List of Argentine Primera División top scorers
This is a list of Argentine Primera División top scorers, that enumerates all players that have finished a season as top goalscorers in the top level of the Argentine football league system. These statistics only include seasons from the professional era of Argentine football (1931–present). For details of top scorers between 1891 and 1930 see Amateur era in Argentine football#Top scorers.
Top 20 professional era top scorers
| # |
Name |
Years |
Matches |
Goals |
(%) |
| 1 |
Arsenio Erico |
1934–1957 |
332 |
295 |
88% |
| 2 |
Ángel Labruna |
1939–1959 |
515 |
293 |
57% |
| 3 |
Herminio Masantonio |
1931–1945 |
358 |
256 |
72% |
| 4 |
Manuel Pellegrina |
1938–1956 |
490 |
231 |
47% |
| 5 |
José Sanfilippo |
1953–1963, 1966–1967, 1972 |
330 |
226 |
68% |
| 5 |
Martín Palermo |
1992–2000, 2004–2011 |
405 |
226 [1] [2] |
56% |
| 7 |
Ricardo Infante |
1942–1961 |
439 |
217 |
49% |
| 8 |
Oscar Más |
1964–1977, 1979, 1982, 1985 |
429 |
215 |
50% |
| 9 |
Bernabé Ferreyra |
1931–1939 |
197 |
206 |
105% |
| 9 |
Carlos Bianchi |
1967–1972, 1980–1984 |
324 |
206 |
64% |
| 11 |
Miguel Ángel Brindisi |
1967–1972, 1979–1983 |
441 |
194 |
44% |
| 12 |
Delfín Benítez Cáceres |
1932–1944 |
269 |
193 |
72% |
| 13 |
José Manuel Moreno |
1935–1948, 1950, 1953 |
359 |
187 |
52% |
| 14 |
Hugo Gottardi |
1973–1983, 1986–1988 |
450 |
186 |
41% |
| 15 |
Roque Avallay |
1965–1980 |
522 |
184 |
35% |
| 16 |
Juan José Pizzuti |
1947–1962 |
349 |
182 |
52% |
| 17 |
Francisco Varallo |
1931–1939 |
210 |
181 |
86% |
| 18 |
Jaime Sarlanga |
1935–1950 |
302 |
171 |
57% |
| 19 |
Luis Artime |
1959–1968 |
219 |
165 |
75% |
| 19 |
Emilio Baldonedo |
1935–1945 |
262 |
165 |
63% |
Top scorers by year
- For amateur statistics see Amateur era in Argentine football#Top scorers
- The matches column indicates the number of matches played by the player in the season in question.
Records
Players with multiple titles
Top 5 goal averages
Top scorers by club
- 22
- 16
- 13
- 10
- 8
- 7
- 5
- 4
- 3
- 2
- 1
Facts
- The youngest player ever to become top scorer in the Argentine Primera was Diego Maradona in the 1978 Metropolitano tournament at the age of 17.
- Arsenio Erico is the only player to score more than 40 goals in a single tournament, he managed the feat twice in 1937, with 47 goals and in 1938 with 43 goals.
- Carlos Bianchi holds the record for the longest period in the top scorers list, his first came in the 1970 Nacional and his last came in 1981 Nacional, a gap of 11 years.
- Bianchi also holds the record for the longest gap between titles, he waited nearly ten years between his 1971 Metropolitano and his 1981 Nacional titles.
- Martín Palermo holds the record for goals in a season of 19 matches. His 20 goals in the 1998 Apertura also made him the first player to average more than 1 goal per match since Juan Gómez Voglino in 1973.
- Paraguayan Arsenio Erico and Uruguayan Enzo Francescoli are the two foreigners to have been top scorer of Argentina on the most occasions. Erico was the top scorer three times in a row (between 1937 and 1939), while Francescoli was the top scorer in the 1984 Metropolitano, the 1985–1986 season, and in the 1994 Apertura.
- Rolando and Mauro Zárate are the only brothers to have both been top scorer in the Argentine Primera.
- In 2009 José Sand became the first player to become top scorer in consecutive tournaments since Diego Maradona in 1980.
See also
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