We have taken each striker to have scored 50 or more goals in the Premier League.
In a list of top goalscorers, Drogba’s 100 goals in the league for Chelsea put him 23rd in the list - joint with Matt Le Tissier and behind Emile Heskey, who bagged 110. However, Drogba played in just 226 Premier League matches compared to Heskey’s 516.
His goals per game ratio stands at 0.44 - that’s a goal every 2.26 games.
On that statistic, Drogba finds himself ranked in 12th place, while Henry, van Nistelrooy, and Suarez make up the top three.
Top of the all time goalscoring list are Shearer, Andrew Cole, and Henry.
Name | Goals | Games | Goals per game | Games per goal |
Alan Shearer | 260 | 441 | 0.59 | 1.70 |
Andrew Cole | 187 | 414 | 0.45 | 2.21 |
Thierry Henry | 175 | 258 | 0.68 | 1.47 |
Frank Lampard | 170 | 573 | 0.30 | 3.37 |
Wayne Rooney | 167 | 369 | 0.45 | 2.21 |
Robbie Fowler | 163 | 379 | 0.43 | 2.33 |
Michael Owen | 150 | 326 | 0.46 | 2.17 |
Les Ferdinand | 149 | 351 | 0.42 | 2.36 |
Teddy Sheringham | 146 | 418 | 0.35 | 2.86 |
Robin van Persie | 133 | 250 | 0.53 | 1.88 |
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink | 127 | 288 | 0.44 | 2.27 |
Robbie Keane | 126 | 349 | 0.36 | 2.77 |
Nicolas Anelka | 125 | 364 | 0.34 | 2.91 |
Jermain Defoe | 124 | 381 | 0.33 | 3.07 |
Dwight Yorke | 123 | 375 | 0.33 | 3.05 |
Ian Wright | 113 | 213 | 0.53 | 1.88 |
Dion Dublin | 111 | 312 | 0.36 | 2.81 |
Emile Heskey | 110 | 516 | 0.21 | 4.69 |
Ryan Giggs | 109 | 631 | 0.17 | 5.79 |
Steven Gerrard | 108 | 464 | 0.23 | 4.30 |
Paul Scholes | 107 | 499 | 0.21 | 4.66 |
Darren Bent | 106 | 267 | 0.40 | 2.52 |
Didier Drogba | 100 | 226 | 0.44 | 2.26 |
Matthew Le Tissier | 100 | 270 | 0.37 | 2.70 |
Ruud Van Nistelrooy | 95 | 150 | 0.63 | 1.58 |
Yakubu | 95 | 252 | 0.38 | 2.65 |
Dimitar Berbatov | 94 | 229 | 0.41 | 2.44 |
Mark Viduka | 92 | 240 | 0.38 | 2.61 |
Kevin Phillips | 92 | 263 | 0.35 | 2.86 |
Emmanuel Adebayor | 91 | 211 | 0.43 | 2.32 |
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer | 91 | 235 | 0.39 | 2.58 |
James Beattie | 91 | 331 | 0.27 | 3.64 |
Kevin Davies | 88 | 444 | 0.20 | 5.05 |
Dennis Bergkamp | 87 | 315 | 0.28 | 3.62 |
Peter Crouch | 86 | 353 | 0.24 | 4.10 |
Louis Saha | 85 | 289 | 0.29 | 3.40 |
Cristiano Ronaldo | 84 | 196 | 0.43 | 2.33 |
Carlos Tévez | 84 | 202 | 0.42 | 2.40 |
Fernando Torres | 84 | 205 | 0.41 | 2.44 |
Chris Sutton | 83 | 255 | 0.33 | 3.07 |
Kevin Campbell | 83 | 325 | 0.26 | 3.92 |
Craig Bellamy | 81 | 287 | 0.28 | 3.54 |
Gary Speed | 80 | 535 | 0.15 | 6.69 |
Tony Cottee | 78 | 220 | 0.35 | 2.82 |
Chris Armstrong | 71 | 216 | 0.33 | 3.04 |
Brian Deane | 71 | 286 | 0.25 | 4.03 |
Eric Cantona | 70 | 156 | 0.45 | 2.23 |
Duncan Ferguson | 68 | 269 | 0.25 | 3.96 |
Kevin Nolan | 68 | 362 | 0.19 | 5.32 |
Paolo Di Canio | 66 | 190 | 0.35 | 2.88 |
Gabriel Agbonlahor | 66 | 266 | 0.25 | 4.03 |
Mark Hughes | 64 | 297 | 0.22 | 4.64 |
Luis Suarez | 63 | 101 | 0.62 | 1.60 |
Dean Holdsworth | 63 | 228 | 0.28 | 3.62 |
Stan Collymore | 62 | 163 | 0.38 | 2.63 |
Robert Pires | 62 | 198 | 0.31 | 3.19 |
David Beckham | 62 | 265 | 0.23 | 4.27 |
Gianfranco Zola | 59 | 229 | 0.26 | 3.88 |
Niall Quinn | 59 | 250 | 0.24 | 4.24 |
Peter Beardsley | 58 | 185 | 0.31 | 3.19 |
Clint Dempsey | 57 | 218 | 0.26 | 3.82 |
Harry Kewell | 57 | 274 | 0.21 | 4.81 |
Lee Bowyer | 57 | 397 | 0.14 | 6.96 |
Kevin Gallacher | 56 | 198 | 0.28 | 3.54 |
Tim Cahill | 56 | 226 | 0.25 | 4.04 |
Jason Euell | 56 | 264 | 0.21 | 4.71 |
John Hartson | 55 | 155 | 0.35 | 2.82 |
Eidur Gudjohnsen | 55 | 211 | 0.26 | 3.84 |
Daniel Sturridge | 54 | 131 | 0.41 | 2.43 |
Gustavo Poyet | 54 | 187 | 0.29 | 3.46 |
Kanu | 54 | 273 | 0.20 | 5.06 |
Damien Duff | 54 | 392 | 0.14 | 7.26 |
Nick Barmby | 53 | 343 | 0.15 | 6.47 |
Efan Ekoku | 52 | 160 | 0.33 | 3.08 |
Darius Vassell | 52 | 265 | 0.20 | 5.10 |
Trevor Sinclair | 52 | 361 | 0.14 | 6.94 |
Andrew Johnson | 51 | 187 | 0.27 | 3.67 |
Dirk Kuyt | 51 | 208 | 0.25 | 4.08 |
Sergio Agüero | 50 | 81 | 0.62 | 1.62 |
Mark Bright | 50 | 143 | 0.35 | 2.86 |
Paulo Wanchope | 50 | 156 | 0.32 | 3.12 |
Carlton Cole | 50 | 259 | 0.19 | 5.18 |
Danny Murphy | 50 | 417 | 0.12 | 8.34 |
Gareth Barry | 50 | 520 | 0.10 | 10.40 |