Primera División Argentina topscorers

Primera División Argentina topscorers concerns the topscorers in Primera División Argentina and associated statistics and facts.

These statistics only include players from the professional era of Argentine football (1931-present). For details of topscorers between 1891 and 1930 see Amateur Era top-scorers

Top 20 professional era top scorers

Topscorers by year

:For amateur statistics see topscorers 1891-1931

*1 The Number of Games column indicates the number of games played by the club in the season in question.
*2 Met = Metropolitano
*3 Nac = Nacional

Records

Players with multiple titles

*5
**Diego Maradona
*4
**Luis Artime
**José Sanfilippo
*3
**Carlos Bianchi
**Arsenio Erico
**Enzo Francescoli
**Carlos Manuel Morete
*2
**Evaristo Barrera
**José Luis Calderón
**Rubén Da Silva
**Mario Kempes
**Ángel Labruna
**Sergio Martinez
**Oscar Más
**Alfredo Obberti
**Juan José Pizzuti
**Héctor Horacio Scotta
**Martín Palermo

Top 5 Goal averages

*1: Arsenio Erico 1.382
*2: Arsenio Erico 1.265
*3: Bernabé Ferreyra 1.229
*4: Arsenio Erico 1.176
*5: José Sanfilippo 1.133

Titles by club

*22
**River Plate
*16
**San Lorenzo
*12
**Vélez Sársfield
*10
**Boca Juniors
**Independiente
*8
**Argentinos Juniors
**Rosario Central
*7
**Racing Club
**Estudiantes
*4
**Newell's Old Boys
**Platense
*3
**Huracán
**Lanús
*2
**Ferro Carril Oeste
**Gimnasia de La Plata
**Talleres de Córdoba
*1
**Atlanta
**Banfield
**Colón de Santa Fe
**Deportivo Español
**Instituto
**Juventud Antoniana
**Loma Negra
**Los Andes
**Quilmes
**San Lorenzo (MdP)
**Tiro Federal
**Unión

Facts

*The youngest player ever to become topscorer in the Argentine Primera was Diego Maradona in the Metropolitano 1978 tournament at the age of 17.

*Héctor Horacio Scotta scored the most goals in a single calendar year, with 60 in 1975.

*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.

*José Sanfilippo and Diego Maradona are the only players to have been topscorer on four consecutive occasions.

*Pedro Pablo Pasculli and Diego Latorre became topscorers with the least goals, they only needed to score 9 times to claim their titles.

*Carlos Bianchi holds the record for the longest period in the topscorers list, his first came in the Nacional 1970 and his last came in Nacional 1981, a gap of 11 years.

*Bianchi also holds the record for the longest gap between titles, he waited nearly ten years between his Metropolitano 1971 and his Nacional 1981 titles.

*Martín Palermo holds the record for goals in a season of 19 games. His 20 goals in Apertura 1998 also made him the first player to average more than 1 goal per game since Juan Gómez Voglino in 1973.

*Uruguayan Enzo Francescoli is the foreigner to have been topscorer of Argentina on the most occasions, he topscored in Metropolitano 1984, the 1985-1986 season and in Apertura 1994.

*Rolando and Mauro Zárate are the only brothers to have both been topscorer in the Argentine Primera.

*When Lisandro López claimed the Apertura 2004 title, he became the first Racing Club player to be topscorer in 35 years.

ee also

*Primera División Argentina
*Argentine football league system

References

External links

* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesa/argtops.html RSSSF: List of Topscorers - Argentina]