Romelu Lukaku is a Belgian professional footballer who represents the Belgium national football team as a striker. Aged 17, he made his debut for his country in a 1–0 defeat to Croatia in Brussels in March 2010. His first and second international goals came on his eighth appearance for Belgium, in a 2–0 friendly victory over Russia.

As of 26 June 2024, Lukaku is his country's top scorer with 85 goals in 118 appearances, and ranks as the second-highest European men's international goalscorer, behind only Cristiano Ronaldo. The Belgian Football Association confirmed that Lukaku had broken the national record when he scored his 31st international goal in a match against Japan in November 2017. FIFA, however, did not initially recognise the record as three goals had been scored against Luxembourg in a friendly in May 2014 later declared by the organisation as an unofficial friendly due to too many substitutions being made. He scored twice against Tunisia in the group stages of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, a game after which football journalist Nick Ames praised him for a "laudable act of sportsmanship" as he had indicated to the referee that he had not been fouled in the penalty area, denying himself the chance of a hat-trick. The two goals took his overall tally in the 2018 World Cup to four and made him Belgium's highest scorer in a single World Cup tournament, and made him the first player since Diego Maradona in the 1986 FIFA World Cup to score back-to-back braces (two goals in a single game).

As of June 2024, Lukaku has scored four hat-tricks during his international career, including the treble against Luxembourg, with the others coming in a 9–0 win against Gibraltar in a 2018 World Cup qualifier in August 2017, a 3–0 victory against Sweden in a Euro 2024 qualifier in March 2023, and four goals in a 5–0 win over Azerbaijan in November 2023, also a Euro 2024 qualifier. Lukaku has scored more goals in friendlies than in any other format, with 25. He has scored eighteen goals in qualifying for the FIFA World Cup, five in FIFA World Cup finals, 21 in qualifying for the UEFA European Championship, six in the European Championship finals and ten in the UEFA Nations League. Lukaku scored his two most recent goals in a 3–0 friendly win against Luxembourg in June 2024.

International goals

As of match played 8 June 2024

Scores and results list Belgium's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Lukaku goal.

Key

‡	Indicates match was not officially recognised by FIFA

International goals by date, venue, cap, opponent, score, result and competition

No.	Cap	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref.
1	8	17 November 2010	Tsentralnyi Profsoyuz Stadion, Voronezh, Russia	Russia	1–0	2–0	Friendly
2					2–0
3	16	15 August 2012	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium	Netherlands	3–2	4–2
4	23	11 October 2013	Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb, Croatia	Croatia	1–0	2–1	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
5					2–0
6	28	26 May 2014	Cristal Arena, Genk, Belgium	Luxembourg	1–0	5–1‡	Friendly
7					3–1
8					4–1
9	29	1 June 2014	Friends Arena, Solna, Sweden	Sweden	1–0	2–0
10	33	1 July 2014	Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador, Brazil	United States	2–0	2–1 (a.e.t.)	2014 FIFA World Cup
11	37	12 November 2014	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium	Iceland	3–1	3–1	Friendly
12	43	29 March 2016	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa, Leiria, Portugal	Portugal	1–2	1–2
13	44	28 May 2016	Stade de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland	Switzerland	1–1	2–1
14	45	1 June 2016	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium	Finland	1–1	1–1
15	46	5 June 2016		Norway	1–0	3–2
16	48	18 June 2016	Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France	Republic of Ireland	1–0	3–0	UEFA Euro 2016
17					3–0
18	53	6 September 2016	GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus	Cyprus	1–0	3–0	2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
19					2–0
20	54	7 October 2016	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4–0	4–0
21	56	13 November 2016		Estonia	7–1	8–1
22					8–1
23	57	25 March 2017		Greece	1–1	1–1
24	61	31 August 2017	Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège, Belgium	Gibraltar	3–0	9–0
25					5–0
26					9–0
27	62	3 September 2017	Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens, Greece	Greece	2–1	2–1
28	63	10 October 2017	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium	Cyprus	4–0	4–0
29	64	10 November 2017		Mexico	2–1	3–3	Friendly
30					3–3
31	65	14 November 2017	Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges, Belgium	Japan	1–0	1–0
32	66	27 March 2018	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium	Saudi Arabia	1–0	4–0
33					2–0
34	68	6 June 2018		Egypt	1–0	3–0
35	69	11 June 2018		Costa Rica	2–1	4–1
36					3–1
37	70	18 June 2018	Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi, Russia	Panama	2–0	3–0	2018 FIFA World Cup
38					3–0
39	71	23 June 2018	Otkritie Arena, Moscow, Russia	Tunisia	2–0	5–2
40					3–1
41	76	7 September 2018	Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland	Scotland	1–0	4–0	Friendly
42	77	11 September 2018	Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík, Iceland	Iceland	2–0	3–0	2018–19 UEFA Nations League A
43					3–0
44	78	12 October 2018	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium	Switzerland	1–0	2–1
45					2–1
46	80	8 June 2019		Kazakhstan	3–0	3–0	UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
47	81	11 June 2019		Scotland	1–0	3–0
48					2–0
49	82	9 September 2019	Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland		1–0	4–0
50	83	10 October 2019	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium	San Marino	1–0	9–0
51					4–0
52	84	16 November 2019	Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg, Russia	Russia	4–0	4–1
53	86	11 October 2020	Wembley Stadium, London, England	England	1–0	1–2	2020–21 UEFA Nations League A
54	87	14 October 2020	Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík, Iceland	Iceland	1–0	2–1
55					2–1
56	89	18 November 2020	Den Dreef, Leuven, Belgium	Denmark	2–1	4–2
57					3–1
58	90	24 March 2021		Wales	3–1	3–1	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
59	91	27 March 2021	Sinobo Stadium, Prague, Czech Republic	Czech Republic	1–1	1–1
60	93	6 June 2021	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium	Croatia	1–0	1–0	Friendly
61	94	12 June 2021	Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg, Russia	Russia	1–0	3–0	UEFA Euro 2020
62					3–0
63	96	21 June 2021		Finland	2–0	2–0
64	98	2 July 2021	Allianz Arena, Munich, Germany	Italy	1–2	1–2	UEFA Euro 2020
65	99	2 September 2021	Lilleküla Stadium, Tallinn, Estonia	Estonia	2–1	5–2	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
66					3–1
67	100	5 September 2021	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium	Czech Republic	1–0	3–0
68	101	7 October 2021	Juventus Stadium, Turin, Italy	France	2–0	2–3	2021 UEFA Nations League Finals
69	105	24 March 2023	Friends Arena, Solna, Sweden	Sweden	1–0	3–0	UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying
70					2–0
71					3–0
72	106	28 March 2023	RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne, Germany	Germany	2–0	3–2	Friendly
73	107	17 June 2023	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium	Austria	1–1	1–1	UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying
74	108	20 June 2023	Lilleküla Stadium, Tallinn, Estonia	Estonia	1–0	3–0
75					2–0
76	110	12 September 2023	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium		3–0	5–0
77					4–0
78	111	13 October 2023	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria	Austria	3–0	3–2
79	112	16 October 2023	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium	Sweden	1–1	1–1
80	113	19 November 2023		Azerbaijan	1–0	5–0
81					2–0
82					3–0
83					4–0
84	115	8 June 2024		Luxembourg	1–0	3–0	Friendly
85					2–0

Hat-tricks

No.	Opponent	Goals	Result	Venue	Competition	Date
1	Luxembourg	3 – (1–0', 3–1', 4–1')	5–1	Cristal Arena, Genk, Belgium	Friendly	26 May 2014
2	Gibraltar	3 – (3–0', 5–0', 9–0')	9–0	Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège, Belgium	2018 FIFA World Cup qualification	31 August 2017
3	Sweden	3 – (1–0', 2–0', 3–0')	3–0	Friends Arena, Solna, Sweden	UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying	24 March 2023
4	Azerbaijan	4 – (1–0', 2–0', 3–0', 4–0')	5–0	King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium		19 November 2023

Statistics

As of match played 26 June 2024

See also

• List of top international men's football goalscorers by country
• List of men's footballers with 50 or more international goals