Roque Santa Cruz
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ParaguayCounted from the international goal archive — every scorer-credited goal in the matches it covers, 1916 to today. A record of covered matches, not a complete career count; own goals never join a scorer's tally.
Roque Luis Santa Cruz Cantero is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Paraguayan Primera División club Nacional. He is the record goal scorer and has earned over 100 caps for the Paraguay national team, thus he is regarded as one of the best players in the nation's history. Santa Cruz has scored goals at a professional level in each of the last four decades. He is also one of the few footballers to have made over 1,000 competitive appearances, and only the second Paraguayan to achieve this feat, after Paulo da Silva. — Wikipedia
identity matched to Wikidata · last verified 2026-08-26
In the line-ups
22 appearances in recorded line-ups · 1999–2015The archive holds 22 team sheets naming Roque Santa Cruz in Paraguay's starting line-up, from 1999-06-29 to 2015-06-30.
22 appearances in the starting line-ups the archive holds — not a career total. Our line-up coverage is partial, so a match he played that we hold no sheet for is simply not counted here.
International goals in our archive
21 goals across 18 scoring matches · 3 tournaments · 1999–2013| Date | Opponent | Result | Minutes | Competition | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-09-10 |  Argentina | L2–5(h) | 85' | FIFA World Cup qualification | Asunción |
| 2013-09-06 |  Bolivia | W4–0(h) | 47' | FIFA World Cup qualification | Asunción |
| 2013-06-07 |  Chile | L1–2(h) | 87' | FIFA World Cup qualification | Asunción |
| 2011-07-09 |  Brazil | D2–2(n) | 54' | Copa América | Córdoba |
| 2008-06-18 | Bolivia | L2–4(a) | 66' | FIFA World Cup qualification | La Paz |
| 2008-06-15 | Brazil | W2–0(h) | 26' | FIFA World Cup qualification | Asunción |
| 2007-11-17 |  Ecuador | W5–1(h) | 50' | FIFA World Cup qualification | Asunción |
| 2007-06-28 |  Colombia | W5–0(n) | 30' 46' 80'hat-trick | Copa América | Barinas |
| 2005-09-03 | Argentina | W1–0(h) | 14' | FIFA World Cup qualification | Asunción |
| 2005-06-08 | Bolivia | W4–1(h) | 45' | FIFA World Cup qualification | Asunción |
| 2005-06-05 | Brazil | L1–4(a) | 72' | FIFA World Cup qualification | Porto Alegre |
| 2003-11-15 | Ecuador | W2–1(h) | 29' | FIFA World Cup qualification | Asunción |
| 2002-06-02 |  South Africa | D2–2(n) | 39' | FIFA World Cup | Busan |
| 2001-09-05 | Bolivia | W5–1(h) | 69' | FIFA World Cup qualification | Asunción |
| 2000-11-15 |  Peru | W5–1(h) | 15' | FIFA World Cup qualification | Asunción |
| 2000-10-07 | Colombia | W2–0(a) | 3' | FIFA World Cup qualification | Bogotá |
| 1999-07-05 | Peru | W1–0(h) | 88' | Copa América | Pedro Juan Caballero |
| 1999-07-02 |  Japan | W4–0(h) | 40' 86' | Copa América | Asunción |
Honours
33 team trophies · Wikipedia + Wikidata, community-updated| Team honours33 | ||||
| UEFA Champions League | ×1 | 2000–01 | Bayern Munich | |
| Bundesliga | ×5 | 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2005–06 | Bayern Munich | |
| Paraguayan Primera División | ×13 | 1997, 1998, 1999, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 | Olimpia Asunción ·8, Libertad ·5 | |
| DFB-Pokal | ×4 | 1999–2000, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2005–06 | Bayern Munich | |
| Copa Paraguay | ×3 | 2021, 2023, 2024 | Olimpia Asunción ·1, Libertad ·2 | |
| Supercopa Paraguay | ×3 | 2021, 2023, 2024 | Olimpia Asunción ·1, Libertad ·2 | |
| DFB-Ligapokal | ×2 | 2000, 2004 | Bayern Munich | |
| Intercontinental Cup | ×1 | 2001 | Bayern Munich | |
| One of the Players in the World who have Scored Goals in Four Different Decades | ×1 | |||
| Individual honours9 | ||||
| Scoring titles · 3 | ||||
| Copa Paraguay Top Scorer | 2018 | |||
| Paraguayan Primera División Apertura Top Scorer | 2019 | |||
| Paraguayan Primera División Clausura Top Scorer | 2019 | |||
| Player of the year · 3 | ||||
| Paraguayan Footballer of the Year | ×2 | 1999, 2018 | ||
| Blackburn Rovers Player of the Season | 2007–08 | |||
| Monthly awards · 1 | ||||
| Premier League Player of the Month | 2007 | |||
| More honours · 2 | ||||
| FIFA World Cup Most Handsome Player | 2006 | |||
| Pope Francis International Peace Match Invitation | 2014 | |||
| Orders & distinctions2 | ||||
| Special decoration by the Presidency of the Republic | 2010 | |||
| Domingo Martínez de Irala Medal by the Municipality of Asunción | 2010 | |||