JOE GORMLEY IN THE TOP 10 !
Picture : Joe Gormley entered in the World's top 10 !
Joe Gormley in top 10 of one-club scorers in XXI century
Joe Gormley (Northern Ireland) became the 10th player in the world football to reach 250 top level goals for a single club (Cliftonville) in the XXI century. He scored the landmark goal on 5 November in a top division match vs Glenavon (2-2).
Now Gormley has 254 goals for Cliftonville placing 9th in the world ranking for the one-club scorers in the current century.
This amount is made up of 172 goals in top division of Northern Ireland (including 5 in Europa League play-off), 78 goals in domestic cups (League Cup 40, Irish Cup 22, County Antrim Shield 16) and 4 goals in the international club competitions (Europa League 2, Setanta Cup 2).
Active players (8 out of 10) are taken in bold; five of them currently playing for the clubs in consideration highlighted in green.
| BEST ONE-CLUB | GOAL SCORERS | IN XXI CENTURY | ||||||
| Player | Country | Club | Years | Goals | Total | |||
| NL | NC | ICC | ||||||
| 1 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | Barcelona | 2004-2021 | 474 | 70 | 128 | 672 |
| 2 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | Real Madrid | 2009-2018 | 311 | 26 | 113 | 450 |
| 3 | Robert Lewandowski | Poland | Bayern | 2014-2022 | 238 | 35 | 71 | 344 |
| 4 | Karim Benzema | France | Real Madrid | 2009- | 224 | 26 | 79 | 329 |
| 5 | Bader Al-Mutawa | Kuwait | Al Qadsia | 2003- | 154 | 80 | 53 | 287 |
| 6 | Harry Kane | England | Tottenham | 2012- | 196 | 21 | 45 | 262 |
| 7 | Klæmint Olsen | Faroe Islands | NSI | 2007- | 230 | 24 | 7 | 261 |
| 8 | Sergio Agüero | Argentina | Manchester City | 2011-2021 | 184 | 33 | 43 | 260 |
| 9 | Joe Gormley | Northern Ireland | Cliftonville | 2011- | 172 | 78 | 4 | 254 |
| 10 | Wayne Rooney | England | Manchester United | 2004-2017 | 183 | 28 | 42 | 253 |