NEW ONE LEAGUE WORLD GOAL SCORER RECORD FOR LIONEL MESSI !
Posted on Apr 23, 2021 | IFFHS News Category
Picture : Lionel Messi scored yesterday night two goal against Getafe to become the new WORLD RECORDMAN !
Messi grabs one-league World goal-scoring record!
Lionel Messi has now one record more in his collection. With 2 goals, scored in Spanish La Liga game vs Getafe (5:2) on April 22, his tally in this competition has grown up to 469. No one in the football history has scored as much in one particular league! The previous World record holder in this category was Pele who scored 468 goals in the Liga Paulista.
Here we publicate for the first time the All-Time ranking for World’s one-league goal-scorers counting only top-level national leagues. 39 players have scored 300+ goals in one league, and 5 of them 400+ goals. Hungarian league is presented with most players – 9 (four one of them have first name Ferenc).
Messi has a good chance to become the first ever player to reach 500 if he continues in Barcelona after this season. Apart from him, there is another active player in the list, Cristiano Ronaldo. But his tally, 311 goals in Spanish league, is frozen as he left it and performs now in other country.
Lionel Messi 469 goals - Pelé 468 goals
THE ALL TIME WORLD RANKING
| ALL-TIME BEST | ONE-LEAGUE GOAL-SCORERS | ||||
| Player | League | Goals | Period | Games | |
| 1 | Lionel Messi | Spain | 469 | 2004- | 514 |
| 2 | Pelé | Liga Paulista (Brazil) | 468 | 1957-1974 | 412 |
| 3 | Josef Bican | Czechoslovakia | 447 | 1937-1955 | 274 |
| 4 | Imre Schlosser | Hungary | 411 | 1905-1928 | 301 |
| 5 | Jimmy McGrory | Scotland | 408 | 1922-1938 | 408 |
| 6 | Ferenc Szusza | Hungary | 393 | 1940-1961 | 462 |
| 7 | Gyula Zsengellér | Hungary | 387 | 1935-1947 | 325 |
| 8 | Albert De Cleyn | Belgium | 377 | 1932-1955 | 488 |
| 9 | Gerd Müller | Germany | 365 | 1965-1979 | 427 |
| 10 | Arthur Friedenreich | Liga Paulista (Brazil) | 360 | 1910-1934 | 323 |
| 11 | József Takács | Hungary | 360 | 1920-1940 | 355 |
| 12 | Ferenc Puskás | Hungary | 357 | 1943-1956 | 354 |
| 13 | Jimmy Greaves | England | 357 | 1957-1971 | 516 |
| 14 | György Sárosi | Hungary | 351 | 1930-1948 | 383 |
| 15 | Víctor Hugo Antelo | Bolivia | 350 | 1983-2001 | 443 |
| 16 | Jef Mermans | Belgium | 343 | 1941-1957 | 384 |
| 17 | Fernando Peyroteo | Portugal | 332 | 1937-1949 | 197 |
| 18 | Jimmy Jones | Northern Ireland | 332 | 1947-1964 | 285 |
| 19 | Robert Dienst | Austria | 323 | 1943-1962 | 351 |
| 20 | Aleksandar Đurić | Singapore | 321 | 1999-2014 | 439 |
| 21 | Eusébio | Portugal | 320 | 1961-1976 | 313 |
| 22 | Hans Krankl | Austria | 320 | 1971-1988 | 427 |
| 23 | Fernando Gomes | Portugal | 319 | 1974-1991 | 404 |
| 24 | Marc Lloyd Williams | Wales | 319 | 1992-2011 | 467 |
| 25 | Steve Bloomer | England | 317 | 1892-1914 | 536 |
| 26 | Silvio Piola | Italy | 317 | 1929-1954 | 589 |
| 27 | Joe Bambrick | Northern Ireland | 314 | 1926-1934 | 205 |
| 28 | Gyula Szilágyi | Hungary | 313 | 1943-1960 | 390 |
| 29 | Glenn Ferguson | Northern Ireland | 313 | 1987-2011 | 644 |
| 30 | Cabinho | México | 312 | 1974-1987 | 427 |
| 31 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Spain | 311 | 2009-2018 | 292 |
| 32 | Willy van der Kuijlen | Netherlands | 311 | 1964-1982 | 545 |
| 33 | Dixie Dean | England | 310 | 1924-1938 | 362 |
| 34 | Ottmar Walter | Oberliga Südwest (Germany) | 307 | 1946-1959 | 275 |
| 35 | Ferenc Deák | Hungary | 305 | 1944-1954 | 238 |
| 36 | Robert McPhail | Scotland | 305 | 1923-1939 | 463 |
| 37 | Maksim Gruznov | Estonia | 304 | 1992-2012 | 494 |
| 38 | Ferenc Bene | Hungary | 303 | 1961-1978 | 417 |
| 39 | Juan Carlos Plata | Guatemala | 302 | 1990-2010 | 571 |