document_title: So You Think You Can Dance (U.S. TV series)

question_text: when does so you think you can dance 2018 premiere

text: Show format[edit]

text: A typical season of So You Think You Can Dance is divided between a selection process, during which expert judges select competitors from a wide pool of applicant dancers, and a competition phase, during which these 'finalists' (more typically referred to as the 'Top 20') compete for votes from home viewers.  Though it is produced over the course of months, the selection phase is highly edited and usually constitutes only the first 2–4 weeks of aired episodes, with the competition episodes forming the remaining 8–9 weeks of the season.

text: Open auditions[edit]

text: The open auditions, the first stage in determining a seasons finalists, take place in 5–6 major U.S. cities each season and are typically open to anyone aged 18–30 at the time of their audition.  The cities where auditions are held change from season to season but some, such as Los Angeles and New York, have featured in most seasons.  During this stage, dancers perform a brief routine (typically a solo, but duet and group routines are allowed as well) before a panel of dance experts, usually headed by series creator and executive producer Nigel Lythgoe.  This panel then decides on-the-spot whether the dancer demonstrated enough ability and performance value to proceed further.  If the dancer exhibited exceptional ability in their performance, judges award "a ticket to Vegas" (or in more recent seasons "a ticket to the Academy"), moving them instantly one step forward in the competition.  Alternatively, if judges are on the fence about the dancer, they may ask the contestant to wait until the end of that day's auditions to participate in a short test of their ability to pick up professional choreography.

text: Callbacks[edit]

text: The second stage of the selection process is referred to as "the callbacks" (the round has often been held in the city of Las Vegas and also been known as "Vegas Week" for much of the show's run, but has been called Academy Week since season 13).  The callbacks consist of a several-day-long process in which the remaining hopefuls are tested for overall well-rounded dance ability, stamina, creativity and their ability to perform under pressure. The dancers are put through a battery of rounds that test their ability to pick up various dance styles; these are typically some of the more well-represented genres that are later prominent in the competition phase, such as hip-hop, jazz, ballroom, and contemporary.  Additionally the dancers may be asked to perform further solos in styles of their choosing and participate in a group choreography round in which small teams of contestants must display their musicality and ability to communicate professionally by choreographing a performance to a randomly selected piece of music — this challenge is notable as being the only time competitors are asked to choreograph themselves, aside from solos.  The Callbacks are often collectively portrayed as one of the most exhausting and stressful stages of the competition; each successive round sees cuts in which a significant portion of the remaining dancers are eliminated from competition and dancers are given a limited amount of time to adapt to styles they are sometimes wholly unfamiliar with while being physically taxed by the rapid progression of rounds and a limited amount of rest.  At the end of this process, usually less than 40 competitors remain in a pool that final contestants are chosen from.  Most seasons have featured 20 top finalists for the competition portion of the show, but Season One was represented by a Top 16, Season Seven saw a Top 11, and Season Thirteen employed a Top 10.

text: Finalist selection and showcase episode[edit]

text: Following Vegas Week—-which has, through video vignettes, made many of the dancers increasingly familiar to the audience as it observes their attempts to cope with the challenges of the week-—the judge's panel selects their finalists from the remaining dancers, breaking the good or bad news to each dancer.  Since Season six, the series has also featured a showcase episode that takes place immediately before the main competition.  In this episode, dancers compete for the first time on the main SYTYCD stage in Los Angeles before a live audience, dancing duet or group routines, but only in their own styles. In seasons eight through ten, the finalist announcement episode and the dancer's showcase were combined into one episode, with groups of dancers taking to the stage for the first time immediately after they are revealed. In seasons six through nine, no dancers were in danger of elimination at this point and the first round of viewer voting and judge eliminations occurred the following week. In the slightly more compact format of the more recent seasons, the dancer showcase is often the first episode to be accompanied by viewer voting and a resulting elimination.

text: Finalist Stage[edit]

text: Following the finalist selection process, the show transitions into its regular competition phase, which lasts the rest of the season.  The competition stage is typically divided into 8 weeks,  generally with two contestants eliminated per week. Dancers are paired-up into male-female couples that will sometimes stay paired for half of the remaining competition if neither is eliminated.  These couples perform 1–2 duets per week in randomly selected styles.  These duets, as with all non-solo performances at this stage in the competition, are choreographed by professional choreographers.  Prior to most duet performances, a video packet of clips of the couple preparing to perform the routine is shown; these packets are intended not only to demonstrate the couple's efforts to master the routine, but also to give glimpses of the personalities of the dancers as well as to allow the choreographer to give insight as to the thematic, narrative, and artistic intentions of the piece.  Following each duet performance, the week's panel of judges gives critical feedback, often emphasizing the two key areas of technique and performance value.  Duets and their accompanying video packets and critiques typically take up the majority of a competition show but may also be supplemented by solos or group numbers.  Each competition show ends with a quick recap of the night's routines accompanied by voting prompts—traditionally by phone, but increasingly through online voting processes.  Performance shows typically last around two hours, commercials included.

text: In seasons 2-8 the show's weekly format was split between two episodes, a performance episode, as described above, and a results show which reveals the outcome of the at-home-viewer voting.  Results shows typically aired on the night immediately following that of the performance show of the same week and usually opened with a group routine from the remaining contestants.  The main purpose of this show was to determine which of the dancers are eliminated that week, but these episodes generally also featured guest dance performances or guest musical acts, and sometimes further video packets that provide insight on the dancers and their journey on the show.  More recent seasons have moved to a one-show-per-week format, combining elements that used to be found in both varieties of show.  Regardless of how many shows air per week, a "bottom three" couples (those that garnered the fewest votes from viewers—in some seasons it is a bottom three of individual dancers rather than couples) are typically revealed weekly at this stage in the competition.  Each of these dancers are then in danger of elimination and must perform a solo for the judges as their last effort to impress and stay in the competition.  The judges then retire briefly (typically during the night's headlining musical guest performance) to determine which man and woman (which are not necessarily from the same couple) will leave the competition.  The eliminated dancers are then announced and given a brief send-off via a video montage.  On very rare occasions, the judges have been unwilling to send any of the bottom dancers home on the merits of their performances that week and have abstained from making an elimination and instead allowed all competitors to proceed to the next week (often to be followed by a double elimination the following week).  Since Season 7, dancers have also been routinely paired with "All Stars", returning dancers from previous seasons who partner with the contestant dancers, but are not themselves competing.

text: The total number of hours shown in a given week during the performance phase of the competition has varied from two to four hours.  In season one there was no results show and the dancers' eliminations were pre-recorded the week they occurred and then broadcast at the beginning of the next week's episode.  Seasons 9-14 have also utilized one show per week, but with votes from the previous week being revealed later in the show.  Voting has varied by season (and often within seasons) with regard to whether the voter selected individuals or couples.  There has also been variability in how long couples are kept together and how the at-home-viewer votes are balanced against judge decisions, though ultimately at some point in every season, the judges give up their power to save dancers at this point, and eliminations are determined exclusively by viewer votes, with judges serving in only an advisory capacity.  Each season undergoes one final format shake-up in its last week, which typically takes place when the show reaches a Top 4.  In the final performance show, the remaining dancers typically each dance duets with all of their remaining fellow finalists as well as perform solos and participate in group numbers.  The following night's season finale episode is often the most elaborately produced show of a season and features the last performances of the competitors, encore performances of many of the season's most acclaimed routines, guest dancers (including returning past season competitors and cast-members from other international versions of the franchise), musical performances and multiple video packets chronicling the course of the season's events, all culminating in the announcement of the winner of the competition, as decided by the previous night's vote.  Some seasons have featured a singular winner, while others have allowed for a male and female winner. Following the closure of the season, the Top Ten dancers often go on tour for several months, performing hit routines from the season amongst other performances.

text: Judges[edit]

text: The judging panels has varied considerably over the years,in size and composition over the run of the series. Typically a season has 2–3 permanent judges with an additional 1–2 guest judges for most episodes, with the panel ballooning up to six to nine members for Vegas Week and the finale.  Executive producer Nigel Lythgoe is the only permanent judge on the panel for all of the seasons. Other permanent judges have included ballroom specialist Mary Murphy, film director and choreographer Adam Shankman and contemporary choreographer Mia Michaels. Guest judge positions are typically filled by choreographers who work regularly on the show—though choreographers will never develop routines for an episode on which they judge—who in rare cases may also be former contestants themselves, and by iconic names from the entertainment industry.  Guest judges for the show have included: Debbie Allen, Christina Applegate, Robin Antin, Toni Basil, Cicely Bradley, Kristin Chenoweth, Alex Da Silva, Ellen DeGeneres, Tyce Diorio, Joey Dowling, Napoleon and Tabitha D'umo, Carmen Electra, Brian Friedman, Jean-Marc Généreux, Jason Gilkison, Neil Patrick Harris, Hi-Hat, Katie Holmes, Dan Karaty, Lady Gaga, Carly Rae Jepsen, Lil' C, Rob Marshall, Mandy Moore, Megan Mullally, Kenny Ortega, Toni Redpath, Debbie Reynolds, Wade Robson, Doriana Sanchez, Shane Sparks, Sonya Tayeh, Olisa Thompson, Stacey Tookey, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Travis Wall.  In earlier seasons, the judges decided on eliminations until around week five of the competitive phase of the show, but in seasons seven through nine the judges decided the eliminations until week seven. Beginning with the twelfth season, Paula Abdul and Jason Derulo joined Lythgoe as permanent judges.[1] For the thirteenth season, 13-year-old dancer Maddie Ziegler joined the panel as a fourth judge.[2] Season Fourteen has seen the departure of Abdul, Derulo, and Ziegler from their season-long positions of the judges panel, but introduction of Vanessa Hudgens and the return of Mary Murphy to her seat.

text: Overview of format and presentation by season[edit]

text:
Season

Dates

Host

Permanent judges

Separate results show?

Dancer showcase episode?†

Number of finalists in first live show

Number of contestants eliminated per week

Number of contestants remaining in finale

No. of winners

All-Stars included in format?

Point at which judge eliminations end

Voting for individual dancers starting with

1

Summer 2005  (July–October)

Lauren Sánchez

Nigel Lythgoe

No

No

16

2

4

1

No

Top 8

Top 8

2

Summer 2006  (May–August)

Cat Deeley

Yes

No

20

2

4

1

No

Top 10

Top 10

3

Summer 2007  (May–August)

Nigel Lythgoe  Mary Murphy

Yes

No

20

2

4

1

No

Top 10

Top 10

4

Summer 2008  (May–August)

Yes

No

20

2

4

1

No

Top 10

Top 10

5

Summer 2009  (May–August)

Yes

No

20

2

4

1

No

Top 10

Top 10

6

Fall 2009  (September–December)

Nigel Lythgoe  Mary Murphy  Adam Shankman

Yes

Yes

20

2

6

1

No

Top 10

Top 10

7

Summer 2010  (May–August)

Nigel Lythgoe  Adam Shankman  Mia Michaels

Yes

Yes

11

1*

3

1

Yes

Top 4

Top 11

8

Summer 2011  (May–August)

Nigel Lythgoe  Mary Murphy

Yes

Yes‡

20

2*

4

1

Yes

Top 6

Top 10

9

Summer 2012  (May–September)

No

Yes‡

20

2*

4

2

Yes

Top 6

Top 20

10

Summer 2013  (May–September)

No

Yes‡

20

2

4

2

Yes

Top 6

Top 20

11

Summer 2014  (May–September)

No

Yes

20

2

4

1

Yes

Top 10

Top 20

12

Summer 2015  (June–September)

Nigel Lythgoe  Paula Abdul  Jason Derulo

No

Yes

20

2⁂

4

1

Yes

Top 14

Top 20

13°

Summer 2016  (May–September)

Nigel Lythgoe  Paula Abdul  Jason Derulo  Maddie Ziegler

No

Yes

10

1**

4

1

Yes

Top 8

Top 10

14

Summer 2017  (June–September)

Nigel Lythgoe  Mary Murphy  Vanessa Hudgens

No

No

10

1

4

1

Yes

Top 6

Top 10

15

Summer 2018  (June-September)

No

No

10

2

4

1

Yes

TBA

TBA

text: †  From its inception in season 6 and through season 10, the dancer showcase episode represented a non-competitive round with no viewer voting or subsequent eliminations, followed the next week by the first competitive round.  In season 11 it was the first episode of the season upon which viewers voted.

text: ‡  For seasons 8-10, the dancer showcase episode was combined with the Top 20 reveal episode, with groups of the dancers performing immediately after being revealed as finalists.

text: *  In both seasons 7 and 8, the judges decided not to eliminate any dancers on the occasion of one results show; in both cases this event was followed by the elimination of double the normal amount of contestants the following week.  Similarly, for format reasons, season 9 featured two shows with double eliminations, with four dancers eliminated instead of two for each of these shows.

text: ⁂ Unlike all previous seasons, season 12 featured the elimination of one "street" dancer and one "stage" dancer each week, as opposed to one female and one male contestant (as in all previous seasons which eliminated two dancers per week).

text: °Season 13 (during which the show was subtitled 'The Next Generation') featured competitors between the ages of 9 (or as young as 8 at time of application) and 14.

text: **In season 13, the judges held the audition rounds, but the all-stars, rather than the judges, made the eliminations during Academy week to choose the top 10.  After this, in episodes 7 and 8, from the two contestants with the lowest viewer votes, the judges made the elimination. In episode 9, the two contestants with the lowest viewer votes were both eliminated, and in episodes 10 and 11, the contestant with the lowest viewer votes was eliminated.

text: Dance styles and choreographers[edit]

text: Over the course of its eleven seasons, So You Think You Can Dance has featured dozens of distinct dance styles in its choreographed routines. Most of these styles fall into four categories that are regularly showcased and can be found in almost every performance episode: western contemporary/classical styles, ballroom styles, hip-hop/street styles, and Jazz and its related styles. Various other forms of dance that do not especially fall into these broad categories are seen as well, but not as regularly.  The following styles have all been seen in a choreographed duet or group routine; styles featured only in auditions or solos are not listed.

text: Classical styles[edit]

text: Routines from the classically derived style of contemporary dance are the most common dances seen on the show, being seen in every performance episode of the series (and typically at least twice per episode).  While contemporary, lyrical, and modern dance are typically considered three separate (if overlapping) styles, the practice on So You Think You Can Dance has been to refer to all routines in this area as "contemporary", except in the first season where the label "lyrical" was used for the same purpose. Ballet routines occur much more rarely, at a rate of one or two per season since their introduction in the fourth season.

text:
Genre

Styles

Western Classical styles

Contemporary, Lyrical, Modern, Ballet/Pas de Deux

Choreographers

Dee Caspary, Tessandra Chavez, Tyce Diorio, Joey Dowling, Justin Giles, Mandy Moore, Mia Michaels, Dwight Rhoden, Desmond Richardson, Garry Stewart, Sonya Tayeh, Stacey Tookey, Travis Wall, Tovaris Wilson, Keith Young, Lindsay Nelko

text: Street and club styles[edit]

text: Hip-hop routines are also present in every performance episode.  While these routines frequently feature elements from many different subgenres of hip-hop (locking and popping, for example) and various "street" styles (such as breaking), they are typically all labelled under the umbrella term of hip-hop.  An exception is the now frequently featured lyrical hip-hop, which is unique amongst all the styles on SYTYCD in that it is the only one that is held to have become a known distinct style at least in-part as a result of the show; the style is widely attributed to regular show choreographers Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo and the term itself to judge Adam Shankman.  These two broad categories are occasionally supplemented by krump routines, which have been featured a few times a season since their introduction in season 2.  Additionally the styles of breakdancing (in the sense of a full breaking routine as opposed to a hip-hop routine with a few breaking tricks), waacking, and stepping have all been featured in exactly one routine. In Season 12, there are more street style dances because of the season's new format where there are 10 street dancers which do only street styles.

text:
Genre

Styles

Street and Contemporary Club Styles

Hip-hop (umbrella term for all Popping, Locking, and New Style/Commercial Hip-Hop styles), Lyrical Hip-hop, Breaking/B-boying, Krump, Stepping, Waacking

Choreographers

Cicely Bradley, Luther Brown, Tessandra Chavez, Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo, Dan Karaty, Marty Kudelka, Lil' C, Chuck Maldonado, Todd Sams, Christopher Scott, Dave Scott, Shane Sparks, Jamal Sims, Olisa Thompson, Dana Wilson, Pharside and Phoenix, Luam.

text: Ballroom styles[edit]

text: Ballroom styles are also seen regularly in every performance episode; these dances may be traditional European-derived styles or Latin-American styles or a mix of the two.

text:
Genre

Styles

Standard or Smooth Ballroom styles

Foxtrot, Tango, Argentine Tango, Quickstep, Waltz (including Smooth Waltz, Slow Waltz, American Slow Waltz, and Viennese Waltz variants)

Latin/Rhythm Ballroom styles

Cha-Cha-Cha, Jive, American Jive, Mambo, Paso Doble, Rumba, Salsa, Street Salsa, Samba, African Samba

Choreographers

Mark Ballas, Leonardo Barrionuevo, Dmitry Chaplin, Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Alex Da Silva, Sasha Farber, Anya Garnis, Jean-Marc Généreux, Jason Gilkison, Hunter Johnson, Pasha Kovalev, Melanie LaPatin, Miriam Larici, Liz Lira, Michael Mead, Tony Meredith, Tomas Mielnicki, Ron Montez, France Mousseau, Mary Murphy, Jonathan Platero, Oksana Platero, Toni Redpath, Jonathan Roberts, Fabian Sanchez, Edward Simon, Emma Slater, Heather Smith, J.T. Thomas,   Louis Van Amstel, Gustavo Vargas, Glenn Weiss

text: Jazz, Broadway, and musical theater styles[edit]

text: Jazz is featured in nearly all performance episodes.  While these routines are typically labelled simply "Jazz", the genre is notable as being one of the most fusional featured on the show and various style combinations and sub-categories have been referenced.  Descended from Jazz but treated as a separate genre on SYTYCD, "Broadway" is analogous to the label "Musical Theater" outside the U.S.

text:
Genre

Styles

Jazz Styles

Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Modern Jazz, Lyrical Jazz, African Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Latin Jazz, Pop-Jazz/Pop

Broadway/Musical Theatre Styles

Broadway, Burlesque, Can-Can, Tap

Choreographers

Andy Blankenbuehler, Sean Cheesman, Tyce Diorio, Brian Friedman, Laurie Ann Gibson, Derick K. Grant, Charles Klapow, Ray Leeper, Spencer Liff, Mandy Moore, Anthony Morigerato, Amanda Robson, Wade Robson, Sonya Tayeh, Savion Glover

text: American social styles[edit]

text: These dance styles are featured less frequently than their ballroom relatives, but have been seen intermittently since the first season.

text:
Genre

Styles

American Social / Traditional Club Styles

Charleston, Country-Western Two-Step, Disco, Go-Go, Hustle, Lindy Hop, Rock n' Roll, Swing, West Coast Swing

Choreographers

Ronnie DeBenedetta, Carla Heiney, Brandi Tobais, Travis Payne, Doriana Sanchez, Benji Schwimmer, Kristen Sorci, Maria Torres, Nick Williams

text: Regional/traditional styles[edit]

text: In addition to the broad categories above, many more styles that are less common in the U.S. are sometimes featured.  Most of these are seen only once, but the Bollywood style has been featured several times per season since the fourth season.

text:
Genre

Styles

Regional/Traditional Styles

Bollywood, African, Capoeira, Kalinka, Malevos, Tahitian, Tropak

Choreographers

Lilia Babenko, Leonardo Barrionuevo, Nakul Dev Mahajan, Miriam Larici, Tiana Liufau, Youri Nelzine.

text: Seasons[edit]

text: Grand Finalists[edit]

text:
Season

Winner

Runner-up

Third place

Fourth place

Fifth place

Sixth place

1

Nick Lazzarini(Contemporary Jazz)

Melody Lacayanga(Contemporary)

Jamile McGee(Popping)

Ashlé Dawson(Jazz)

2

Benji Schwimmer(Swing/Latin)

Travis Wall(Contemporary)

Donyelle Jones(Jazz/Hip-Hop)

Heidi Groskreutz(Ballroom)

3

Sabra Johnson(Contemporary)

Danny Tidwell(Contemporary)

Neil Haskell(Contemporary)

Lacey Schwimmer(Swing/Latin)

4

Joshua Allen(Hip-Hop)

Stephen "Twitch" Boss(Hip-Hop)

Katee Shean(Contemporary)

Courtney Galiano(Contemporary)

5

Jeanine Mason(Contemporary)

Brandon Bryant(Contemporary)

Evan Kasprzak(Broadway)

Kayla Radomski(Contemporary)

6

Russell Ferguson(Krump)

Jakob Karr(Contemporary)

Kathryn McCormick(Contemporary)

Ellenore Scott(Jazz)

Ashleigh Di Lello(Ballroom)

Ryan Di Lello(Ballroom)

7

Lauren Froderman (Contemporary)

Kent Boyd (Contemporary Jazz)

Robert Roldan(Contemporary Jazz)

8

Melanie Moore(Contemporary)

Sasha Mallory(African Jazz)

Marko Germar(Contemporary Jazz)

Tadd Gadduang(Breakdance)

Female winner

Male winner

Female runner-up

Male runner-up

9

Eliana Girard(Ballet)

Chehon Wespi-Tschopp(Ballet)

Tiffany Maher(Jazz)

Cyrus "Glitch" Spencer(Popping/Animation)

10

Amy Yakima(Jazz)

Du-Shaunt "Fik-Shun" Stegall(Hip-Hop)

Jasmine Harper(Contemporary)

Aaron Turner(Tap)

Winner

Runner-up

Third place

Fourth place

11

Ricky Ubeda(Contemporary)

Valerie Rockey(Tap)

Jessica Richens(Jazz)

Zack Everhart, Jr.(Tap)

12

Gaby Diaz(Tap)

Jaja Vaňková(Animation/Krump)

Virgil Gadson(Hip-Hop)

Hailee Payne(Jazz)

13

Leon "Kida" Burns(Hip-Hop)

J.T. Church(Jazz)

Tate McRae(Contemporary/Ballet)

Emma Hellenkamp(Tap)

14

Lex Ishimoto(Contemporary Hip-Hop)

Koine Iwasaki(Contemporary)

Taylor Sieve(Contemporary)

Kiki Nyemchek(Latin Ballroom)

text: Season 1[edit]

text: Season 2[edit]

text: The second season premiered on May 12, 2006. The top 20 finalists were revealed on June 8, and the winner, Benjamin Schwimmer, was named "America's Favorite Dancer" on August 16, 2006 after 16 million votes were collected for the season finale. Travis Wall was the first runner-up, and Donyelle Jones was named second runner-up.  There were several changes to the show's format in the second season.  This season was the first to feature two episodes per week, splitting the bulk of the performances and the voting results segments between two nights.  New styles of dance were also introduced, and the winning prize remained US$100,000 but also included a new car and a one-year contract to perform in a Céline Dion show then performing Las Vegas.  The season was also the first followed by a live tour for the top ten dancers.

text: Season 3[edit]

text: Open auditions for season 3 began early October 2006, held in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. Like the previous season, those that made the cuts moved on to Las Vegas. The taped auditions premiered on the Fox on May 24, 2007, and the subsequent shows were taped and broadcast live for a 12-week season. Cat Deeley returned as host, and Nigel Lythgoe returned as permanent judge. Joining Lythgoe permanently at the judging table was Mary Murphy; her promotion was reported by TV Guide on March 8, 2007.  The prize for the winner changed from $100,000 to $250,000 cash. On the performance finale show (August 16, 2007), Sabra Johnson was named "America's Favorite Dancer," while Danny Tidwell (brother of season 2 runner-up Travis Wall) was runner-up.

text: Season 4[edit]

text: Auditions for Season 4 began in Texas on January 17 and took place in six locations through March 2008. The show kicked off its two-hour season premiere on May 22, 2008.[3] Cat Deeley returned as host and Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy as permanent judges. This season saw the introduction of new dance styles, including Bollywood, and new choreographers, including hip-hop duo Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo. The prize for the winner was again $250,000 cash and the title of "America's Favorite Dancer" and additionally included an offer for a role in the dance film Step Up 3D. In the finale, viewers voted Joshua Allen as the overall winner, while Katee Shean was voted the top female dancer and was given a previously unannounced award of $50,000.[4]

text: Season 5[edit]

text: Auditions for Season 5 kicked off in New York City on November 13, 2008 and continued on to Miami, Los Angeles, Denver, Memphis, and Seattle. The premiere aired on May 21, 2009. Louis van Amstel joined the show's cast of choreographers and Shane Sparks returned to choreograph while on break from America's Best Dance Crew. The prize for the winner was once again $250,000 cash, the chance to be on the November 2009 issue cover of Dance Spirit Magazine, and the title of "America's Favorite Dancer." On August 6, 2009 (the finale), Jeanine Mason was given the title.

text: Season 6[edit]

text: After a low-rated special episode of Dance featuring Lythgoe presenting his and viewer's favorite dance routines from seasons 1–5, the sixth season of Dance, premiered on Wednesday, September 9, 2009.[5] Auditions were held in Boston, Atlanta, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Phoenix, and Salt Lake City.[6] Adam Shankman joined as the permanent judge for the first time this season. The winner was Russell Ferguson and the runner-up was Jakob Karr.

text: Season 7[edit]

text: Auditions began in Miami, Florida, on January 18, 2010, continuing through New York, Dallas, Nashville, and Chicago, ending in Los Angeles on March 26. The season premiered on May 27, 2010. This season introduced significant format changes to the show, with a Top 11 dancers instead of the traditional Top 20 and "All-Stars", contestants from previous seasons who returned to partner with the Top 11 for a portion of their routines. Lauren Froderman won this season with Kent Boyd as runner-up.

text: Season 8[edit]

text: Auditions started October 13, 2010 in Oakland, California and continued through November 15 in Brooklyn, New York. The premiere aired on May 26, 2011.  This season began a new version of the "All-Star" format in which the All-Stars didn't come in until the top 10. The show returned to a top 20 with couples. This season also marks the first time that the public can cast votes online, in addition to calling in, with a limit of 50 votes per viewer. On August 11, 2011, Melanie Moore won season 8, and Sasha Mallory was named the runner-up. Together they received 79% of the 11.5 million votes.

text: Season 9[edit]

text: The ninth season premiered on May 24, 2012. Fox discontinued the results show.[7] The two winners selected on September 18, 2012 were Eliana Girard and Chehon Wespi-Tschopp.

text: Season 10[edit]

text: Season 10 premiered on May 14, 2013, in its new Tuesdays at 8 p.m. time slot.[8] The two-part premiere concluded on May 15, 2013 at 9 p.m., after the finale of American Idol season 12.[9] On September 10, 2013, Amy Yakima and Du-Shaunt 'Fik-Shun' Stegall were named the season 10 winners, becoming the first contestants to take the top two positions who had been a couple at the beginning of the live show competition.  No music artists or special dance performers appeared on this season except for All-Stars who were former contestants.

text: Season 11[edit]

text: The eleventh season premiered on Wednesday, May 28, 2014. The season finale aired on Wednesday, September 3, 2014. Contemporary dancer Ricky Ubeda was the winner of the season with Tap dancer Valerie Rockey finishing as the runner-up.[10]

text: Season 12[edit]

text: The twelfth season of the show divided contestants into two equally sized teams, one representing "stage" dancers and the other "street" styles, with one contestant eliminated from each team weekly until the finale.[11] Auditions began on January 24, 2015 and took place in five major American cities.[12] Season 12 premiered on Monday, June 1. Tap dancer Gaby Diaz was the winner of the season, becoming the first tap dancer to win So You Think You Can Dance.  Animation dancer Jaja Vankova finished as the runner-up.

text: Season 13[edit]

text: The thirteenth season of the series premiered on May 30, 2016, titled So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation. The season features young dancers between the ages of 8 and 13 (at their date of application). After auditions, during Dance Academy episodes, 10 All-Stars eliminated competitors until each selected one contestant to mentor and partner with in performances during the live episodes.[13] One or more finalists were eliminated each week beginning July 18, 2016.[14] 13-year-old dancer Maddie Ziegler observed the Academy episodes and joined the judging panel for the live shows (also observing and commenting on rehearsals), together with continuing judges Abdul, Derulo and Lythgoe, the three of whom conducted the auditions.[2][15] Leon "Kida" Burns won the top prize of $250,000. J. T. Church was the runner-up.[16]

text: Season 14[edit]

text: On January 30, 2017, Fox renewed the series for a fourteenth season, which returned to its former contestant age range of 18-30 but keeps the All-Star partnerships. The season premiered on June 12, 2017. Contemporary dancer Lex Ishimoto was the winner of the season with contemporary dance Koine Iwasaki finishing as the runner-up and female winner, becoming the first Asian-Americans to take the top two positions of So You Think You Can Dance.[17]

text: Season 15[edit]

text: On February 16, 2018, Fox renewed the series for a fifteenth season set to premiere June 4, 2018 and see Deeley return as Host and Lythgoe, Murphy and Hudgens return as judges.

text: Special shows[edit]

text: On September 2, 2009, as prelude to season 6, a special show aired featuring judge picks for the top 15 routines from the first five seasons. At the end of the show, show creator and judge Nigel Lythgoe presented his favorite performance, a contemporary piece choreographed by Tyce Diorio and performed by Melissa Sandvig and Ade Obayomi.

text: In March 2014, Chinese television station CCTV broadcast a promotional episode in which notable all-star dancers from the U.S. and Chinese versions of So You Think You Can Dance competed directly against one-another as teams.  Titled Zhōngměi Wǔ Lín Guànjūn Duìkàngsài - Super Dancer Born Tonight, the show was shot in Las Vegas but never aired on U.S. television.

text: Ratings[edit]

text: So You Think You Can Dance premiered with over 10 million viewers in 2005.  For Season 1, it was the No. 1 summer show on television. However, when NBC's America's Got Talent premiered in the summer of 2006, it took the title of "#1 summer show" and, over the following few years, broadened its lead.  In summer 2009, SYTYCD premiered strong with a 3.4 rating in its target demographic, although with the start of America's Got Talent roughly a month later in the same timeslot, Dance fell to No. 4 on the ratings board.  It continued to lose viewers throughout the summer of 2009 and ended up with an average of approximately 8 million viewers.  Fox then moved SYTYCD to its fall 2009 schedule where its ratings continued to decline; hitting an all-time series low of 4.6 million viewers for a "special" episode hosted by Nigel Lythgoe on September 2, 2009.  The move to the fall was short-lived.  After dropping to an average of 6 million viewers, Fox moved SYTYCD back to the summer in 2010.  With Mia Michaels replacing Mary Murphy and former contestants termed as "All-Stars" being used as partners, the ratings for Dance continued to slide to all-time series lows; dropping to just 5.6 million viewers on July 15, 2010.  For Season 7, So You Think You Can Dance averaged just over 5 million viewers. After season 7, Mia Michaels was replaced on the judge's panel by returning personality Mary Murphy.  The change appeared to have little effect on the ratings, and the show continued to average just over five million viewers per episode in 2011's season 8. Season 9 saw a slight uptick in ratings early on, with each of the season's first five episodes garnering between six and seven million viewers, but the rise was short-lived and the show's ratings hit a new low of 4.16 million viewers on August 29, 2012.  Season 10 maintained similar numbers, averaging about 4 million viewers per episode in 2013, with a 4.3 million viewership for the last episode of the season, an all-time series low for a finale.[18]

text: In April 2014, Nigel Lythgoe appealed on Twitter to fans to share information about the show ahead of the 11th season's May premiere in an attempt to augment the show's ratings for the upcoming season and bolster its chances of renewal thereafter.[18][19] The show was renewed for a 12th season, but ratings continued to decline, with an average of around 3.5 million viewers per show. FOX renewed the show for a 13th season, but with a drastically re-worked format focused on child dancers. Ratings declined further for the new version, with only five episodes breaking the 3 million viewer mark; the finale saw a series low viewership of just 2.27 million viewers.[citation needed]

text: In 2016, a New York Times study of the 50 TV shows with the most Facebook Likes found that "in general", Dance "is more popular in cities, though it hits peak popularity in Utah".[20]

text:
Season

First aired

Last aired

TV season

Timeslot (ET)

Seasonviewers

Seasonranking

Date

Viewers(in millions)

Date

Viewers(in millions)

1[21]

July 20, 2005

10.30

Final Performances: September 28, 2005

7.30

2005

Wednesday 8:00 pm

Season Finale:  October 5, 2005

8.20

2[22]

May 25, 2006

10.70

Final Performances: August 9, 2006

10.10

2006

Wednesday 8:00 pm(performance)

Season Finale: August 16, 2006

10.70

Thursday 9:00 pm(results)

3[23]

May 24, 2007

9.50

Final Performances: August 15, 2007

8.70

2007

Wednesday 8:00 pm(performance)

Season Finale: August 16, 2007

9.60

Thursday 9:00 pm(results)

4[24]

May 22, 2008

6.70

Final Performances: August 6, 2008

9.00

2008

Wednesday 8:00 pm(performance)

Season Finale: August 7, 2008

9.70

Thursday 9:00 pm(results)

5[25]

May 21, 2009

8.80

Final Performances: August 5, 2009

7.80

2009

Wednesday 8:00 pm(performance)

Season Finale: August 6, 2009

9.60

Thursday 9:00 pm(results)

6[26]

September 9, 2009

6.60

Final Performances:

2009-10

Tuesday 8:00 pm(performance)

Season Finale: December 16, 2009

Wednesday 8:00 pm(results)

7[27]

May 27, 2010

8.20

Final Performances:

2010

Wednesday 8:00 pm(performance)

Season Finale: August 12, 2010

Thursday 9:00 pm(results)

8[28]

May 26, 2011

9.50

Final Performances:

2011

Wednesday 8:00 pm(performance)

Season Finale: August 11, 2011

Thursday 8:00 pm(results)

9[29][30][31]

May 24, 2012

6.26

Final Performances: September 11, 2012

4.33

2012

Wednesday 8:00 pm

Season Finale: September 18, 2012

4.71

10[32][33][34]

May 14, 2013

5.12

Final Performances: September 3, 2013

4.17

2013

Tuesday 8:00 pm

Season Finale: September 10, 2013

4.37

11[35][36][37]

May 28, 2014

5.33

Final Performances: August 27, 2014

3.68

2014

Wednesday 8:00 pm

Season Finale: September 3, 2014

4.12

12[38][39][40]

June 1, 2015

4.03

Final Performances: September 7, 2015

2.64

2015

Monday 8:00 pm

Season Finale: September 14, 2015

2.44

13[41][42][43]

May 30, 2016

3.75

Final Performances: September 5, 2016

2.37

2016

Monday 8:00 pm

Season Finale: September 12, 2016

2.27

14[44][45][46]

June 12, 2017

3.56

Final Performances: September 18, 2017

2.14

2017

Season Finale: September 25, 2017

1.91

15[47]

June 6, 2018

3.25

Final Performances:

2018

Season Finale:

text: Influence and international franchise[edit]

text: Dance competition had been a part of American television for decades before the premiere of So You Think You Can Dance, but usually in the form of all-around talent searches, (such as Star Search, Soul Train, or Showtime at the Apollo).  However,  a season-long American Idol-like talent-search show with a sole focus on dance had never been broadcast on American network television.  Producers and judges associated with the show have stated on numerous occasions, both within the context of the show and in interviews, that the series was meant to rejuvenate the visibility and appreciation of dance as an art form in the U.S. and to give exposure to struggling dancers.  Series judge Mary Murphy says, for example, "Of course you hope you can make a living at it, because you don't want to give up on something that you do, but the honest truth is most dancers have to carry one or two jobs and dance as much as they can on the side -- it's a very lucky dancer who gets a full scholarship."[48]  A number of dance-themed competition shows have been produced for American television since the premiere of So You Think You Can Dance, including America's Best Dance Crew, Superstars of Dance, and Live to Dance.

text: In 2009, Lythgoe came together with fellow SYTYCD judge Adam Shankman as well as Katie Holmes, Carrie Ann Inaba, and others in the dance entertainment industry, in an effort to launch The Dizzyfeet Foundation, with the aim of providing scholarships and training to young dancers of limited means.[49] The foundation has been referenced sporadically on the show since. In 2010, Lythgoe, with the assistance of other SYTYCD personalities and long-time healthy lifestyles proponent Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, was successful in getting another of his dance-oriented concepts realized—an official National Dance Day, held now annually on the last Saturday of July, to promote fitness through movement.[50]  This national dance day has been celebrated annually by the show since.[51]

text: Before the end of 2005, the year the series first premiered, its format had already been licensed for the first of a number foreign adaptations.  To date, the resulting So You Think You Can Dance franchise has produced 26 shows representing 37 different countries and comprising more than 80 individual seasons.  These adaptations have aired in Armenia, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iraq, India, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Palestinian Territories, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, South Africa, Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and Vietnam.

text: Awards and nominations[edit]

text: Emmy Awards[edit]

text:
hideEmmy Awards and nominations

Year

Result

Category

Recipient(s)/Choreographer(s)

Style

Music

2007

Won[a]

Outstanding Choreography

Wade Robson

Pop-Jazz

"Ramalama (Bang Bang)"—Róisín Murphy

Mia Michaels

Contemporary

"Calling You"—Celine Dion

2008

Won

Outstanding Choreography

Wade Robson

Jazz

Hummingbird and Flower/"The Chairman's Waltz" from Memoirs of a Geisha

Nominated

Mandy Moore

Jazz

Table/"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"—Eurythmics

Nominated

Shane Sparks

Hip-hop

Transformers/"Fuego"—Pitbull

Nominated

Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic)

2009

Won

Outstanding Choreography

Tyce Diorio

Contemporary

Adam and Eve/"Silence" from Unfaithful

Nominated

Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo

Hip-hop

"Bleeding Love"—Leona Lewis

Nominated

Mia Michaels

Contemporary

"Mercy"—Duffy

Nominated

Dmitry Chaplin

Argentine tango

"A Los Amigos" from Forever Tango

Nominated

Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic)

Won

Outstanding Costumes For A Variety/Music Program Or A Special

Soyon An

2010

Won

Outstanding Choreography

Mia Michaels

Contemporary

"Koop Island Blues"—Koop feat Ane Brun

Contemporary

Addiction/"Gravity"—Sara Bareilles

Contemporary

"One" from A Chorus Line

Nominated

Stacey Tookey

Contemporary

Fear/"Two Steps Away"—Patti LaBelle

Nominated

Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic)

Won

Outstanding Costumes For A Variety/Music Program Or A Special

Soyon AnGraine O'Sullivan

2011

Won

Outstanding Choreography

Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo

Hip-Hop

"Scars"—Basement Jaxx ft. Kelis, Meleka, and Chipmunk

Lyrical Hip-Hop

"Fallin'"—Alicia Keys

Hip-Hop

"Outta Your Mind" (District 78 Mix)—Lil Jon and LMFAO

Won

Mia Michaels

Contemporary

Alice in Mia-Land/"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"—Sting

Contemporary

"When We Dance"—Sting

Contemporary

"This Bitter Earth/On the Nature of Twilight"—Max Richter and Dinah Washington

Nominated

Mandy Moore

Pop-Jazz

"Oh Yeah"—Yello

Jazz

"Boogie Shoes"—KC & the Sunshine Band

Contemporary

"I Surrender"—Celine Dion

Nominated

Stacey Tookey

Contemporary

"Mad World" (Alternate Version)—Michael Andrews ft. Gary Jules

Contemporary

"Sundrenched World" (Live Session)—Joshua Radin

Contemporary

"Heaven is a Place on Earth"—Katie Thompson

Nominated

Travis Wall

Contemporary

"Collide" (Acoustic Version)—Howie Day

Contemporary

"How It Ends"—DeVotchKa

Contemporary

"Fix You"—Coldplay

Nominated

Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program

Cat Deeley

Won

Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Series

Robert BarnhartPete RadicePatrick BoozerMatt Firestone

Nominated

Outstanding Reality-Competition Program

Producers

2012

Nominated

Outstanding Choreography

Stacey Tookey

Contemporary

"In This Shirt"—The Irrepressibles

Contemporary

"Turning Tables"—Adele

Contemporary

"Heart Asks Pleasure First"—Ahn Trio

Nominated

Christopher Scott

Hip-hop

"Misty Blue"—Dorothy Moore

Hip-hop/Contemporary

"Velocity"—Nathan Lanier

Nominated

Spencer Liff

Broadway

"Whatever Lola Wants"—Ella Fitzgerald

Broadway

"Please Mr. Jailer"—Rachel Sweet

Broadway

"(Where Do I Begin) Love Story (Away Team Remix)"—Shirley Bassey

Nominated

Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program

Cat Deeley

Won

Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series

Robert BarnhartMatt FirestonePete RadicePatrick Boozer

Nominated

Outstanding Reality-Competition Program

Producers

2013

Nominated

Outstanding Choreography

Sonya Tayeh

Contemporary

"Possibly Maybe"—Björk

Contemporary

"Turning Page"—Sleeping At Last

Jazz

"Sail"—Awolnation

Nominated

Mandy Moore

Contemporary

"The Power of Love"—Celine Dion

Contemporary

"Wild Horses"—Charlotte Martin

Nominated

Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo

Jazz/Hip-hop

"The Circle of Life/Nants Ingonyama (District 78 Remix) from The Lion King"—Ella Fitzgerald

Jazz[52]

"The Lovecats"—The Cure

Jazz

The Beautiful People (District 78 remix)"—Marilyn Manson

Nominated

Travis Wall

Contemporary

"Where the Light Gets In"—Sennen

Contemporary

"Without You"—Harry Nilsson

Contemporary

"Unchained Melody"—The Righteous Brothers

Nominated

Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program

Cat Deeley

Nominated

Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series

Robert BarnhartMatt FirestonePete RadicePatrick Boozer

Nominated

Outstanding Reality-Competition Program

Producers

2014

Nominated

Outstanding Choreography

Christopher Scott

Hip-hop

"Trigger (Original Mix)"—Kezwik ft. Mel Presson

Jazz

"Sand"—Nathan Lanier ft. Karen Whipple

Contemporary

"The Gravel Road" from The Village (Score from the Motion Picture)

Nominated

Mandy Moore

Contemporary

"I Can't Make You Love Me"—Mark Masri

Jazz

"Feeling Good"—Jennifer Hudson

Contemporary

"Edge of Glory (Live from a Very Gaga Thanksgiving)"—Lady Gaga

Won

Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo

Hip-hop

"Gold Rush"—Clinton Sparks ft. 2 Chainz, Macklemore, & D.A.

Hip-Hop

"Run the World (Girls) (Nappytabs Remix)"—Beyoncé

Hip-Hop

"Puttin' On the Ritz"—Herb Alpert ft. Lani Hall

Nominated

Travis Wall

Contemporary

"Hangin' By a Thread"—Jann Arden

Contemporary

"Medicine"—Daughter

Contemporary

"Wicked Game (Live at Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland 2011)"—James Vincent McMorrow

Nominated

Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program

Cat Deeley

Nominated

Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic)

Nominated

Outstanding Reality-Competition Program

Producers

2015

Won

Outstanding Choreography

Travis Wall

Contemporary

"Wave"—Beck

Contemporary

"When I Go"—Over the Rhine

Contemporary

"Wind Beneath My Wings"—RyanDan

Nominated

Sonya Tayeh

Contemporary

"Vow"—Meredith Monk

Contemporary

"So Broken (Live)"—Björk

Contemporary

"Europe, After The Rain" —Max Richter

Nominated

Spencer Liff

Broadway

"Hernando's Hideaway"—Ella Fitzgerald

Broadway

"I've Got the World on a String"—Frank Sinatra

Broadway

"Maybe This Time"—Liza Minnelli

Nominated

Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program

Cat Deeley

Nominated

Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series

Robert Barnhart
Matt Firestone
Patrick Boozer
Pete Radice

Nominated

Outstanding Hairstyling for a Multi-Camera Series Or Special

Sallie Nicole
Sean Smith
Dean Banowetz
Ralph Abalos
Shawn Finch
Melissa Jaqua

Nominated

Outstanding Makeup for a Multi-Camera Series or Special

Heather Cummings
Marie DelPrete
Amy Harmon
Tyson Fountaine
Adam Christopher

Nominated

Outstanding Reality Competition Program

Producers

2016

Nominated

Outstanding Choreography

Travis Wall

Contemporary

"Beautiful Friends"—Helen Money

Contemporary

"November"—Max Richter

Contemporary

"Gimme All Your Love"—Alabama Shakes

Nominated

Anthony Morigerato

Tap

"Dibidy Dop (Swing Mix)"—Club Des Belugas feat. Brenda Boykin

Nominated

Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series

Robert Barnhart
Matt Firestone
Patrick Boozer
Pete Radice

2017

Won

Outstanding Choreography

Travis Wall

Contemporary

"The Mirror"—Alexandre Desplat

Contemporary

"Send in the Clowns"—Sarah Vaughan and the Count Basie Orchestra

Contemporary

"She Used to be Mine"—Sara Bareilles

Nominated

Mandy Moore

Contemporary

"Unsteady (Erich Lee Gravity Remix)"—X Ambassadors

Contemporary

"This is Not the End"—Clare Maguire

Nominated

Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series

Robert Barnhart
Matt Firestone
Patrick Boozer
Pete Radice

As of 2017, nine former SYTYCD contestants have been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography.  Five were nominated for their work on Dancing with the Stars:  Chelsie Hightower in 2010, Travis Wall and Nick Lazzarini in 2012 (with Teddy Forance), Alison Holker in 2013 (with Derek Hough), and Witney Carson in 2015.  Hokuto “Hok” Konishi, Ryan “Ryanimay” Conferido, and Dominic “D-Trix” Sandoval were nominated in 2016 as part of the B-boy troupe Quest Crew for their work on America's Best Dance Crew. Dmitry Chaplin in 2009 and Travis Wall in 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 were nominated for their work on SYTYCD, itself.  The only former contestants to have won the Choreography Emmy are Konishi, Conferido, and Sandoval in 2016 and Wall in 2015 and 2017.[53]
^a : Wade Robson and Mia Michaels were joint-winners along with Rob Marshall and John Deluca from Tony Bennett: An American Classic.

text: Teen Choice Awards[edit]

text:
Year

Result

Category

2006

Won

Choice TV: Breakout Show

Choice Summer Series

2007

Nominated

Choice Summer TV Show

2008

Nominated

Choice Summer TV Show

Choice TV: Reality Dance

2010

Nominated

Choice Personality: Cat Deeley

Choice Summer TV Show

2018

Pending

Choice Summer TV Show


question_text: who has the most goals in international football

root

text: List of men's footballers with 50 or more international goals[edit]

text: As of 6 July 2018. Players in bold are still active at international level.

tag: p

text:
Indicates the FIFA world top scorer.

Indicates the top scorer of the respective confederation.

Indicates the top scorer of the respective nation.

tag: table

text:
#

Name

Nation

Confederation

International  goals

Caps

Goals  per match

Career span

Notes

1

Ali Daei

 Iran

AFC

109
149
0.73
1993–2006
[1]

2

Cristiano Ronaldo

 Portugal

UEFA

85
154
0.56
2003–

3

Ferenc Puskás

 Hungary
 Spain

UEFA

84
89
0.94
1945–1962

4

Kunishige Kamamoto

 Japan

AFC

80
84
0.95
1964–1977

5

Godfrey Chitalu

 Zambia

CAF

79
108
0.71
1968–1980
[2]

6

Hussein Saeed

 Iraq

AFC

78
137
0.57
1977–1990

7

Pelé

 Brazil

CONMEBOL

77
91
0.85
1957–1971
[3]

8

Sándor Kocsis

 Hungary

UEFA

75
68
1.10
1948–1956

Bashar Abdullah

 Kuwait

AFC

75
134
0.56
1996–2018

10

Kinnah Phiri

 Malawi

CAF

71
115
0.62
1973–1981

Majed Abdullah

 Saudi Arabia

AFC

71
116
0.61
1977–1994

Kiatisuk Senamuang

 Thailand

AFC

71
134
0.53
1993–2007

Miroslav Klose

 Germany

UEFA

71
137
0.52
2001–2014

14

Piyapong Pue-on

 Thailand

AFC

70
100
0.70
1981–1997

Stern John

 Trinidad and Tobago

CONCACAF

70
115
0.61
1995–2012

Hossam Hassan

 Egypt

CAF

70
169
0.41
1985–2006
[4][5]

17

Gerd Müller

 West Germany

UEFA

68
62
1.10
1966–1974

Carlos Ruiz

 Guatemala

CONCACAF

68
132
0.52
1998–2016

Robbie Keane

 Republic of Ireland

UEFA

68
146
0.46
1998–2016[6]
[1][7][8]

20

Didier Drogba

 Ivory Coast

CAF

65
104
0.61
2002–2014
[9]

Lionel Messi

 Argentina

CONMEBOL

65
128
0.51
2005–
[10]

22

Sunil Chhetri

 India

AFC

64
101
0.63
2005–

23

Ronaldo

 Brazil

CONMEBOL

62
98
0.63
1994–2011

Zlatan Ibrahimović

 Sweden

UEFA

62
116
0.53
2001–2016

Ahmed Radhi

 Iraq

AFC

62
121
0.51
1982–1997

26

Imre Schlosser

 Hungary

UEFA

59
68
0.87
1906–1927

David Villa

 Spain

UEFA
59
98
0.60
2005–

28

Cha Bum-kun

 South Korea

AFC

58
135
0.42
1972–1986

29

Neymar

 Brazil

CONMEBOL

57
90
0.63
2010–

Carlos Pavón

 Honduras

CONCACAF

57
101
0.56
1993–2010

Clint Dempsey

 United States

CONCACAF

57
141
0.40
2004–2018

Landon Donovan

 United States

CONCACAF

57
157
0.36
2000–2014

Younis Mahmoud

 Iraq

AFC

57
148
0.39
2002–2016

34

Romário

 Brazil

CONMEBOL

55
70
0.79
1987–2005

Kazuyoshi Miura

 Japan

AFC

55
89
0.62
1990–2000

Jan Koller

 Czech Republic

UEFA

55
91
0.60
1999–2009

Robert Lewandowski

 Poland

UEFA

55
98
0.56
2008–

Fandi Ahmad

 Singapore

AFC

55
101
0.55
1979–1997

Bader Al-Mutawa

 Kuwait

AFC

55
162
0.32
2003–

40

Gabriel Batistuta

 Argentina

CONMEBOL

54
77
0.70
1991–2002

Samuel Eto'o

 Cameroon

CAF

54
118
0.46
1997–2014
[11]

42

Joachim Streich

 East Germany

UEFA

53
98
0.54
1969–1984
[12]

Luis Suárez

 Uruguay

CONMEBOL

53
103
0.51
2007–

Wayne Rooney

 England

UEFA

53
119
0.44
2003–2016

45

Poul Nielsen

 Denmark

UEFA

52
38
1.37
1910–1925

Ali Ashfaq

 Maldives

AFC

52
78
0.66
2003–

Edin Džeko

 Bosnia and Herzegovina

UEFA

52
89
0.59
2007–

Jon Dahl Tomasson

 Denmark

UEFA

52
112
0.46
1997–2010

Adnan Al Talyani

 United Arab Emirates

AFC

52
161
0.32
1983–1997

50

Lajos Tichy

 Hungary

UEFA

51
72
0.71
1955–1971

Lê Công Vinh

 Vietnam

AFC

51
83
0.61
2004–2016

Asamoah Gyan

 Ghana

CAF

51
106
0.48
2003–

Hakan Şükür

 Turkey

UEFA

51
112
0.46
1992–2007

Thierry Henry

 France

UEFA

51
123
0.41
1997–2010

55

Karim Bagheri

 Iran

AFC

50
87
0.58
1993–2010

Phil Younghusband

 Philippines

AFC

50
97
0.52
2006–

Robin van Persie

 Netherlands

UEFA

50
102
0.49
2005–

Hwang Sun-hong

 South Korea

AFC

50
103
0.49
1988–2002

Javier Hernández

 Mexico

CONCACAF

50
106
0.48
2009–

Tim Cahill

 Australia

OFC/AFC

50
107
0.47
2004–

Shinji Okazaki

 Japan

AFC

50
116
0.43
2008–

text: Number of men's footballers with 50 or more international goals by country[edit]

text:
Footballers

Country

Confederation

4
 Brazil
CONMEBOL

 Hungary
UEFA

3
 Iraq
AFC

 Japan
AFC

2
 Argentina
CONMEBOL

 Denmark
UEFA

 Germany(including  West Germany)
UEFA

 Iran
AFC

 Kuwait
AFC

 South Korea
AFC

 Thailand
AFC

 United States
CONCACAF

1
 Australia
OFC through 2005AFC 2006–present

 Bosnia and Herzegovina
UEFA

 Cameroon
CAF

 Czech Republic
UEFA

 Egypt
CAF

 England
UEFA

 France
UEFA

 East Germany
UEFA

 Ghana
CAF

 Guatemala
CONCACAF

 Honduras
CONCACAF

 India
AFC

 Ivory Coast
CAF

 Malawi
CAF

 Maldives
AFC

 Mexico
CONCACAF

 Netherlands
UEFA

 Philippines
AFC

 Poland
UEFA

 Portugal
UEFA

 Republic of Ireland
UEFA

 Saudi Arabia
AFC

 Singapore
AFC

 Spain
UEFA

 Sweden
UEFA

 Trinidad and Tobago
CONCACAF

 Turkey
UEFA

 United Arab Emirates
AFC

 Uruguay
CONMEBOL

 Vietnam
AFC

 Zambia
CAF

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text:
Footballers

Confederation

22
AFC

20
UEFA

7
CONMEBOL

6
CAF

6
CONCACAF

0
OFC

61
Total