Alan Shearer is the king of Premier League goal scorers, but Harry Kane was racing to challenge his crown before moving to Bayern Munich and taking his free-scoring ways away from the record chase for now.
Shearer scored 260 Premier League goals during his remarkable career with Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United, and that figure’s even more impressive when you consider his first professional seasons were played prior to the Premier League era with Southampton.
Wayne Rooney’s incredible career, played almost entirely in the Premier League, saw him become the second player to bag 200+ goals in the competition. The former Manchester United and Everton star counts 208 goals as his haul.
Kane moved clear of Rooney during the 2022-23 season and his 213 goals are 47 behind Shearer.
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Now there is only one active Premier League player within 100 goals of Shearer — Mohamed Salah, who has 165 goals and sits 95 back of the top man. Jamie Vardy, Raheem Sterling, and Heung-min Son are the next active PL players with over 100 goals.
Wondering who is closest to next reaching 100 goals? Long-injured Callum Wilson’s on 88 and Marcus Rashford has 84. Chris Wood has 77 while Gabriel Jesus and Erling Haaland have 73, one more than Danny Ings and Danny Welbeck. That duo sits one ahead of 70th place Kevin De Bruyne’s 69 goals (PL alums Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Kevin Nolan, and Luis Suarez also have 69).
Read the full list of the Premier League’s all-time goal scorers, after the jump.
Premier League all-time goal leaders
bold denotes active Premier League player
- Alan Shearer, 260
- Harry Kane, 213
- Wayne Rooney, 208
- Andrew Cole, 187
- Sergio Aguero, 184
- Frank Lampard, 177
- Thierry Henry, 175
- Mohamed Salah, 165
- Robbie Fowler, 163
- Jermain Defoe, 162
- Michael Owen, 150
- Les Ferdinand, 149
- Teddy Sheringham, 146
- Robin van Persie, 144
- Jamie Vardy, 140
- Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, 127
- Robbie Keane, 126
- Nicolas Anelka, 125
- Dwight Yorke, 123
- Raheem Sterling, 123
- Heung-min Son, 123
- Romelu Lukaku, 121
- Steven Gerrard, 120
- Ian Wright, 113
- Dion Dublin, 111
- Sadio Mane, 111
- Emile Heskey, 110
- Ryan Giggs, 109
- Peter Crouch, 108
- Paul Scholes, 107
- Darren Bent, 106
- Didier Drogba, 104
- Cristiano Ronaldo, 103
- Matt Le Tissier, 100
