List of foreign Premier League goalscorers

This is a list of foreign Premier League goalscorers. The Premier League, which began in its current guise in 1992, has been represented by 111 foreign FIFA affiliated nations in total. As of February 2020, when Tanzanian player Mbwana Samatta scored against Bournemouth, 96 different foreign FIFA affiliated nations have been represented in the Premier League scorelist.

The following players meet both of the following two criteria:

  1. Have scored at least one Premier League goal. Players who were contracted to Premier League clubs, but only scored in lower league, cup and/or European games, or did not score in competitive games at all, are not included.
  2. Are considered foreign, i.e., outside the United Kingdom, determined by whether or not he is alleged to play for the national teams of England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, specifically,
If a player has been capped at international level, the national team is used; if he has been capped by more than one country, the highest level (or the most recent) team is used. These include British players with dual citizenship.
If a player has not been capped at international level, his country of birth is used, except those who were born abroad from British parents or moved to the United Kingdom at a young age, and those who clearly indicated to have switched his nationality to another nation.

Clubs listed are those for which the player has scored at least one Premier League goal.

In bold: players who have scored at least one goal in the Premier League in the current season (2020–21), and are still at a club for which they have scored. This does not include current players of a Premier League club who have not scored a goal in the Premier League in the current season.

For each country, the leading scorer is indicated by the number of goals that he scored in the Premier League.[1]

Details correct as of 6 February 2021.

Algeria

Angola

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina

Sergio Agüero is the highest scoring non-English player in Premier League history

Armenia

Australia

Austria

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium

Romelu Lukaku is the highest scoring Belgian in Premier League history

Benin

Bermuda

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brazil

Roberto Firmino is the highest scoring Brazilian in Premier League history

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cameroon

Canada

Chile

China PR

Colombia

Congo

Costa Rica

Croatia

Nikica Jelavić is the highest scoring Croatian in Premier League history

Cuba

Curaçao

Czech Republic

Denmark

Christian Eriksen is the highest scoring Dane in Premier League history

DR Congo

Ecuador

Egypt

In 2017–18, Mohamed Salah was the top scorer with a record breaking 32 goals.

Equatorial Guinea

Estonia

Finland

France

Thierry Henry scored 175 Premier League goals, all for Arsenal

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Germany

Ghana

Gibraltar

Greece

Grenada

Guinea

Guyana

Honduras

Hungary

Iceland

Iran

Israel

Italy

Paolo Di Canio is the highest scoring Italian in Premier League history

Ivory Coast

Didier Drogba scored 104 Premier League goals, all for Chelsea, a record for an African player

Jamaica

Japan

Kenya

Korea Republic

Latvia

Liberia

Mali

Mexico

Montenegro

Montserrat

Morocco

Netherlands

Robin van Persie is the highest scoring Dutchman in Premier League history, with 144 goals

New Zealand

Nigeria

North Macedonia

Norway

Paraguay

Peru

Poland

Portugal

Cristiano Ronaldo scored 84 Premier League goals for Manchester United, a record for a Portuguese player

Republic of Ireland

With 126 goals, Robbie Keane is the highest Premier League scorer from the Republic of Ireland

Romania

Russia

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Senegal

Sadio Mané holds the record for the fastest Premier League hat-trick

Serbia

Sierra Leone

Slovakia

Slovenia

South Africa

Spain

Fernando Torres scored 85 Premier League goals, making him the highest scoring Spaniard in the competition's history

Sweden

Switzerland

Tanzania

Togo

Trinidad and Tobago

Dwight Yorke scored 123 Premier League goals, a record for a player from the CONCACAF region

Tunisia

Turkey

Ukraine

United States

Uruguay

Luis Suárez scored 69 Premier League goals for Liverpool, making him the competition's highest scoring Uruguayan

Venezuela

Zimbabwe

References

  1. "Players Index". PremierLeague.com. Premier League. Retrieved 15 March 2016.

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