English Premiership Top Goalscorers

Premiership Top Goalscorer 2007/08

Ronaldo	Man Utd	31
Adebayor	Arsenal	24
Torres	Liverpool	24
Santa Cruz	Blackburn	19
Berbatov	Tottenham	15
Keane	Tottenham	15
Benjani	Man City	15
Yakubu	Everton	15
Tevez	Man Utd	14
Carew	Aston Villa	13

 

Premiership Top Goalscorer 2006/07

Top Goalscorers

Didier Drogba	Chelsea	21
Benni McCarthy	Blackburn	19
Cristiano Ronaldo	Man Utd	17
Mark Viduka	Middlesbro'	16
Darren Bent	Charlton	14
Kevin Doyle	Reading	14
Wayne Rooney	Man Utd	14
Dimitar Berbatov	Tottenham	13
Robbie Keane	Tottenham	12
Dirk Kuyt	Liverpool	12

Didier Drogba capped a fantastic season by ending up with the Premierships Golden boot. Drogba was by far the best striker this season and scored some brilliant individually goals which helped Chelsea come 2nd in the Premiership and win both the FA Cup and League Cup. Benni McCarthy came 2nd which is a great acheivement for a player in his first season. It would be interesting to see whether he will move onto a bigger club during the summer, Chelsea have been linked with him previously. Ronaldo voted PFA player of the season and Football Writers player of the season came 3rd and the number of goals justifies his contribution this season. He has had an incredible campaign and is currently the top 5 players in the world at the moment.

Premiership Top Goalscorer 2005/06

Thierry Henry	Arsenal	27
Ruud van Nistelrooy	Manchester United	21
Darren Bent	Charlton Athletic	18
Frank Lampard	Chelsea	16
Wayne Rooney	Manchester United	16
Robbie Keane	Tottenham Hotspur	16
Marlon Harewood	West Ham United	14
Craig Bellamy	Blackburn Rovers	13
Yakubu Aiyegbeni	Middlesbrough	13
Didier Drogba	Chelsea	12

Thierry Henry had a fantastic season last year scoring six more goals than any other player in the Premiership.He has dominated the scoring charts for the past 3three seasons and his decision to still in the Premiership will delight many Arsenal fans and also the Premiership. You will expect at least another 20 goals from him this coming season and hopefully the challenge of winning the award for the Premierships top goal scorer will be closer. Ruud Van Nistelrooy fell away in the second half of last season when he hardly featured. Darren Bent had a incredible start to the campaign but fell away just like Charlton as a whole did. It will be interesting to see whether Craig Bellemy can rediscover his form for Liverpool as he did for Blackburn. He has never been recognized as a 20+ goals player and is usually the second striker, assisting and making things happen. In a better team maybe he will score a few more. And will Chelsea's new signing Shevchenko hit the Premiership by storm, like he did for AC Milan in Italy.

Top Goalscorer by Season

Year	Player	Goals
1992-93	Teddy Sheringham	22
1993-94	Andy Cole	34
1994-95	Alan Shearer	34
1995-96	Alan Shearer	31
1996-97	Alan Shearer	25
1997-98	Chris Sutton Dion Dublin Michael Owen Andy Cole	18
1998-99	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink Michael Owen Dwight Yorke	18
1999-00	Kevin Phillips	30
2000-01	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	23
2001-02	Thierry Henry	24
2002-03	Ruud van Nistelrooy	25
2003-04	Thierry Henry	30
2004-05	Thierry Henry	25
2005-06	Thierry Henry	27

All Time Top Goalscorer

	Player	Goals
1	Alan Shearer	260
2	Andy Cole	185
3	Thierry Henry	164
4	Robbie Fowler	159
5	Les Ferdinand	149
6	Teddy Sheringham	145
7	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	126
8	Michael Owen	125
9	Dwight Yorke	122
10	Ian Wright	113

Alan Shearer now retired from professional football is by far the all time leading top goalscorer of the Premiership. He is 75 goals ahead of another Newcastle Favourite Andy Cole, who has 185 Premiership goals to his name. Within the top 10 all time top goalscorers in the Premiership only Theirry Henry and Michael Owen stands a chance of breaking Alan Shearers record. All other players are either retired or at the end of their prolific careers. Thierry Henry who has been the tpp Premiership goalscorer for the last three Premiership seasons stands a great chance of beating the record. He has scored over 25 in the last three seasons, averaging an amazing 27. And if his current strike rate continues then Alan Shearers record is within reach in 3-4 seasons time.