AFC HIGHEST SCORING DEFENDER OF XXI CENTURY
AFC Highest Scoring Defender of XXI Century: Marcus Tulio Tanaka
A retired Japanese centre-back Marcus Tulio Tanaka leads the ranking of scoring defenders of the XXI century from AFC countries after 2023. He has amassed 104 top-level goals for clubs and country.
Boualem Khoukhi (Qatar) has most goals (88) amongst active AFC defenders.
| HIGHEST SCORING | DEFENDERS | |||||||||
| IN XXI CENTURY | AFC 2001-2023 | |||||||||
| Player | Role | Country | NL | NC | ICC | NT | Total | Total | Total | |
| XXI | XX | Career | ||||||||
| 1 | Marcus Tulio Tanaka | CB | Japan | 75 | 18 | 3 | 8 | 104 | 104 | |
| 2 | Boualem Khoukhi | CB | Qatar | 49 | 8 | 10 | 21 | 88 | 88 | |
| 3 | Ramin Rezaeian | RB | Iran | 62 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 77 | 77 | |
| 4 | Abdelkarim Hassan | CB | Qatar | 30 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 56 | 56 | |
| 5 | Yuji Nakazawa | CB | Japan | 31 | 6 | 15 | 52 | 8 | 60 | |
| 6 | Murod Kholmukhamedov | RB | Uzbekistan | 44 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 51 | 51 |
NL – National Leagues
NC – National Cups
ICC – International Club Competitions
NT – National Team
Period:
from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2023 (for the ranking Total XXI);
from the career start to December 31, 2023 (for the ranking Total Career).