Premier League All-Time Top Goal Scorers (Since 1892 to 2017)

English football’s top division also known as “Premier League” has been around since 1892 when it became the English football’s first division. 116 seasons have been played since 1892 and Manchester United is the most successful club with 20 top division titles to their name. Since it was rebranded as English Premier League back in 1992-93 season foreign players have increased dramatically over the last couple of years and we have had season top scorers from all around the world. We take a look at top 25 all time top goal scorers in premier league history.

All-Time Premier League Top scorer (Alan Shearer)

Alan Shearer is the all-time top scorer in premier league history with 260 goals over 18 year career in English top flight. He started his career back in 1988 with Southampton before his Blackburn rovers followed by another record transfer to his native Newcastle United side. He won the premier league top scorer award in three consecutive seasons twice with Blackburn and once with Newcastle United.

No other player has ever scored more than 200 goals, Although Wayne Rooney (currently active) is on 187 but looking at how his career is panning out its hard to see him getting past 200 career goals in the league. Below is the list of all time top scorers in premier league.

Premier League All-Time Top Goal Scorers (as of November 2016)

NO#.	PLAYER	GOALS	MATCHES	RATIO
1	Alan Shearer	260	441	0.58
2	Wayne Rooney	194	435	0.44
3	Andrew Cole	187	414	0.45
4	Frank Lampard	177	609	0.29
5	Thierry Henry	175	258	0.67
6	Robbie Fowler	163	379	0.43
7	Jermain Defoe	150	443	0.33
8	Michael Owen	150	326	0.46
9	Les Ferdinand	149	351	0.42
10	Teddy Sherringham	147	418	0.35
11	Robin Van Persie	144	280	0.51
12	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	127	–
13	Robbie Keane	126	349	0.36
14	Nicolas Anelka	125	364	0.34
15	Dwight York	123	375	0.32
16	Steven Gerrard	120	504	0.23
17	Ian Wright	113	–
18	Dion Dublin	111	312	0.35
19	Sergio Aguero	111	–
20	Emile Heskey	110	516	0.21
21	Ryan Giggs	109	632	0.17
22	Paul Scholes	107	499	0.21

From the all-time list of top scorers, Only Wayne Rooney, Jermain Defoe and Sergio Aguero are still active in the premier league. Of the players who have scored 100+ goals in the league Thierry Henry has the best goal-to-game ratio of around 0.67 (that means he scored 67 goals every 100 games) which is incredible.