NEW - IFFHS WORLD RANKING BEST ONE LEAGUE GOAL SCORERS XXI CENTURY



Picture : the Top 3 of the World Ranking.


IFFHS World ranking for best one-league goal-scorers of XXI Century

This is the first time we publish the ranking of the best one-league goal-scorers of XXI Century.
5 players have managed to score 300+ goals in the current century in the same league; 11 players have reached the milestone of 250 goals. They are listed in the table below.
Two players more are included in this list conditionally. They have not scored 250 goals in XXI, but adding the goals they scored XX Century, they collect this amount. At the same time, they scored a significant part of the one-league goals (more than 65 percent) in XXI so they can conditionally be considered the goal-scorers of XXI Century.
Among those 5 that reached 300-goal mark, two did it just in 2022: Robert Lewandowski in Germany and Nicolás Muñoz in El Salvador. Both of them have recently left the leagues where they were so successful.
Lewandowski, having changed Bayern to Barcelona, interrupted his stellar epic in the Bundesliga with 312 goals scored over 12 seasons. This result made him the world’s 2nd one-league goal-scorer of XXI Century behind Messi. The Pole is 1 goal ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored 311 goals in the Spanish League.
Muñoz scored 306 league goals in El Salvador, setting a new league record. He shone there for 18 seasons, with couple of short breaks. This summer, the 40-year-old Panamanian returned home to play in his native championship.
Thus, at the moment, there is not a single member of the “Club 300+ one-league goals” left in world football who would now be a player in the league where he scored a lot of goals. Therefore, the top part of this ranking will be frozen for some time (maybe for a long time).
It is not to be expected that those still active players (in bold) between 250 and 300 one-league goals will be able to get to 300 as each of them is well aged.  


 BEST ONE-LEAGUE GOAL-SCORERSIN XXI CENTURY    
        
 PlayerNationalityLeagueGoals  Period
    XXIXXTotal 
1Lionel MessiArgentinaSpain474 4742004-2021
2Robert LewandowskiPolandGermany312 3122010-2022
3Cristiano RonaldoPortugalSpain311 3112009-2018
4Nicolás MuñozPanamaEl Salvador306 3062004-2022
5Aleksandar ĐurićSingapore Singapore 304173211999-2014 
6Williams Reyes El SalvadorEl Salvador277172942000-2017
7Rhys Griffiths Wales Wales 272 2722001-
8José Alfredo CastilloBoliviaBolivia26842722000-
9Carlos SaucedoBoliviaBolivia261 2612006-
10Ali AshfaqMaldivesMaldives256 2562001-
11Martin KamburovBulgariaBulgaria25512561998-2021
 Marc Lloyd WilliamsWales Wales 236833191992-2011 
 Francesco TottiItalyItaly201492501993-2017