ALL TIME BEST TOP DIVISION GOAL SCORERS - ENGLAND (Part 41)
Picture : Jimmy Greaves scored 357 goals in 15 years Top Division !
All-time best top division goal-scorers: England (Part 41)
Here we present the list of best goal-scorers in English top tier (Division One from 1888 to 1992, Premier League since 1992).
Three players have scored 300+ goals (Steve Bloomer was chronologically the first of them), 28 players reached the mark of 200 goals.
Bloomer’s record of 314 stood for more than 50 years until being surpassed by Jimmy Greaves who moved it to 357 goals.
Greaves holds the record even longer and will hold yet for a pretty much time given that the most prolific active scorer Harry Kane is far away (213 goals) and left Premier League recently.
In the Premier League era, Alan Shearer stands top with 260 goals (not counting those 23 he scored before EPL inception).
Hughie Gallacher (Scotland) is the all-time best scorer among non-English players (246 goals, 10th place in the general ranking), Sergio Agüero (Argentina) among non-British ones (184 goals, 40th place).
Arthur Rowley holds the record on goals in all professional divisions: 434 goals in 619 between 1946 and 1965, for West Bromwich Albion (4), Fulham (27), Leicester City (251) and Shrewsbury Town (152).
The goals scored in so-called “test matches” (promotion-relegation playoffs between D1 and D2 teams) are not considered here.
| ENGLAND | 1888- | ALL-TIME BEST TOP DIVISION GOAL SCORERS | ||||
| Player | Period | Nationality | Goals | Games | Breakdown by clubs | |
| 1 | Jimmy Greaves | 1957-1972 | England | 357 | 516 | Chelsea 124, Tottenham 220, West Ham 13 |
| 2 | Steve Bloomer | 1892-1914 | England | 314 | 535 | Derby County 255, Middlesbrough 59 |
| 3 | Dixie Dean | 1924-1938 | England | 310 | 362 | Everton 310 |
| 4 | Gordon Hodgson | 1925-1940 | England | 288 | 455 | Liverpool 233, Aston Villa 4, Leeds 51 |
| 5 | Alan Shearer | 1988-2006 | England | 283 | 559 | Southampton 23, Blackburn Rovers 112, Newcastle 148 |
| 6 | Charlie Buchan | 1912-1928 | England | 258 | 481 | Sunderland 209, Arsenal 49 |
| 7 | David Jack | 1920-1934 | England | 257 | 476 | Bolton 144, Arsenal 113 |
| 8 | Nat Lofthouse | 1946-1960 | England | 255 | 452 | Bolton 255 |
| 9 | Joe Bradford | 1921-1935 | England | 248 | 410 | Birmingham City 248 |
| 10 | Hughie Gallacher | 1925-1938 | Scotland | 246 | 355 | Newcastle 133, Chelsea 72, Derby County 38, Grimsby 3 |
| 11 | Joe Smith | 1908-1927 | England | 243 | 416 | Bolton 243 |
| 12 | George Brown | 1921-1935 | England | 240 | 366 | Huddersfield 142, Aston Villa 79, Leeds 19 |
| 13 | George Camsell | 1921-1939 | England | 233 | 337 | Middlesbrough 233 |
| 14 | Ian Rush | 1980-1998 | Wales | 232 | 515 | Liverpool 229, Leeds 3 |
| 15 | David Herd | 1954-1970 | Scotland | 222 | 412 | Arsenal 97, Manchester United 114, Stoke 11 |
| 16 | Harry Hampton | 1904-1922 | England | 219 | 357 | Aston Villa 215, Birmingham City 4 |
| 17 | Billy Walker | 1919-1933 | England | 214 | 478 | Aston Villa 214 |
| 18 | Tony Cottee | 1982-2001 | England | 214 | 548 | West Ham 115, Everton 72, Leicester 27 |
| 19 | Harry Kane | 2012-2023 | England | 213 | 320 | Tottenham 213 |
| 20 | Dave Halliday | 1925-1933 | Scotland | 211 | 257 | Sunderland 156, Arsenal 8, Manchester City 47 |
| 21 | Geoff Hurst | 1959-1975 | England | 210 | 519 | West Ham 180, Stoke City 30 |
| 22 | Ronnie Allen | 1950-1961 | England | 208 | 415 | West Bromwich 208 |
| 23 | Wayne Rooney | 2002-2018 | England | 208 | 491 | Everton 25, Manchester United 183 |
| 24 | Bobby Gurney | 1926-1944 | England | 205 | 348 | Sunderland 205 |
| 25 | Arthur Chandler | 1925-1935 | England | 203 | 309 | Leicester 203 |
| 26 | Vic Watson | 1923-1936 | England | 203 | 295 | West Ham 203 |
| 27 | Harry Johnson | 1919-1931 | England | 201 | 313 | Sheffield United 201 |
| 28 | Denis Law | 1960-1974 | Scotland | 201 | 377 | Manchester City 30, Manchester United 171 |
| 29 | Andrew Wilson | 1900-1920 | Scotland | 199 | 501 | Sheffield Wednesday 199 |
| 30 | Bobby Smith | 1950-1965 | England | 199 | 345 | Chelsea 23, Tottenham 176 |
| 31 | Bobby Charlton | 1956-1975 | England | 199 | 606 | Manchester United 199 |
| 32 | George Elliott | 1909-1925 | England | 198 | 327 | Middlesbrough 198 |
| 33 | Stan Mortensen | 1946-1959 | England | 197 | 317 | Blackpool 197 |
| 34 | Peter Harris | 1946-1960 | England | 192 | 468 | Portsmouth 192 |
| 35 | Dennis Viollet | 1953-1967 | England | 190 | 391 | Manchester United 159, Stoke 31 |
| 36 | Ray Charnley | 1954-1972 | England | 190 | 359 | Blackpool 190 |
| 37 | Tommy Thompson | 1947-1964 | England | 187 | 354 | Newcastle 4, Aston Villa 67, Preston 116 |
| 38 | Andy Cole | 1992-2007 | England | 187 | 415 | Newcastle 43, Manchester United 93, Blackburn Rovers 27, |
| Fulham 12, Manchester City 9, Portsmouth 3 | ||||||
| 39 | Jack Bowers | 1928-1939 | England | 186 | 255 | Derby County 167, Leicester 19 |
| 40 | Sergio Agüero | 2011-2021 | Argentina | 184 | 275 | Manchester City 184 |
| 41 | Tony Brown | 1963-1980 | England | 179 | 459 | West Bromwich 179 |
| 42 | Teddy Sheringham | 1988-2007 | England | 179 | 521 | Millwall 20, Nottingham 14, Tottenham 97, Manchester United 31, |
| Portsmouth 9, West Ham 8 | ||||||
| 43 | Ginger Richardson | 1928-1946 | England | 178 | 269 | West Bromwich 178 |
| 44 | Lee Chapman | 1979-1995 | England | 177 | 508 | Stoke 34, Arsenal 4, Sunderland 3, Sheffield Wednesday 63, |
| Nottingham 15, Leeds 50, West Ham 7, Ipswich 1 | ||||||
| 45 | Frank Lampard | 1995-2015 | England | 177 | 609 | West Ham 24, Chelsea 147, Manchester City 6 |
| 46 | Billy Hibbert | 1906-1922 | England | 175 | 387 | Bury 99, Newcastle 46, Bradford 26, Oldham 4 |
| 47 | Derek Dougan | 1957-1975 | N.Ireland | 175 | 458 | Blackburn Rovers 26, Leicester 35, Wolverhampton 86, |
| Portsmouth 9, Aston Villa 19 | ||||||
| 48 | Thierry Henry | 1994-2012 | France | 175 | 258 | Arsenal 175 |