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Hakan Şükür was the first winner of the award in 1997.

The IFFHS World's Best Top Division Goal Scorer is a football award given annually to the player who scores the most goals in a league season (in a calendar year since 2020) in any of the top 60 leagues in the world (as ranked by IFFHS for that given year). The award is given by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS).[1]

Lionel Messi holds the record for most wins (4). Mário Jardel, Luis Suárez, and Cristiano Ronaldo are the three other players to have won the award more than once, all of them managing to win the award in successive seasons. José Cardozo holds the record for most goals in a season (58 in 2003).

Plus, the IFFHS has awarded the World's Best National Goal Scorer of the Decade in 2021, considering the years 2011–2020.[2]

List of winners

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Year Winner(s) Club(s) Goals Second place Club(s) Goals Third place Club(s) Goals
Season goals
1997 Turkey Hakan Şükür[3] Turkey Galatasaray 38 Brazil Ronaldo Spain Barcelona 34 Romania Sabin Ilie Romania FCSB 31
1998 Ecuador Iván Kaviedes[4] Ecuador Emelec 43 Japan Masashi Nakayama
Colombia Víctor Bonilla
Japan Júbilo Iwata
Colombia Deportivo Cali
37
1999 Brazil Mário Jardel[5] Portugal Porto 36 Chile Mario Núñez Chile O’Higgins 34 Paraguay José Cardozo Mexico Toluca 33
2000 Brazil Mário Jardel[6] Portugal Porto 38 Brazil Eduardo Esidio Peru Universitario 37 Saudi Arabia Hamzah Idris
Uruguay Javier Chevantón
Saudi Arabia Al-Ittihad
Uruguay Danubio
33
2001 Bolivia José Alfredo Castillo[7] Bolivia Oriente Petrolero 42 Mexico Jared Borgetti Mexico Santos Laguna 41 Sweden Henrik Larsson Scotland Celtic 35
2002 Bolivia Joaquín Botero[8] Bolivia Club Bolívar 49 Bolivia José Alfredo Castillo Bolivia Oriente Petrolero 46 Brazil Mário Jardel Portugal Sporting CP 42
2003 Paraguay José Cardozo[9] Mexico Toluca 58 Uruguay Claudio Ciccia Costa Rica Cartaginés 39 Serbia and Montenegro Mateja Kežman Netherlands PSV Eindhoven 35
2004 Chile Patricio Galaz[10] Chile Cobreloa 42 Uruguay Gabriel García Peru Melgar 36 Brazil Washington Brazil Athletico Paranaense 34
2005 Brazil Araújo[11] Japan Gamba Osaka 33 Turkey Fatih Tekke Turkey Trabzonspor 31 Netherlands Dirk Kuyt Netherlands Feyenoord 29
2006 Netherlands Klaas-Jan Huntelaar[12] Netherlands Ajax 35 Chile Humberto Suazo
Paraguay Cristino Jara
Chile Colo-Colo
Bolivia Real Potosí
34
2007 Netherlands Afonso Alves[13] Netherlands Heerenveen 34 Croatia Eduardo da Silva Croatia Dinamo Zagreb 34 Russia Dmitry Lipartov Estonia Narva Trans 30
2008 Argentina Lucas Barrios[14] Chile Colo-Colo 37 Netherlands Klaas-Jan Huntelaar Netherlands Ajax 33 Uruguay Miguel Ximénez Peru Sporting Cristal 32
2009 Austria Marc Janko[15] Austria Red Bull Salzburg 39
2010 Uruguay Luis Suárez[16] Netherlands Ajax 35 Argentina Lionel Messi Spain Barcelona 34 Ivory Coast Seydou Doumbia Switzerland Young Boys 30
2011 Latvia Aleksandrs Čekulajevs[17] Estonia Narva Trans 46 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo Spain Real Madrid 40 Argentina Lionel Messi Spain Barcelona 31
2012 Argentina Lionel Messi[18] Spain Barcelona 50 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo Spain Real Madrid 46 Netherlands Bas Dost Netherlands Heerenveen 31
2013 Argentina Lionel Messi[19] Spain Barcelona 46 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo Spain Real Madrid 34 Ivory Coast Wilfried Bony
Bolivia Carlos Saucedo
Netherlands Vitesse
Bolivia San José
31
2014 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo[20]
Uruguay Luis Suárez
Spain Real Madrid
England Liverpool
31 Iceland Alfreð Finnbogason Netherlands Heerenveen
Spain Real Sociedad
29
2015 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo[21] Spain Real Madrid 48 Argentina Lionel Messi Spain Barcelona 43 France Alexandre Lacazette France Lyon 27
2016 Uruguay Luis Suárez[22] Spain Barcelona 40 Sweden Zlatan Ibrahimović France Paris Saint-Germain 38 Argentina Gonzalo Higuaín Italy Napoli 36
2017 Argentina Lionel Messi[23] Spain Barcelona 37 Uruguay Edinson Cavani France Paris Saint-Germain 35 Netherlands Bas Dost Portugal Sporting CP 34
2018 Argentina Lionel Messi
Brazil Jonas
Spain Barcelona
Portugal Benfica
34
2019 Algeria Baghdad Bounedjah[24] Qatar Al Sadd 39 Argentina Lionel Messi Spain Barcelona 36 Morocco Abderrazak Hamdallah Saudi Arabia Al-Nassr 34
Calendar year goals
2020 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo[25] Italy Juventus 33[note 1] Poland Robert Lewandowski Germany Bayern Munich 32 Cuba Marcel Hernández Costa Rica Cartaginés 30

Notes:

  1. ^ While Ronaldo finished the 2019–20 season of Serie A with 31 goals, five less than top scorer Ciro Immobile from Lazio, the results were counted from 1 January to 31 December 2020.

Statistics

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Multiple winners

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Player Wins Years
Argentina Lionel Messi 4 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018 (shared)
Uruguay Luis Suárez 3 2010, 2014 (shared), 2016
Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo 2014 (shared), 2015, 2020
Brazil Mário Jardel 2 1999, 2000

Most goals in a year

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Rank Player Year Goals
1 Paraguay José Cardozo 2003 58
2 Argentina Lionel Messi 2012 50
3 Bolivia Joaquín Botero 2002 49
4 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo 2015 48
5 Bolivia José Alfredo Castillo 2002 46
Latvia Aleksandrs Čekulajevs 2011
Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo 2012
Argentina Lionel Messi 2013
9 Ecuador Iván Kaviedes 1998 43
Argentina Lionel Messi 2015

Winners by club

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Club(s) Total Players
Spain Barcelona 4 1
Netherlands Ajax 2 2
Portugal Porto 2 1
Spain Real Madrid 2 1
Qatar Al Sadd 1 1
Portugal Benfica 1 1
Bolivia Club Bolívar 1 1
Chile Cobreloa 1 1
Chile Colo-Colo 1 1
Ecuador Emelec 1 1
Turkey Galatasaray 1 1
Japan Gamba Osaka 1 1
Netherlands Heerenveen 1 1
Italy Juventus 1 1
England Liverpool 1 1
Estonia Narva Trans 1 1
Bolivia Oriente Petrolero 1 1
Austria Red Bull Salzburg 1 1
Mexico Toluca 1 1

Winners by nationality

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Nationality Total Players
Argentina Argentina 5 2
Brazil Brazil 4 3
Portugal Portugal 3 1
Uruguay Uruguay 3 1
Bolivia Bolivia 2 2
Netherlands Netherlands 2 2
Algeria Algeria 1 1
Austria Austria 1 1
Chile Chile 1 1
Ecuador Ecuador 1 1
Latvia Latvia 1 1
Paraguay Paraguay 1 1
Turkey Turkey 1 1

The World's Best National Goal Scorer of the Decade (2011–2020)

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Players with at least 150 goals[2]
Rank Player Clubs Goals
1 Argentina Lionel Messi Spain Barcelona 346
2 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo Spain Real Madrid
Italy Juventus
332
3 Poland Robert Lewandowski Germany Borussia Dortmund
Germany Bayern Munich
248
4 Sweden Zlatan Ibrahimović Italy Milan
France Paris Saint-Germain
England Manchester United
United States LA Galaxy
236
5 Uruguay Luis Suárez England Liverpool
Spain Barcelona
Spain Atlético Madrid
224
6 Israel Eran Zahavi Israel Hapoel Tel Aviv
Italy Palermo
Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv
China Guangzhou R&F
Netherlands PSV Eindhoven
213
7 Uruguay Edinson Cavani Italy Napoli
France Paris Saint-Germain
England Manchester United
209
8 Bolivia Carlos Saucedo Bolivia San José
Costa Rica Saprissa
Bolivia Oriente Petrolero
Bolivia Blooming
Bolivia Real Potosí
Bolivia Guabirá
Bolivia Royal Pari
195
9 United Arab Emirates Sebastián Tagliabúe Saudi Arabia Ettifaq
Saudi Arabia Al-Shabab
United Arab Emirates Al-Wahda
United Arab Emirates Al-Nasr
193
10 Argentina Sergio Agüero Spain Atlético Madrid
England Manchester City
193
11 Gabon Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang France Saint-Étienne
Germany Borussia Dortmund
England Arsenal
192
12 Faroe Islands Klæmint Olsen Faroe Islands NSÍ Runavík 190
13 Turkey Burak Yılmaz Turkey Trabzonspor
Turkey Galatasaray
China Beijing Sinobo Guoan
Turkey Beşiktaş
France Lille
186
14 France André-Pierre Gignac France Marseille
Mexico UANL
183
15 Brazil Neymar Brazil Santos
Spain Barcelona
France Paris Saint-Germain
181
16 Hungary Nemanja Nikolić Hungary Videoton
Poland Legia Warsaw
United States Chicago Fire
Hungary Fehérvár
177
17 Morocco Abderrazak Hamdallah Morocco Olympic Safi
Norway Aalesund
China Guangzhou R&F
Qatar El Jaish
Qatar Al-Rayyan SC
Saudi Arabia Al-Nassr
173
18 Argentina Gonzalo Higuaín Spain Real Madrid
Italy Napoli
Italy Juventus
Italy Milan
England Chelsea
United States Inter Miami
172
19 Syria Omar Al Somah Syria Al Futowa
Kuwait Al Qadsia
Saudi Arabia Al Ahli
169
20 France Karim Benzema Spain Real Madrid 168
21 Morocco Youssef El-Arabi France Caen
Saudi Arabia Al Hilal
Spain Granada
Qatar Al-Duhail
Greece Olympiacos
168
22 Mexico Carlos Kamiani Félix Guatemala Universidad SC
Guatemala Municipal
Guatemala Xelajú
Guatemala Iztapa
165
23 France Bafetimbi Gomis France Lyon
England Swansea City
France Marseille
Turkey Galatasaray
Saudi Arabia Al Hilal
163
24 New Zealand Greg Draper Wales The New Saints 163
25 Netherlands Bas Dost Netherlands Heerenveen
Germany VfL Wolfsburg
Portugal Sporting CP
Germany Eintracht Frankfurt
162
26 Montenegro Dejan Damjanović South Korea FC Seoul
China Jiangsu Suning
China Beijing Sinobo Guoan
South Korea Suwon Samsung Bluewings
South Korea Daegu FC
162
27 Maldives Ali Ashfaq Maldives VB Sports Club
Maldives New Radiant
Malaysia PDRM FA
Maldives Maziya S&RC
Maldives TC Sports Club
Maldives Club Green Streets
Maldives Club Valencia
161
28 Argentina Germán Cano Colombia Deportivo Pereira

Paraguay Club Nacional
Colombia Independiente Medellín
Mexico Pachuca
Mexico León
Brazil Vasco da Gama

160
29 Bolivia Pablo Escobar Bolivia The Strongest 159
30 Northern Ireland Andrew Waterworth Northern Ireland Glentoran
Northern Ireland Linfield
158
31 Belgium Romelu Lukaku Belgium Anderlecht
England West Bromwich Albion
England Everton
England Manchester United
Italy Inter Milan
155
32 Chile Esteban Paredes Chile Colo-Colo
Mexico Atlante
Mexico Querétaro
154
33 Mexico Agustín Herrera Guatemala Coatepeque
Guatemala Comunicaciones
Guatemala Antigua
154
34 England Chris Venables Wales Llanelli Town AFC
Wales Aberystwyth Town
Wales Bala Town
153
35 England Harry Kane England Tottenham Hotspur 152
36 Northern Ireland Joe Gormley Northern Ireland Cliftonville 152

See also

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References

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