearances, making him England's second highest scorer behind Harry Kane; he previously surpassed Bobby Charlton's record with a penalty against Switzerland at Wembley Stadium during Euro 2016 qualification.

Rooney's goal against Macedonia made him the youngest goalscorer for England, aged 17 years 317 days, surpassing the record set by Michael Owen who had scored against Morocco in 1998 during the King Hassan II International Cup Tournament. It also made Rooney the youngest scorer in qualifying for the European Championships, a record he held until Israel's Ben Sahar scored against Estonia in March 2007. In June 2004, Rooney scored the first of England's three goals in a victory over Switzerland during Euro 2004, and in doing so became the youngest player to score in a European Championship match. It was a brief record: Switzerland's Johan Vonlanthen, three months younger than Rooney, scored four days later.

Rooney never scored an international hat-trick, although he scored twice in a match on ten occasions. He scored more times against San Marino than against any other team, with five goals against them. More than half of Rooney's goals came away from home: he scored 18 at Wembley Stadium and four in Manchester (two each at Old Trafford and the City of Manchester Stadium).

The majority of Rooney's goals came in qualifying matches. He scored 16 in World Cup qualifiers, including nine during the 2010 World Cup qualification round where he finished as the second-equal top scorer, alongside Bosnia and Herzegovina's Edin Džeko and one behind Greece's Theofanis Gekas. Rooney also scored 14 times in European Championship qualifiers. He scored four times in Euro 2004, ending the tournament as the second-equal top scorer alongside the Netherlands' Ruud van Nistelrooy and one behind the Czech Republic's Milan Baroš. He scored only once in the World Cup finals, in a 2–1 loss to Uruguay in 2014. The remainder of Rooney's goals, 16, came in friendlies.

International goals England score listed first, score column indicates score after each Rooney goal.

+List of international goals scored by Wayne Rooney No. Date Venue Cap Opponent Score Result Competition Ref1 6 September 2003 Gradski Stadium, Skopje, Macedonia 6 1–1 2–1 UEFA Euro 2004 qualification 2 Old Trafford, Manchester, England 7 2–0 2–0 UEFA Euro 2004 qualification 3 16 November 2003 Old Trafford, Manchester, England 9 1–0 2–3 Friendly 4 5 June 2004 City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester, England 13 2–0 6–1 Friendly 5 3–0 6 17 June 2004 Estádio Cidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal 15 1–0 3–0 UEFA Euro 2004 7 2–0 8 21 June 2004 Estádio da Luz, Lisbon, Portugal 16 2–1 4–2 UEFA Euro 2004 9 3–1 10 17 August 2005 Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark 24 1–3 1–4 Friendly 11 12 November 2005 Stade de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland 28 1–1 3–2 Friendly 12 15 November 2006 Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands 36 1–0 1–1 Friendly 13 13 October 2007 Wembley Stadium, London, England 39 2–0 3–0 UEFA Euro 2008 qualification 14 17 October 2007 Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia 40 1–0 1–2 UEFA Euro 2008 qualification 15 10 September 2008 Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb, Croatia 46 3–0 4–1 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification 16 11 October 2008 Wembley Stadium, London, England 47 3–1 5–1 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification 17 4–1 18 15 October 2008 Dinamo Stadium, Minsk, Belarus 48 2–1 3–1 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification 19 3–1 20 28 March 2009 Wembley Stadium, London, England 49 2–0 4–0 Friendly 21 4–0 22 6 June 2009 Almaty Central Stadium, Almaty, Kazakhstan 51 3–0 4–0 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification 23 10 June 2009 Wembley Stadium, London, England 52 1–0 6–0 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification 24 3–0 25 9 September 2009 Wembley Stadium, London, England 55 5–1 5–1 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification 26 7 September 2010 St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland 67 1–0 3–1 UEFA Euro 2012 qualification 27 2 September 2011 Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria 71 2–0 3–0 UEFA Euro 2012 qualification 28 3–0 29 19 June 2012 Donbas Arena, Donetsk, Ukraine 75 1–0 1–0 UEFA Euro 2012 30 12 October 2012 Wembley Stadium, London, England 77 1–0 5–0 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification 31 3–0 32 17 October 2012 National Stadium, Warsaw, Poland 78 1–0 1–1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification 33 6 February 2013 Wembley Stadium, London, England 79 1–0 2–1 Friendly 34 22 March 2013 San Marino Stadium, Serravalle, San Marino 80 6–0 8–0 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification 35 26 March 2013 Podgorica City Stadium, Podgorica, Montenegro 81 1–0 1–1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification 36 2 June 2013 Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 83 2–1 2–2 Friendly 37 11 October 2013 Wembley Stadium, London, England 85 1–0 4–1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification 38 15 October 2013 Wembley Stadium, London, England 86 1–0 2–0 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification 39 4 June 2014 Sun Life Stadium, Miami, United States 91 1–1 2–2 Friendly 40 19 June 2014 Arena Corinthians, São Paulo, Brazil 94 1–1 1–2 2014 FIFA World Cup 41 3 September 2014 Wembley Stadium, London, England 96 1–0 1–0 Friendly 42 9 October 2014 Wembley Stadium, London, England 98 2–0 5–0 UEFA Euro 2016 qualification 43 12 October 2014 A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn, Estonia 99 1–0 1–0 UEFA Euro 2016 qualification 44 15 November 2014 Wembley Stadium, London, England 100 1–1 3–1 UEFA Euro 2016 qualification 45 18 November 2014 Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland 101 2–0 3–1 Friendly 46 3–1 47 27 March 2015 Wembley Stadium, London, England 102 1–0 4–0 UEFA Euro 2016 qualification 48 14 June 2015 Stožice Stadium, Ljubljana, Slovenia 105 3–2 3–2 UEFA Euro 2016 qualification 49 5 September 2015 San Marino Stadium, Serravalle, San Marino 106 1–0 6–0 UEFA Euro 2016 qualification 50 8 September 2015 Wembley Stadium, London, England 107 2–0 2–0 UEFA Euro 2016 qualification 51 17 November 2015 Wembley Stadium, London, England 109 2–0 2–0 Friendly 52 27 May 2016 Stadium of Light, Sunderland, England 110 2–0 2–1 Friendly 53 27 June 2016 Stade de Nice, Nice, France 115 1–0 1–2 UEFA Euro 2016

Statistics

+ Caps and goals by yearYearGoals20039320041162005822006812007422008852009962010111201152201254201310620141382015852016102201700201810Total12053

+ Caps and goals by competitionCompetitionCapsGoalsFIFA World Cup111FIFA World Cup qualification2616UEFA European Championship106UEFA European Championship qualifying2714Friendlies4616 Total 120 53

+ Goals by opponentOpponentGoals5443322222222222111111111111

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