IFFHS MEN'S WORLD BEST GOAL SCORER 2025
Picture : Denis Bouanga in the Top 5 !
IFFHS Men’s World Best Goal Scorer 2025 at 30 September: Kylian Mbappé
Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Harry Kane and Denis Bouanga were very successful in September having added 12 goals each to their annual tallies. They four lead now the global 2025 goal-scorers’ ranking.
Los Angeles’ Bouanga made no fewer than 3 hat-tricks within the month repeating the February feat of Monaco’s Mika Bieret.
Mbappé scored in every one of his 8 games in September for club and country, Haaland in every one of his 6.
Mbappé’s 47 goals is the 2nd best individual performance in a calendar year since January to September over the current decade. Only Robert Lewandowski registered more at this point: 50 goals in 2021 (finishing the year with 69).
Mbappé’s personal annual record is 56 goals (in 2022). With such a great form, he can easily surpass his best mark.
THE RANKING 2025
| Player | Total | DL | DC | ICC | NT | Country | Clubs (Leagues) | |
| 1 | Kylian Mbappé | 47 | 29 | 3 | 11 | 4 | France | Real Madrid (Spain) |
| 2 | Harry Kane | 43 | 22 | 3 | 13 | 5 | England | Bayern (Germany) |
| Kevin Hernández | 40 | 39 | 1 | Puerto Rico | Academia Quintana | |||
| 3 | Erling Haaland | 34 | 16 | 1 | 7 | 10 | Norway | Manchester City (England) |
| 4 | Denis Bouanga | 34 | 23 | 6 | 5 | Gabon | Los Angeles (USA) | |
| 5 | Lionel Messi | 34 | 24 | 8 | 2 | Argentina | Inter Miami (USA) | |
| 6 | Serhou Guirassy | 32 | 19 | 1 | 11 | 1 | Guinea | Borussia Dortmund (Germany) |
| 7 | Vangelis Pavlidis | 32 | 20 | 2 | 8 | 2 | Greece | Benfica (Portugal) |
| 8 | Patrick Pedersen | 32 | 18 | 14 | Denmark | Valur (Iceland) | ||
| 9 | Victor Osimhen | 31 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 3 | Nigeria | Galatasaray (Turkey) |
| 10 | Ousmane Dembélé | 30 | 15 | 4 | 10 | 1 | France | PSG |
| 11 | Cristiano Ronaldo | 30 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 6 | Portugal | Al Nassr (Saudi Arabia) |
| 12 | Guilherme Bissoli | 30 | 17 | 7 | 6 | Brazil | Buriram (Thailand) | |
| 13 | Ivan Toney | 30 | 23 | 4 | 3 | England | Al Ahli (Saudi Arabia) | |
| 14 | Viktor Gyökeres | 30 | 24 | 5 | 1 | Sweden | Sporting (Portugal), Arsenal (England) | |
| Jorge Rivera | 29 | 29 | Puerto Rico | Metropolitan FA | ||||
| 15 | Mohanad Ali | 28 | 25 | 3 | Iraq | Al Shorta, Dibba (UAE) | ||
| 16 | Youssef En-Nesyri | 27 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 1 | Morocco | Fenerbahçe (Turkey) |
| Lennart Thy | 27 | 20 | 4 | 3 | Germany | Lion City Sailors (Singapore) | ||
| 17 | Klaemint Olsen | 27 | 26 | 1 | Faroe Islands | NSÍ | ||
| 18 | Sam Surridge | 27 | 22 | 5 | England | Nashville (USA) | ||
| Jhonathan Rivas | 27 | 27 | Colombia | Mayagüez (Puerto Rico) | ||||
| 19 | Julián Álvarez | 26 | 18 | 2 | 4 | 2 | Argentina | Atletico Madrid (Spain) |
| 20 | Paulinho | 26 | 21 | 1 | 4 | Portugal | Toluca (Mexico) | |
| 21 | Alan Grafite | 26 | 17 | 6 | 3 | Brazil | Cong An Ha Noi (Vietnam) | |
| 22 | Róger Guedes | 26 | 19 | 5 | 2 | Brazil | Al Rayyan (Qatar) | |
| 23 | Darko Lemajić | 26 | 24 | 2 | Serbia | RFS (Latvia) | ||
| 24 | Ismael Díaz | 25 | 12 | 6 | 7 | Panama | U. Católica (Ecuador), Leon (Mexico) | |
| 25 | Robert Lewandowski | 25 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 2 | Poland | Barcelona (Spain) |
| 26 | Páll Klettskarð | 25 | 20 | 2 | 3 | Faroe Islands | KÍ Klaksvík | |
| Peeter Phanthavong | 25 | 13 | 11 | 1 | Laos | Ezra | ||
| Noah Baffoe | 25 | 17 | 8 | Spain | Eastern, Lee Man (Hong Kong) | |||
| 27 | Dayro Moreno | 24 | 14 | 10 | Colombia | Once Caldas | ||
| 28 | Brian White | 24 | 16 | 1 | 6 | 1 | USA | Vancouver Whitecaps |
| 29 | Marcos Leonardo | 24 | 16 | 1 | 7 | Brazil | Al Hilal (Saudi Arabia) | |
| 30 | Kasper Høgh | 24 | 16 | 1 | 7 | Denmark | Bodø/Glimt (Norway) | |
| 31 | Pablo Vegetti | 24 | 18 | 1 | 5 | Argentina | Vasco da Gama (Brazil) | |
| Alex | 24 | 23 | 1 | Brazil | Dewa United (Indonesia) | |||
| 32 | Oussama Lamlioui | 23 | 9 | 8 | 6 | Morocco | Berkane | |
| 33 | Barnabás Varga | 23 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 4 | Hungary | Ferencvaros |
| 34 | Claudio Spinelli | 23 | 16 | 7 | Argentina | Independiente del Valle (Ecuador) | ||
| 35 | Mikael Ishak | 23 | 17 | 6 | Sweden | Lech Poznan (Poland) | ||
| 36 | Igor Sergeev | 23 | 14 | 5 | 4 | Uzbekistan | Pakhtakor | |
| 37 | Nicolás López | 23 | 20 | 2 | 1 | Uruguay | Nacional | |
| 38 | Valeri Qazaishvili | 23 | 22 | 1 | Georgia | Shandong Taishan (China) | ||
| 39 | Efthymios Koulouris | 23 | 20 | 3 | Greece | Pogon Szczecin (Poland) | ||
| 40 | Lautaro Martínez | 22 | 8 | 1 | 12 | 1 | Argentina | Inter (Italy) |
| 41 | Germán Berterame | 22 | 16 | 6 | Mexico | Monterrey | ||
| 42 | Nemanja Bilbija | 22 | 14 | 2 | 6 | Bosnia and H | Zrinjski | |
| 43 | Patrik Schick | 22 | 15 | 3 | 4 | Czechia | Bayer Leverkusen (Germany) | |
| 44 | Daizen Maeda | 22 | 13 | 8 | 1 | Japan | Celtic (Scotland) | |
| 45 | Abel Hernández | 22 | 21 | 1 | Uruguay | Liverpool Montevideo | ||
| 46 | Fabio Abreu | 22 | 21 | 1 | Angola | Beijing Guoan (China) |
All goals at top senior level are counted: domestic (top national and regional) leagues (DL), domestic cups (DC), official international club tournaments (ICC), official games between national teams (NT).
The players from the leagues below top 100 are also listed in the standings but not classified (highlighted in grey).
Period: from 1 January to 30 September 2025.
Tie-breakers: 1) more international goals (ICC + NT), 2) more goals for national team (NT), 3) stronger league (by IFFHS ranking), 4) goals in domestic leagues (DL).