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Hwang Ui-Jo, Mamadou Niang, Pedro Pauleta, Edinson Cavani… Find out which other 21st-century Ligue 1 Uber Eats strikers make up the Top 10 of goalscorers for each continent. Deep dive…

Three former Parisians are at the top: among the foreigners who have scored the most in Ligue 1 Uber Eats in the 21st century are Uruguayan Edinson Cavani, Portuguese Pedro Miguel Pauleta (who also played for Bordeaux) and Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic. They are among the four players to have scored 100 goals or more in the top flight, along with former Marseille and Senegal international Mamadou Niang. Check out the full ranking, continent by continent. Pauleta looms over Europe, Niang over Africa Eagle of the Azores Pauleta flies high in the European rankings with his 130 goals in Ligue 1 Uber Eats, scored (and celebrated with arms outstretched) over three years with Bordeaux and five with PSG. Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic, at PSG between 2012 and 2016, follows with 113 goals. Next in line are Franco-Turk Mevlüt Erding (92) and Dutchman Memphis Depay (63). Europe's top scorers in Ligue 1 Uber Eats in the 21st century: 1. Pedro Miguel Pauleta (Portugal): 130 2. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden): 113 3. Mevlüt Erding (Turkey): 92 4. Memphis Depay (Netherlands): 63 5. Ireneusz Jelen (Poland): 49 6. Alexander Frei (Switzerland): 48 7. Mario Balotelli (Italy): 41 8. Martin Braithwaite (Denmark): 39 -- Danijel Ljuboja (Serbia): 39 10. Kim Källström (Sweden): 37 (UEFA zone countries)

Uruguay legend Edinson Cavani, PSG's all-time top scorer, dominates South America and the rest of the world; no-one has done better than his 138 goals in the 21st century. His nearest competition is Brazil's Juninho while, of players currently in the top flight, Neymar is fourth (59), tied with Lisandro Lopez (ex-OL), and Di Maria is eighth (54). Top South American scorers in Ligue 1 Uber Eats in the 21st century: 1. Edinson Cavani (Uruguay): 138 2. Juninho (Brazil): 75 3. Radamel Falcao (Colombia): 65 4. Neymar (Brazil): 59 -. Lisandro López (Argentina): 59 6. Ilan Araujo (Brazil): 58. 7. Nenê (Brazil): 55 8. Ángel Di María (Argentina): 54 9. Michel Bastos (Brazil): 51 10. Emiliano Sala (Argentina): 48 (Countries in the CONMEBOL zone) Former Strasbourg and Marseille player Mamadou Niang is the only foreign, non-ex-Parisian to have scored 100 goals in the top flight in the 21st century. He is followed by Algerian international Andy Delort, who has 69 goals. Top African scorers in Ligue 1 Uber Eats in the 21st century: 1. Mamadou Niang (Senegal): 100 2. Andy Delort (Algeria): 69 3. Wahbi Khazri (Tunisia): 66 4. Souleymane Camara (Senegal): 62 5. Youssouf Hadji (Morocco): 61 6. John Utaka (Nigeria): 59 7. Cheick Diabaté (Mali): 58. 8. Marouane Chamakh (Morocco):56 9. Max-Alain Gradel (Ivory Coast): 53 10. Shabani Nonda (DR Congo): 50 11. Ryad Boudebouz (Algeria): 47 (CAF Zone countries) There has been a change at the top of the Asian scoring charts, as former Monaco striker Park Chu-Young and his 25 goals in three seasons (12 in 2010-11) is now second to Bordeaux's Hwang Ui-Jo - who snatched a superb hat-trick in the 4-3 win over Strasbourg in Round 22 - and his 27 goals

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Top Asian scorers in Ligue 1 Uber Eats in the 21st century: 1. Hwang Ui-Jo (South Korea): 27 2. Park Chu-Young (South Korea): 25 4. Daisuke Matsui (Japan): 17 5. Chang-Hoon Kwon (South Korea): 13 6. Mile Sterjovski (Australia): 12 7. Suk Hyun-Jun (South Korea): 10 (AFC Zone countries) Mariano Diaz took the lead in the CONCACAF region's most prolific players in just one season. In the 2017-18 campaign, he scored 18 goals in 34 Ligue 1 Uber Eats games for OL. But in this 2021-22 season, LOSC's Canadian striker Jonathan David went one better, in his 46th Ligue 1 Uber Eats appearance.

Top North and Central American scorers in Ligue 1 Uber Eats in the 21st century: 1. Jonathan David (Canada): 25 2. Mariano Diaz (Dominican Republic): 18 3. Alejandro Bedoya (USA): 11 4. Hervé Bazile (Haiti): 9 5. Charlison Benschop (Curaçao): 5 6. Carlos Bocanegra (USA): 4 --. Timothy Weah (USA): 4 8. Joel Campbell (Costa Rica): 3 9. Romain Genevois (Haiti): 2 --. Charlie Davies (USA): 2 --. Georgie Welcome (Honduras): 2 (CONCACAF zone countries)