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The Best Strikers in the Premier League
English top-flight football is stacked. Dead-eyed strikers. Lethal finishers who send defenders sprawling and goalkeepers flapping. These are the best strikers in the Premier League in 2024.
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Alan Shearer was one of the best strikers in the English Premier League. Shearer is the highest scorer in Premier League history. He scored 260 goals in 441 appearances for Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United. His formidable strike partnership with Chris Sutton famously fired Blackburn to the 1994/95 Premier League title.
Shearer bagged 34 goals in a 42-match campaign and won Premier League Player of the Season. Mohamed Salah previously held the 38-game record. Salah scored 32 goals for Liverpool Football Club in 2017/18. Erling Haaland broke both records in his debut season for Manchester City. He fired 36 goals in 35 matches as City romped to a memorable treble. SportsBoom has recapped the top 10 goal scorers from the 2023/24 Premier League season.
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The best striker in the Premier League is Erling Haaland. The Manchester City frontman has laid waste to defences across England and Europe. Haaland shattered records as City won a continental treble in his debut season in the English top flight. The Norwegian goal machine won back-to-back Premier League Golden Boot awards and the 2022/23 European Golden Shoe.
The City striker won the English Premier League Player of the Season and Young Player of the Season award in his first year in England. The following season, Haaland top-scored again. Although not as prolific as the previous season, he scored 27 times as City won a fourth successive title. Haaland won the Golden Boot for the second consecutive season, scoring 27 goals in 31 games.
Haaland is the best striker in the Premier League and has been since he arrived in Manchester in 2022. Haaland (98) had the most shots out of the top 10 scorers, but his goal conversion (28%) and shot accuracy (60%) percentages were middle of the road compared to the other strikers. Phil Foden (75%) had the best shot accuracy percentage, and Dominic Solanke (55%) had the lowest. Mo Salah (20%) had the lowest goal conversion percentage, and Jean-Philippe Mateta (41%) had the best.
List of 10 Best Strikers in the Premier League 2024
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals | Assists | Games | Min/Goal |
| 1 | Erling Haaland | Manchester City | 27 | 5 | 31 | 95 |
| 2 | Cole Palmer | Chelsea | 22 | 11 | 34 | 119 |
| 3 | Alexander Isak | Newcastle United | 21 | 2 | 30 | 108 |
| 4 | Ollie Watkins | Aston Villa | 19 | 13 | 37 | 170 |
| 5 | Phil Foden | Manchester City | 19 | 8 | 35 | 151 |
| 6 | Dominic Solanke | Bournemouth | 19 | 3 | 38 | 175 |
| 7 | Mohamed Salah | Liverpool | 18 | 10 | 32 | 141 |
| 8 | Son Heung-min | Tottenham Hotspur | 17 | 10 | 35 | 173 |
| =9 | Bukayo Saka | Arsenal | 16 | 9 | 35 | 183 |
| =9 | Jarrod Bowen | West Ham United | 16 | 6 | 34 | 189 |
Cole Palmer netted 22 times in 34 matches, adding 11 assists, six more than Haaland. Palmer’s goal conversion (29%) and shot accuracy (61%) percentage were better than Haaland. Alexander Isak is the only other player to reach 20 goals. The Newcastle attacker had a better goals-to-minute ratio than Palmer. He played four games fewer than Palmer. Isak had the best goal conversion (33%) and shot accuracy (67%) percentage than Haaland and Palmer.
Ollie Watkins, Foden, and Solanke scored 19 goals, one more than Salah. Foden won Premier League Player of the Season despite not being the best football player at City. Foden played three more games than an injury-plagued Salah. The Egyptian playmaker spent a month at the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) during the middle of the season, butchering another stellar season and derailing Liverpool’s title challenge.
Salah left for AFCON as the second-highest scorer in the league, but a hamstring injury disrupted his – and Liverpool’s – season. Salah is the best right winger in the world. He scored at a rate of a goal every 141 minutes to finish as the seventh-best striker, better than Watkins, Foden, and Solanke.
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Harry Kane left Spurs for Bayern Munich as the second-highest Premier League scorer of all time. Kane scored 213 times in 320 matches for Tottenham Hotspur. Son Heung-min scored 17 goals in 35 games, with ten assists. Son stepped up. He scored seven more goals than in the 2022/23 campaign, but not enough to get Spurs back in the UEFA Champions League.
Bukayo Saka tied ninth with Jarrod Bowen and Mateta on 16 goals. Saka is one of the best young players in world football. He has spearheaded Arsenal’s two title challenges with 30 league goals in the last two seasons. Saka improved his strike rate, scoring two more goals in three fewer games than in 2022/23.
The England flyer registered nine assists, more than Haaland (5), Isak (2), Foden (8), Solanke (3), Bowen (6), and Mateta (5). Isak’s two assists were the lowest of the top 10 best strikers in the Premier League. Watkins (13) provided the most assists, two more than Palmer (11) and three more than Salah and Son (10 each).
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FAQs
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