La Liga’s all-time high goalscorers

Among the best attacking gamers the world has ever seen have featured within the Spanish high flight through the years. Beneath, we’ll run down the checklist of LaLiga all-time high scorers that includes a few of the greatest forwards and most prolific goalscorers within the almost 100-year historical past of the Spanish high flight.

Figures had been totally up to date on the finish of the 2024/25 season. Solely gamers to have scored 150 or extra league targets within the high tier are included. Of these, solely two are presently energetic in LaLiga – Antoine Griezmann and Iago Aspas. Gerard Moreno (121) and Cristhian Stuani (111) are the one different present LaLiga gamers to have made it to 3 figures.

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LaLiga all-time high scorers

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24. Adrian Escudero (Atletico Madrid) – 150 targets in 287 video games (1945-1958)

Born in Madrid, Escudero represented Atleti with distinction for 13 years and was a part of the facet that received back-to-back league titles in 1949/50 and 1950/51. Regardless of his goalscoring exploits, he solely received three caps for Spain and retired at simply 30, denying him the possibility to maneuver additional up the checklist of LaLiga’s all-time high goalscorers.

23. Julio Salinas (Athletic Membership, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Deportivo La Coruña, Sporting Gijon) – 152 targets in 417 video games (1982-1997)

Julio Salinas loved a vibrant profession which noticed him function for a bunch of high golf equipment, beginning out within the Basque Nation with Athletic as one thing of a fringe participant of their back-to-back title wins within the Nineteen Eighties.

He went on to attain 15+ league targets on 5 events in his profession – reaching the feat for 4 straight seasons between 1986 and 1990, together with his 1988 transfer from Atletico Madrid to Barcelona being the defining second in his profession in lots of respects. Nevertheless, curiously Salinas’ second-most prolific season got here on the tail-end of his profession when he netted 18 instances for Sporting Gijon within the 1995/96 marketing campaign.

22. Ferenc Puskas (Actual Madrid) – 156 targets in 180 video games (1958-1966)

No participant within the high 30 all-time LaLiga goalscorers has appeared in fewer video games than Actual Madrid legend Ferenc Puskas. The Hungarian had already turned 30 by the point he joined Los Blancos in 1958, however underlined his standing as one of many true greats of his period by scoring 20+ league targets in every of his first six seasons within the Spanish capital.

His common of 0.87 targets per sport is the most effective outdoors of the highest three. Think about if he had joined Madrid a decade earlier!

21. Aritz Aduriz (Athletic Membership, Mallorca, Valencia) – 158 targets in 443 video games (2002-2020)

As regards to thriving in your 30s, we transfer properly on to Aritz Aduriz. The Athletic Membership legend’s 158th and closing LaLiga purpose was a shocking bicycle kick to defeat Barcelona on the opening day of the 2019/20 season, a purpose that has since been was a chunk of artwork.

Aduriz wasn’t actually often known as a prolific goalscorer till he rejoined Athletic in 2012 on the age of 31. His greatest top-flight season tally was simply 12 targets at that time however he bettered that in every of his first 5 seasons again at San Mames, peaking with 36 targets in all competitions through the 2015/16 marketing campaign.

20. Luis Aragones (Actual Oviedo, Actual Betis, Atletico Madrid) – 160 targets in 360 video games (1960-1974)

Higher identified lately for his managerial exploits, mainly as the person who began Spain’s golden era by main La Roja to Euro 2008 glory, the late Luis Aragones was additionally a really high quality participant.

He remained Atleti’s all-time high scorer till very not too long ago and fired in 160 targets in LaLiga throughout his enjoying days, the overwhelming majority of which had been for the Madrid membership who he first joined in 1964 after a profitable three years in Seville with Actual Betis.

19. Samuel Eto’o (Actual Madrid, Mallorca, Barcelona) – 162 targets in 280 video games (1998-2009)

Sitting on 162 targets, lies one other modern-day LaLiga goalscoring nice. Whereas he did briefly characterize Actual Madrid, Espanyol and even Leganes, all of Eto’o’s LaLiga targets got here for Mallorca or Barcelona.

It was in Palma the place he actually made his title with the Cameroonian striker contributing to Mallorca’s shock Copa del Rey win in 2003. He additionally netted 17 league targets in his closing season on the island earlier than shifting to Barcelona the place he racked up over 100 LaLiga targets in simply 5 seasons earlier than becoming a member of Inter Milan in 2009.

18. Iago Aspas (Celta Vigo, Sevilla) – 165 targets in 387 video games (2012-)

So far as native legends go, there are few gamers within the historical past of Spanish soccer who can rival Iago Aspas’ cult hero standing in Galicia. A Celta academy product, Aspas’ first targets for the membership got here on the ultimate day of the 2008/09 Segunda Division season when he scored twice to maintain his facet within the second tier.

He wouldn’t get his first style of high flight soccer till the 2012/13 season and has gone on to attain 165 targets in LaLiga, 163 of which had been for Celta, with the opposite two coming throughout a troublesome mortgage spell at Sevilla.

Aspas might be 38 by the point the 2025/26 season kicks off and he has European soccer to sit up for after Claudio Giraldez’s in any other case youthful facet certified for the Europa League. Whereas not a assured starter, the veteran ahead nonetheless reached double figures for targets final time period, for the tenth time in his LaLiga profession.

17. Luis Suarez (Barcelona, Atletico Madrid) – 179 targets in 258 video games (2014-2022)

One other modern-day nice is Luis Suarez who did the unthinkable and outscored Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to be the high LaLiga goalscorer through the 2015/16 season with 40. The Uruguayan registered 144 targets in 191 video games within the league throughout a superb six-year keep at Camp Nou.

Nevertheless, regardless of his physique beginning to fail him, Suarez was nonetheless successful in Madrid, serving to Atletico win the 2020/21 title and he left the Metropolitano having scored 32 league targets at a fee of almost one each different sport.

The Uruguayan has since moved to Miami to affix up once more with former Barca teammates Leo Messi, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba.

16. Juan Arza (Sevilla) – 182 targets in 349 video games (1943-1959)

Though born in Navarre and initially on the books of Alaves within the Basque Nation, Arza would transfer to Sevilla on the age of 20. A nearly unknown title on the time, he netted a hat-trick on his full debut towards Sabadell and went on to characterize the Andalusian membership for a unprecedented 16 years, enjoying a component in what stays the membership’s solely league title win in 1945/46.

He lastly received the Pichichi for the primary time in 1954/55. To at the present time, no participant has scored extra targets for Sevilla within the high flight.

15. Guillermo Gorostiza (Athletic Membership, Valencia) – 183 targets in 255 video games (1929-1945)

With a mean of 0.72 targets per sport, Gorostiza was some of the prolific forwards through the early years of LaLiga. His tally would have been a lot higher had been it not for the Spanish Civil Warfare which prompted there to be no league for 3 seasons in what would have been the very peak years of Gorostiza’s profession between 1936 and 1939.

His goalscoring exploits helped safe 4 league titles for Athletic and two extra for Valencia – the primary within the membership’s historical past.

13. David Villa (Actual Zaragoza, Valencia, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona) – 186 targets in 352 video games (2003-2014)

Comparatively under-appreciated for a lot of his profession, many now regard David Villa as Spain’s best ever striker. Having initially began out in Asturias with Sporting Gijon, Villa made his top-flight bow with Zaragoza in 2003 and scored 15+ league targets in eight straight seasons till 2011, by which era he was a Barcelona participant, to not point out a world champion.

A short stint at Atletico Madrid adopted, however Villa’s greatest membership years had been at Valencia, peaking within the 2008/09 marketing campaign when he fired in 28 targets in simply 33 league appearances.

13. Santillana (Actual Madrid) – 186 targets in 461 video games (1971-1988)

Having completed as the highest scorer within the Segunda Division with Racing Santander in 1970/71, Carlos Alonso Gonzalez, higher often known as Santillana (the Cantabrian city of his beginning) spent 17 seasons on the Bernabeu carrying the well-known white shirt of Actual Madrid.

Whereas seldom the star of the group, the diminutive ahead was a relentless presence for Los Blancos for almost 20 years, and on the time of his retirement was the membership’s second highest all-time goalscorer. He stays within the high 5 to at the present time.

12. Edmundo Suarez (Valencia, Alcoyano) – 195 targets in 231 video games (1939-1951)

Barakaldo-born Edmundo Suarez is one other nice goalscorer from the early years of LaLiga. His emergence might have taken place at Athletic Membership had it not been for the Spanish Civil Warfare, however it was at Valencia, the place the person often known as Mundo rose to prominence.

He established himself as a legendary determine who scored targets for enjoyable all through the Nineteen Forties for Los Che earlier than spending a solitary top-flight season at close by Alcoyano on the finish of his profession.

11. Antoine Griezmann (Actual Sociedad, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona) – 198 targets in 530 video games (2010-)

The second participant with 150+ targets nonetheless enjoying within the Spanish high flight, Antoine Griezmann is definitely a modern-day LaLiga legend. Griezmann’s breakthrough got here at Actual Sociedad the place he scored 40 instances in LaLiga earlier than incomes a transfer to Atletico Madrid in 2014.

Whereas he went from hero to zero within the eyes of many Atleti followers when he swapped the Estadio Metropolitano for Camp Nou in 2019, Griezmann has performed a very good job of rebuilding bridges since returning to the capital.

Regardless of a robust begin, the 2024/25 season was not his best, with the Frenchman solely including another league purpose following his brace towards Sevilla in early December. He’s nonetheless anticipated to function prominently throughout LaLiga 2025/26 when he ought to cross 200 targets within the Spanish high flight.

10. Pahiño (Celta Vigo, Actual Madrid, Deportivo La Coruña) – 212 targets in 278 video games (1943-1956)

One other striker to emerge within the Nineteen Forties was Pahiño. The Galician received the Pichichi at each Celta Vigo and Actual Madrid earlier than the Vigo native surprisingly joined Celta’s bitter rivals Depor in 1953.

Very similar to Mundo Suarez, his goals-per-game ratio was distinctive and he stays one among simply 10 males to have handed 200 targets in LaLiga.

9. Quini (Sporting Gijon, Barcelona) – 219 targets in 448 video games (1970-1987)

Quini is one among Spain’s best ever strikers together with his numbers all of the extra outstanding given he spent all however 4 years of his top-flight profession enjoying for retro Sporting Gijon. Born up the street in Oviedo, Quini was a agency fixture all through Sporting’s golden years, scoring 23 league targets because the Asturians completed 2nd in LaLiga within the 1978/79 season.

After 4 years at Barcelona, he returned to Gijon in 1984 and completed his profession with 219 top-flight targets to his title and 5 Pichichi trophies. He additionally completed high scorer within the Segunda Division on two events together with his whole profession purpose tally surpassing 300.

8. Cesar Rodriguez (Granada, Barcelona, Cultural Leonesa, Elche) – 221 targets in 353 video games (1941-1960)

Maybe Barcelona’s first actually nice striker, Cesar was the focus of Barça’s assault all through the Nineteen Forties and through the first half of the Fifties. He averaged a goal-per-game or higher in three LaLiga seasons and received 5 league titles with the Catalans.

His profession even had a fairytale conclusion as he dropped all the way down to the third tier to play for Elche in 1957 and helped information the membership to back-to-back promotions. That ensured he would once more play within the high flight as a 39-year-old player-manager within the 1959/60 season, 20 years on from a shocking debut marketing campaign in LaLiga at Granada.

7. Alfredo Di Stefano (Actual Madrid, Espanyol) – 227 targets in 329 video games (1953-1966)

Actual Madrid legend Alfredo Di Stefano shortly soared in direction of the highest of this checklist after arriving in Spain in 1953. Di Stefano received the Pichichi in 5 of his first six seasons in LaLiga, throughout a interval which additionally noticed the Buenos Aires-born ahead choose up a bunch of group trophies as Actual Madrid dominated European soccer and had been topped LaLiga winners a number of instances.

Di Stefano completed his profession with two seasons at Espanyol, retiring simply earlier than his fortieth birthday and is broadly thought of one of many best to have ever performed the gorgeous sport.

6. Raul (Actual Madrid) – 228 targets in 550 video games (1994-2010)

Staying on the Bernabeu and shifting on to the person who handed Di Stefano to briefly grow to be Actual Madrid’s all-time high scorer.

Whereas it took him over 200 extra video games, Raul additionally leapfrogged Di Stefano in LaLiga’s goalscoring charts together with his 228 targets unfold over 16 years, beginning with a Madrid derby-winning purpose when he was simply 17 and ending in 2010 together with his transfer to Schalke the place he loved two profitable seasons.

5. Hugo Sanchez (Atletico Madrid, Actual Madrid, Rayo Vallecano) – 234 targets in 347 video games (1981-1994)

Mexican striker Hugo Sanchez grew to become a Madrid soccer icon, enjoying for 3 golf equipment within the metropolis between 1981 and 1994. His peak years had been at Actual Madrid the place he averaged precisely 30 league targets per season throughout his first 5 campaigns enjoying for Los Blancos having made the controversial cross-city transfer from Atleti.

Sanchez underlined his class by returning to Madrid to play for Rayo Vallecano, scoring 16 targets in a struggling Rayo facet in his closing season in LaLiga.

4. Karim Benzema (Actual Madrid) – 238 targets in 439 video games (2009-2023)

One other participant to blossom in his latter years, Karim Benzema spent a lot of his Actual Madrid profession enjoying second fiddle to Cristiano Ronaldo within the goalscoring stakes. Nevertheless, the Frenchman thrived following the departure of the Portuguese ahead with a 27-goal haul in LaLiga 2021/22, his greatest single season tally in Spain.

Benzema was the Ballon D’or holder and nonetheless very a lot on the peak of his powers when he opted to name time on his 14-year keep in Madrid and transfer to Al-Ittihad in 2023.

3. Telmo Zarra (Athletic Membership) – 251 targets in 277 video games (1940-1955)

For over 50 years, Telmo Zarra stood alone because the all-time LaLiga file goalscorer. He spent his total top-flight profession enjoying for Athletic, scoring 251 targets unfold throughout 15 seasons, profitable the Pichichi Trophy six instances.

On high of his league haul, Zarra additionally scored a outstanding 81 Copa del Rey targets, a feat which stays unbeaten to at the present time to finish his profession as Athletic’s all-time high scorer and an all-time Basque and Spanish soccer legend.

2. Cristiano Ronaldo (Actual Madrid) – 311 targets in 292 video games (2009-2018)

Cristiano Ronaldo is the one participant to function on this countdown who averaged greater than a purpose per sport in LaLiga, scoring a unprecedented 311 instances within the Spanish flight within the area of simply 9 seasons in Madrid.

He spent most of his Actual Madrid profession on the wing earlier than that includes extra closely in a central function throughout his latter years on the Bernabeu. His greatest tally was the 48 league targets he managed through the 2014/15 season with the Portuguese netting 40+ targets in all competitions in all however his very first season in Spain.

Even seven years on from his exit, and with Ronaldo now 40, he’s nonetheless scoring targets for membership and nation, with the 2026 World Cup clearly in his sights.

1. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) – 474 targets in 520 video games (2004-2021)

LaLiga’s all-time file goalscorer is Lionel Messi with 474 targets. Messi’s first purpose in LaLiga got here in Could 2005 towards Albacete and he has gone on to completely eclipse the achievements of all of the greats of Spanish soccer previous. Had been it not for Barcelona’s monetary issues which led to his 2021 transfer to PSG, he would have comfortably handed 500 targets.

Only one extra season, might even have seen Messi attain the 502-goal mark which might have truly seen him double the LaLiga purpose tally of Third-placed Telmo Zarra, who held the file for half a century.

This checklist actually does spotlight simply how blessed Spanish soccer followers had been to have the ability to watch Ronaldo and Messi on the peak of their powers within the 2010s, with each comfortably eclipsing the goalscoring tallies of all of the greats that got here earlier than them. Whereas data are supposedly there to be damaged, we suspect this one may final fairly some time!