CONMEBOL BEST GOAL SCORER OF XXI CENTURY

• Jan 23, 2024
• History Statistics

The CONMEBOL Best Goal Scorer of XXI Century: Lionel Messi

Lionel Messi leads the ranking of best South American scorers in XXI century after 2023 with 821 goals.
In total, 19 representatives of the CONMEBOL countries have reached 300 top-level goals in this century; 11 of them are active (highlighted in bold).
7 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 (so they can be conditionally categorized as the “goal-scorers of XXI century”). They are also listed in the table but not ranked.

	BEST GOAL-SCORERS	CONMEBOL
	IN XXI CENTURY	2001-2023
	Player	Nationality	DL	DC	ICC	NT	Total	Total	Total
							XXI	XX	Career
1	Lionel Messi	Argentina	497	71	147	106	821		821
2	Luis Suárez	Uruguay	388	48	53	68	557		557
3	Edinson Cavani	Uruguay	276	50	56	58	440		440
4	Neymar	Brazil	257	43	60	79	439		439
5	Sergio Agüero	Argentina	282	40	63	41	426		426
6	Fred	Brazil	307	41	38	18	404		404
7	Ricardo Oliveira	Brazil	260	86	39	5	390	1	391
8	Óscar Cardozo	Paraguay	278	30	56	12	376		376
9	Gonzalo Higuaín	Argentina	279	17	39	31	366		366
10	Luís Fabiano	Brazil	235	52	40	28	355	15	370
11	Hulk	Brazil	237	33	68	11	349		349
12	Radamel Falcao	Colombia	225	23	59	36	343		343
13	Vágner Love	Brazil	244	27	58	4	333		333
14	Magno Alves	Brazil	244	69	15		328	57	385
15	Dayro Moreno	Colombia	285	23	15	3	326		326
16	Carlos Tevez	Argentina	225	41	43	13	322		322
17	José Alfredo Castillo	Bolivia	289	4	15	6	314	4	318
18	Hernán Barcos	Argentina	262	10	36		308		308
19	Esteban Paredes	Chile	243	23	22	12	300		300
	Sebastián Abreu	Uruguay	238	12	23	23	296	103	399
	Alex	Brazil	236	33	22	5	296	93	389
	Washington	Brazil	224	45	22	2	293	56	349
	Araújo	Brazil	209	73	13		295	49	344
	Claudio Pizarro	Peru	185	32	41	17	275	65	340
	Kléber Pereira	Brazil	203	34	16		253	75	328
	Diego Forlán	Uruguay	215	15	26	36	292	18	310

DL – domestic leagues (national and regional top tier)
DC – relevant domestic cups
ICC – international club competitions
NT – national team

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).