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Hakan Şükür was the first winner of the award in 1997.

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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Year Winner(s) Club(s) Goals Second place Club(s) Goals Third place Club(s) Goals
Season goals
1997   Hakan Şükür[3]   Galatasaray 38   Ronaldo   Barcelona 34   Sabin Ilie   FCSB 31
1998   Iván Kaviedes[4]   Emelec 43   Masashi Nakayama
  Víctor Bonilla
  Júbilo Iwata
  Deportivo Cali
37
1999   Mário Jardel[5]   Porto 36   Mario Núñez   O’Higgins 34   José Cardozo   Toluca 33
2000   Mário Jardel[6]   Porto 38   Eduardo Esidio   Universitario 37   Hamzah Idris
  Javier Chevantón
  Al-Ittihad
  Danubio
33
2001   José Alfredo Castillo[7]   Oriente Petrolero 42   Jared Borgetti   Santos Laguna 41   Henrik Larsson   Celtic 35
2002   Joaquín Botero[8]   Club Bolívar 49   José Alfredo Castillo   Oriente Petrolero 46   Mário Jardel   Sporting CP 42
2003   José Cardozo[9]   Toluca 58   Claudio Ciccia   Cartaginés 39   Mateja Kežman   PSV Eindhoven 35
2004   Patricio Galaz[10]   Cobreloa 42   Gabriel García   Melgar 36   Washington   Athletico Paranaense 34
2005   Araújo[11]   Gamba Osaka 33   Fatih Tekke   Trabzonspor 31   Dirk Kuyt   Feyenoord 29
2006   Klaas-Jan Huntelaar[12]   Ajax 35   Humberto Suazo
  Cristino Jara
  Colo-Colo
  Real Potosí
34
2007   Afonso Alves[13]   Heerenveen 34   Eduardo da Silva   Dinamo Zagreb 34   Dmitry Lipartov   Narva Trans 30
2008   Lucas Barrios[14]   Colo-Colo 37   Klaas-Jan Huntelaar   Ajax 33   Miguel Ximénez   Sporting Cristal 32
2009   Marc Janko[15]   Red Bull Salzburg 39
2010   Luis Suárez[16]   Ajax 35   Lionel Messi   Barcelona 34   Seydou Doumbia   Young Boys 30
2011   Aleksandrs Čekulajevs[17]   Narva Trans 46   Cristiano Ronaldo   Real Madrid 40   Lionel Messi   Barcelona 31
2012   Lionel Messi[18]   Barcelona 50   Cristiano Ronaldo   Real Madrid 46   Bas Dost   Heerenveen 31
2013   Lionel Messi[19]   Barcelona 46   Cristiano Ronaldo   Real Madrid 34   Wilfried Bony
  Carlos Saucedo
  Vitesse
  San José
31
2014   Cristiano Ronaldo[20]
  Luis Suárez
  Real Madrid
  Liverpool
31   Alfreð Finnbogason   Heerenveen
  Real Sociedad
29
2015   Cristiano Ronaldo[21]   Real Madrid 48   Lionel Messi   Barcelona 43   Alexandre Lacazette   Lyon 27
2016   Luis Suárez[22]   Barcelona 40   Zlatan Ibrahimović   Paris Saint-Germain 38   Gonzalo Higuaín   Napoli 36
2017   Lionel Messi[23]   Barcelona 37   Edinson Cavani   Paris Saint-Germain 35   Bas Dost   Sporting CP 34
2018   Lionel Messi
  Jonas
  Barcelona
  Benfica
34
2019   Baghdad Bounedjah[24]   Al Sadd 39   Lionel Messi   Barcelona 36   Abderrazak Hamdallah   Al-Nassr 34
Calendar year goals
2020   Cristiano Ronaldo[25]   Juventus 33[note 1]   Robert Lewandowski   Bayern Munich 32   Marcel Hernández   Cartaginés 30

Notes:

  1. ^ 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

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Multiple winners

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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

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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

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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

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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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Players with at least 150 goals[2]
Rank Player Clubs Goals
1   Lionel Messi   Barcelona 346
2   Cristiano Ronaldo   Real Madrid
  Juventus
332
3   Robert Lewandowski   Borussia Dortmund
  Bayern Munich
248
4   Zlatan Ibrahimović   Milan
  Paris Saint-Germain
  Manchester United
  LA Galaxy
236
5   Luis Suárez   Liverpool
  Barcelona
  Atlético Madrid
224
6   Eran Zahavi   Hapoel Tel Aviv
  Palermo
  Maccabi Tel Aviv
  Guangzhou R&F
  PSV Eindhoven
213
7   Edinson Cavani   Napoli
  Paris Saint-Germain
  Manchester United
209
8   Carlos Saucedo   San José
  Saprissa
  Oriente Petrolero
  Blooming
  Real Potosí
  Guabirá
  Royal Pari
195
9   Sebastián Tagliabúe   Ettifaq
  Al-Shabab
  Al-Wahda
  Al-Nasr
193
10   Sergio Agüero   Atlético Madrid
  Manchester City
193
11   Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang   Saint-Étienne
  Borussia Dortmund
  Arsenal
192
12   Klæmint Olsen   NSÍ Runavík 190
13   Burak Yılmaz   Trabzonspor
  Galatasaray
  Beijing Sinobo Guoan
  Beşiktaş
  Lille
186
14   André-Pierre Gignac   Marseille
  UANL
183
15   Neymar   Santos
  Barcelona
  Paris Saint-Germain
181
16   Nemanja Nikolić   Videoton
  Legia Warsaw
  Chicago Fire
  Fehérvár
177
17   Abderrazak Hamdallah   Olympic Safi
  Aalesund
  Guangzhou R&F
  El Jaish
  Al-Rayyan SC
  Al-Nassr
173
18   Gonzalo Higuaín   Real Madrid
  Napoli
  Juventus
  Milan
  Chelsea
  Inter Miami
172
19   Omar Al Somah   Al Futowa
  Al Qadsia
  Al Ahli
169
20   Karim Benzema   Real Madrid 168
21   Youssef El-Arabi   Caen
  Al Hilal
  Granada
  Al-Duhail
  Olympiacos
168
22   Carlos Kamiani Félix   Universidad SC
  Municipal
  Xelajú
  Iztapa
165
23   Bafetimbi Gomis   Lyon
  Swansea City
  Marseille
  Galatasaray
  Al Hilal
163
24   Greg Draper   The New Saints 163
25   Bas Dost   Heerenveen
  VfL Wolfsburg
  Sporting CP
  Eintracht Frankfurt
162
26   Dejan Damjanović   FC Seoul
  Jiangsu Suning
  Beijing Sinobo Guoan
  Suwon Samsung Bluewings
  Daegu FC
162
27   Ali Ashfaq   VB Sports Club
  New Radiant
  PDRM FA
  Maziya S&RC
  TC Sports Club
  Club Green Streets
  Club Valencia
161
28   Germán Cano   Deportivo Pereira

  Club Nacional
  Independiente Medellín
  Pachuca
  León
  Vasco da Gama

160
29   Pablo Escobar   The Strongest 159
30   Andrew Waterworth   Glentoran
  Linfield
158
31   Romelu Lukaku   Anderlecht
  West Bromwich Albion
  Everton
  Manchester United
  Inter Milan
155
32   Esteban Paredes   Colo-Colo
  Atlante
  Querétaro
154
33   Agustín Herrera   Coatepeque
  Comunicaciones
  Antigua
154
34   Chris Venables   Llanelli Town AFC
  Aberystwyth Town
  Bala Town
153
35   Harry Kane   Tottenham Hotspur 152
36   Joe Gormley   Cliftonville 152

See also

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References

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