UEFA HIGHEST SCORING DEFENDER OF XXI CENTURY

• Jan 30, 2024
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Picture : Sergio Ramos won the IFFHS Award with Real Madrid in 2014 and 2017, he is the sovereign leader of this ranking.

UEFA Highest Scoring Defender of XXI Century: Sergio Ramos

Sergio Ramos leads the ranking of best European scoring defenders in XXI century after 2023 with 137 goals.
In total, 23 representatives of the UEFA countries have reached 300 top-level goals in this century; 10 of them are active (highlighted in bold).
3 other players are below 300 goals in XXI but reached this amount adding the goals from XX century having still scored a significant majority (not less than 65 percent) of their goals in XXI. They are also listed in the table but not classified.

	HIGHEST   SCORING		DEFENDERS
	IN XXI CENTURY		UEFA      2001-2023
	Player	Role	Country	NL	NC	ICC	NT	Total	Total	Total
								XXI	XX	Career
1	Sergio Ramos	CB	Spain	79	12	23	23	137		137
2	James Tavernier	RB	England	73	12	20		105		105
3	Markus Jürgenson	RB	Estonia	66	19			85		85
4	Colin Coates	CB	Northern Ireland	56	20	5		81		81
5	Darijo Srna	RB	Croatia	37	10	10	22	79		79
6	Espen Ruud	RB	Norway	68	4	3	1	76		76
7	Roland Juhász	CB	Hungary	55	5	8	6	74		74
8	Branislav Ivanović	CB	Serbia	40	5	15	13	73		73
9	John Terry	CB	England	42	12	13	6	73	1	74
10	George Horan	CB	England	56	10	2		68		68
11	Besnik Krasniqi	RB	Kosovo	66	2			68		68
12	John Arne Riise	LB	Norway	35	10	7	15	67	7	74
13	Aleksandar Kolarov	LB	Serbia	39	11	6	11	67		67
14	Johan Larsson	CB	Sweden	52	7	6		65		65
15	Daniel Van Buyten	CB	Belgium	40	6	8	10	64	9	73
16	Gert Kams	RB	Estonia	51	9	1	3	64		64
17	Sergei Ignashevich	CB	Russia	39	6	10	8	63	2	65
18	Gerard Piqué	CB	Spain	31	9	16	5	61		61
19	Jan Vertonghen	CB	Belgium	34	6	7	10	57		57
20	Virgil van Dijk	CB	Netherlands	37	6	6	7	56		56
21	David Alaba	LB	Austria	27	6	7	15	55		55
22	Mikael Lustig	RB	Sweden	34	9	6	6	55		55
23	Daniel Majstorović	CB	Sweden	42	7	4	2	55		55
24	Dedi Ben Dayan	LB	Israel	46	4	4	1	55	18	73
25	Christoffer Andersson	RB	Sweden	45	6	4		55	4	59
26	Mato Neretljak	CB	Croatia	43	6	4	1	54	4	58
27	Roman Kratochvíl	CB	Slovakia	51	1	2		54	23	77
28	Vilmos Vanczák	CB	Hungary	39	8	2	4	53		53
29	Domagoj Vida	CB	Croatia	40	3	5	4	52		52
30	Billy Joe Burns	RB	Northern Ireland	36	12	3		51		51
31	Pepe	CB	Portugal	34	1	7	8	50		50
	Sami Hyypiä	CB	Finland	21	5	8	5	39	15	54
	Marek Jankulovski	LB	Czech Republic	20	3	2	12	37	17	54
	Joan Capdevila	LB	Spain	32	1	6	4	43	7	50

NL – National League
NC – National Cups
ICC – International Club Competitions
NT – National Team

Tie-breaker: more international goals (ICC + NT).
Period:
from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2023 (for the ranking Total XXI);
from career start to December 31, 2023 (for the ranking Total Career).