List of footballers with 100 or more Premier League goals

Since the Premier League's formation, at the start of the 1992–93 season, 28 players have scored 100 or more goals in the competition.

See also: List of footballers in England by number of league goals

Alan Shearer was the first player to score 200 Premier League goals, and is the only player to score 100 goals for two separate clubs.
Wayne Rooney has scored the most goals for a single Premier League club.
Frank Lampard is the Premier League's highest scoring midfielder of all time.
Ryan Giggs is the only player to have scored in each of the first 21 Premier League seasons.
Didier Drogba is the only African player to score 100 Premier League goals.
Michael Owen still remains the only Premier League player to have scored more than 100 Premier League goals and also win the Ballon d'Or.
Sergio Agüero is the highest scoring foreign player in the Premier League and also holds the record for most Premier League hat-tricks.

During the 1995–96 season, Alan Shearer became the first player to score 100 Premier League goals, and holds the record for the fewest games taken to reach 100, doing so in 124 appearances. He also holds the record for most goals scored in the Premier League.[1][2] After Shearer, Harry Kane is the second-fastest to 100 goals, doing so in 141 games.[3] At 23 years and 133 days, Michael Owen is the youngest player to reach the hundred goal milestone.[4]

Players

Key

  • Bold shows players still playing in the Premier League.
  • Italics show players still playing professional football in other leagues
  • The list of teams for individual players include all teams that they have played for in the Premier League (including those they have not scored any goals for).
As of 28 June 2020[5]
List of footballers with 100 or more Premier League goals
Rank Player Goals Apps Ratio Premier League club(s)
1 Alan Shearer[lower-alpha 1] 260 441 0.59 Blackburn Rovers (112), Newcastle United (148)
2 Wayne Rooney 208 491 0.42 Everton (25), Manchester United (183)
3 Andy Cole 187 414 0.45 Newcastle United (43), Manchester United (93), Blackburn Rovers (27), Fulham (12), Manchester City (9), Portsmouth (3), Sunderland (0)
4 Sergio Agüero 180 263 0.68 Manchester City
5 Frank Lampard 177 609 0.29 West Ham United (24), Chelsea (147), Manchester City (6)
6 Thierry Henry 175 258 0.68 Arsenal
7 Robbie Fowler 163 379 0.43 Liverpool (128), Leeds United (14), Manchester City (21), Blackburn Rovers (0)
8 Jermain Defoe 162 496 0.33 West Ham United (18), Tottenham Hotspur (91), Portsmouth (15), Sunderland (34), Bournemouth (4)
9 Michael Owen 150 326 0.46 Liverpool (118), Newcastle United (26), Manchester United (5), Stoke City (1)
10 Les Ferdinand[lower-alpha 1] 149 351 0.42 Queens Park Rangers (60), Newcastle United (41), Tottenham Hotspur (33), West Ham United (2), Leicester City (12), Bolton Wanderers (1)
11 Teddy Sheringham[lower-alpha 1] 146 418 0.35 Nottingham Forest (1), Tottenham Hotspur (97), Manchester United (31), Portsmouth (9), West Ham United (8)
12 Robin van Persie 144 280 0.51 Arsenal (96), Manchester United (48)
13 Harry Kane 137 203 0.67 Tottenham Hotspur (137), Norwich City (0)
14 Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink 127 288 0.44 Leeds United (34), Chelsea (69), Middlesbrough (22), Charlton Athletic (2)
15 Robbie Keane 126 349 0.36 Coventry City (12), Leeds United (13), Tottenham Hotspur (91), Liverpool (5), West Ham United (2), Aston Villa (3)
16 Nicolas Anelka 125 364 0.34 Arsenal (23), Liverpool (4), Manchester City (37), Bolton Wanderers (21), Chelsea (38), West Bromwich Albion (2)
17 Dwight Yorke[lower-alpha 1] 123 375 0.33 Aston Villa (60), Manchester United (48), Blackburn Rovers (12), Birmingham City (2), Sunderland (1)
18 Steven Gerrard 120 504 0.24 Liverpool
19 Ian Wright[lower-alpha 1] 113 213 0.53 Arsenal (104), West Ham United (9)
Romelu Lukaku 113 252 0.45 Chelsea (0), West Bromwich Albion (17), Everton (68), Manchester United (28)
21 Dion Dublin 111 312 0.36 Manchester United (2), Coventry City (61), Aston Villa (48)
22 Emile Heskey 110 516 0.21 Leicester City (33), Liverpool (39), Birmingham City (14), Wigan Athletic (15), Aston Villa (9)
23 Ryan Giggs[lower-alpha 1] 109 632 0.17 Manchester United
24 Peter Crouch 108 468 0.23 Aston Villa (6), Southampton (12), Liverpool (22), Portsmouth (11), Tottenham Hotspur (12), Stoke City (45), Burnley (0)
25 Paul Scholes 107 499 0.21 Manchester United
26 Darren Bent 106 276 0.38 Ipswich Town (1), Charlton Athletic (31), Tottenham Hotspur (18), Sunderland (32), Aston Villa (21), Fulham (3)
27 Didier Drogba 104 254 0.41 Chelsea
28 Matt Le Tissier[lower-alpha 1] 100 270 0.37 Southampton
  1. Also scored goals in the top division of English football prior to the start of the Premier League era in 1992–93

See also

References
  1. "Bent poised to join 100 club". PremierLeague.com. Premier League. 30 January 2012. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
  2. "Bent delighted to join 100 goals club". PremierLeague.com. Premier League. 2 February 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
  3. Dan Kilpatrick (4 February 2018). "Tottenham striker Harry Kane scores 100th Premier League goal". ESPN.
  4. "Lukaku joins 100 club at record age". PremierLeague.com. Premier League. 2 April 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  5. "Premier League Player Stats: Goals". PremierLeague.com. Premier League. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
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