The quickest players to 75 Premier League goals as Haaland breaks another record

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·10 November 2024

The quickest players to 75 Premier League goals as Haaland breaks another record

Erling Haaland is setting a ridiculous new standard for strikers in the Premier League.

The Manchester City star scored his 12th goal of the season so far in 11 appearances when he found the net against Brighton on Saturday.

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That is impressive in its own right, but the 24-year-old’s overall tally in the English first tier now reads 75 goals in 77 games.

We all knew Haaland was a brilliant goalscorer when he arrived in the Premier League, but I don’t think anyone expected this level of relentless consistency.

The blonde behemoth is surpassing some of the greatest forwards to ever play in the top flight, including former Man City hero Sergio Aguero, who misses out on this list by a single game.

The five quickest players to 75 Premier League goals:

Mo Salah – 117 games

The only player to make the top five who isn’t a centre-forward, Mo Salah took the Premier League by storm when he joined Liverpool in 2017, scoring 32 goals. He reached the 75-goal mark in his third season as the Reds won the title for the first time in 30 years.

It’s easily forgotten that the Egyptian winger endured a muted introduction to English football at Chelsea. He signed for the club in 2013, but went on to score just twice in 13 league appearances. Were it not for that stint his goal scoring rate would look even more impressive.

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Ruud van Nistelrooy – 116

Before he was keeping Ruben Amorim’s seat warm at Old Trafford, Ruud van Nistelrooy was a goal machine at Manchester United. The Dutchman scored 20 goals or more in four of his five seasons with the club, and the one year he didn’t was due to injury. Although he did score from the penalty spot in that famous win over Arsenal to break their 49-game unbeaten streak.

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Harry Kane – 115

It was not immediately obvious in the early years of his career that Harry Kane would go on to become a superstar, but once he got the taste for scoring goals he just never stopped.

The England international found the net at an impressive clip for Spurs, taking just 112 appearances (his first three top-flight appearances were on loan with Norwich City) to reach 75 goals. He went on to grab 213 goals in the Premier League before moving to Bayern Munich in 2023.

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Alan Shearer – 93

The Newcastle United legend’s status as the all-time greatest striker in Premier League history is looking fragile these days, but Alan Shearer was truly a phenom in the nineties.

The Match of the Day pundit scored for fun at Blackburn Rovers, where he set a single season record of 34 goals to lead the Lancashire outfit to the title. He never reached those heights for the Magpies, but bagged 148 goals for his boyhood club despite two serious injuries. His Premier League record 260 goals remains unbothered… for now.

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Erling Haaland – 77

Presuming Erling Haaland spends the bulk of the rest of his career in England, then he will surely break Shearer’s incredible tally. His scoring rate of nearly a goal per game over such a sustained period is unprecedented.

Haaland reached 50 goals in fewer games (48) than anyone else and he’s predictably done the same for the 75 goal mark. No wonder they call him a robot.

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