ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI - 100 GOALS IN THE CURRENT DECADE
Picture : Robert Lewandowski continued to score in Barcelona !
Lewandowski: first player to reach 100 goals in the current decade!
With a goal scored in 10 September La Liga match Cadiz vs Barcelona (0-4), Robert Lewandowski became the first player in the world to produce 100 top-level goals in the current decade (which started on 1 January 2021).
He has scored 69 goals in 2021 and added next 31 this year.
In the first decade of XXI Century (2001-2010), the first player to achieve this was Henrik Larsson (eventually he has finished 8th in the ranking of goal-scorers of that decade).
In the second decade (2011-2020), it was Lionel Messi (finished 2nd).
The more detailed info is in this table (including the time taken by a player for scoring 100 goals).
| FIRST | PLAYERS TO SCORE | 100 GOALS | |||||
| IN EACH | DECADE OF XXI | CENTURY | |||||
| Decade | Player | Country | Date | Time (Y-D) | Game | Tourn. | |
| 1 | 2001-2010 | Henrik Larsson | Sweden | 26/12/2002 | 1-360 | Celtic - Hearts (4-2) | NL |
| 2 | 2011-2020 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | 02/05/2012 | 1-123 | Barcelona - Málaga (4-1) | NL |
| 3 | 2021-2030 | Robert Lewandowski | Poland | 10/09/2022 | 1-253 | Cadiz - Barcelona (0-4) | NL |