ERLING HAALAND WRITES ALREADY HISTORY !
Haaland rewrites history in Man City
With a hat-trick scored in the FA Cup quarterfinal vs Burnley (6-0), Erling Haaland became the first ever Manchester City to score 40+ goals in all competitions within one season.
The former club record stood almost a century. It belonged to Tommy Johnson (38 goals in 1928-29). Haaland is at 42 now.
In the table below, the top 10 of Manchester City best seasonal personal goal tallies (Derek Kevan’s and Shaun Goater’s ones are off-ranking since they came in the seasons when the club featured in 2nd tier).
Sergio Agüero, all-time best goal-scorer in the club history, occupies 3 positions in top 10.
*Haaland has scored more hat-tricks in all competitions this season (6) than all other Premier League players combined (5 – one for Mohamed Salah, Ivan Toney, Son Heung-min, Phil Foden, Leandro Trossard).
*All 6 his hat-tricks, Haaland has scored at home stadium Etihad.
*Haaland become the 6th player in the English Premier League history to score 40+ goals in all competitions in a single season, being already very close to the record of 44 goals shared by Ruud van Nistelrooy (2002-03) and Mohamed Salah (2017-18).
*Among players from Europe's top-5 leagues, Haaland has scored three times more hat-tricks this season (6) than any other player (Kylian Mbappé, Wissam Ben Yedder, Loïs Openda have 2 each).
Courtesy of Haaland, Manchester City achieved biggest win in a FA Cup quarter-final match over last 56 years. No team has won such a FA Cup quarter-final by 6+ goals difference since 12 April 1967 (Tottenham vs Birmingham City 6-0).
| MANCHESTER CITY | BEST ONE | SEASON GOAL | SCORERS | ||||
| Player | Nationality | Season | Goals | ||||
| Total | NL | DC | ICC | ||||
| 1 | Erling Haaland | Norway | 2022–23 | 42 | 28 | 4 | 10 |
| 2 | Tommy Johnson | England | 1928–29 | 38 | 38 | ||
| Derek Kevan | England | 1963–64 | 36 | 30 | 6 | ||
| 3 | Francis Lee | England | 1971–72 | 35 | 33 | 2 | |
| 4 | Sergio Agüero | Argentina | 2016–17 | 33 | 20 | 5 | 8 |
| 5 | Frank Roberts | England | 1924–25 | 32 | 31 | 1 | |
| 6 | Dave Halliday | Scotland | 1931–32 | 32 | 28 | 4 | |
| 7 | Peter Doherty | Ireland | 1936–37 | 32 | 30 | 2 | |
| 8 | Alex Harley | Scotland | 1962–63 | 32 | 23 | 9 | |
| Shaun Goater | Bermuda | 2001–02 | 32 | 28 | 4 | ||
| 9 | Sergio Agüero | Argentina | 2014–15 | 32 | 26 | 6 | |
| 10 | Sergio Agüero | Argentina | 2018–19 | 32 | 21 | 5 | 6 |