Bold claim: Erling Haaland has joined football’s elite by becoming the 35th player to reach 100 Premier League goals, hitting the century with Manchester City’s opener at Fulham.
Haaland also holds the record for the fastest path to 100 goals in the competition, reaching the milestone in just 111 appearances—shattering Alan Shearer’s previous record set in 1995 by 13 games. His current goals-per-game ratio in the Premier League stands at 0.90, and there’s a clear possibility that he could challenge Shearer’s all-time record of 260 league goals, a mark established when the Premier League split from the old English Football League in the 1992-93 season.
Haaland signed a landmark contract with City in January, a nine-and-a-half-year deal that runs through the 2033-34 season.
All-time Premier League top scorers (selected):
- Alan Shearer – 260 (Blackburn Rovers 112, Newcastle United 148)
- Harry Kane* – 213 (Tottenham Hotspur 213)
- Wayne Rooney – 208 (Everton 25, Manchester United 183)
- Mohamed Salah* – 190 (Chelsea 2, Liverpool 188)
- Andy Cole – 187 (Newcastle United 43, Manchester United 93, Blackburn Rovers 27, Fulham 12, Manchester City 9, Portsmouth 3)
- Sergio Aguero – 184 (Manchester City 184)
- Frank Lampard – 177 (West Ham 24, Chelsea 147, Manchester City 6)
- Thierry Henry – 175 (Arsenal 175)
- Robbie Fowler – 163 (Liverpool 128, Leeds United 14, Manchester City 21)
- Jermain Defoe – 162 (West Ham 18, Tottenham 91, Portsmouth 15, Sunderland 34, Bournemouth 4)
- Michael Owen – 150 (Liverpool 118, Newcastle United 26, Manchester United 5, Stoke City 1)
- Les Ferdinand – 149 (Queens Park Rangers 60, Newcastle United 41, Tottenham 33, West Ham 2, Leicester City 12, Bolton Wanderers 1)
- Teddy Sheringham – 146 (Nottingham Forest 1, Tottenham 97, Manchester United 31, Portsmouth 9, West Ham 8)
- Jamie Vardy* – 145 (Leicester City 145)
- Robin van Persie – 144 (Arsenal 96, Manchester United 48)
- Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink – 127 (Leeds United 34, Chelsea 69, Middlesbrough 22, Charlton Athletic 2)
- Son Heung-min* – 127 (Tottenham 127)
- Robbie Keane – 126 (Coventry City 12, Leeds United 13, Tottenham 91, Liverpool 5, West Ham 2, Aston Villa 3)
- Nicolas Anelka – 125 (Arsenal 23, Liverpool 4, Manchester City 37, Bolton Wanderers 21, Chelsea 38, West Bromwich Albion 2)
- Dwight Yorke – 123 (Aston Villa 60, Manchester United 48, Blackburn Rovers 12, Birmingham City 2, Sunderland 1)
- Raheem Sterling* – 123 (Liverpool 18, Manchester City 91, Chelsea 14)
- Romelu Lukaku* – 121 (Chelsea 8, West Bromwich Albion 17, Everton 68, Manchester United 28)
- Steven Gerrard – 120 (Liverpool 120)
- Ian Wright – 113 (Arsenal 104, West Ham 9)
- Dion Dublin – 111 (Manchester United 2, Coventry City 61, Aston Villa 48)
- Sadio Mane* – 111 (Southampton 21, Liverpool 90)
- Emile Heskey – 110 (Leicester City 33, Liverpool 39, Birmingham City 14, Wigan Athletic 15, Aston Villa 9)
- Ryan Giggs – 109 (Manchester United 109)
- Peter Crouch – 108 (Aston Villa 6, Southampton 12, Liverpool 22, Portsmouth 11, Tottenham 12, Stoke City 45)
- Paul Scholes – 107 (Manchester United 107)
- Darren Bent – 106 (Ipswich Town 1, Charlton Athletic 31, Tottenham 18, Sunderland 32, Aston Villa 21, Fulham 3)
- Didier Drogba – 104 (Chelsea 104)
- Cristiano Ronaldo* – 103 (Manchester United 103)
- Matt Le Tissier – 100 (Southampton 100)
*Denotes players who are still active in professional football.
Haaland’s 100 goals have come in 111 Premier League appearances for Manchester City. For comparison, the players who reached 100 in more games include Alan Shearer in 124, Harry Kane in 141, Sergio Aguero in 147, and Thierry Henry in 160.
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