Top 10 Most Successful Scorers

Internation Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) recently published list of “The World’s most successful Top Division Goal Scorer among the still active Players“.

At the top we can see Guatemalian footballer Juan Carlos Plata who played 496 matches and scored 281 goal. He is ahead of second place by 12 goals, so Welsh player Marc Lloyd Williams with 383 matches and 269 goals will have to work more to get to top position. Third position is only one goal below (268), but Glenn Ferguson played 520 matches, so his average rating is smaller.

Estonian soccer player Maksim Gruznov with 266 goals in 351 match takes 4th place, while Shota Arveladze from Georgia is at 5th position with 263 goals and 426 matches. 261 goal was scored by Hakan ?ükür from Galatasaray SK ?stanbul in 517 matches and it guaranteed 6th place for him.

Top 10 list ends with Damian Mori from Australia with 259 goals in 493 matches, Víctor Hugo Aristizábal from Colombia with 248 goals in 487 matches, Henrik Larsson scored 247 goals in 431 match and Juan García Rivas from Venezuela with 243 goals in 533 matches.

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