BPL Top scorers

Players in the Premier League can compete for the informal competitions of Goal of the Month and Goal of the Season. Other titles players compete for include the top-scorer for a season. Former Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United striker Alan Shearer holds the record for most Premier League goals with 260. Shearer finished among the top ten goal scorers in 10 out of his 14 seasons in the Premier League and won the top scorer title three times. During the 1995–96 season he became the first player to score 100 Premier League goals. Since then, 14 other players have reached the mark, with Nicolas Anelka being the most recent when he scored against his former side Bolton Wanderers in December 2008.
Since the first Premier League season in 1992–93, 13 different players have won or shared the top scorers title. Thierry Henry won his third consecutive and fourth overall scoring title by scoring 27 goals in the 2005–06 season. This surpassed Shearer's mark of three titles which he won consecutively from 1994–95 through 1996–97. Other multiple winners include Michael Owen and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink who have won two titles each. Andrew Cole and Alan Shearer hold the record for most goals in a season (34) – for Newcastle and Blackburn respectively. Cole's record came in the 1993–94 season, while Shearer's came in 1994–95, both of which were 42-game seasons. Shearer's mark of 31 goals from a 38-game season in 1995–96 was equalled in the 2007–08 season by Cristiano Ronaldo, a mark which surpassed the record of most goals by a midfielder in a season.
Manchester United became the first team to have scored 1,000 goals in this league after Cristiano Ronaldo scored, in a 4–1 defeat by Middlesbrough, in the 2005–06 season, having been the first team to have conceded a Premier League goal following the League's inception. Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool are the only other teams to have reached the 1,000-goal mark The highest-scoring match to date in the Premier League occurred on 29 September 2007 when Portsmouth defeated Reading 7–4.
Only Ryan Giggs of Manchester United has scored in all 17 of the completed Premier League seasons.

Ranks of Top Score's Are As Follows


1: Alan Shearer ( 260 Goals )
2: Andrew Cole ( 187 Goals )
3: Thierry Henry ( 174 Goals )
4: Robbie Fowler ( 163 Goals )
5: Les Ferdinand ( 149 Goals )
6: Teddy Sheringham ( 147 Goals )
7: Michael Owen ( 146 Goals )
8: Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank ( 127 Goals )
9: Dwight York ( 123 Goals )
10: Robbie Keane ( 116 Goals )