List of Argentine Primera División top scorers
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 to date.
All-time Topscorers
The ranking includes Primera División tournaments from 1891 to date:Pos. | Player | Career | Goals | Matches | |
1 | Arsenio Erico | 1933-47 | 332 | 88% | |
2 | Angel Labruna | 1939-59 | 293 | 515 | 56% |
3 | Herminio Masantonio | 1931-45 | 256 | 358 | 72% |
4 | Francisco Varallo | 1928–39 | 236 | ||
5 | Manuel Seoane | 1921-33 | 233 | 249 | |
6 | Manuel Pellegrina | 1938–1956 | 231 | 490 | 47% |
7 | Martín Palermo | 1992–2000, 2004–11 | 227 | 330 | 68% |
8 | José Sanfilippo | 1953–63, 1966–67, 1972 | 226 | 405 | 56% |
9 | Ricardo Infante | 1942–61 | 217 | 439 | 49% |
10 | Oscar Más | 1964-77, 1979, 1982, 1985 | 215 | 429 | 50% |
Bernabé Ferreyra | 1931-39 | 197 | 105% | ||
Carlos Bianchi | 1967-72, 1980-84 | 324 | 64% |
Top scorers by year
Below is the list of topscorers from 1891 to date:Facts
- 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.
- 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 top scorer on four consecutive occasions.
- Pedro Pablo Pasculli and Diego Latorre 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 1970 Nacional 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 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, while Francescoli was the top scorer in the 1984 Metropolitano, the 1985–1986 season, and in the 1994 Apertura.
- Rolando and Mauro Zárate are the only brothers to have both been top scorer in the Argentine Primera.
- 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.