MBAPPE LEADS THE RANKING OF THIRD DECADE XXI CENTURY

• Jan 10, 2024
• History Statistics

The World’s top scorer of 3rd Decade XXI after 2023: Kylian Mbappé

Kylian Mbappe leads the world's best goal-scorers’ ranking of the 3rd decade of XXI century (2021-2030) after the year 2023.
Over the three years of the current decade, the Frenchman has amassed 159 goals.
Remarkably, Mbappé is the only footballer to score 50+ goals in every calendar year of the decade.
He took the lead on 24 March 2023, surpassing Robert Lewandowski, who has now dropped to third place (139 goals), also being behind Erling Haaland (145).
As of the end of 2023, 12 players have already reached the 100-goal mark.

	BEST GOAL-SCORERS	IN   3rd   DECADE
	OF   XXI    CENTURY	2021-2023
	Player	Country	DL	DC	ICC	NT	Goals	2021	2022	2023
1	Kylian Mbappé	France	90	17	22	30	159	51	56	52
2	Erling Haaland	Norway	89	11	24	21	145	49	46	50
3	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	90	6	24	19	139	69	42	28
4	Harry Kane	England	82	6	13	30	131	44	35	52
5	Karim Benzema	France	70	10	28	10	118	47	33	38
6	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	70	4	17	26	117	47	16	54
7	Bérgson	Brazil	73	25	10		108	23	46	39
8	Lionel Messi	Argentina	46	4	21	35	106	43	35	28
9	Garbhan Coughlan	Republic of Ireland	86	19			105	25	38	42
10	Mohamed Salah	Egypt	63	7	22	12	104	39	29	36
11	Michael Olunga	Kenya	59	19	19	6	103	36	32	35
12	Mehdi Taremi	Iran	57	12	11	21	101	31	39	31
13	Germán Cano	Argentina	69	7	19		95	11	44	40
14	Hulk	Brazil	69	11	15		95	36	29	30
15	Gabriel Barbosa	Brazil	57	12	21	3	93	44	29	20
16	Eran Zahavi	Israel	50	8	24	10	92	31	23	38
17	Lautaro Martínez	Argentina	68	8	6	10	92	29	26	37
18	Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba	Togo	74	8	5	5	92	24	33	35
19	Nemanja Bilbija	Bosnia and Herzegovina	79	6	7		92	25	28	39
20	Peter Shalulile	Namibia	50	15	14	8	87	37	21	29
21	Ali Mabkhout	UAE	63	4	1	19	87	36	23	28
22	Pedro	Brazil	51	12	21	1	85	20	30	35
23	Kyogo Furuhashi	Japan	62	10	7	5	84	35	18	31
24	Jamie Maclaren	Australia	72	3	3	6	84	28	28	28
25	Romelu Lukaku	Belgium	39	6	12	26	83	33	10	40
26	Julián Álvarez	Argentina	46	12	17	7	82	28	32	22
27	Vangelis Pavlidis	Greece	55	5	16	5	81	21	24	36
28	Wissam Ben Yedder	France	65	8	7	1	81	29	30	22
29	Victor Osimhen	Nigeria	55		10	15	80	22	24	34
30	Enner Valencia	Ecuador	56	3	12	9	80	23	24	33
31	Ayoub El Kaabi	Morocco	52	8	9	11	80	41	16	23
32	Dominik Stolz	Germany	76	1	3		80	25	25	30
33	Boris Kopitović	Montenegro	68	9	3		80	16	41	23

The ranking published here provides a breakdown of goals both by tournaments (to the left of the total amount) and by years (to the right).
All top-level goals are taken into account:
DL = domestic leagues (only national and regional top tier),
DC = relevant domestic cups
ICC = international club competitions,
NT = national team
Tie-breakers: 1) more international goals (ICC+NT), 2) more national team goals (NT), 3) more domestic league goals (DL).
Period: from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2023.