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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 March 2025. Alan Shearer was the first player to score 200 Premier League goals, and is the only player to score 100 goals for two clubs. Since the Premier League's formation at the beginning of the 1992–93 season, a total of 34 players have scored 100 or more goals in the competition; these players ...
The top goalscorer in the Premier League's inaugural season was Teddy Sheringham, who scored one goal for Nottingham Forest before his early-season transfer followed by 21 for Tottenham Hotspur for a total of 22.
The top tier in English football today is the Premier League, replacing the Football League First Division for the 1992–93 inaugural season. Since the 1888–89 season, the first year of top flight football, three players have scored over 300 goals with a further 25 players scoring over 200 goals.
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Most consecutive Premier League Manager of the Month awards: 4, Pep Guardiola [200] Most Premier League Manager of the Month awards in a single season: 5, Jürgen Klopp [201] Most promotions to the Premier League: 4, Steve Bruce (Birmingham City in 2001–02 and 2006–07 and Hull City in 2012–13 and 2015–16)
The first was Manchester United beating Ipswich Town at Old Trafford on 4 March 1995, the second being Leicester City beating Southampton at St Mary's Stadium on 25 October 2019 (which stands as not only a joint Premier League record, but also an all-time record away win in the English football's top tier), the third being Manchester United ...
FIFA, the international governing body of football, has never released a list detailing the highest goalscorers and does not keep official records; [8] [9] in 2020, it recognised Bican, an Austrian-Czech dual international who played between the 1930s and the 1950s, [10] as the record scorer with an estimated 805 goals, [11] [12] although CNN ...
Due to the close connections between English and Scottish football, several players have played for clubs in England and in the Scottish Football League and its successors and amassed over 200 goals across the two systems, including David McLean (over 160 goals in both), Joe Baker (over 140 in both), Neil Martin (over 110 in both) and Kenny ...