La Liga’s All Time Prime Goalscorers

We’ll run down the checklist of LaLiga all time prime scorers that includes a number of the greatest forwards and most prolific goalscorers within the practically 100-year historical past of the Spanish prime flight. Figures had been absolutely up to date in August 2024 earlier than kick-off within the 2024/25 season.

Solely gamers to have scored 150 or extra league objectives are included. Of these, solely two are presently lively in LaLiga – Antoine Griezmann and Iago Aspas.

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LaLiga all time prime 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 gained back-to-back league titles in 1949/50 and 1950/51. Regardless of his goalscoring exploits, he solely gained three caps for Spain and retired at simply 30, denying him the possibility to maneuver additional up the checklist of LaLiga’s all time prime goalscorers.

23. 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 prime 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 objectives 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 occasions for Sporting Gijon within the 1995/96 marketing campaign.

22. Iago Aspas (Celta Vigo, Sevilla) – 155 Targets in 357 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 objectives 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 prime flight soccer till the 2012/13 season and has gone on to attain 155 objectives in LaLiga, 153 of which had been for Celta with the opposite two coming throughout a troublesome mortgage spell at Sevilla. Aspas has been the catalyst for a lot of extra nice escapes and remains to be going sturdy at 37, netting 9 occasions throughout LaLiga 2023/24.

21. Ferenc Puskas (Actual Madrid) – 156 Targets in 180 Video games (1958-1966)

No participant within the prime 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 objectives in every of his first six seasons within the Spanish capital.

His common of 0.87 objectives per recreation is one of the best exterior 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)

With reference to thriving in your thirties, we transfer properly on to Aritz Aduriz. The Athletic Membership legend’s 158th and remaining LaLiga aim was a surprising bicycle kick to defeat Barcelona on the opening day of the 2019-20 season, a aim that has since been was a chunk of artwork.

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

19. Luis Aragones (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 era by main La Roja to Euro 2008 glory, the late Luis Aragones was additionally a really advantageous participant.

He remained Atleti’s all-time prime scorer till very lately and fired in 160 objectives 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.

18. Samuel Eto’o (Actual Madrid, Mallorca, Barcelona) – 162 Targets in 280 Video games (1998-2009)

Sitting on 162 objectives, lies one other modern-day LaLiga goalscoring nice. Whereas he did briefly signify Actual Madrid, Espanyol and even Leganes, all of Eto’o’s LaLiga objectives 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 objectives in his remaining season on the island earlier than shifting to Barcelona the place he racked up over 100 LaLiga objectives in simply 5 seasons earlier than becoming a member of Inter Milan in 2009.

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 prime LaLiga goalscorer through the 2015/16 season with 40. The Uruguayan registered 144 objectives in 191 video games within the league throughout a wonderful six 12 months keep at Camp Nou.

Nonetheless regardless of his physique beginning to fail him, Suarez was nonetheless a success in Madrid, serving to Atletico win the 2020/21 title and he left the Metropolitano having scored 32 league objectives at a price of practically one each different recreation.

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 just about unknown title on the time, he netted a hat-trick on his full debut towards Sabadell and went on to signify the Andalusian membership for a rare 16 years, enjoying a component 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 objectives for Sevilla within the prime flight.

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

With a median of 0.72 objectives per recreation, Gorostiza was some of the prolific forwards through the early years of LaLiga. His tally would have been a lot better had been it not for the Spanish Civil Struggle which precipitated 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 biggest ever striker. Having initially began out in Asturias with Sporting Gijon, Villa made his prime flight bow with Zaragoza in 2003 and scored 15 or extra league objectives 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 objectives 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 called 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 crew, the diminutive ahead was a continuing presence for Los Blancos for practically twenty years and on the time of his retirement, was the membership’s second highest all-time goalscorer and stays within the prime 5 to this present day.

12. Antoine Griezmann (Actual Sociedad, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona) – 190 Targets in 492 Video games (2010-)

The second participant with 150 or extra objectives nonetheless enjoying within the Spanish prime flight, Antoine Griezmann is definitely a modern-day LaLiga legend. Griezmann’s breakthrough got here at Actual Sociedad the place he scored 40 occasions 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 achieved job of rebuilding bridges since returning to the capital. He fired in 16 objectives through the 2023/24 season and is more likely to grow to be solely the eleventh participant to go 200 Spanish prime flight objectives in LaLiga 2024/25.

11. 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 Struggle, however it was at Valencia, the place the person often called Mundo rose to prominence.

He established himself as a legendary determine who scored objectives for enjoyable all through the 1940’s for Los Che earlier than spending a solitary prime 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 like Mundo Suarez, his objectives per recreation ratio was distinctive and he stays one in all simply 10 males to have handed 200 objectives in LaLiga.

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

Quini is one in all Spain’s biggest ever strikers along with his numbers all of the extra outstanding given he spent all however 4 years of his prime 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 objectives 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 prime flight objectives to his title and 5 Pichichi trophies. He additionally completed prime scorer within the Segunda Division on two events along with his whole profession aim 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 point of interest of Barça’s assault all through the 1940’s and through the first half of the 1950’s. He averaged a goal-per-game or higher in three LaLiga seasons and gained 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 prime flight as a 39 12 months previous player-manager within the 1959/60 season, twenty years on from a surprising debut season in LaLiga at Granada.

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

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

Di Stefano completed his profession with two seasons at Espanyol, retiring simply earlier than his fortieth birthday and is extensively thought of one of many biggest to have ever performed the attractive recreation.

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 prime scorer. Whereas it took him over 200 extra video games, Raul additionally leapfrogged Di Stefano in LaLiga’s goalscoring charts along with his 228 objectives unfold over 16 years, beginning with a Madrid derby successful aim when he was simply 17 and ending in 2010 along 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 turned 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 objectives 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 objectives in a struggling Rayo facet in his remaining 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. Nonetheless, the Frenchman highlighted his class following the departure of the Portuguese ahead with a 27 aim 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 12 months 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 whole prime flight profession enjoying for Athletic, scoring 251 objectives unfold throughout 15 seasons, successful the Pichichi Trophy six occasions.

On prime of his league haul, Zarra additionally scored a outstanding 81 Copa del Rey objectives, a feat which stays unbeaten to this present day to finish his profession as Athletic’s all-time prime 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 aim per recreation in LaLiga, scoring a rare 311 occasions 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 objectives he managed through the 2014/15 season with the Portuguese netting 40+ objectives in all competitions in all however his very first season in Spain.

1. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) – 474 Targets in 520 Video games (2004-2021)

LaLiga’s all-time file goalscorer is Lionel Messi with 474 objectives. Messi’s first aim in LaLiga got here in Might 2005 towards 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 objectives.

Only one extra season, might even have seen Messi attain the 502 aim mark which might have really seen him double the LaLiga aim tally of third positioned Telmo Zarra, who held the file for half a century. Whereas information are supposedly there to be damaged, we suspect this one may final fairly some time!