List of La Liga top scorers

La Liga's all-time top scorer is Lionel Messi with 474 goals, all for Barcelona. He also holds the record for most goals scored in a single season with 50 in the 2011–12 campaign,^[1][2] and is the only player ever to win the league's top scorer award in eight different seasons.^[3] Athletic Bilbao's Telmo Zarra, who was the competition's all-time top scorer for sixty years until 2014, won the top scorer award six times.^[4] Three other players — Real Madrid's Alfredo Di Stéfano, Quini of Sporting Gijón and Barcelona, and Hugo Sánchez of Atlético Madrid and Real Madrid — each finished as top scorer in five individual seasons.

Lionel Messi is the all-time top scorer in La Liga history with 474 goals

Alfredo Di Stéfano was the first non-European player to score a hundred La Liga goals, though he was a naturalised Spanish citizen by the time he reached the milestone in 1957. Hugo Sánchez became the first North American in 1986 and Samuel Eto'o was the first African to score 100 La Liga goals in 2006.

The most recent player to score 100 goals in the league is Cristhian Stuani, who scored his centennial goal on 24 May 2024. Of active players still contracted to a La Liga club, Mikel Oyarzabal and Iñaki Williams are closest to making this list, having scored 80 La Liga goals each.^[5]

La Liga players with 100 or more goals

Key

• Bold shows players still playing in La Liga.
• Italics show players still playing professional football in other leagues.

As of 15 February 2025^[update][6]

Rank	Player	Goals	Apps	Ratio	First	Last	Club(s) (goals/apps)
1	Lionel Messi	474	520	0.91	2004	2021	Barcelona
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	311	292	1.07	2009	2018	Real Madrid
3	Telmo Zarra	251	277	0.91	1940	1955	Athletic Bilbao
4	Karim Benzema	238	439	0.54	2009	2023	Real Madrid
5	Hugo Sánchez	234	347	0.67	1981	1994	Atlético Madrid (54/111), Real Madrid (164/207), Rayo Vallecano (16/29)
6	Raúl	228	550	0.41	1994	2010	Real Madrid
7	Alfredo Di Stéfano	227	329	0.69	1953	1966	Real Madrid (216/282), Espanyol (11/47)
8	César	221	353	0.63	1940	1960	Granada (23/24), Barcelona (190/287), Cultural Leonesa (3/15), Elche (5/27)
9	Quini	219	448	0.49	1968	1987	Sporting Gijón (165/348), Barcelona (54/100)
10	Pahiño	212	278	0.76	1943	1956	Celta Vigo (57/82), Real Madrid (111/124), Deportivo La Coruña (46/72)
11	Antoine Griezmann	198	516	0.38	2010	2025	Real Sociedad (40/141), Atlético Madrid (136/301), Barcelona (22/74)
12	Mundo	195	231	0.84	1939	1951	Valencia (186/208), Alcoyano (9/21)
13	David Villa	186	352	0.53	2003	2014	Zaragoza (32/73), Valencia (108/166), Barcelona (33/77), Atlético Madrid (13/36)
	Santillana	186	461	0.4	1971	1988	Real Madrid
15	Guillermo Gorostiza	183	255	0.72	1929	1946	Athletic Bilbao (111/140), Valencia (72/115)
16	Juan Arza	182	349	0.52	1943	1959	Sevilla
17	Luis Suárez	179	258	0.69	2014	2022	Barcelona (147/191), Atlético Madrid (32/67)
18	Samuel Eto'o	162	280	0.58	1998	2009	Real Madrid (0/3), Mallorca (54/133), Barcelona (108/144)
	Iago Aspas	162	374	0.43	2012	2025	Celta Vigo (160/358), Sevilla (2/16)
20	Luis Aragonés	160	360	0.44	1960	1975	Oviedo (4/13), Real Betis (33/82), Atlético Madrid (123/253)
21	Aritz Aduriz	158	443	0.36	2002	2020	Athletic Bilbao (118/316), Mallorca (23/69), Valencia (17/58)
22	Ferenc Puskás	156	180	0.87	1958	1966	Real Madrid
23	Julio Salinas	152	417	0.36	1982	2000	Athletic Bilbao (13/68), Atlético Madrid (31/75), Barcelona (60/146), Deportivo La Coruña (12/24), Sporting Gijón (24/54), Alavés (12/50)
24	Adrián Escudero	150	287	0.52	1945	1958	Atlético Madrid
25	Dani	147	303	0.49	1974	1986	Athletic Bilbao
26	Raúl Tamudo	146	407	0.36	1996	2013	Espanyol (129/340), Real Sociedad (7/31), Rayo Vallecano (10/36)
27	Silvestre Igoa	140	283	0.49	1941	1956	Valencia (82/167), Real Sociedad (58/116)
28	Manuel Badenes	139	199	0.7	1946	1959	Castellón (4/11), Barcelona (6/13), Valencia (90/96), Valladolid (35/59), Sporting Gijón (4/20)
	Juan Araujo	139	207	0.67	1945	1956	Sevilla
	José Mari Bakero	139	484	0.29	1980	1997	Real Sociedad (67/224), Barcelona (72/260)
31	László Kubala	138	215	0.64	1950	1964	Barcelona (131/186), Espanyol (7/29)
32	José Luis Panizo	136	326	0.42	1939	1955	Athletic Bilbao
33	Jesús María Satrústegui	133	297	0.45	1973	1986	Real Sociedad
	Ismael Urzaiz	133	438	0.3	1990	2007	Albacete (1/8), Celta Vigo (1/4), Rayo Vallecano (1/20), Espanyol (14/40), Athletic Bilbao (116/366)
35	Joaquín Murillo	131	226	0.58	1954	1964	Valladolid (43/78), Zaragoza (88/148)
36	Fernando Ansola	130	323	0.4	1959	1975	Oviedo (8/16), Real Betis (54/114), Valencia (34/106), Real Sociedad (34/87)
37	Lyuboslav Penev	129	305	0.42	1989	1999	Valencia (67/167), Atlético Madrid (16/37), Compostela (32/69), Celta Vigo (14/32)
	Roberto Soldado	129	323	0.4	2005	2022	Real Madrid (2/16), Osasuna (11/30), Getafe (29/60), Valencia (59/101), Villarreal (9/38), Granada (16/60), Levante (3/18)
	Paco Gento	129	437	0.3	1952	1971	Racing Santander (2/10), Real Madrid (127/427)
40	Diego Forlán	128	240	0.53	2004	2012	Villarreal (54/106), Atlético Madrid (74/134)
	Eneko Arieta	128	244	0.52	1951	1966	Athletic Bilbao
	Álvaro Negredo	128	361	0.35	2007	2024	Almería (32/70), Sevilla (70/139), Valencia (10/55), Cádiz (16/97)
43	Paco Campos	127	204	0.62	1939	1952	Atlético Madrid (120/193), Sporting Gijón (7/11)
44	Mario Kempes	126	222	0.57	1976	1986	Valencia (116/184), Hércules (10/38)
45	Epi Fernández	125	334	0.37	1940	1955	Valencia (79/199), Real Sociedad (46/135)
46	Fernando Morientes	124	337	0.37	1993	2009	Albacete (5/22), Zaragoza (28/66), Real Madrid (72/183), Valencia (19/66)
47	Emilio Butragueño	123	341	0.36	1983	1995	Real Madrid
	Pirri	123	417	0.29	1964	1980	Real Madrid
49	Gerard Moreno	121	316	0.38	2014	2025	Villarreal (85/209), Espanyol (36/107)
50	Herrerita	119	229	0.52	1933	1950	Oviedo (110/212), Barcelona (9/17)
	Amancio	119	344	0.35	1962	1976	Real Madrid
52	Ronaldo	117	164	0.71	1996	2007	Barcelona (34/37), Real Madrid (83/127)
	Agustín Gaínza	117	380	0.31	1940	1959	Athletic Bilbao
54	Waldo	115	216	0.53	1961	1970	Valencia
	Marañón	115	308	0.37	1970	1983	Real Madrid (5/47), Espanyol (110/261)
55	José Juncosa	114	232	0.49	1942	1955	Espanyol (34/44), Atlético Madrid (80/188)
	Davor Šuker	114	239	0.48	1991	1999	Sevilla (76/153), Real Madrid (38/86)
58	Roberto López Ufarte	112	418	0.27	1975	1989	Real Sociedad (101/363), Atlético Madrid (8/27), Real Betis (3/28)
	Raúl García	112	609	0.18	2004	2024	Osasuna (20/101), Atlético Madrid (27/216), Athletic Bilbao (65/292)
60	Carlos Muñoz	111	314	0.35	1984	1996	Elche (5/12), Hércules (5/20), Murcia (4/21), Atlético Madrid (4/21), Oviedo (93/240)
	Pedro Uralde	111	338	0.33	1978	1992	Real Sociedad (61/181), Atlético Madrid (8/36), Athletic Bilbao (34/96), Deportivo La Coruña (8/25)
	José Ángel Ziganda	111	381	0.29	1987	2001	Osasuna (35/126), Athletic Bilbao (77/255)
63	José Eulogio Gárate	109	241	0.45	1966	1977	Atletico Madrid
64	Bata	108	118	0.92	1929	1936	Athletic Bilbao
	Fernando Gómez	108	420	0.26	1983	1998	Valencia
66	Mariano Martín	107	130	0.82	1939	1949	Barcelona (99/112), Gimnàstic (8/18)
	Gonzalo Higuaín	107	190	0.56	2006	2013	Real Madrid
	Rivaldo	107	198	0.54	1996	2002	Deportivo La Coruña (21/41), Barcelona (86/157)
	Pichi Alonso	107	261	0.41	1978	1989	Zaragoza (70/131), Barcelona (12/51), Espanyol (25/79)
	José Luis Artetxe	107	276	0.39	1950	1965	Athletic Bilbao
71	Isidro Lángara	105	90	1.17	1933	1948	Oviedo
	Meho Kodro	105	263	0.4	1991	2000	Real Sociedad (73/129), Barcelona (9/32), Tenerife (18/72), Alavés (5/30)
	Fernando Hierro	105	497	0.21	1987	2003	Valladolid (3/58), Real Madrid (102/439)
74	Hermidita	104	160	0.65	1945	1956	Celta Vigo
	Cristhian Stuani	104	311	0.33	2010	2025	Levante (8/30), Racing Santander (9/32), Espanyol (25/103), Girona (62/146)
76	Cayetano Ré	103	265	0.39	1959	1971	Elche (25/79), Barcelona (55/84), Espanyol (23/102)
	Luis Enrique	103	400	0.26	1989	2004	Sporting Gijón (15/36), Real Madrid (15/157), Barcelona (73/207)
78	Guillermo Campanal	102	157	0.65	1934	1946	Sevilla
	Fernando Torres	102	281	0.36	2002	2018	Atlético Madrid
	Manuel Sarabia	102	363	0.28	1976	1991	Athletic Bilbao (84/284), CD Logroñés (18/79)
81	Victorio Unamuno	101	141	0.72	1928	1942	Athletic Bilbao (72/86), Real Betis (29/55)
	Julen Guerrero	101	372	0.27	1992	2006	Athletic Bilbao
83	Roy Makaay	100	205	0.49	1997	2003	Tenerife (21/72), Deportivo La Coruña (79/133)

Top scorers by season

See also: Pichichi Trophy

Table key

	Indicates player also won the European Golden Shoe in the same season
	Indicates the record number of goals scored in a La Liga season

Season	Player	Club	Goals	Apps	Ratio
1929	Paco Bienzobas	Real Sociedad	17	18	0.94
1929–30	Guillermo Gorostiza	Athletic Bilbao	20	18	1.11
1930–31	Bata	Athletic Bilbao	27	17	1.59
1931–32	Bata (2)	Athletic Bilbao	13[7]	18	0.72
1932–33	Manuel Olivares	Real Madrid	16	14	1.14
1933–34	Isidro Lángara	Oviedo	26	18	1.44
1934–35	Isidro Lángara (2)	Oviedo	27	22	1.23
1935–36	Isidro Lángara (3)	Oviedo	28	21	1.33
1939–40	Víctor Unamuno	Athletic Bilbao	20	22	0.91
1940–41	Pruden	Atlético Madrid	33	22	1.5
1941–42	Mundo	Valencia	27	25	1.08
1942–43	Mariano Martín	Barcelona	30	23	1.3
1943–44	Mundo (2)	Valencia	28	26	1.08
1944–45	Telmo Zarra	Athletic Bilbao	20	26	0.77
1945–46	Telmo Zarra (2)	Athletic Bilbao	24	18	1.33
1946–47	Telmo Zarra (3)	Athletic Bilbao	33	24	1.38
1947–48	Pahiño	Celta Vigo	20	22	0.91
1948–49	César	Barcelona	27	24	1.13
1949–50	Telmo Zarra (4)	Athletic Bilbao	24	26	0.92
1950–51	Telmo Zarra (5)	Athletic Bilbao	38	30	1.27
1951–52	Pahiño (2)	Real Madrid	28	27	1.04
1952–53	Telmo Zarra (6)	Athletic Bilbao	24	29	0.83
1953–54	Alfredo Di Stéfano	Real Madrid	27	28	0.96
1954–55	Juan Arza	Sevilla	28	29	0.97
1955–56	Alfredo Di Stéfano (2)	Real Madrid	24	30	0.8
1956–57	Alfredo Di Stéfano (3)	Real Madrid	31	30	1.03
1957–58	Ricardo Alós	Valencia	19	29	0.66
	Manuel Badenes	Valladolid	19	29	0.66
	Alfredo Di Stéfano (4)	Real Madrid	19	30	0.63
1958–59	Alfredo Di Stéfano (5)	Real Madrid	23	28	0.82
1959–60	Ferenc Puskás	Real Madrid	25	24	1.04
1960–61	Ferenc Puskás (2)	Real Madrid	28	28	1
1961–62	Juan Seminario	Zaragoza	25	30	0.83
1962–63	Ferenc Puskás (3)	Real Madrid	26	30	0.87
1963–64	Ferenc Puskás (4)	Real Madrid	21	25	0.84
1964–65	Cayetano Ré	Barcelona	26	30	0.87
1965–66	Luis Aragonés	Atlético Madrid	18[8]	28	0.64
1966–67	Waldo	Valencia	24	30	0.8
1967–68	Fidel Uriarte	Athletic Bilbao	22	24	0.92
1968–69	Amancio	Real Madrid	14	29	0.48
	José Eulogio Gárate	Atlético Madrid	14	30	0.47
1969–70	Amancio (2)	Real Madrid	16	29	0.55
	Luis Aragonés (2)	Atlético Madrid	16	30	0.53
	José Eulogio Gárate (2)	Atlético Madrid	16	30	0.53
1970–71	José Eulogio Gárate (3)	Atlético Madrid	17	28	0.61
	Carles Rexach	Barcelona	17	28	0.61
1971–72	Enrique Porta	Granada	20	31	0.65
1972–73	Marianín	Oviedo	19	32	0.59
1973–74	Quini	Sporting Gijón	20	34	0.59
1974–75	Carlos	Athletic Bilbao	19	32	0.59
1975–76	Quini (2)	Sporting Gijón	21	34	0.62
1976–77	Mario Kempes	Valencia	24	34	0.71
1977–78	Mario Kempes (2)	Valencia	28	34	0.82
1978–79	Hans Krankl	Barcelona	29	30	0.97
1979–80	Quini (3)	Sporting Gijón	24	34	0.71
1980–81	Quini (4)	Barcelona	20	30	0.67
1981–82	Quini (5)	Barcelona	27	32	0.84
1982–83	Poli Rincón	Real Betis	20	30	0.67
1983–84	Jorge da Silva	Valladolid	17	30	0.57
	Juanito	Real Madrid	17	31	0.55
1984–85	Hugo Sánchez	Atlético Madrid	19	33	0.58
1985–86	Hugo Sánchez (2)	Real Madrid	22	33	0.67
1986–87	Hugo Sánchez (3)	Real Madrid	34	41	0.83
1987–88	Hugo Sánchez (4)	Real Madrid	29	36	0.81
1988–89	Baltazar	Atlético Madrid	35	36	0.97
1989–90	Hugo Sánchez (5)	Real Madrid	38	35	1.09
1990–91	Emilio Butragueño	Real Madrid	19	35	0.54
1991–92	Manolo	Atlético Madrid	27	36	0.75
1992–93	Bebeto	Deportivo La Coruña	29	37	0.78
1993–94	Romário	Barcelona	30	33	0.91
1994–95	Iván Zamorano	Real Madrid	28	38	0.74
1995–96	Juan Antonio Pizzi	Tenerife	31	41	0.76
1996–97	Ronaldo	Barcelona	34	37	0.92
1997–98	Christian Vieri	Atlético Madrid	24	24	1
1998–99	Raúl	Real Madrid	25	37	0.68
1999–2000	Salva Ballesta	Racing Santander	27	36	0.75
2000–01	Raúl (2)	Real Madrid	24	36	0.67
2001–02	Diego Tristán	Deportivo La Coruña	20	35	0.57
2002–03	Roy Makaay	Deportivo La Coruña	29	38	0.76
2003–04	Ronaldo (2)	Real Madrid	24	32	0.75
2004–05	Diego Forlán	Villarreal	25	38	0.66
	Samuel Eto'o	Barcelona	25[9]	37	0.68
2005–06	Samuel Eto'o (2)	Barcelona	26	34	0.76
2006–07	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Real Madrid	25	37	0.68
2007–08	Dani Güiza	Mallorca	27	37	0.73
2008–09	Diego Forlán (2)	Atlético Madrid	32	33	0.97
2009–10	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	34	35	0.97
2010–11	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	40	34	1.18
2011–12	Lionel Messi (2)	Barcelona	50	37	1.35
2012–13	Lionel Messi (3)	Barcelona	46	32	1.44
2013–14	Cristiano Ronaldo (2)	Real Madrid	31	30	1.03
2014–15	Cristiano Ronaldo (3)	Real Madrid	48	35	1.37
2015–16	Luis Suárez	Barcelona	40	35	1.11
2016–17	Lionel Messi (4)	Barcelona	37	34	1.09
2017–18	Lionel Messi (5)	Barcelona	34	36	0.94
2018–19	Lionel Messi (6)	Barcelona	36	34	1.06
2019–20	Lionel Messi (7)	Barcelona	25	33	0.76
2020–21	Lionel Messi (8)	Barcelona	30	35	0.86
2021–22	Karim Benzema	Real Madrid	27	32	0.84
2022–23	Robert Lewandowski	Barcelona	23	34	0.68
2023–24	Artem Dovbyk	Girona	24	36	0.67

See also

• Pichichi Trophy
• European Golden Shoe
• Premier League Golden Boot
• List of Bundesliga top scorers by season
• List of Ligue 1 top scorers
• Capocannoniere

References

• Ranking at WorldFootball.net

Notes

1. "Barcelona 4-0 Espanyol | La Liga match report". The Guardian. Associated Press. 5 May 2012. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 23 August 2023. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
2. michaeljblack. "La Liga Top Scorers of All-Time – La Liga News". Archived from the original on 22 July 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
3. "Messi holds off Benzema to land record seventh Pichichi award". beIN Sports. Archived from the original on 20 September 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
4. Nemer, Roy (20 July 2020). "Lionel Messi wins Pichichi award with Barcelona, beats previous record | Mundo Albiceleste". Archived from the original on 29 August 2023. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
5. "Goals in First Division". BDFutbol.
6. "Ranking Goals First Division". BD Futbol. Archived from the original on 21 September 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
7. Marca awarded the Pichichi to Guillermo Gorostiza, whom they credited with 12 goals.
8. Marca awarded the Pichichi to Vavá II, whom they credited with 19 goals.
9. Marca did not award the Pichichi to Eto'o, whom they credited with 24 goals.

Citations

• Liga de Fútbol Profesional historical archive
• Bravo, Luis Javier; Sillipp, Bernhard; Torre, Raúl; Di Maggio, Roberto (25 June 2015). "List of all Pichichi winners". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
• Martínez Calatrava, Vicente (2002). Historia y estadística del fúbol español. De la Olimpiada de Amberes a la Guerra Civil (1920–1939). ISBN 84-607-5767-6
• Martínez Calatrava, Vicente (2002). Historia y estadística del fútbol español. De la Guerra Civil al Mundial de Brasil (1939–1950). ISBN 978-84-607-8817-1
• Martínez Calatrava, Vicente (2002). Historia y estadística del fútbol español. Del gol de Zarra al gol de Marcelino (1950–1964). ISBN 978-84-609-2967-3
• Martínez Calatrava, Vicente (2002). Historia y estadística del fútbol español. Del Campeonato de Europa al Mundial de España (1964–1982). ISBN 978-84-611-0295-2
• Martínez Calatrava, Vicente (2002). Historia y estadística del fútbol español. Del Mundial 82 a la final española de París (1982–2001) ISBN 978-84-612-2007-6

External links

• LFP - Historical squads for every season of the league including official goal scoring stats
• Top 10 La Liga Golden Boot winners
• Top 10 Highest Goalscorers in La Liga History