IFFHS WORLD'S BEST TOP GOAL SCORERS 2011 TO 2020
IFFHS World’s Best Top Goal Scorers 2011 to 2020 (year by year)
Cristiano Ronaldo 4 times winner!
Cristiano Ronaldo was The World’s Best Top Goal Scorer 4 times during the Decade 2011-20 (in 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015) and Lionel Messi did it twice (2012, 2016).
No one of them managed to win it in last 4 years of decade when the distinction was deserved by Harry Kane (2017), Baghdad Bounedjah (2018), Abderrazak Hamdallah (2019), Robert Lewandowski (2020).
However, the Portuguese and the Argentine were clear dominants of the decade; each of them was almost ever presented in top 3 (see the table below).
Cristiano Ronaldo got 4 first places, 3 second and 2 third (was beyond top 3 only in 2019). Messi got 2 first places, 5 second and 1 third (was beyond top 3 in 2013 and 2020).
The only one who appeared in top 3 more than once, apart from them, is Robert Lewandowski (third in 2015, second in 2019, first in 2020).