User:GaiusAD/IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer

Cristiano Ronaldo (left) has won the most awards (4) since 2011 while Lionel Messi (right) set the record for most calendar year goals (91) in 2012.

The IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer is a football award given annually since 2021, and retroactively for the years 2011 to 2020, to the world's top goalscorer in the calendar year. The award is given by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS).

All international goals and all competitive goals for clubs playing in their top division scored from 1 January to 31 December are taken into consideration.

Cristiano Ronaldo holds the record for most wins (4) while Lionel Messi hold the record for most goals in a calendar year (91 in 2012). Robert Lewandowski won the award with the fewest goals (47 in 2020). Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are the only players to have won the award more than once, with the former being the only player to win the award in successive seasons.

Plus, the IFFHS has awarded the World's Best Goal Scorer of the Decade in 2021, considering the years 2011–2020.[1]

List of winners

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Year Winner Club(s) Goals Second place Club(s) Goals Third place Club(s) Goals
2011   Cristiano Ronaldo[2]   Real Madrid 60   Lionel Messi   Barcelona 59   Aleksandrs Čekulajevs   Narva Trans 56
2012   Lionel Messi[3]   Barcelona 91   Cristiano Ronaldo   Real Madrid 63   Neymar   Santos 55
2013   Cristiano Ronaldo[4]   Real Madrid 69   Ali Ashfaq   New Radiant 58   Zlatan Ibrahimović   Paris Saint-Germain 47
2014   Cristiano Ronaldo[5]   Real Madrid 61   Lionel Messi   Barcelona 58   Jonathan Soriano   Red Bull Salzburg 55
2015   Cristiano Ronaldo[6]   Real Madrid 57   Lionel Messi   Barcelona 52   Robert Lewandowski   Bayern Munich 49
2016   Lionel Messi[7]   Barcelona 58   Cristiano Ronaldo   Real Madrid 55   Luis Suárez   Barcelona 51
2017   Harry Kane[8]   Tottenham Hotspur 56   Lionel Messi   Barcelona 54   Cristiano Ronaldo   Real Madrid 53
2018   Baghdad Bounedjah[9]   Al-Sadd 58   Lionel Messi   Barcelona 51   Cristiano Ronaldo   Real Madrid
  Juventus
49
2019   Abderrazak Hamdallah[10]   Al Nassr 57   Robert Lewandowski   Bayern Munich 54   Lionel Messi   Barcelona 50
2020   Robert Lewandowski[11]   Bayern Munich 47   Cristiano Ronaldo   Juventus 44   Romelu Lukaku   Inter Milan 40


Statistics

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Multiple winners

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Player Wins Years
  Cristiano Ronaldo 4 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015
  Lionel Messi 2 2012, 2016

Most goals in a year

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Rank Player Year Goals
1   Lionel Messi 2012 91
2   Cristiano Ronaldo 2013 69
3   Cristiano Ronaldo 2012 63
4   Cristiano Ronaldo 2014 61
5   Cristiano Ronaldo 2011 60
6   Lionel Messi 2011 59
7   Ali Ashfaq 2013 58
  Lionel Messi 2014
  Lionel Messi 2016
  Baghdad Bounedjah 2018

Winners by club

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Club(s) Total Players
  Real Madrid 4 1
  Barcelona 2 1
  Al Nassr 1 1
  Al Sadd 1 1
  Bayern Munich 1 1
  Tottenham Hotspur 1 1

Winners by nationality

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Nationality Total Players
  Portugal 4 1
  Argentina 2 1
  Algeria 1 1
  England 1 1
  Morocco 1 1
  Poland 1 1

The World's Best Top Goal Scorer of the Decade (2011–2020)

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The results have been posted on the IFFHS' official website on January 4, 2021.[1]

The final list includes the 41 players who scored 200 or more goals in top-tier national leagues, national cups, continental and international competitions with both club and national teams in the period of time from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2020.

Rank Player Nation Club(s) Goals for country Goals for club(s) Total goals Source
1 Cristiano Ronaldo   Portugal   Real Madrid
  Juventus
77 473 550 [12]
2 Lionel Messi   Argentina   Barcelona 56 493 549
3 Robert Lewandowski   Poland   Borussia Dortmund
  Bayern Munich
54 363 417
4 Zlatan Ibrahimović   Sweden   Milan
  Paris Saint-Germain
  Manchester United
  LA Galaxy
37 303 340
5 Luis Suárez   Uruguay   Liverpool
  Barcelona
  Atlético Madrid
47 288 335
6 Edinson Cavani   Uruguay   Napoli
  Paris Saint-Germain
  Manchester United
43 291 334
7 Neymar[13]   Brazil   Santos
  Barcelona
  Paris Saint-Germain
63 264 327
8 Sergio Agüero   Argentina   Atlético Madrid
  Manchester City
32 270 302
9 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang[14]   Gabon   Saint-Étienne
  Borussia Dortmund
  Arsenal
21 257 278
10 Sebastián Tagliabúe   United Arab Emirates   Ettifaq
  Al-Shabab
  Al-Wahda
  Al-Nasr
1 264 265
11 Eran Zahavi   Israel   Hapoel Tel Aviv
  Palermo
  Maccabi Tel Aviv
  Guangzhou R&F
  PSV Eindhoven
24 240 264
12 Karim Benzema   France   Real Madrid 16 243 259
13 Romelu Lukaku[15]   Belgium   Anderlecht
  West Bromwich Albion
  Everton
  Manchester United
  Inter Milan
55 203 258
14 Omar Al Somah   Syria   Al Futowa
  Al Qadsia
  Al Ahli
15 240 255
15 Ali Mabkhout   UAE   Al-Jazira 65 185 250
16 Gonzalo Higuaín   Argentina   Real Madrid
  Napoli
  Juventus
  Milan
  Chelsea
  Inter Miami
24 218 242
17 Ali Ashfaq   Maldives   VB Sports Club
  New Radiant
  PDRM FA
  Maziya S&RC
  TC Sports Club
  Club Green Streets
  Club Valencia
37 205 242
18 Nemanja Nikolić   Hungary   Videoton
  Legia Warsaw
  Chicago Fire
  Fehérvár
7 235 242
19 Abderrazak Hamdallah   Morocco   Olympic Safi
  Aalesund
  Guangzhou R&F
  El Jaish
  Al-Rayyan SC
  Al-Nassr
6 231 237
20 Harry Kane[16]   England   Tottenham Hotspur 32 204 236
21 Burak Yılmaz   Turkey   Trabzonspor
  Galatasaray
  Beijing Sinobo Guoan
  Beşiktaş
  Lille
24 210 234
22 Mohamed Salah   Egypt   Al Mokawloon
  Basel
  Chelsea
  Fiorentina
  Roma
  Liverpool
43 186 229
23 Antoine Griezmann   France   Real Sociedad
  Atlético Madrid
  Barcelona
33 196 229
24 Carlos Saucedo[17]   Bolivia   San José
  Saprissa
  Oriente Petrolero
  Blooming
  Real Potosí
  Guabirá
  Royal Pari
7 221 228
25 Edin Džeko   Bosnia and Herzegovina   Manchester City
  Roma
42 185 227
26 Bafetimbi Gomis   France   Lyon
  Swansea City
  Marseille
  Galatasaray
  Al Hilal
1 225 226
27 Baghdad Bounedjah   Algeria   USM El Harrach
  Étoile du Sahel
  Al Sadd
17 207 224
28 Radamel Falcao   Colombia   Porto
  Atlético Madrid
  Monaco
  Manchester United
  Chelsea
  Galatasaray
29 194 223
29 Youssef El-Arabi   Morocco   Caen
  Al Hilal
  Granada
  Al-Duhail
  Olympiacos
16 207 223
30 Klæmint Olsen   Faroe Islands   NSÍ Runavík 5 215 220
31 André-Pierre Gignac   France   Marseille
  UANL
3 216 219
32 Olivier Giroud   France   Montpellier
  Arsenal
  Chelsea
44 174 218
33 Thomas Müller   Germany   Bayern Munich 33 180 213
34 Dejan Damjanović   Montenegro   FC Seoul
  Jiangsu Suning
  Beijing Sinobo Guoan
  Suwon Samsung Bluewings
  Daegu FC
6 204 210
35 Jonathan Soriano[18]   Spain   Red Bull Salzburg
  Beijing Sinobo Guoan
  Al Hilal
0 207 207
36 Hulk   Brazil   Porto
  Zenit Saint Petersburg
  Shanghai SIPG
11 194 205
37 Dries Mertens   Belgium   Utrecht
  PSV Eindhoven
  Napoli
21 182 203
38 Esteban Paredes   Chile   Colo-Colo
  Atlante
  Querétaro
6 196 202
39 Greg Draper   New Zealand   The New Saints 0 202 202
40 Bas Dost[19]   Netherlands   Heerenveen
  VfL Wolfsburg
  Sporting CP
  Eintracht Frankfurt
1 200 201
41 Joe Gormley[20]   Northern Ireland   Cliftonville 0 200 200

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "IFFHS WORLD'S BEST TOP GOAL SCORER OF THE DECADE 2011-2020 - CRISTIANO RONALDO". www.iffhs.com. Retrieved 2021-11-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "IFFHS WORLD'S BEST TOP GOAL SCORERS 2011 TO 2020". IFFHS. 22 January 2021.
  3. ^ "IFFHS WORLD'S BEST TOP GOAL SCORERS 2011 TO 2020". IFFHS. 22 January 2021.
  4. ^ "IFFHS WORLD'S BEST TOP GOAL SCORERS 2011 TO 2020". IFFHS. 22 January 2021.
  5. ^ "IFFHS WORLD'S BEST TOP GOAL SCORERS 2011 TO 2020". IFFHS. 22 January 2021.
  6. ^ "IFFHS WORLD'S BEST TOP GOAL SCORERS 2011 TO 2020". IFFHS. 22 January 2021.
  7. ^ "IFFHS WORLD'S BEST TOP GOAL SCORERS 2011 TO 2020". IFFHS. 22 January 2021.
  8. ^ "IFFHS WORLD'S BEST TOP GOAL SCORERS 2011 TO 2020". IFFHS. 22 January 2021.
  9. ^ "IFFHS WORLD'S BEST TOP GOAL SCORERS 2011 TO 2020". IFFHS. 22 January 2021.
  10. ^ "IFFHS WORLD'S BEST TOP GOAL SCORERS 2011 TO 2020". www.iffhs.com. 22 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ "THE WORLD'S BEST TOP GOAL SCORER 2020 : ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI (POLAND/FC BAYERN MÜNCHEN)". IFFHS. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  12. ^ "IFFHS (International Federation of Football for History & Statistics". iffhs.de. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
  13. ^ In regards to Neymar's statistics during his spell at Santos (2011-2013), the IFFHS chose to consider the Campeonato Paulista (the top-flight league in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, of which Santos is a municipality) as a national league. As a result, the official stats for Neymar include goals scored in two different Brazilian leagues: the Campeonato Paulista and the Brasileirão.
  14. ^ As the statistics are calculated starting from January 1, 2011, two goals from Aubameyang's loan spell at Monaco (from AC Milan) in the first half of the 2010-11 season are left out of the total amount. The Gabonese striker joined Saint-Étienne in January 2011 on another loan, and eventually signed for the French team on a permanent deal the following December.
  15. ^ Lukaku was registered for Chelsea between 2011 and 2014, but he never scored during his first season with the club and was loaned, respectively, to West Bromwich Albion and Everton (which eventually signed him permanently) during the following couple of years.
  16. ^ 14 goals scored during 2011 and 2013 are not counted, as Kane was playing in lower divisions (for Leyton Orient, Milwall and Leicester City): plus, he never scored during his time in Premier League with Norwich City. For this reason, while his first goal in a continental competition traces back to December 15, 2011 (on a 4-0 away win against Shamrock Rovers in the UEFA Europa League group stage), he scored his first goal with a top-tier club, Tottenham, on October 30, 2013 (in the League Cup) and on April 7, 2014 (in Premier League).
  17. ^ Saucedo's spell at Independiente Medellín (Colombia) in 2011 wasn't considered, as the Bolivian striker never scored during that time.
  18. ^ The goals scored by Soriano for Barcelona B throughout 2011 are not counted, as the team was competing in the Spanish second tier. For the same reason, his only goal scored for Girona in the 2019-20 season is left out of the total amount.
  19. ^ On December 24, 2020, Dost joined Club Brugge on a permanent basis, but his first goal for the Belgian team is not counted, as it was scored on January 10, 2021, ten days after the limit date set for the counting (December 31, 2020).
  20. ^ In 2016, Gormley played for Scottish Premiership team St Johnstone (on loan from English League One side Peterborough United), but never scored a goal during that spell.