Arsenal top scorers 2024/25: Who is leading the club's goal rankings?

Updated: 3 Sept 2024 09:56 BST
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Arsenal entered the 2024/25 season, their fifth full campaign under Mikel Arteta, desperate to improve on back-to-back runner-up finishes in the Premier League.

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The Gunners pushed Manchester City all the way to the final game last season but once again narrowly missed out on glory in England’s top-flight, as Pep Guardiola’s side celebrated a fourth straight title.

Despite huge progress in the league over recent years, silverware has not been flowing for Arsenal, with Arteta only having one FA Cup and two Community Shields to his name so far.

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There is therefore pressure for the club to deliver trophies in 2024/25 after coming so close in previous seasons.

The race to become Arsenal top scorer should again be an interesting one.

Bukayo Saka has topped the club’s scoring standings for three straight seasons, an impressive record for a player who usually brings much more than goals.

England winger Saka scored 20 goals in all competitions last season. That came after he shared the scoring crown with Gabriel Martinelli and Martin Odegaard after netting 15 times in 2022/23 and came out on top in 2021/22 despite scoring just 12 times that year.

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Saka is therefore the man to beat in the battle to score the most goals for Arsenal in the 2024/25 season.

If he becomes the leading Arsenal goalscorer again this season, he will be more than halfway towards matching club legend Thierry Henry, who topped the goal charts in a stunning seven straight campaigns.

Saka knew he was likely to face competition from the likes of Martinelli, Odegaard, Kai Havertz, Gabriel Jesus and Leandro Trossard.

But with Mikel Merino and Raheem Sterling now signed too, there are some new Arsenal transfer additions who will also hope to stake their claim. That did not always look like it would be the case, as the biggest purchase until the final days of the window was a defender: Italy international Riccardo Calafiori.

This page will be updated with Arsenal’s top scorers in the Premier League and all competitions after every matchday this season.

Arsenal: Premier League top scorers 2024/25

Arsenal have scored five goals in three Premier League matches played so far this season.

Arsenal top scorers in EPL

Player	Goals
Kai Havertz	2
Bukayo Saka	1
Thomas Partey	1
Leandro Trossard	1

Arsenal made a strong start to their title pursuit with a 2-0 home win over Wolves on Matchday 1. The Gunners netted once in each half, with Kai Havertz and Bukayo Saka scoring the goals.

The score was also 2-0 in Arsenal's second match of the season, an impressive win away against an Aston Villa team who made the top four last year. Both goals came in the second half, with Leandro Trossard and Thomas Partey netting for the Gunners.

Havertz now leads the scoring standings after getting his second goal of the campaign at home to Brighton, a match which saw Saka get his third assist in as many games. Arsenal's 100% start to the campaign is over, though, with Brighton claiming a 1-1 draw after Declan Rice was sent off.

Arsenal top scorers in all competitions 2024/25

As well as the Premier League, a busy season for Arsenal will include them playing in the Champions League, FA Cup and Carabao Cup.

They are yet to play outside of the EPL but did find out their UEFA Champions League opponents in the draw last week. They will play against the likes of Inter, PSG and Girona this season.

Arsenal top scorers overall

Player	Goals
Kai Havertz	2
Bukayo Saka	1
Thomas Partey	1
Leandro Trossard	1

Arsenal next fixtures

Arsenal fixtures for 2024/25 include their next match, a huge north London derby away against rivalsTottenham after the international break. That contest will take place on Sunday September 15.

The next EPL test is away again in another massive match versus title rivals Man City, so we will already be hitting a crucial period of the season for the club when their players return from international action.

Other matches on the schedule in September include the first Champions League match of the season at home against Atalanta on Thursday September 19.

Arsenal: Top scorers by season

Season	Player	Goals
2023/24	Bukayo Saka	20
2022/23	Saka/Martinelli/Odegaard (shared)	15
2021/22	Bukayo Saka	12
2020/21	Alexandre Lacazette	17
2019/20	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	29
2018/19	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	31
2017/18	Alexandre Lacazette	17
2016/17	Alexis Sanchez	30
2015/16	Olivier Giroud	24
2014/15	Alexis Sanchez	25
2013/14	Olivier Giroud	22
2012/13	Theo Walcott	21
2011/12	Robin van Persie	37
2010/11	Robin van Persie	22
2009/10	Cesc Fabregas	19
2008/09	Robin van Persie	20
2007/08	Emmanuel Adebayor	30
2006/07	Robin van Persie	13
2005/06	Thierry Henry	33
2004/05	Thierry Henry	30

There is an impressive list of players who have been named the Arsenal top scorer in previous seasons.

Thierry Henry is the standout name, topping the club's scoring standings for seven straight seasons from the 1999/00 campaign until 2005/06. He was dethroned by Robin van Persie the following campaign before joining Barcelona.

Van Persie impressively topped the Arsenal goal rankings four times in his career.

Other multiple winners include Alexis Sanchez, Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

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Aubameyang was the last Arsenal player to score 30 goals in a season, striking 31 times in the 2018/19 campaign.

Sanchez, Van Persie, Emmanuel Adebayor and Ian Wright also have 30-goal seasons to their names in the Premier League era, while Henry superbly breached that barrier in five of the seven campaigns he came out on top.

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The 39 goals scored across all competitions by Henry in Arsenal's 2003/04 Invincibles season is the highest total in this century.

Ted Drake was the last Arsenal player to score 40 or more goals in a season, netting a club-record 44 times in the 1934-35 season.

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Arsenal players have won the Premier League Golden Boot award on six occasions, putting the club second overall behind Liverpool, who have had seven wins.

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Thierry Henry is responsible for four of those successes, three of which came in consecutive seasons. He won the Golden Boot four times in five years, with only Ruud van Nistelrooy (2002/03) disrupting that run.

Henry holds the Premier League record for most Golden Boot wins, one title clear of three-time winners Alan Shearer, Mohamed Salah and Harry Kane.

His best league total was 30 goals in the Gunners' famous unbeaten 2003/04 Premier League season.

Arsenal: EPL Golden Boot winners

Season	Winner	Goals
2018/19	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	22
2011/12	Robin van Persie	30
2005/06	Thierry Henry	27
2004/05	Thierry Henry	25
2003/04	Thierry Henry	30
2001/02	Thierry Henry	24

Robin van Persie won the Golden Boot for Arsenal in the 2011/12 season, scoring 30 Premier League goals. He then moved to Manchester United and won the award, as well as the league title, with his new club the following season.

The most recent Arsenal Golden Boot win was in 2018/19, when Pierre-Emerick Aubemayang scored 22 top-flight goals. He shared the award rather than winning it outright, as his total was tied with two Liverpool players: Salah and Sadio Mane.

Arsenal all-time top scorers

Player	Goals	Games
1. Thierry Henry	228	377
2. Ian Wright	185	288
3. Cliff Bastin	178	396

Thierry Henry is the all-time Arsenal top scorer with 228 goals, a total he reached in only 377 matches.

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He netted 175 of those goals in the Premier League and the other 53 in other competitions. The former France star has held the record since 2005, when he passed club great Ian Wright in the club’s overall scoring standings.

Wright remains in second place with 185 goals and Cliff Bastin is in third with 178.