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? Chris Wood has 91 while Callum Wilson has 89, Erling Haaland 88, and Danny Welbeck 87.
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
