Premier League 2020-2021
Rank
Name
Club
Goals
Penalties Scored
Assists
Apps
Goals / 90
Mins / Goal
Shots
On Target %
Conversion Rate
1
Harry Kane
23
4
14
35
0.67
134
110
48.20
0.21
2
Mohamed Salah Ghaly
22
6
5
37
0.64
140
90
57.80
0.24
3
Bruno Miguel Borges Fernandes
18
9
12
37
0.52
172
84
60.70
0.21
4
Heung-Min Son
17
1
10
37
0.49
183
53
67.90
0.32
4
Patrick Bamford
17
2
7
38
0.50
180
90
52.20
0.19
6
Dominic Calvert-Lewin
16
0
0
33
0.50
179
72
63.90
0.22
7
Jamie Vardy
15
8
9
34
0.47
189
67
56.70
0.22
8
Ollie Watkins
14
1
5
37
0.38
237
72
63.90
0.19
9
İlkay Gündoğan
13
1
2
28
0.58
156
43
51.20
0.30
9
Alexandre Lacazette
13
3
2
31
0.61
148
40
72.50
0.33
11
Kelechi Promise Ịheanachọ
12
0
2
25
0.74
121
39
64.10
0.31
11
Daniel William John Ings
12
2
4
29
0.49
181
45
60.00
0.27
11
Christopher Grant Wood
12
2
3
33
0.39
229
56
69.60
0.21
11
Callum Wilson
12
4
5
26
0.52
173
40
50.00
0.30
15
Marcus Rashford
11
0
9
37
0.34
266
58
63.80
0.19
15
Sadio Mané
11
0
7
35
0.35
255
71
50.70
0.15
15
Gareth Frank Bale
11
0
2
20
1.07
83
32
59.40
0.34
15
Wilfried Zaha
11
2
2
30
0.38
237
37
54.10
0.30
15
Matheus Fellipe Costa Pereira
11
4
6
33
0.38
234
51
54.90
0.22
20
Raheem Sterling
10
0
7
31
0.35
253
49
57.10
0.20
In the strangest of club seasons, the race to be the English Premier League’s top marksman has been a competition between trusted standbys — Harry Kane and Mohamed Salah have both finished top of the chart before — and emerging stars hungry to take the throne, like Bruno Fernandes and Dominic Calvert-Lewin. England’s top division is unmatched in its quality and global reach and the Premier League top scorers 2020-21 list justifies the hype.
There are few scoring titles as prestigious as the Premier League Golden Boot, given to the EPL top scorer each season. Some of soccer’s most legendary forwards have won it, including Thierry Henry, Alan Shearer, Cristiano Ronaldo, Didier Drogba, Luis Suárez, Robin van Persie, Michael Owen and Ruud van Nistelrooy.
Back when the EPL had 22 clubs and a 42-game season, both Newcastle’s Andy Cole and Shearer, then playing for Blackburn, landed a record single-season haul of 34 goals. But since the league adopted the 38-game schedule it still utilizes now, the single season Premier League goal record has been held by Salah after “The Pharaoh” hit 32 goals for Liverpool during the 2017-2018 campaign.
While no one is reaching that mark this year, it’s still an intriguing race as victory for either Kane or Salah would mean a third Golden Boot for both, matching the legendary Shearer’s total with only Henry earning more (4) in his illustrious career. Shearer, of course, is the all-time leading scorer in EPL history with 260 goals.
Only Wayne Rooney has also surpassed the 200-goal milestone in the Premier League, but the Manchester United legend actually never claimed the Golden Boot in his career despite twice scoring over 25 goals in a season. It just goes to show how difficult of an achievement it is.
Another famous player who never won it — for an entirely understandable reason — is Chelsea’s Frank Lampard, who is the greatest goal-scoring midfielder in the division’s history. There’s been an emergence of goal-scoring midfielders in the vein of Lampard this season with Fernandes, İlkay Gündoğan, Harvey Barnes and Tomáš Souček all demonstrating that it pays to be brave in one of the world’s most attack-minded leagues.
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