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 from 1891 (the year that the first championship was held) to date.[1][2]
All-time top scorers
The ranking includes Primera División tournaments from 1891 to date:[1]
Top scorers by year
Below is the list of topscorers from 1891 to date:[2]
Records and statistics
- 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.[25]
- Héctor Scotta scored the most goals in a single calendar year, with 60 in 1975.[26]
- 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.
- Juan Taverna is the player who scored the most goals in a single match (7) when his club, Banfield, thrashed Bahía Blanca's Puerto Comercial 13–1 at Estadio Florencio Sola on October 6, 1974.[27][28]
- José Luis Chilavert is the only goalkeeper to have scored 3 goals in a match. He set the record on November 28, 1999, when Vélez Sarsfield beat Ferro Carril Oeste 6–1 at José Amalfitani Stadium in the 1999 Apertura. This was not only an Argentine but a worldwide record for a goalkeeper.[29]
- Clelio Caucia of Vélez Sarsfield became the first goalkeeper to have scored in Argentine football when he scored a penalty kick v Quilmes on June 24, 1924.[30]
- Carlos Seppaquercia of Gimnasia y Esgrima LP set the record for the fastest goal in a match, scoring on 5 seconds v Huracán, on March 18, 1979 at Estadio Juan Carmelo Zerillo. The match ended 1–1.[31][32][33]
- Eduardo Maglioni scored 3 goals within 1 minute and 51 seconds playing for Independiente v Gimnasia y Esgrima LP at "La Doble Visera" Stadium in a 1973 Metropolitano match on March 18, 1973.[34][35]
- José Sanfilippo (1958–1961) and Diego Maradona (1978–1980) are the only players to have been top scorers on four consecutive seasons.[2]
- Pedro Pasculli (1984 Nacional), and Diego Latorre and Darío Scotto (both in 1992 Clausura) became top scorers with the fewest goals, they only needed to score 9 times to claim their titles.
- Carlos Bianchi holds the record for the longest period in the top scorers list, his first came in the 1971 Metro 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 (who is also the all-time Atlanta top scorer)[36] 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 1985–86 season, and in the 1994 Apertura.
- Rolando Zárate and Mauro Zárate are the only brothers to have both been top scorer in the Argentine Primera (2004 Clausura and 2006 Apertura respectively).
- When Lisandro López claimed the 2004 Apertura title, he became the first Racing Club player to be top scorer in 35 years.
- In 2009 José Sand became the first player to become top scorer in consecutive tournaments since Diego Maradona in 1980.
Notes
- ^ The Buenos Aires English High School changed its name to "Alumni" in 1901.
- ^ The Federación Amateurs de Football (FAF) was a rival association that organized its own championships from 1912 to 1914.
- ^ The Asociación Amateurs de Football (AAm) was a rival association that organized its own championships from 1919 to 1926.
- ^ The Liga Argentina de Football (LAF) was a dissident league that organised the first professional championships from 1931 to 1934. In 1935 it merged with the official AFA league (that remained amateur). As a result, all the AFA teams were relegated to the second division.
- ^ Some sources say San Martín de Tucumán which is incorrect. The team where Tarasconi played were a club located in General San Martín Partido of Greater Buenos Aires.
- ^ Copa de Honor
- ^ Copa Campeonato
References
- ^ a b Argentina - All-Time Topscorers in League by Pablo Ciullini and Tomás Rodríguez on the RSSSF
- ^ a b c Argentina list of Topscorers 1891-present by Pablo Ciullini and Emmanuel Castro on the RSSSF
- ^ "Arsenio Erico, un paraguayo cuya dimensión futbolística pervive en el tiempo" [Arsenio Erico, a Paraguayan whose football dimension survives over time] (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 30 March 2015. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
- ^ "Labruna gritó otro gol 67 años después", Clarín, 2 August 2008
- ^ Ángel Labruna – Goals in Argentina League by Pablo Ciullini on the RSSSF
- ^ Herminio Masantonio – Goals in Argentina League
- ^ Manuel Seoane – Goals in Argentina League
- ^ Roberto E. Cherro – Goals in Argentina League
- ^ Bernabé Ferreyra – Goals in Argentina League
- ^ Manuel Pelegrina – Goals in Argentina League
- ^ Martín Palermo – Goals in Argentina League
- ^ José Sanfilippo – Goals in Argentina League
- ^ Ricardo Infante – Goals in Argentina League
- ^ Francisco Antonio Varallo – Goals in Argentina League
- ^ Oscar Más – Goals in Argentina League
- ^ Domingo Alberto Tarasconi – Goals in Argentina League
- ^ Domingo Tarasconi biography and statistics on Historia de Boca
- ^ Carlos Bianchi – Goals in Argentina League
- ^ Miguel Angel Brindisi – Goals in Argentina League
- ^ Delfín Benítez Cáceres – Goals in Argentina League
- ^ José Manuel Moreno – Goals in Argentina League
- ^ Hugo Ernesto Gottardi – Goals in Argentina League
- ^ Roque Alberto Avallay – Goals in Argentina League
- ^ Alberto Máximo Zozaya – Goals in Argentina League
- ^ Trece décadas (1891–2017) Los cinco récords imbatibles del fútbol argentino, Clarín, by Oscar Barnade. 31 Oct 2017
- ^ Héctor Scotta. el hombre de los 60 goles on Télam, by JOSÉ POMMARÉS, 27 Sep 2020
- ^ Juan Taverna y los 7 goles by Alejandro Fabbri
- ^ 1974. BANFIELD 13 - PUERTO COMERCIAL 1. EL DÍA QUE TAVERNA HIZO 7 GOLES by Jack Barski on El Gráfico, October 1974
- ^ rrepetible: el día que Chilavert marcó tres goles en un mismo partido on Página/12, 27 Nov 2019
- ^ FÚTBOL: Mirá qué jugadores hicieron historia en el campeonato argentino on Talento Sports
- ^ Carlos Seppaquercia, el gol más rápido de la historia del fútbol argentino on ABC Saladillo, March 18, 2021
- ^ A 42 años del gol más rápido del profesionalismo argentino on LV12, 18 Mar 2021
- ^ Se cumplen 40 años del gol más rápido del fútbol argentino El Patagónico, 17 Mar 2019
- ^ El record Guinness de Eduardo Maglioni
- ^ El reconquistense que hizo tres goles en menos de dos minutos on El Litoral
- ^ Gómez Voglino: "Deseo ver a Atlanta en Primera", 30 Jul 2020 - C.A. Atlanta
