The IFFHS World's Best Top Division Goal Scorer is a football award given annually to the player who scores the most goals in a league season (in a calendar year since 2020) in any of the top 60 leagues in the world (as ranked by IFFHS for that given year). The award is given by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS).[1]
Lionel Messi holds the record for most wins (4). Mário Jardel, Luis Suárez, and Cristiano Ronaldo are the three other players to have won the award more than once, all of them managing to win the award in successive seasons. José Cardozo holds the record for most goals in a season (58 in 2003).
Plus, the IFFHS has awarded the World's Best National Goal Scorer of the Decade in 2021, considering the years 2011–2020.[2]
List of winners
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Notes:
- ^ While Ronaldo finished the 2019–20 season of Serie A with 31 goals, five less than top scorer Ciro Immobile from Lazio, the results were counted from 1 January to 31 December 2020.
Statistics
editMultiple winners
edit| Player | Wins | Years |
|---|---|---|
 Lionel Messi
|
4 | 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018 (shared) |
 Luis Suárez
|
3 | 2010, 2014 (shared), 2016 |
 Cristiano Ronaldo
|
2014 (shared), 2015, 2020 | |
 Mário Jardel
|
2 | 1999, 2000 |
Most goals in a year
edit| Rank | Player | Year | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  José Cardozo
|
2003 | 58 |
| 2 | Lionel Messi
|
2012 | 50 |
| 3 |  Joaquín Botero
|
2002 | 49 |
| 4 | Cristiano Ronaldo
|
2015 | 48 |
| 5 | José Alfredo Castillo
|
2002 | 46 |
 Aleksandrs Čekulajevs
|
2011 | ||
| Cristiano Ronaldo
|
2012 | ||
| Lionel Messi
|
2013 | ||
| 9 |  Iván Kaviedes
|
1998 | 43 |
| Lionel Messi
|
2015 |
Winners by club
edit| Club(s) | Total | Players |
|---|---|---|
 Barcelona
|
4 | 1 |
 Ajax
|
2 | 2 |
| Porto
|
2 | 1 |
| Real Madrid
|
2 | 1 |
 Al Sadd
|
1 | 1 |
| Benfica
|
1 | 1 |
| Club Bolívar
|
1 | 1 |
 Cobreloa
|
1 | 1 |
| Colo-Colo
|
1 | 1 |
| Emelec
|
1 | 1 |
 Galatasaray
|
1 | 1 |
 Gamba Osaka
|
1 | 1 |
| Heerenveen
|
1 | 1 |
 Juventus
|
1 | 1 |
 Liverpool
|
1 | 1 |
 Narva Trans
|
1 | 1 |
| Oriente Petrolero
|
1 | 1 |
 Red Bull Salzburg
|
1 | 1 |
 Toluca
|
1 | 1 |
Winners by nationality
edit| Nationality | Total | Players |
|---|---|---|
| Argentina
|
5 | 2 |
| Brazil
|
4 | 3 |
| Portugal
|
3 | 1 |
| Uruguay
|
3 | 1 |
| Bolivia
|
2 | 2 |
| Netherlands
|
2 | 2 |
 Algeria
|
1 | 1 |
| Austria
|
1 | 1 |
| Chile
|
1 | 1 |
| Ecuador
|
1 | 1 |
| Latvia
|
1 | 1 |
| Paraguay
|
1 | 1 |
| Turkey
|
1 | 1 |
The World's Best National Goal Scorer of the Decade (2011–2020)
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See also
editReferences
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- ^ a b "IFFHS WORLD'S BEST NATIONAL GOAL SCORER OF THE DECADE 2011-2020 : LIONEL MESSI". www.iffhs.com. Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-06.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 1997". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 1998". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 1999". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 2000 Awards". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 2001". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 2002". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS AWARDS 2003". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 2004". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 2005". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 2006". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 2007". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 2008". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 2009". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 2010". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 2011". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 2012". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 2013". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 2014". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 2015". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS Awards 2016". IFFHS. Archived from the original on 14 October 2020.
- ^ "IFFHS AWARDS 2017". www.iffhs.com. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
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