Top African goalscorers in Premier League history: Liverpool star Mohamed Salah leads the way ahead of treble winner and Chelsea legend
The Premier League has boasted the talents of some of the greatest African footballers of all time over the years.
And Africa's biggest stars have scored countless goals in the English top flight.
Of Mohamed Salah to Didier Drogba and Yaya TouretalkSPORT.com has taken a look at the 10 highest scoring players in Premier League history.
10. Nwankwo Kanu – 54 goals273 matches
Most of the other players on this list became famous in the top flight in the last 15 years, but Kanu's peak was before then.
Arsenal signed the forward in 1999 from Inter Milan for just over £6 million and was a huge success.
He made over 100 top-flight appearances for the Gunners and scored 30 goals, helping the club win the Premier League twice.
He left in 2004 but remained in England, signing for West Brom and then portsmouthbut only scored 24 more goals in six seasons before Pompey were relegated in 2010 and retired in 2012.
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9. Yaya Touré – 62 goals, 230 games
Given Toure As a central midfielder, his numbers in the Premier League are even more impressive.
The Ivorian arrived from Barcelona in 2010 for around £25 million, but many people felt City They had overpaid and couldn't have been more wrong.
Over the next eight years, Touré became the ideal midfielder, with sublime technique and incredible motor.
He played his part in some brilliant teams, but no one will ever forget his 2013/14 campaign, when he scored a staggering 20 top-flight goals to help City win the Premier League trophy.
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8. Wilfried Zaha – 68 goals305 matches
Zaha He could go down as one of the most underrated Premier League wingers of modern times.
There were times when it seemed like I was keeping Crystal Palace in the league on his own and was often the club's top scorer.
Throughout his last five years in England, the Ivorian recorded double figures in goals on three occasions.
Unfortunately, his move to a big English club never materialized after his initial transfer to manchester united He failed before returning to the Palace.
But in 2023 he decided it was time to do something new and joined. Galatasaraywhere he scored in the Champions League at Old Trafford to silence his former club.
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7. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang – 69 goals143 matches
When we think of Aubameyang, we probably remember Mikel Arteta expelling him from Arsenal and his problems with Chelsea, but before all that, he was a top striker.
His goal-game ratio is incredible and, under the direction of Arsene Wenger, Unai Emery and Arteta, the Gabonese international, scored many goals.
aubameyang joined the artillerymen Borussia Dortmund in January 2018, and scored ten goals in his first 13 league games.
He followed that up with two 20+ years before his numbers dipped and problems began to arise.
In the end, arteta We decided to put the team first and Aubameyang was sent off, but we must not forget how good he was for two and a half years.
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6. Riyad Mahrez – 82 goals284 matches
Treble winner Mahrez He is also among Africa's top scorers after an incredible career, scoring a total of 82 goals with Leicester and Man City.
Signed for just over £400,000 by Leicester in 2014 from Le Harve, the Algerian international played a huge role in the Foxes' shock victory during the 2015/16 season.
He scored an incredible 17 goals and Leicester surprised everyone by becoming English champions.
Mahrez joined Man City in the summer of 2018 and became a key player for pep guardiola outside to the right.
The winger proved to be a lethal finisher and scored all kinds of goals while adding more and more trophies to his personal haul before leaving for Saudi Arabia in 2023.
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5. Yakubu Aiyegbeni – 95 goals252 matches
“Feed the Yak and he will score” became a popular chant at Everton while Yakubu was playing for the Toffees.
The Nigerian striker spent nine years in the Premier League and played for Portsmouth. Middlesbrough, Everton and Blackburn Rovers.
At his peak, he was a top-class striker who scored more than ten figures in six seasons in the top flight.
Yakubu is perhaps one of the less fashionable names on this list, but he was a natural goalscorer and is a cult hero in all of his previous Premier League teams.
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4. Emmanuel Adebayor – 97 goalsyes, 241 matches
Adebayor He is fourth after passing through Manchester City and their north London rivals Arsenal and Tottenham.
The Togolese international initially joined the Gunners in 2006 from Monaco and fought to get into the team.
But his breakthrough year turned out to be the 2007/08 season, when he scored a staggering 24 goals before joining City in 2009.
His most infamous moment came while at City, when he scored against Arsenal and charged to the other end of the pitch to celebrate in front of traveling Gunners fans, sparking angry scenes in the visiting camp.
Adebayor then left for a brief period with real Madrid before playing again Spursmeaning that many Arsenal fans are not big fans of their former striker.
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3. Didier Drogba – 104 goals254 matches
When it was Drogba's day, there was little a Premier League defender could do about it.
The Ivorian was an elite striker, and after joining Chelsea of Marseilles In 2004, he helped the Blues win three Premier League titles during his first spell at the club.
Drug He also played a huge role in Chelsea's first Champions League win, scoring a late equalizer against Bayern Munich and then score the winning penalty in the shootout.
The striker then left to spend a season at Galatasaray before Jose Mourinho He brought him back and played one more season for the Blues, winning a fourth league title.
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2. Sadio Mané – 111 goals263 matches
Salah's ex Liverpool teammate, Maneis also listed after years of tormenting defenses under Jurgen Klopp.
The now Al-Nassr forward occupies second place in the ranking of African goalscorers of all time in the first division.
Mane initially joined Southampton in 2014 from RB Salzburg and scored the fastest hat-trick in history against Villa Aston (2 minutes and 56 seconds).
Liverpool signed him in 2016 and Mané became a key part of the team. The best attacking trio in the Premier Leaguewith Salah and Roberto Firmino.
As a unit, they scored 338 goals and provided 139 assists as Liverpool won the Premier League and became European champions.
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1. Mohamed Salah – 162 goals271 matches
Liverpool superstar Salah He is the highest scoring African player in Premier League history.
The Egyptian has dominated the top flight since joining the Reds in 2017 after a brief spell at Chelsea.
Salah became the first player to score 32 goals in a season in his first year at Anfield, and has scored at least 18 goals in every campaign since.
Only two of his league goals were for Chelsea, while the rest were scored by Liverpool.
He is the club's all-time leading scorer in the Premier League, ranking above Robbie Fowler and Steven Gerrard in the rankings.
There is definitely an argument to say that Salah is one of the best players in the history of the league.
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