IFFHS has announced the best goal scorer of XXI century.
Lionel Messi leads the ranking of best South American scorers in XXI century after 2023 with 821 goals, Idman.biz reports.
In total, 19 representatives of the CONMEBOL countries have reached 300 top-level goals in this century; 11 of them are active,
7 other players are below 300 goals in XXI but reached this amount adding the goals from XX century having still scored a significant majority of their goals in XXI.
They are also listed in the table but not ranked.
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BEST GOAL-SCORERS |
CONMEBOL |
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IN XXI CENTURY |
2001-2023 |
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Player |
Nationality |
Total |
Total |
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XXI |
Career |
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1 |
Lionel Messi |
Argentina |
821 |
821 |
2 |
Luis Suárez |
Uruguay |
557 |
557 |
3 |
Edinson Cavani |
Uruguay |
440 |
440 |
4 |
Neymar |
Brazil |
439 |
439 |
5 |
Sergio Agüero |
Argentina |
426 |
426 |
6 |
Fred |
Brazil |
404 |
404 |
7 |
Ricardo Oliveira |
Brazil |
390 |
391 |
8 |
Óscar Cardozo |
Paraguay |
376 |
376 |
9 |
Gonzalo Higuaín |
Argentina |
366 |
366 |
10 |
Luís Fabiano |
Brazil |
355 |
370 |
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