ALL TIME BEST TOP DIVISION GOAL SCORERS - AUSTRALIA (Part 5)

• Jul 20, 2023
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Picture : Damian Mori sovereign leader !

All-time best top division goal-scorers: Australia (Part 5)  

The top-level soccer league in Australia was held under the title National Soccer League from 1977 to 2004 and then A-League as its successor since 2005, with a one-year gap between these two periods.
The season in Australian league consists of two stages: a regular championship and a finals series culminated in a grand final.
The ranking of best goal-scorers unites both periods of league existence and includes both season stages.
With 240 goals in 448 games, Damian Mori towers over all other scorers by a huge margin of 96 goals.
The mark of 100 goals was reached by 21 strikers so far; one of them is active (Jamie Maclaren).
There are two foreign players in the “Club 100+”: Besart Berisha (Kosovo, place 3) and Shane Smeltz (New Zealand, place 21).

	AUSTRALIA	1977-			ALL-TIME BEST TOP DIVISION GOAL SCORERS
	Player	Period	Goals	Games	Breakdown by clubs
1	Damian Mori	1989-2008	240	446	South Melbourne 5, Caroline Springs George Cross 4, Melbourne Croatia 11,
					Adelaide City 128, Perth Glory 84, Central Coast Mariners 6, Queensland Roar 2
2	Jamie Maclaren	2013-	144	205	Perth Glory 11, Brisbane Roar 40, Melbourne City 93
3	Besart Berisha	2011-2021	142	235	Brisbane Roar 48, Melbourne Victory 68, Western United 26
4	Rod Brown	1983-1998	137	346	Marconi-Fairfield 50, APIA Leichhardt 35, Newcastle Breakers 12, Brisbane Strikers 40
5	John Kosmina	1977-1989	133	289	West Adelaide 24, Sydney City 89, Sydney Olympic 14, APIA Leichhardt 6
6	Archie Thompson	1996-2016	129	333	Gippsland Falcons 10, Carlton 23, Marconi-Fairfield 6, Melbourne Victory 90
7	Pablo Cardozo	1990-2004	127	302	Sydney Olympic 65, West Adelaide 40, Northern Spirit 14, Parramatta Power 8
8	Francis Awaritefe	1989-2001	124	320	Melbourne Croatia 43, South Melbourne 34, Marconi-Fairfield 40, Sydney United 7
9	Bobby Despotovski	1994-2007	123	265	Heidelberg United 9, Morwell Falcons 1, Perth Glory 113
10	Marshall Soper	1981-1995	121	319	APIA Leichhardt 26, Sydney Olympic 45, Wollongong City 6, Parramatta Eagles 42,
					Marconi Fairfield 2
11	Paul Trimboli	1987-2004	119	452	Sunshine George Cross 4, South Melbourne 115
12	Ivan Kelic	1989-2000	116	272	Melbourne Knights 75, Sydney Olympic 15, South Melbourne 26
13	Vaughan Coveny	1992-2009	111	364	Melbourne Knights 4, Wollongong City 15, South Melbourne 82, Newcastle Jets 9,
					Wellington Phoenix 1
14	John Markovski	1986-2002	110	372	Sunshine George Cross 20, Preston Makedonia 15, Melbourne Knights 8,
					Marconi-Fairfield 15, Gippsland Falcons 20, Canberra Cosmos 2,
					Carlton 18, Perth Glory 11, Football Kingz 1
15	Ante Milicic	1992-2008	109	244	Sydney United 48, Sydney Olympic 30, Parramatta Power 20, Newcastle Jets 7,
					Queensland Roar 4
16	Gary Cole	1977-1986	109	247	Heidelberg United 88, Preston Makedonia 21
17	Con Boutsianis	1989-2004	106	285	South Melbourne 74, Collingwood Warriors 7, Perth Glory 25
18	Warren Spink	1985-1997	104	272	Preston Makedonia 35, Footscray JUST 22, Newcastle Breakers 29,
					Gippsland Falcons 12, South Melbourne 6
19	Frank Farina	1983-1999	102	206	Canberra City 15, Sydney City 21, Marconi-Fairfield 33, Brisbane Strikers 33
20	Andy Harper	1986-2001	101	321	St George-Budapest 22, Marconi-Fairfield 66, Brisbane Strikers 4,
					Newcastle Breakers 6, Newcastle United 3
21	Shane Smeltz	1999-2017	100	245	Adelaide City 7, Adelaide United 1, Wellington Phoenix 24, Gold Coast United 28,
					Perth Glory 28, Sydney FC 12