MEN'S WORLD BEST GOAL SCORER OF THIRD DECADE

• Jan 10, 2023
• History Statistics

The World’s top scorer of 3rd Decade XXI after first 2 years: Robert Lewandowski

We publish the ranking of the world's top goal-scorers in 3rd Decade of XXI Century based on the results of the first two years (2021 and 2022), with Robert Lewandowski still on top (111 goals).
The Pole leads this ranking without any breaks since 6 March 2021, solitarily except a small period from 2 to 8 May 2021 when he had the same amount with Lionel Messi but still was placed above him due to tie-breaker.
However, the distance between Lewandowski and Kylian Mbappe is rapidly shrinking; at the end of last year it was already 4 goals. Perhaps there will be a change of leadership soon.

THE RANKING

	BEST GOAL-SCORERS	IN 3rd DECADE
	OF XXI CENTURY	(2021-2030)
	Player	Country	Goals				Total1	2021	2022
			NL	NC	ICC	NT
1	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	72	2	22	15	111	69	42
2	Kylian Mbappé	France	56	12	19	20	107	51	56
3	Erling Haaland	Norway	60	8	12	15	95	49	46
4	Karim Benzema	France	49	3	18	10	80	47	33
5	Harry Kane	England	44	5	9	21	79	44	35
6	Lionel Messi	Argentina	36	4	11	27	78	43	35
7	Gabriel Barbosa	Brazil	47	6	17	3	73	44	29
8	Mohamed Abdel Rahman	Sudan	50	1	6	14	71	42	29
9	Mehdi Taremi	Iran	41	11	9	9	70	31	39
10	Bérgson	Brazil	52	11	6		69	23	46
11	Michael Olunga	Kenya	35	17	13	3	68	36	32
12	Mohamed Salah	Egypt	39	4	18	6	67	39	28
13	Tiago Azulão	Brazil	50	5	11		66	27	39
14	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	36	3	8	16	63	47	16
15	Dušan Vlahović	Serbia	47	4	2	9	62	41	21
16	Julián Álvarez	Argentina	34	9	10	7	60	28	32
17	Ricardo Gomes	Cape Verde	42	2	15		59	24	35
18	Wissam Ben Yedder	France	45	7	6	1	59	29	30
19	Paul Onuachu	Nigeria	52	3	2	2	59	36	23
20	Ali Mabkhout	UAE	39	2	1	15	57	36	23
21	Peter Shalulile	Namibia	40	8	5	5	58	37	21
22	Fernando Zampedri	Argentina	44	9	5		58	31	27
23	Ayoub El Kaabi	Morocco	40	4	4	9	57	41	16
24	Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba	Togo	47	6		4	57	24	33
25	Boris Kopitović	Montenegro	51	5	1		57	16	41
26	Sadio Mané	Senegal	27	6	10	13	56	23	33
27	Christopher Nkunku	France	36	6	14		56	19	37
28	Jamie Maclaren	Australia	51		2	3	56	28	28
29	Lautaro Martínez	Argentina	39	4	2	10	55	29	26
30	Ciro Immobile	Italy	44	1	5	5	55	32	23
31	Henri Anier	Estonia	37	10		8	55	38	17
32	Germán Cano	Argentina	43	6	6		55	11	44
33	Marko Livaja	Croatia	46	5		4	55	27	28
34	Eran Zahavi	Israel	28	3	14	9	54	31	23
35	Hulk	Brazil	31	10	12		53	34	19
36	Kyogo Furuhashi	Japan	41	4	5	3	53	35	18
37	Nemanja Bilbija	Bosnia and Herzegovina	50	1	2		53	25	28
38	Aleksandar Katai	Serbia	40	4	8		52	26	26
39	Matías Rotondi	Argentina	49		3		52	28	24
40	Mislav Oršić	Croatia	31	3	15	2	51	26	25
41	Darwin Núñez	Uruguay	35	6	9	1	51	25	26
42	Memphis Depay	Netherlands	25	2	1	22	50	39	11
43	Pedro	Brazil	29	6	14	1	50	20	30
44	Jonathan David	Canada	35	1	7	7	50	34	16
45	Sébastien Haller	Côte d'Ivoire	32	4	11	3	50	37	13
46	Bafétimbi Gomis	France	42	2	6		50	33	17
47	Zakaria Beglarishvili	Georgia	45	2	3		50	28	22
48	Dominik Stolz	Germany	49	1			50	25	25
49	Jay Donnelly	Northern Ireland	45	5			50	32	18

All goals at top senior level are counted (top national divisions, national cups, official international tournaments, official games between national teams).
Brazilian state championships Paulista and Carioca have status equal to national leagues (according to IFFHS decision).

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

Period: from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022.
Tiebreaking criteria in case of equal number of total goals: 1) international goals (ICC + NT), 2) goals scored for national team (NT), 3) goals scored in domestic league (NL).