THE GOALSCORER RANKING OF 3RD DECADE XXI CENTURY

• Jan 7, 2025
• History Statistics

The World’s top scorer of 3rd Decade XXI after 2024: Kylian Mbappé

Kylian Mbappe leads the world's best goal-scorers’ ranking of the 3rd decade of XXI century (2021-2030) after the year 2024.
Over 4 years of the current decade, he has amassed 198 goals.
However, 2024 was less successful for the Frenchman. Unlike all three previous calendar years, he failed to reach 50 goals, not even 40, having finished at a quite modest figure for him, 39 goals.
His runner-up Erling Haaland notched 10 more; he is now only 4 goals behind.
As of the end of 2024, 28 players have already reached the 100-goal mark in this decade.
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).

	TOP  SCORERS	3rd    DECADE
	2021-2030	XXI     CENTURY
	Player	Nation	DL	DC	ICC	NT	Goals	2021	2022	2023	2024
1	Kylian Mbappé	France	110	25	31	32	198	51	56	52	39
2	Erling Haaland	Norway	116	16	30	32	194	49	46	50	49
3	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	117	10	33	21	181	69	42	28	42
4	Harry Kane	England	111	7	22	37	177	44	35	52	46
5	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	95	8	24	33	160	47	16	54	43
6	Garbhan Coughlan	Republic of Ireland	120	19			139	25	38	42	34
7	Bérgson	Brazil	94	33	11		138	23	46	39	30
8	Mohamed Salah	Egypt	86	9	26	16	137	39	29	36	33
9	Lionel Messi	Argentina	67	4	23	41	135	43	35	28	29
10	Karim Benzema	France	80	11	28	10	129	47	33	38	11
11	Michael Olunga	Kenya	75	23	19	12	129	36	32	35	26
12	Ayoub El Kaabi	Morocco	74	8	24	15	121	41	16	23	41
13	Lautaro Martínez	Argentina	83	9	7	21	120	29	26	37	28
14	Jonathan David	Canada	80	6	17	16	119	34	16	28	41
15	Mehdi Taremi	Iran	60	14	12	30	116	31	39	31	15
16	Eran Zahavi	Israel	63	14	27	11	115	31	23	38	23
17	Pedro	Brazil	73	15	26	1	115	20	30	35	30
18	Hulk	Brazil	86	12	16		114	36	29	30	19
19	Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba	Togo	89	9	8	6	112	24	33	35	20
20	Julián Álvarez	Argentina	56	16	22	11	105	28	32	22	23
21	Victor Osimhen	Nigeria	72		14	18	104	22	24	34	24
22	Dušan Vlahović	Serbia	75	7	9	12	103	41	21	17	24
23	Kyogo Furuhashi	Japan	76	14	8	5	103	35	18	31	19
24	Ali Mabkhout	UAE	72	6	5	19	102	36	23	28	15
25	Germán Cano	Argentina	75	7	20		102	11	44	40	7
26	Gabriel Barbosa	Brazil	63	14	21	3	101	44	29	20	8
27	Nemanja Bilbija	Bosnia and Herzegovina	88	6	7		101	25	28	39	9
28	Dominik Stolz	Germany	94	3	3		100	25	25	30	20

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).
Period: from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2024.