A RECORD YEAR 2023
Picture : Harry Kane has only one game to finish 2023 as the Best Goalscorer !
Years with most 50+ goal scorers
A few days before the end of the year, a battle for the title of 2023 best global goal-scorer has strongly intensified.
Harry Kane currently has 51 goals, while Cristiano Ronaldo, Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland have 50 each.
Kane and Mbappe have only one match left at their disposal, Cristiano Ronaldo 3 games and Haaland 4 (but he suffered health problems recently).
This is the 4th time in XXI century that at least 4 players have reached the 50 goal milestone in the same year.
2017 was a record year, when 5 players achieved this.
This time the record will almost certainly not be repeated, because everyone else is far behind the top four.
| YEARS | IN | XXI CENTURY | WITH MOST | PLAYERS | SCORING | 50+ GOALS |
| Year | Scorers | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 |
| 2002 | 3 | Botero 57 | José Castillo 53 | José Cardozo 51 | ||
| 2011 | 3 | Cristiano Ronaldo 60 | Messi 59 | Mario Gómez 50 | ||
| 2012 | 4 | Messi 91 | Cristiano Ronaldo 63 | Neymar 52 | Ibrahimović 50 | |
| 2014 | 3 | Cristiano Ronaldo 61 | Messi 58 | Soriano 55 | ||
| 2016 | 4 | Messi 58 | Cristiano Ronaldo 55 | Suárez 51 | Ibrahimović 50 | |
| 2017 | 5 | Kane 56 | Messi 54 | Cristiano Ronaldo 53 | Lewandowski 53 | Cavani 53 |
| 2019 | 3 | Hamdallah 57 | Lewandowski 54 | Messi 50 | ||
| 2023 | 4 | Kane 51 | Cristiano Ronaldo 50 | Haaland 50 | Mbappé 50 |