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Premier League all-time top goalscorers

Who owns the Premier League goal record? The list of the 100 best scorers in the history of the English top-flight

SerieA24 22 march 2022 - 17:45

English Premier League has always welcomed great players. It’s considered like the NBA of football, the most important global stage. Alan Shearer is the player who has scored the most goals in the English top-flight: the Newcastle and Blackburn striker has scored 260 goals in 441 games. Rounding out the podium, Wayne Rooney, who scored 208 goals between Manchester United and Everton, and Andy Cole, who ended his career at 187, scored with 7 different clubs. The foreign player who scored the most in the Premier League is Sergio Aguero: 184 goals signed by the “Kun” with the Manchester City shirt.

The first ranked among the players who are still active is Harry Kane from Tottenham: the English international striker has scored 178 times with the Spurs. The second in this special table is Jamie Vardy (fourteenth in the all-time ranking) who scored 128 goals with Leicester. Then Lukaku (twentieth) and Salah (twenty-first) with 118 and 117 goals.

Below is the updated list of the Premier League’s all-time top scorers.

The ranking of the best scorers ever in Premier League

* Updated on 22/03/2022

#	PLAYER	GOAL
1	Alan Shearer	260
2	Wayne Rooney Punta centrale	208
3	Andy Cole	187
4	Sergio Agüero	184
5	Harry Kane	178
6	Frank Lampard	177
7	Thierry Henry	175
8	Jermain Defoe	163
9	Robbie Fowler	162
10	Michael Owen	150
11	Les Ferdinand	149
12	Teddy Sheringham	146
13	Robin van Persie	144
14	Jamie Vardy	128
15	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	127
16	Nicolas Anelka	126
17	Robbie Keane	125
18	Dwight Yorke	123
19	Steven Gerrard	121
20	Romelu Lukaku	118
21	Mohamed Salah	117
22	Ian Wright	113
23	Dion Dublin	111
24	Emile Heskey	111
25	Ryan Giggs	109
26	Sadio Mané	107
27	Paul Scholes	107
28	Darren Bent	106
29	Raheem Sterling	106
30	Peter Crouch	106
31	Didier Drogba	104
32	Matt Le Tissier	101
33	Emmanuel Adebayor	97
34	Cristiano Ronaldo	96
35	Yakubu Aiyegbeni	96
36	Ruud van Nistelrooy	95
37	Dimitar Berbatov	94
38	Kevin Phillips	93
39	Mark Viduka	92
40	Ole Gunnar Solskjaer	91
41	Olivier Giroud	90
42	James Beattie	90
43	Dennis Bergkamp	87
44	Kevin Davies	87
45	Christian Benteke	86
46	Fernando Torres	85
47	Eden Hazard	85
48	Carlos Tévez	84
49	Louis Saha	84
50	Heung-min Son	83
51	Chris Sutton	83
52	Kevin Campbell	83
53	Craig Bellamy	81
54	Gary Speed	80
55	Tony Cottee	78
56	Theo Walcott	78
57	Daniel Sturridge	77
58	Riyad Mahrez	76
59	Gabriel Agbonlahor	73
60	Roberto Firmino	71
61	Chris Armstrong	71
62	Brian Deane	71
63	Eric Cantona	70
64	Luis Suárez	69
65	Duncan Ferguson	69
66	Kevin Nolan	69
67	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	68
68	Gylfi Sigurdsson	67
69	Paolo Di Canio	66
70	Mark Hughes	64
71	Alexis Sánchez	63
72	Robert Pirès	63
73	Dean Holdsworth	63
74	Stan Collymore	62
75	David Beckham	62
76	Danny Ings	60
77	David Silva	60
78	Callum Wilson	59
79	Marcus Rashford	59
80	Peter Beardsley	59
81	Niall Quinn	59
82	Yaya Touré	59
83	Gianfranco Zola	58
84	Clint Dempsey	57
85	Harry Kewell	57
86	Lee Bowyer	57
87	Anthony Martial	56
88	Kevin Gallacher	56
89	Shane Long	56
90	Tim Cahill	56
91	Wilfried Zaha	56
92	Eidur Gudjohnsen	55
93	John Hartson	55
94	Jason Euell	55
95	James Milner	55
96	Alexandre Lacazette	54
97	Gareth Bale	54
98	Gustavo Poyet	54
99	Andy Carroll	54
100	Michail Antonio	54
101	Nwankwo Kanu	54
102	Nick Barmby	54
103	Damien Duff	54

By Federico Poeta, SerieA24.it

The ranking of the best scorers ever in Premier League

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