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We’ll run down the record of La Liga all time high scorers that includes a number of the finest forwards and most prolific goalscorers within the almost 100 yr historical past of the Spanish high flight. Figures are correct as of tenth October 2023 and just one member of the record (Antoine Griezmann) continues to be lively and enjoying in Spain. Solely gamers to have scored 150+ league targets are included.
La Liga all time high scorers
23. Adrián 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 aspect that gained back-to-back league titles in 1949-50 and 1950-51. Regardless of his goalscoring exploits, he solely gained 3 caps for Spain and retired at simply 30, denying him the possibility to maneuver additional up the record of La Liga’s all time high goalscorers.
22. Julio Salinas (Athletic Membership, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Deportivo, 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 1980’s.
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, along with his 1988 transfer from Atletico Madrid to Barcelona being the defining second in his profession in lots of respects. Nonetheless 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.
21. Ferenc Puskás (Actual Madrid) – 156 Targets in 180 Video games (1958-1966)
No participant within the high 30 all-time La Liga goalscorers has appeared in fewer video games than Actual Madrid legend Ferenc Puskás. 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 recreation is the perfect outdoors of the highest three. Think about if he had joined Madrid a decade earlier!
20. Aritz Aduriz (Athletic Membership, Mallorca, Valencia) – 158 Targets in 443 Video games (2002-2020)
As regards to thriving in your thirties, we transfer properly on to Aritz Aduriz. The Athletic Membership legend’s 158th and closing La Liga objective was a surprising bicycle kick to defeat Barcelona on the opening day of the 2019-20 season, a objective that has since been become 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 finest high 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 throughout the 2015-16 marketing campaign.
19. Luis Aragonés (Actual Oviedo, Actual Betis, Atletico Madrid) – 160 Targets in 360 Video games (1960-1974)
Higher identified nowadays for his managerial exploits, mainly as the person who began Spain’s golden technology by main La Roja to Euro 2008 glory, Luis Aragonés 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 La Liga throughout his enjoying days, the overwhelming majority of which have been for the Madrid membership who he first joined in 1964 after a profitable three years in Seville with Actual Betis.
18. Samuel Eto’o (Actual Madrid, Mallorca, Barcelona) – 162 Targets in 280 Video games (1998-2009)
Sitting on 162 targets, lies one other modern-day La Liga goalscoring nice. Whereas he did briefly signify Actual Madrid, Espanyol and even Leganes, all of Eto’o’s La Liga targets got here for Mallorca or Barcelona.
It was in Palma the place he actually made his identify with the Cameroonian striker contributing to Mallorca’s shock Copa del Rey win in 2003 and netting 17 league targets in his closing season on the island earlier than shifting to Barcelona the place he racked up over 100 La Liga targets in simply 5 seasons earlier than becoming a member of Inter Milan in 2009.
17. Antoine Griezmann (Actual Sociedad, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona) – 178 Targets in 467 Video games (2010-)
As the one participant on this rundown of the highest La Liga goalscorers of all time that’s nonetheless lively within the league, Antoine Griezmann will inevitably climb greater up this record. He’s solely 32 and was arguably the perfect participant in Spain, definitely throughout the latter half of the 2022/23 season which suggests the Frenchman has loads of fuel left within the tank.
Griezmann’s breakthrough got here at Actual Sociedad the place he scored 40 instances within the Spanish high flight and regardless of a forgettable spell in Barcelona, he’ll go down as a La Liga nice, largely because of his efforts for Atletico Madrid.
16. 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 La Liga goalscorer throughout the 2015/16 season with 40. The Uruguayan registered 144 targets in 191 video games within the league throughout a wonderful six yr keep at Camp Nou.
Nonetheless 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 recreation.
15. 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 just about unknown identify on the time, he netted a hat-trick on his full debut in opposition to Sabadell and went on to signify the Andalusian membership for a unprecedented 16 years, enjoying an element in what stays the membership’s solely league title win in 1945-46.
He lastly gained the Pichichi for the primary time in 1954-55. To this present day, no participant has scored extra targets for Sevilla within the high flight.
14. Guillermo Gorostiza (Athletic Membership, Valencia) – 183 Targets in 255 Video games (1929-1945)
With a median of 0.72 targets per recreation, Gorostiza was probably the most prolific forwards throughout the early years of La Liga. His tally would have been a lot better have been it not for the Spanish Civil Battle which brought on 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.
12. 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 biggest ever striker. Having initially began out in Asturias with Sporting Gijon, Villa made his high flight bow with Zaragoza in 2003 and scored 15 or extra league targets in eight straight seasons till 2011, by which period he was a Barcelona participant, to not point out a world champion.
A short stint at Atletico Madrid adopted however Villa’s finest membership years have been at Valencia, peaking within the 2008-09 season the place he fired in 28 targets in simply 33 league appearances.
12. 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 González, higher often known as Santillana (the Cantabrian city of his beginning) spent 17 seasons on the Bernabeu sporting the well-known white shirt of Actual Madrid.
Whereas seldom the star of the workforce, the diminutive ahead was a continuing presence for Los Blancos for almost twenty years and on the time of his retirement, was the membership’s 2nd highest all-time goalscorer and stays within the high 5 to this present day.
11. Edmundo Suárez (Valencia, Alcoyano) – 195 Targets in 231 Video games (1939-1951)
Barakaldo-born Edmundo Suárez is one other nice goalscorer from the early years of La Liga. His emergence could have taken place at Athletic Membership had it not been for the Spanish Civil Battle however it was at Valencia, the place the person often known as Mundo rose to prominence and established himself as a legendary determine who scored targets for enjoyable all through the 1940’s for Los Che earlier than spending a solitary high flight season at close by Alcoyano on the finish of his profession.
10. Pahiño (Celta Vigo, Actual Madrid, Deportivo) – 212 Targets in 278 Video games (1943-1956)
One other striker to emerge within the 1940’s was Pahiño. The Galician gained 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 Suárez, his targets per recreation ratio was distinctive and he stays considered one of simply ten males to have handed 200 targets in La Liga.
9. Quini (Sporting Gijon, Barcelona) – 219 Targets in 448 Video games (1970-1987)
Quini is considered one of Spain’s biggest ever strikers along with his numbers all of the extra outstanding given he spent all however 4 years of his high 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 La Liga within the 1978-79 season.
After 4 years at Barcelona, he returned to Gijon in 1984 and completed his profession with 219 high flight targets to his identify and 5 Pichichi trophies. He additionally completed high scorer within the Segunda Division on two events along with his complete profession objective tally surpassing 300.
8. César Rodríguez (Granada, Barcelona, Cultural Leonesa, Elche) – 221 Targets in 353 Video games (1941-1960)
Maybe Barcelona’s first really nice striker, César was the focus of Barça’s assault all through the 1940’s and throughout the first half of the 1950’s. He averaged a goal-per-game or higher in three La Liga seasons and gained 5 league titles with the Catalans.
His profession even had a fairytale conclusion as he dropped right down to the third tier to play for Elche in 1957 and helped information the membership to back-to-back promotions making certain he would once more play within the high flight as a 39 yr outdated player-manager within the 1959-60 season, twenty years on from a surprising debut season in La Liga at Granada.
7. Alfredo Di Stéfano (Actual Madrid, Espanyol) – 227 Targets in 329 Video games (1953-1966)
Actual Madrid legend Alfredo Di Stéfano rapidly soared in the direction of the highest of this record after arriving in Spain in 1953.
Di Stéfano gained the Pichichi in 5 of his first 6 seasons in La Liga, throughout a interval which additionally noticed the Buenos Aires born ahead choose up a bunch of workforce trophies as Actual Madrid dominated European soccer and have been topped La Liga winners a number of instances. Di Stéfano completed his profession with two seasons at Espanyol, retiring simply earlier than his fortieth birthday.
6. Raúl (Actual Madrid) – 228 Targets in 550 Video games (1994-2010)
Staying on the Bernabeu and shifting on to the person who handed Di Stéfano to briefly turn out to be Actual Madrid’s all-time high scorer. Whereas it took him over 200 extra video games, Raúl additionally leapfrogged Di Stéfano in La Liga’s goalscoring charts along with his 228 targets unfold over 16 years beginning with a Madrid derby profitable objective when he was simply 17 and ending in 2010 along with his transfer to Schalke the place he loved two profitable seasons.
5. Hugo Sánchez (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 have 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 aspect in his closing season in La Liga.
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. Nonetheless the Frenchman highlighted his class following the departure of the Portuguese ahead with a 27 objective haul in La Liga 2021/22 his finest 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 yr 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 La Liga report goalscorer. He spent his complete high 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 this present day 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 objective per recreation in La Liga, 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 finest tally was the 48 league targets he managed throughout the 2014-15 season with the Portuguese netting 40+ targets in all competitions in all however his very first season in Spain.
1. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) – 474 Targets in 520 Video games (2004-2021)
La Liga’s all-time report goalscorer is Lionel Messi with 474 targets. Messi’s first objective in La Liga got here in Might 2005 in opposition to Albacete and he has gone on to completely eclipse the achievements of all of the greats of Spanish soccer previous. Have 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, could even have seen Messi attain the 502 objective mark which might have truly seen him double the La Liga objective tally of third positioned Telmo Zarra, who held the report for half a century. Whereas data are supposedly there to be damaged, we suspect this one would possibly final fairly some time!
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