Premier League the most popular and watchable football league all around the globe as it was launched back in 1892 and official known as English Premier League and one of the other dominant feature of this tournament is that is the 1st ever football division in Europe. Total 116 seasons of Premier League have been competed yet in which the Manchester United remained on top position by winning the league 20 times more than any other team of this league. In 1992-93 top ranked foreign players from all around the world raise their interest in Premier League and till now 25 top goal scorers are present in the history of Premier League.
Top Scorer All The Time Around the World
Alan Shearer will most goals grabbed the top position on the list of most goal scorers in Premier League as the professional footballer scored total 260 goals in Premier League during his 18 years career starting from 1988 and considered as one of the best footballer of all the times in the world of football. Alan won top scorer award for the three times and no other player in Premier League yet succeed to score 260 goals. Currently highest goal scores in Premier League are 200 but no one able to break the record of Alan by scoring more than 260 goals in Premier League.
NO#. | PLAYER | GOALS | MATCHES | RATIO |
1 | Alan Shearer | 260 | 441 | 0.58 |
2 | Wayne Rooney | 194 | 435 | 0.44 |
3 | Andrew Cole | 187 | 414 | 0.45 |
4 | Frank Lampard | 177 | 609 | 0.29 |
5 | Thierry Henry |
175 | 258 | 0.67 |
6 | Robbie Fowler | 163 | 379 | 0.43 |
7 | Jermain Defoe | 150 | 443 | 0.33 |
8 | Michael Owen | 150 | 326 | 0.46 |
9 | Les Ferdinand | 149 | 351 | 0.42 |
10 | Teddy Sherringham | 147 | 418 | 0.35 |
11 | Robin Van Persie |
144 | 280 | 0.51 |
12 | Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink | 127 | – | |
13 | Robbie Keane | 126 | 349 | 0.36 |
14 | Nicolas Anelka | 125 | 364 | 0.34 |
15 | Dwight York | 123 | 375 | 0.32 |
16 | Steven Gerrard | 120 | 504 | 0.23 |
17 | Ian Wright | 113 | – | |
18 | Dion Dublin | 111 | 312 | 0.35 |
19 | Sergio Aguero | 111 | – | |
20 | Emile Heskey | 110 | 516 | 0.21 |
21 | Ryan Giggs | 109 | 632 | 0.17 |
22 | Paul Scholes | 107 | 499 | 0.21 |
The England football team main striker Wayne Rooney has scored 187 goals in his professional carrer of Premier League. Many other big names of football including Thierry Henry Jermain Defoe and Sergio Aguero are still part of Premier League and lots of expectations of football fans are affiliated with them in terms of breaking record of most goals in Premier League.