On December 30th, 2013, Pele won two Guinness World Records certificates at the HMV Football event in London, which are the top scorer in football history and the largest number of World Cup winners (3 times).
Guinness certified Pele is the highest scorer in football, scoring 1283 goals in 1363 games (including friendlies). FIFA officially counted Pele’s career goals at 1279.
Only in official games, Pele scored 762 goals in his career (IFFHS, International Federation of Football History and Statistics), 778 goals (RSSSF, recording Sports Football data Foundation), 757 goals (spread by foreign media), 767 goals (spread by foreign media) and so on.