CIES 2020 Top Scorer List : Arokodare Ahead Of Messi, Salah, Lukaku; Two Other Nigerians In Top 127

Published: September 28, 2020

CIES Football Observatory has revealed the top 127 footballers who have scored at least 10 goals in 94 top division leagues worldwide during the calendar year 2020, with three Nigerian players making the cut.

The top ranked Nigerian player is former Golden Eaglets striker Tolu Arokodare who notched up fifteen goals for Valmiera in the Latvian Virsliga before heading to Cologne on loan for the remainder of the season.

Perhaps, Arokadare's goals could have been more if not for the two matches he missed in August as he attempted to force a move away from Valmiera.

Only fifteen players scored more goals than Arokadare in the period under review, January 1 to September 21, 2020.

The 19-year-old registered more goals than world class strikers such as Mohamed Salah (13), Barcelona captain Lionel Messi (12), Romelu Lukaku (11) and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (10).

2002 World Cup star Bartholomew Ogbeche and KF Laci's Kyrian Nwabueze are in the top 127, scoring 11 and 10 goals respectively.

Arokadare scored a goal every 92.1 minutes, Ogbeche found the net in every 65.5 minutes and Nwabueze a goal in every 116.9 minutes.

Ulsan Hyundai's Júnior Negão tops the list with 24 goals, followed by Juventus superstar Cristiano Ronaldo (22), Flora Tallinn's Rauno Sappinen and CS Cartagines' Marcel Hernández (21).

By weighting goals with the sporting level of the competition in which they were scored using the exclusive CIES Football Observatory coefficient, Ronaldo is at the top of the rankings ahead of Ciro Immobile (Lazio), Robert Lewandowski (Bayern) and Erling Haland (Borussia Dortmund).

Igho Kingsley

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