KYLIAN MBAPPE, 20TH PLAYER WITH 50+ GOALS
Picture : a great year 2021 for Mbappé !
Mbappe – 20th player in XXI century with annual tally of 50+ goals
Kylian Mbappe finished 2021 with 51 goals in the official matches for his club and country. He became the 20th player in the world football in XXI century to reach the milestone of 50 top-level goals in a calendar year.
All such players are collected in the table, in chronological order – by date they have joint this "club".
Four of “club” members have reached 50 goals in a year more than once - Messi (9 times), Cristiano Ronaldo (7), Lewandowski (3) and Ibrahimovic (2).
Radamel Falcao (49 goals in 2012) and Erling Haaland (49 in 2021) were just one step away from this achievement.
| XXI CENTURY | |||||
| PLAYERS WITH 50+ GOALS | IN A YEAR | ||||
| Year | Player | Club | Country | Goals | |
| 1 | 2001 | Henrik Larsson | Celtic (Scotland) | Sweden | 53 |
| 2 | 2002 | Joaquín Botero | Bolívar | Bolivia | 57 |
| 3 | José Alfredo Castillo | Oriente Petrolero | Bolivia | 52 | |
| 4 | José Cardozo | Toluca (Mexico) | Paraguay | 51 | |
| 5 | 2003 | Ara Hakobyan | Banants | Armenia | 50 |
| 6 | 2006 | Humberto Suazo | Colo-Colo | Chile | 51 |
| 7 | 2010 | Lionel Messi (9) | Barcelona (Spain) | Argentina | 60 |
| 8 | 2011 | Cristiano Ronaldo (7) | Real Madrid (Spain) | Portugal | 60 |
| 9 | Mario Gómez | Bayern | Germany | 50 | |
| 10 | 2012 | Neymar | Santos | Brazil | 52 |
| 11 | Zlatan Ibrahimović (2) | Milan (Italy), PSG (France) | Sweden | 50 | |
| 12 | 2013 | Ali Ashfaq | New Radiant | Maldives | 58 |
| 13 | 2014 | Jonathan Soriano | Salzburg (Austria) | Spain | 55 |
| 14 | 2016 | Luis Suárez | Barcelona (Spain) | Uruguay | 51 |
| 15 | 2017 | Harry Kane | Tottenham | England | 56 |
| 16 | Robert Lewandowski (3) | Bayern (Germany) | Poland | 53 | |
| 17 | Edinson Cavani | PSG (France) | Uruguay | 53 | |
| 18 | 2018 | Baghdad Bounedjah | Al Sadd (Qatar) | Algeria | 58 |
| 19 | 2019 | Abderrazak Hamdallah | Al Nassr (Saudi Arabia) | Morocco | 57 |
| 20 | 2021 | Kylian Mbappé | PSG | France | 51 |