List of English football first tier top scorers

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On six occasions Jimmy Greaves was the league top scorer: twice with Chelsea and later four with Tottenham Hotspur; however, Steve Bloomer^[4] with five holds the record for one team. Thierry Henry is the record Premier League winner with four. Gary Lineker has won the honour three times, all with different clubs, the only player to do so.

In the 1951–52 season, Chile international Jorge 'George' Robledo became the first foreign player to score the most goals in a season, topping the list with 33 goals for Newcastle United.^[5] For two consecutive years the award was won by the lowest total of goals ever, 18.^[6] Englishmen Michael Owen, Dion Dublin and Chris Sutton won in the 1997–98 season.^[7] Owen again won in the 1998–99 season,^[7] but this time he was joined by Dutchman Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Dwight Yorke,^[7] Trinidad and Tobago, the duo becoming the first foreign, league top scorers since Robledo. During this period however, two Republic of Ireland internationals, winger Andy McEvoy and striker John Aldridge, topped the scoring charts. McEvoy shared the most goals with Jimmy Greaves in the 1964–65 season while Aldridge top scored for Liverpool in the 1987–88 season. Both players, although non-British, do not appear on the top foreign goalscorers list published by the IFFHS^[8] as well as many other more reputable football websites. Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast) became the first African to win the award in 2006–07 season^[7] and later Carlos Tevez, Luis Suárez and Sergio Agüero would add to the South American winners.^[7] In 2018–19, two players from the same club both finished as top scorers for the first time, Sadio Mané, Senegal, and Mohamed Salah, Egypt, of Liverpool,^[9] finished in another three way tie, joined by Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, Gabon. The 2021–22 season saw Son Heung-min become the first Asian winner; the South Korean international scored 23 goals, finishing level with Mohamed Salah.^[6]

From the start of the Premier League, a golden boot trophy is presented to the top goalscorer. The first player to win this trophy was Teddy Sheringham,^[7] then playing for Tottenham Hotspur. In the 1993–94 season Andy Cole scored 34 goals for Newcastle United, the highest number of goals in the Premier League era to win the award.^[6] The following season Alan Shearer equalled it while playing for Blackburn Rovers. Both these records however, were set during a 42 match season. Since the Premier League was reduced down to 20 teams, Mohamed Salah held the record previously with 32 in a 38 match season for Liverpool until Norwegian striker Erling Haaland scored his 33rd goal for Manchester City during the 2022–23 season. Haaland's next goal saw him break the record of most goals scored in a season by a foreign player, ending Robledo's 71-year-old record.^[10] Haaland finished the season with 36 goals, the highest goal amount since Ron Davies scored 37 for Southampton fifty-eight years ago. However all these totals are dwarfed by the all time record holder, Everton legend Dixie Dean, who still holds the record for the most goals in a season with 60, set in the 1927–28 season.^[11] Dean's 310 goals scored for Everton is still the record for most goals scored for one club, and also still holds the records for most hat-tricks, both overall and in a single season.^[12]

Since the turn of the millennium only three Englishmen have won the award. In the 1999–2000 season Kevin Phillips won with 30 goals for Sunderland.^[6] This was a record for most goals by a debut player, in a 38 match season, until Erling Haaland broke it in the 2022–23 season. Harry Kane won the golden boot in successive seasons when he scored 25 in 2015–16 and then 29 in the 2016–17 season. He won it again in the 2020–21 season with 23.^[1] The third is Jamie Vardy; the Leicester City striker scored 23 goals in the 2019–20 season.^[1]

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Player (X)	Name of the player and number of times they were top scorer at that point (if more than one)
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‡	Indicates player also won the European Golden Shoe in the same season (since 1967–68)
§	Denotes the club were English champions in the same season

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Season	Player(s)	Nationality	Club(s)	Goals
1888–89	John Goodall	England	Preston North End§	21
1889–90	Jimmy Ross	Scotland	Preston North End§	22
1890–91	Jack Southworth	England	Blackburn Rovers	26
1891–92	John Campbell	Scotland	Sunderland§	32
1892–93	John Campbell (2)	Scotland	Sunderland§	31
1893–94	Jack Southworth (2)	England	Everton	27
1894–95	John Campbell (3)	Scotland	Sunderland§	22
1895–96†	Steve Bloomer	England	Derby County	20
	John Campbell	Scotland	Aston Villa§
1896–97	Steve Bloomer (2)	England	Derby County	22
1897–98	Fred Wheldon	England	Aston Villa	21
1898–99	Steve Bloomer (3)	England	Derby County	23
1899–1900	Billy Garraty	England	Aston Villa§	27
1900–01	Steve Bloomer (4)	England	Derby County	23
1901–02	Jimmy Settle	England	Everton	18
1902–03	Sam Raybould	England	Liverpool	31
1903–04	Steve Bloomer (5)	England	Derby County	20
1904–05	Arthur Brown	England	Sheffield United	22
1905–06	Albert Shepherd	England	Bolton Wanderers	26
1906–07	Alex Young	Scotland	Everton	28
1907–08	Enoch West	England	Nottingham Forest	27
1908–09	Bert Freeman	England	Everton	38
1909–10	Jack Parkinson	England	Liverpool	30
1910–11	Albert Shepherd (2)	England	Newcastle United	25
1911–12†	Harry Hampton	England	Aston Villa	25
	George Holley	England	Sunderland
	David McLean	Scotland	Sheffield Wednesday
1912–13	David McLean (2)	Scotland	Sheffield Wednesday	30
1913–14	George Elliott	England	Middlesbrough	32
1914–15	Bobby Parker	Scotland	Everton§	35
1919–20	Fred Morris	England	West Bromwich Albion§	37
1920–21	Joe Smith	England	Bolton Wanderers	38
1921–22	Andrew Wilson	Scotland	Middlesbrough	31
1922–23	Charlie Buchan	England	Sunderland	30
1923–24	Wilf Chadwick	England	Everton	28
1924–25	Frank Roberts	England	Manchester City	31
1925–26	Ted Harper	England	Blackburn Rovers	43
1926–27	Jimmy Trotter	England	Sheffield Wednesday	37
1927–28	Dixie Dean	England	Everton§	60
1928–29	Dave Halliday	Scotland	Sunderland	43
1929–30	Vic Watson	England	West Ham United	41
1930–31	Tom Waring	England	Aston Villa	49
1931–32	Dixie Dean (2)	England	Everton§	44
1932–33	Jack Bowers	England	Derby County	35
1933–34	Jack Bowers (2)	England	Derby County	34
1934–35	Ted Drake	England	Arsenal§	42
1935–36	W. G. Richardson	England	West Bromwich Albion	39
1936–37	Freddie Steele	England	Stoke City	33
1937–38	Tommy Lawton	England	Everton	34
1938–39	Tommy Lawton (2)	England	Everton§	35
1946–47	Dennis Westcott	England	Wolverhampton Wanderers	37
1947–48	Ronnie Rooke	England	Arsenal§	33
1948–49	Willie Moir	Scotland	Bolton Wanderers	25
1949–50	Dickie Davis	England	Sunderland	25
1950–51	Stan Mortensen	England	Blackpool	30
1951–52	George Robledo	Chile	Newcastle United	33
1952–53	Charlie Wayman	England	Preston North End	24
1953–54	Jimmy Glazzard	England	Huddersfield Town	29
1954–55	Ronnie Allen	England	West Bromwich Albion	27
1955–56	Nat Lofthouse	England	Bolton Wanderers	33
1956–57	John Charles	Wales	Leeds United	38
1957–58	Bobby Smith	England	Tottenham Hotspur	36
1958–59	Jimmy Greaves	England	Chelsea	33
1959–60	Dennis Viollet	England	Manchester United	32
1960–61	Jimmy Greaves (2)	England	Chelsea	41
1961–62†	Ray Crawford	England	Ipswich Town§	33
	Derek Kevan	England	West Bromwich Albion
1962–63	Jimmy Greaves (3)	England	Tottenham Hotspur	37
1963–64	Jimmy Greaves (4)	England	Tottenham Hotspur	35
1964–65†	Jimmy Greaves (5)	England	Tottenham Hotspur	29
	Andy McEvoy	Republic of Ireland	Blackburn Rovers
1965–66†	Roger Hunt	England	Liverpool§	29
	Willie Irvine	Northern Ireland	Burnley
1966–67	Ron Davies	Wales	Southampton	37
1967–68†	George Best	Northern Ireland	Manchester United	28
	Ron Davies (2)	Wales	Southampton
1968–69	Jimmy Greaves (6)	England	Tottenham Hotspur	27
1969–70	Jeff Astle	England	West Bromwich Albion	25
1970–71	Tony Brown	England	West Bromwich Albion	28
1971–72	Francis Lee	England	Manchester City	33
1972–73	Pop Robson	England	West Ham United	28
1973–74	Mick Channon	England	Southampton	21
1974–75	Malcolm Macdonald	England	Newcastle United	21
1975–76	Ted MacDougall	Scotland	Norwich City	23
1976–77†	Andy Gray	Scotland	Aston Villa	25
	Malcolm Macdonald (2)	England	Arsenal
1977–78	Bob Latchford	England	Everton	30
1978–79	Frank Worthington	England	Bolton Wanderers	24
1979–80	Phil Boyer	England	Southampton	23
1980–81†	Steve Archibald	Scotland	Tottenham Hotspur	20
	Peter Withe	England	Aston Villa§
1981–82	Kevin Keegan	England	Southampton	26
1982–83	Luther Blissett	England	Watford	27
1983–84	Ian Rush‡	Wales	Liverpool§	32
1984–85†	Kerry Dixon	England	Chelsea	24
	Gary Lineker	England	Leicester City
1985–86	Gary Lineker (2)	England	Everton	30
1986–87	Clive Allen	England	Tottenham Hotspur	33
1987–88	John Aldridge	Republic of Ireland	Liverpool§	26
1988–89	Alan Smith	England	Arsenal§	23
1989–90	Gary Lineker (3)	England	Tottenham Hotspur	24
1990–91	Alan Smith (2)	England	Arsenal§	22
1991–92	Ian Wright	England	Crystal Palace Arsenal	29[a]
1992–93	Teddy Sheringham	England	Nottingham Forest Tottenham Hotspur	22[b]
1993–94	Andy Cole	England	Newcastle United	34
1994–95	Alan Shearer	England	Blackburn Rovers§	34
1995–96	Alan Shearer (2)	England	Blackburn Rovers	31
1996–97	Alan Shearer (3)	England	Newcastle United	25
1997–98†	Dion Dublin	England	Coventry City	18
	Michael Owen	England	Liverpool
	Chris Sutton	England	Blackburn Rovers
1998–99†	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	Netherlands	Leeds United	18
	Michael Owen (2)	England	Liverpool
	Dwight Yorke	Trinidad and Tobago	Manchester United§
1999–2000	Kevin Phillips‡	England	Sunderland	30
2000–01	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (2)	Netherlands	Chelsea	23
2001–02	Thierry Henry	France	Arsenal§	24
2002–03	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Netherlands	Manchester United§	25
2003–04	Thierry Henry‡ (2)	France	Arsenal§	30
2004–05	Thierry Henry‡ (3)	France	Arsenal	25
2005–06	Thierry Henry (4)	France	Arsenal	27
2006–07	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	Chelsea	20
2007–08	Cristiano Ronaldo‡	Portugal	Manchester United§	31
2008–09	Nicolas Anelka	France	Chelsea	19
2009–10	Didier Drogba (2)	Ivory Coast	Chelsea§	29
2010–11†	Dimitar Berbatov	Bulgaria	Manchester United§	20
	Carlos Tevez	Argentina	Manchester City
2011–12	Robin van Persie	Netherlands	Arsenal	30
2012–13	Robin van Persie (2)	Netherlands	Manchester United§	26
2013–14	Luis Suárez‡	Uruguay	Liverpool	31
2014–15	Sergio Agüero	Argentina	Manchester City	26
2015–16	Harry Kane	England	Tottenham Hotspur	25
2016–17	Harry Kane (2)	England	Tottenham Hotspur	29
2017–18	Mohamed Salah	Egypt	Liverpool	32
2018–19†	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	Gabon	Arsenal	22
	Sadio Mané	Senegal	Liverpool
	Mohamed Salah (2)	Egypt	Liverpool
2019–20	Jamie Vardy	England	Leicester City	23
2020–21	Harry Kane (3)	England	Tottenham Hotspur	23
2021–22†	Mohamed Salah (3)	Egypt	Liverpool	23
	Son Heung-min	South Korea	Tottenham Hotspur
2022–23	Erling Haaland‡	Norway	Manchester City§	36
2023–24	Erling Haaland (2)	Norway	Manchester City§	27
2024–25	Mohamed Salah (4)	Egypt	Liverpool§	29

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As of 25 May 2025^[13]

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Rank	Player	Titles	Club(s)	Years	Ref.
1	Jimmy Greaves	6	Chelsea 1959, 1961, Tottenham Hotspur 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969	1958–59, 1960–61, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1968–69	[14]
2	Steve Bloomer	5	Derby County	1895–96, 1896–97, 1898–99, 1900–01, 1903–04	[4]
3	Thierry Henry	4	Arsenal	2001–02, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06	[15]
	Mohamed Salah	4	Liverpool	2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22, 2024–25
5	John Campbell	3	Sunderland	1891–92, 1892–93, 1894–95
	Gary Lineker	3	Leicester City 1985, Everton 1986, Tottenham Hotspur 1990	1984–85, 1985–86, 1989–90
	Alan Shearer	3	Blackburn Rovers 1995, 1996, Newcastle United 1997	1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97	[16]
	Harry Kane	3	Tottenham Hotspur	2015–16, 2016–17, 2020–21	[17]
9	Jack Southworth	2	Blackburn Rovers 1891, Everton 1894	1890–91, 1893–94
	Albert Shepherd	2	Bolton Wanderers 1906, Newcastle United 1911	1905–06, 1910–11
	David McLean	2	Sheffield Wednesday	1911–12, 1912–13
	Dixie Dean	2	Everton	1927–28, 1931–32
	Jack Bowers	2	Derby County	1932–33, 1933–34
	Tommy Lawton	2	Everton	1937–38, 1938–39
	Ron Davies	2	Southampton	1966–67, 1967–68
	Malcolm Macdonald	2	Newcastle United 1975, Arsenal 1977	1974–75, 1976–77
	Alan Smith	2	Arsenal	1988–89, 1990–91
	Michael Owen	2	Liverpool	1997–98, 1998–99	[18]
	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	2	Leeds United 1999, Chelsea 2001	1998–99, 2000–01	[18]
	Didier Drogba	2	Chelsea	2006–07, 2009–10	[18]
	Robin van Persie	2	Arsenal 2012, Manchester United 2013	2011–12, 2012–13	[19][20]
	Erling Haaland	2	Manchester City	2022–23, 2023–24

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Coventry City and Stoke City are the only clubs with top league scorers whose teams have never finished in the top three.

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Rank	Club	Titles	Seasons
1	Tottenham Hotspur	13	1957–58, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1968–69, 1980–81, 1986–87, 1989–90, 1992–93, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2020–21, 2021–22
2	Arsenal	12	1934–35, 1947–48, 1976–77, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1991–92, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2011–12, 2018–19
	Everton	12	1893–94, 1901–02, 1906–07, 1908–09, 1914–15, 1923–24, 1927–28, 1931–32, 1937–38, 1938–39, 1977–78, 1985–86
	Liverpool	12	1902–03, 1909–10, 1965–66, 1983–84, 1987–88, 1997–98, 1998–99, 2013–14, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22, 2024–25
5	Sunderland	8	1891–92, 1892–93, 1894–95, 1911–12, 1922–23, 1928–29, 1949–50, 1999–2000
6	Derby County	7	1895–96, 1896–97, 1898–99, 1900–01, 1903–04, 1932–33, 1933–34
	Aston Villa	7	1895–96, 1897–98, 1899–1900, 1911–12, 1930–31, 1976–77, 1980–81
	Chelsea	7	1958–59, 1960–61, 1984–85, 2000–01, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10
	Manchester United	7	1959–60, 1967–68, 1998–99, 2002–03, 2007–08, 2010–11, 2012–13
10	West Bromwich Albion	6	1919–20, 1935–36, 1954–55, 1961–62, 1969–70, 1970–71
	Blackburn Rovers	6	1890–91, 1925–26, 1964–65, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1997–98
	Manchester City	6	1924–25, 1971–72, 2010–11, 2014–15, 2022–23, 2023–24
13	Bolton Wanderers	5	1905–06, 1920–21, 1948–49, 1955–56, 1978–79
	Southampton	5	1966–67, 1967–68, 1973–74, 1979–80, 1981–82
	Newcastle United	5	1910–11, 1951–52, 1974–75, 1993–94, 1996–97
16	Sheffield Wednesday	3	1911–12, 1912–13, 1926–27
	Preston North End	3	1888–89, 1889–90, 1952–53
18	Middlesbrough	2	1913–14, 1921–22
	West Ham United	2	1929–30, 1972–73
	Leeds United	2	1956–57, 1998–99
	Leicester City	2	1984–85, 2019–20
22	Sheffield United	1	1904–05
	Nottingham Forest	1	1907–08
	Stoke City	1	1936–37
	Wolverhampton Wanderers	1	1946–47
	Blackpool	1	1950–51
	Huddersfield Town	1	1953–54
	Ipswich Town	1	1961–62
	Burnley	1	1965–66
	Norwich City	1	1975–76
	Watford	1	1982–83
	Coventry City	1	1997–98

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Country	Titles
England	90
Scotland	15
France	5
Netherlands	5
Egypt	4
Wales	4
Republic of Ireland	2
Northern Ireland	2
Ivory Coast	2
Argentina	2
Norway	2
Chile	1
Trinidad and Tobago	1
Portugal	1
Bulgaria	1
Uruguay	1
Senegal	1
Gabon	1
South Korea	1

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The Football League Division One from 1888 through to the end of the 1991–92 season and now the Premier League, make up the top tier in English football. During these 137 years three players have scored over 300 goals, with another 25 scoring over 200 goals. A further three players were a goal shy, finishing on 199 goals. The first was Sheffield Wednesday's Andrew Wilson^[21] whose career was interrupted by World War I but went onto make 501 appearances. In the mid-sixties, Bobby Smith^[22] retired after scoring 23 in 74 for Chelsea and 176 in 271 for Tottenham, and finally ten years later, England legend Sir Bobby Charlton,^[23] left Manchester United after making 606 appearances.

Derby County forward Steve Bloomer was the first player to score over 300 goals, his record of 314 stood for over half a century. In 14 years, he scored 240 goals in 376 matches in his first stint at Derby County before moving to Middlesbrough where he scored 59 in 125 games for the Boro.^[4][24] After five years on Teesside, he returned to Derby who were in the second division then. He spent two years in the second division scoring 38 goals before the Rams won promotion. In his final two seasons he scored a further 15 goals in 34 matches, a total of 255 in 410 appearances for Derby County. Everton striker Dixie Dean came very close to breaking the record, he scored 349 league goals all for Everton, however 39 were scored in the second division, leaving him 4 goals behind. Bloomers' achievement was finally surpassed when Jimmy Greaves broke the record scoring 357 goals, playing for Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United. For Chelsea he scored 124 goals in 157 appearances, only Frank Lampard 147,^[25] Roy Bentley 130,^[25] and Bobby Tambling 129^[25] have scored more top flight goals for Chelsea. Greaves moved on to Tottenham Hotspur where, to this day, remains Tottenham's top league goalscorer after scoring 220 goals in 321 appearances.^[26] His top flight career ended at West Ham United, where he scored 13 in 38 matches.^[27]

In the Premier League era, Alan Shearer^[6] sits top, but even with his full tally of 283 goals, he still trails. Four more "modern day" players, who have played in the Premier League make the list, Wayne Rooney,^[6] the third highest Premier League goalscorer with 208 goals for Everton and Manchester United, is 22nd. Liverpool legend Ian Rush^[6] is the 14th highest scorer in the history of top flight football, but his Premier League tally is only 48 goals, ranking him 144th. Another player to lose goals is Tony Cottee,^[6] who sits in 18th place. His last 78 goals gives him a current PL ranking of 62. Apart from these three, a further 20 players, who have scored 100 or more goals, have lesser totals. Ranked 45th, Lee Chapman^[28] scored 177 goals, the same as Frank Lampard and two more than Thierry Henry, but his last 23 goals sees him in 365th place in the Premier League.^[6] Peter Beardsley^[29] and Matt Le Tissier^[30] (jointly ranked 71st), both scored 161 goals, 11 more than Michael Owen who is eleventh on the PL list. Beardsley is in 97th position with 58 goals in the Premier League while a lack of centurions, assists Le Tissier's ranking. Losing 61 goals improves his overall position, ranked 34th in the Premier League with 100 goals.^[6]

The most recent active player in the Top 50 is Mohamed Salah, his goal against Leicester City on Boxing day, 2024, was his 173rd, moving the Egyptian winger inside the top 50. Recently, former Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane,^[6] scored 30 goals in his last season in England to move above players such as Dennis Viollet,^[31] Ray Charnley^[32] who both had 190 goals, Peter Harris,^[33] who scored 192 goals for Portsmouth, Stan Mortensen^[34] who scored 197 goals for Blackpool, George Elliott^[35] who scored 198 goals for Middlesbrough and the three players mentioned above who all scored 199 goals. Kane, ranked 19th, became only the 28th player in 136 years of league football to join the elite 200 club, who, in the summer of 2023, signed for German club Bayern Munich.^[36]

First Division/Premier League top 50 goalscorers^[13][37]

Lee Chapman holds the record of most top flight clubs scored for with eight. Andy Cole played for eight clubs also, but only scored for six. Marcus Bent is another player to play for eight top flight clubs, again only scoring for six.^[38] A name that does not appear on the top scorer list is Arthur Rowley, the record holder for the most goals in league football, scoring 434 goals in 619 league games. Arthur's brother Jack Rowley scored 173 goals for Manchester United and is ranked 50th, shown above. Arthur however didn't play much top flight football in his career, but he did score 51 goals in 95 matches. In one season at Fulham he scored eight in 34 appearances and then later hit 43 in 61 appearances over two seasons for Leicester City.^[39]

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The start of the Football League saw 12 teams become the founding members of the first ever league season in 1888–89. These were Accrington, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Burnley, Everton, Preston North End, Aston Villa, Derby County, Notts County, Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers.^[40] Since then sixty five clubs have played at the top level, with only four premier league players breaking club records set in the football league. Thierry Henry beat the 150 scored by Cliff Bastin for Arsenal.^[41] Roy Bentley who scored 130 goals for Chelsea^[25] was surpassed by Frank Lampard, while Sergio Aguero overtook the 147 Eric Brook scored for Manchester City.^[42] Matt Le Tissier scored in both the First Division and the Premier League to become Southampton's top scorer, exceeding the 134 goal record set by Welshman Ron Davies.^[43] As of November 18th, 2025, Danny Welbeck sits on 40 goals for Brighton and Hove Albion, 3 above Michael Robinson's 37. The Premier League's top three goalscorers, who all have scored over 200 goals, fail to appear. Alan Shearer finished nine goals adrift of Blackburn's Ted Harper^[44] and finished two short of Geordie legend Jackie Milburn,^[45] while Wayne Rooney was sixteen short of Bobby Charlton's record. Harry Kane ended with 213, leaving Jimmy Greaves still as Tottenham's record goalscorer.

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Many nationalities have played in English top flight football throughout the years. The tables below show the top five highest scorers from their respective countries or region. As shown in the top 50 list above, the top English and Scottish goal scorers can be seen.

Of the home nation countries, Premier League players are well short of the overall records. Northern Ireland's top Premier League scorer is Iain Dowie who scored 33 of his 57 goals in the Premier League. The top Welsh goal scorer is Ryan Giggs who scored 114 goals, 109 in the Premier League while Duncan Ferguson with 68 goals is the top Scottish goal scorer in the Premier League. All well short of the record totals by Derek Dougan, Ian Rush and Hughie Gallacher. Elsewhere, Republic of Ireland striker Robbie Keane scored 126 goals in the Premier League, but ended with 10 goals less than record holder Frank Stapleton.^[46]

A different story occurs with the rest of the world, made up predominately of Premier League players only. South American Jorge Robledo's record remains from the fifties, currently the joint third highest goalscorer. Craig Johnston has been overtaking by Premier League Oceanic players while Lindy Delapenha, also, has lost his Caribbean record. American Roy Wegerle has dropped to second in the United States and Canada scorers; his goals span the switch to the Premier League. The European and African top scorers are all from the Premier League era.

When Dwight Yorke scored a hat-trick for Manchester United against Leicester City, on Sunday 17 January 1999,^[47] he became the top foreign scorer. With this treble he moved onto 84 top-flight goals, surpassing the previous record of 82, set by Chilean Jorge Robledo in 1953.^[48] Later that year on Saturday 18 December 1999, Yorke scored twice for Manchester United in a 4–2 away win at West Ham United.^[49] His first goal that day saw him become the first foreign player to score 100 top flight goals.^[50] This was his 27th league goal for Manchester United, after scoring 73 previously for Aston Villa. As of the end of the 2024–25 season, his 136 goals ranks him as the fifth-highest foreign goalscorer, behind Mohamed Salah 193, Sergio Agüero 184, Thierry Henry 175 and Robin van Persie 144.

• Bold shows players currently playing in the Premier League.

As of August 18, 2025

Northern Ireland

Republic of Ireland^[56]

Wales

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South America

Africa^[66]

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Former Leeds United legend Johnny Giles in a 2016 interview published in the Irish Independent states "What other sport wipes out 100 years of records and standards and decides that Alan Shearer was the first player to score 100 goals for two clubs when Jimmy Greaves did it decades before? In no other sport in England is there such a casual disregard and disrespect for the achievements of players who inhabit the archives..."^[69]

In the 136 year history of football in England, a total of 256 players have scored 100 or more goals in the top flight.^[70] Son Heung-min in the 2022–23 season became the latest player to reach a century of goals, all scored for Tottenham Hotspur.^[71] That figure includes the 34 players in the Premier League 100 club, leaving 222 players excluded from the records shown today, those centurions among the 104 years of history "wiped out".

Out of those 256 centurions, 24 players played either side of the 1992 rebranding of the top tier in English football. Seven of those players would be among the first players included in the premier league 100 club, those records easily available. The other seventeen players would be included among the neglected records. The records of those other 222 players who have all scored 100 or more goals, are not as easily, or readily available as the 34 players who have, since 1992. The tables below show the seventeen players who scored a century of top flight goals and the seven who have a lesser total, after the 1992 launch of the Premier League, never seen among the Premier League era records.

Matt Le Tissier, despite not having his first 61 goals for Southampton included, is ranked 34th in the Premier League. He scored the same number of goals as Peter Beardsley, however, his 100 goals he scored from 1992 places him in the Premier League records, where as Beardsley is among the 222 excluded centurions, not among any records shown on Sky Sports. The goal-scoring career of Manchester United stalwart Bryan Robson is very nearly entirely erased, the same with Alan Smith, the Leicester City and Arsenal striker. John Wark, the Ipswich Town and Liverpool midfielder scored 135 goals, which would make him the 14th highest goal scorer in the Premier League. The Scottish midfielder is ahead of Paul Scholes and Steven Gerrard while Robson would be sitting alongside Dion Dublin and Sadio Mané, just outside the top 20. Many other player records also fail to show their full career goal statistics because of the changeover. These include Manchester United forward Brian McClair who had 70 of his 88 goals deducted.^[72] Paul Goddard scored 82 goals but is shot down to only 3^[73] while England midfielder Steve Hodge has 3 goals also, not his full 79.^[74] Gary Bannister also had 70 goals removed, 78 reduced to 8 goals.^[75] Former England left back Stuart Pearce is shown with 20 goals and not the 63 he scored, mostly at Nottingham Forest.^[76] David Platt does not have his 45 goals he scored for Aston Villa included, only the 13 he scored for Arsenal.^[77] Chris Waddle loses his entire career records for both Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur, his 10 goals for Sheffield Wednesday and his solitary Sunderland goal are all that's included.^[78]

17 players who all scored 100 or more goals, scoring in both Division 1 & Premier League

Total goals of players included in the Premier League 100 club

All records listed below pertain to league matches played in Division 1 and/or the Premier League only.

Most goals in a season:

• 42 matches – 60 Dixie Dean, Everton 1927–28^[99]
• 38 matches – 38 Bert Freeman, Everton 1908–09^[100]

Most goals in a debut season:

• 42 matches – 38 Dave Halliday, Sunderland 1925–26^[101]
• 38 matches – 36 Erling Haaland, Manchester City 2022–23^[102]

Most penalties scored: 56 Alan Shearer (from 67 taken for Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United, 1992–2006)^[103]

Most penalties scored in 1 season: 13 Francis Lee, Manchester City 1971–72^[104]

Most consecutive Top Scorer awards: 3

• Jimmy Greaves (1963, 1964, 1965)
• Alan Shearer (1995, 1996, 1997)
• Thierry Henry (2004, 2005, 2006)

Most top scorer awards with different clubs: 3 Gary Lineker (Leicester City 1985, Everton 1986, Tottenham Hotspur 1990)

100 goals for two clubs: 3^[105]

• David Jack 1919–34 (Bolton Wanderers 144 – Arsenal 113)
• Jimmy Greaves 1957–1970 (Chelsea 124 – Tottenham Hotspur 220)
• Alan Shearer 1992–2006 (Blackburn Rovers 112 – Newcastle United 148)

Fastest player to reach 100 goals: Dave Halliday in 101 games for Sunderland.^[106]

Players to score over 30 league goals in four consecutive seasons: Dave Halliday, 1925–26 to 1928–29.^[106] Halliday scored at least 35 goals in each of those four seasons.^[106]

• List of footballers in England by number of league goals
• List of footballers with 100 or more Premier League goals
• Premier League Golden Boot
• Football records and statistics in England