Alan Shearer is the king of Premier League goal scorers, but Harry Kane was racing to challenge his crown before moving to Bayern Munich and taking his free-scoring ways away from the record chase for now.
Now, with a fresh contract in hand, Mohamed Salah could chase down Kane for second on the all-time list. Salah scored in Week 1 of the 2025-26 season to tie Andy Cole for fourth all-time, and he passed Cole a month later with a penalty late at Burnley.
Shearer scored 260 Premier League goals during his remarkable career with Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United, and that figure’s even more impressive when you consider his first professional seasons were played prior to the Premier League era with Southampton.
Wayne Rooney’s incredible career, played almost entirely in the Premier League, saw him become the second player to bag 200+ goals in the competition. The former Manchester United and Everton star counts 208 goals as his haul.
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Kane moved clear of Rooney during the 2022-23 season and his 213 goals are 47 behind Shearer. There is only one active Premier League player within 100 goals of Shearer — Salah, who has 184 goals and sits 76 back of the top man.
Salah is 20 goals behind Rooney and 25 behind Kane.
Heung-min Son has gone to MLS with LAFC and Jamie Vardy has moved to Cremonese in Serie A after Leicester City’s relegation, leaving Raheem Sterling as the only other active PL player with over 100 goals.
Wondering who is closest to next reaching 100 goals? Erling Haaland has 96 while Chris Wood is on 91, Callum Wilson has 89, and Danny Welbeck is up to 88.
Read the full list of the Premier League’s all-time goal scorers, after the jump.
Premier League all-time goal leaders
bold denotes active Premier League player
Alan Shearer, 260
Harry Kane, 213
Wayne Rooney, 208
Mohamed Salah, 188
Andrew Cole, 187
Sergio Aguero, 184
Frank Lampard, 177
Thierry Henry, 175
Robbie Fowler, 163
Jermain Defoe, 162
Michael Owen, 150
Les Ferdinand, 149
Teddy Sheringham, 146
Jamie Vardy, 145
Robin van Persie, 144
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, 127
Heung-min Son, 127
Robbie Keane, 126
Nicolas Anelka, 125
Dwight Yorke, 123
Raheem Sterling, 123
Romelu Lukaku, 121
Steven Gerrard, 120
Ian Wright, 113
Dion Dublin, 111
Sadio Mane, 111
Emile Heskey, 110
Ryan Giggs, 109
Peter Crouch, 108
Paul Scholes, 107
Darren Bent, 106
Didier Drogba, 104
Cristiano Ronaldo, 103
Matt Le Tissier, 100
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