Top 10 Everton goalscorers in Premier League era | OneFootball

Everton are one of the most famous clubs in English football, but who are their top scorers in the Premier League era?

Of course, football didn’t start in 1992, and Dixie Dean’s record of 383 goals (which doubles that of Graeme Sharp in second) will almost certainly never be broken (via Everton stats), but it is still interesting to see who has banged in the most for the Toffees in this period. Everton are one of just six teams to feature in every season of the Premier League to date.

While never winning the Premier League title, they have provided fans with some of the best matches, moments and players throughout the last three decades.

Here are the top 10 Everton goalscorers of the Premier League era (via 11v11) – in the case of a tie, goals per game ratio will be applied.

10. Leighton Baines – 29 goals

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - APRIL 20: Leighton Baines of Everton scores the opening goal from the penalty spot during the Barclays Premier League match between Everton and Manchester United at Goodison Park on April 20, 2014 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Alex Livesey/Getty Images)

Baines had already carved out a reputation as a dead-ball specialist with Wigan before joining his boyhood club in time for the 2007/2008 season. He only scored one league goal in his first two seasons but saw his scoring stats shoot up upon taking on penalty duties in 2009/10.

19 of his 29 league goals for the Toffees came from the spot, with just two misses giving him a 90% rate for the club. Free kicks made up most of the remaining 10, while assists were also plentiful from one of the club’s best players in recent times.

9. Kevin Miralles – 29 goals

Miralles is ahead of Baines due to playing nearly 200 fewer league games for the Toffees, but there would be a definitive winner if not for a penalty incident in the 2014/15 season in a match with West Brom. With the score at 0-0, Everton won a penalty, which was expected to be taken by Baines.

The Belgian forward disagreed, however, taking the duties on himself and subsequently firing wide. He was branded a “disgrace” by Gary Neville but it was one of the few blotches on his Everton career, which started in David Moyes’ final season (2012/13) and finished at the end of Marco Silva’s first season (2018/19).

8. David Unsworth – 33 goals

Another goalscoring and penalty-taking left back for the Toffees here, Unsworth’s Everton career spanned two different spells separated by just one year. He came through the academy and was a solid performer before joining West Ham for the 1997/98 season. An inability to settle in both London and Birmingham (he briefly was at Villa) saw him return to Merseyside.

It was in his second stint that the bulk of his goals came, with five or more league goals coming in three of six seasons before departing again in 2004. He has since coached Everton’s Under-23 side and briefly was the first-team caretaker manager in 2017.

7. Richarlison – 43 goals

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - MAY 15: Richarlison of Everton celebrates scoring their side's second goal from a penalty during the Premier League match between Everton and Brentford at Goodison Park on May 15, 2022 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images)

The Brazilian forward was Everton’s best player in his four seasons at the club (2018/19 – 2021/22), with his passion and dedication to the cause also making him a firm favourite amongst the fans in a tumultuous time for the club.

It helped that he was also their most reliable source of goals, which started with two on his debut away to Wolves. 13 goals came in each of his first two seasons, with his tally then dipping to seven and 10 as the club’s fortunes fell.

His goals helped them keep them up in 2022 but his most memorable goal will always be the first in a 2-0 win at Anfield in 2021, which gave the Toffees their first win at the ground since 1999.

6. Leon Osman – 44 goals

Osman was another fan favourite, with his 352 Premier League appearances for the club only second to Tim Howard. 44 goals came in this time, with the majority of them being in David Moyes’ long reign at the club, under whom he made his debut in the 2003/04 season.

Never a prolific scorer, his goals did help contribute to the happiest period at Goodison Park since their league-title-winning heyday in the 1980s.

5. Kevin Campbell – 45 goals

27 Sep 1999: Kevin Campbell of Everton salutes his 4th minute goal during the FA Premier League match between Liverpool and Everton played at Anfiled, Liverpool, England. The Merseyside derby finished in a 1-0 win for visitors Everton. Mandatory Credit: Ben Radford /Allsport

As mentioned, Everton had not beaten Liverpool away in the league for 22 years until 2021. Their last win before that came courtesy of a Kevin Campbell goal in September 1999. This continued the stunning start the former Arsenal man had made to his career on Merseyside.

Arriving on loan from Turkish side Trabzonspor in March of the same year, Campbell almost single-handedly kept the club in the top flight with nine goals in the final eight games of the season, after which his move was made permanent. He was regularly Everton’s top scorer in the early 2000s, twice hitting double figures in the league and also captaining the side.

4. Dominic Calvert-Lewin – 46 goals

Known more for fashion shoots and perennial injuries than goals in recent seasons, Calvert-Lewin at one point looked like the next great English no.9 after two brilliant scoring seasons with the Toffees in 2019/20 (13 goals) and 2020/21 (16 goals), the latter of which he started off with goals in five consecutive games.

His other 17 league goals for the club have been scattered across five other seasons on either side of this hot goalscoring period. The Gwladys Street faithful must be praying he reheats soon.

3. Tim Cahill – 56 goals

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 06: Tim Cahill of Everton celebrates scoring his team's second goal with team mate Leighton Baines (R) during the Barclays Premier League match between Everton and Tottenham Hotspur at Goodison Park on December 6, 2009 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Jamie McDonald/Getty Images)

Amongst the club’s most beloved players of recent times, Cahill personified what it was to be an Everton player in his eight seasons at the club from 2004/05 to 2011/12. The Aussie was hard-working, reliable, tough as nails, and had an eye (or head) for a goal. Regularly scoring against Liverpool didn’t hurt his popularity either.

Given his size, he’s right up there with the best headers of a ball in Premier League history, at one point scoring nine goals in a row with his noggin. This came both as an attacking midfielder and as an auxiliary/make-shift centre forward.

2. Duncan Ferguson – 60 goals

Like David Unsworth, Big Dunc is another player who had two spells on the blue side of Merseyside. They came either side of an 18-month spell with Newcastle, a move that was sanctioned by Everton chairman Peter Johnson more than Ferguson or manager Walter Smith, who had worked with the striker at Rangers.

His first spell with the club (1994/95 – 1998/99) was a series of ups and downs – he won the FA Cup, hit double figures in two seasons and became the first player to score a hat-trick of headers. However, he also spent time on the treatment table and even in jail for an on-field headbutt while he was still in Scotland.

Ferguson returned to Goodison in 2000 and became more of a battering ram than anything, with a winner against Manchester United in 2005 - his most famous goal. He continued to be one of the most feared men in the league, which further endeared him to the fans. He remains the top Scottish scorer ever in Premier League history.

1. Romelu Lukaku – 68 goals

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - APRIL 09: Romelu Lukaku of Everton celebrates scoring his team's fourth goal during the Premier League match between Everton and Leicester City at Goodison Park on April 9, 2017 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images)

Lukaku might be one of the more maligned players of his generation but there is no debate regarding his time on Merseyside, where he hit 68 goals in just four seasons from 2013/14 to 2016/17, the first being on loan before they snapped up in a then-club record transfer.

It was money well spent, given the Belgian striker is the owner of the two-best goalscoring seasons for Everton in Premier League history, with 18 and 25 in his final two seasons respectively, the latter tally putting him in the PFA Team of the Year also.

He also became the first Toffee to score in six straight games in the Premier League and helped them to their highest points total in the division with 72 in 2013/14, which somehow still missed out on Champions League qualification.

Having joined the club from Chelsea, he left for another one of the established big boys in the shape of Manchester United, who paid £75 million for his services. Neither his two-year spell at Old Trafford nor his second stint at Stamford Bridge saw him scale the heights he did at Goodison.