THE WORLD'S BEST TOP GOAL SCORER 2020 : ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI (POLAND/FC BAYERN MÜNCHEN)
Posted on Dec 31, 2020 | Best GoalScorer Category
Picture : Second IFFHS Award for Robert Lewandowski after 2015
The World’s Best Top Goal Scorer 2020: Robert Lewandowski (Poland/FC Bayern München)
Robert Lewandowski led the category during most part of the year and comfortably finished on top with 47 goals scored in total: 32 in Bundesliga, 5 in “DFB-Pokal” (National Cup), 8 in Champions League, 2 for Poland.
Cristiano Ronaldo was productive in December with 7 goals but this wasn’t enough to create tangible competition at the finish line.
Erling Haaland unfortunately missed December due to injury and dropped to 4th place in the ranking letting Romelu Lukaku to finish on third place.
The most productive for Lewandowski was the Bundesliga game against Hertha (4:3, October 4) when he scored 4 goals. Also he made another hat-trick vs Eintracht Frankfurt (5:0, October 24) and 11 doubles. It is the second IFFHS Award for King 2020 Robert after 2015.
RANKING THE WORLD'S BEST TOP GOAL SCORER 2020
| Player | Club | Country | Goals | Total | |||||
| NL | NC | ICC | NT | ||||||
| 1 | Robert Lewandowski | Bayern (Germany) | Poland | 32 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 47 | |
| 2 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Juventus (Italy) | Portugal | 33 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 44 | |
| 3 | Romelu Lukaku | Internazionale (Italy) | Belgium | 22 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 40 | |
| 4 | Erling Haaland | Borussia Dortmund (Germany) | Norway | 23 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 39 | |
| 5 | Junior Negrão | Ulsan (South Korea) | Brazil | 26 | 2 | 7 | 35 | ||
| 6 | Ciro Immobile | Lazio | Italy | 28 | 1 | 5 | 34 | ||
| 7 | Jean Pierre Nsamé | Young Boys (Switzerland) | Cameroon | 23 | 3 | 7 | 33 | ||
| 8 | Rauno Sappinen | Flora | Estonia | 26 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 33 | |
| 9 | Nikita Rukavytsya | Maccabi Haifa (Israel) | Australia | 25 | 1 | 4 | 30 | ||
| 10 | Marcel Hernández | Cartaginés (Costa Rica) | Cuba | 30 | 30 | ||||
| 11 | Abderrazak Hamdallah | Al Nassr (Saudi Arabia) | Morocco | 20 | 2 | 7 | 29 | ||
| 12 | Kylian Mbappé | PSG | France | 19 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 29 | |
| 13 | Michael Olunga | Kashiwa Reysol (Japan) | Kenya | 28 | 1 | 29 | |||
| 14 | Bruno Fernandes | Sporting, Manchester United (England) | Portugal | 20 | 1 | 7 | 28 | ||
| 15 | Kasper Junker | Bodø/Glimt (Norway) | Denmark | 27 | 1 | 28 | |||
| 16 | André-Pierre Gignac | Tigres UANL (Mexico) | France | 21 | 6 | 27 | |||
| 17 | Lionel Messi | Barcelona (Spain) | Argentina | 19 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 27 | |
| 18 | Bafétimbi Gomis | Al Hilal (Saudi Arabia) | France | 23 | 1 | 3 | 27 | ||
| 19 | Cristian Borja | LDU Quito (Equador) | Colombia | 24 | 1 | 2 | 27 | ||
| 20 | Ramiro Rocca | Municipal (Guatemala) | Argentina | 26 | 1 | 27 | |||
| 21 | Marcos Riquelme | Bolívar (Bolivia) | Argentina | 20 | 6 | 26 | |||
| 22 | Youssef El-Arabi | Olympiakos (Greece) | Morocco | 22 | 3 | 1 | 26 | ||
| 23 | Mohamed Salah | Liverpool (England) | Egypt | 23 | 3 | 26 | |||
| 24 | Dragan Ćeran | Pakhtakor (Uzbekistan) | Serbia | 21 | 3 | 2 | 26 | ||
| 25 | Patrick Fabiano | Al Salmiyah (Kuwait) | East Timor | 23 | 3 | 26 | |||
| 26 | Klæmint Olsen | NSI | Faroe Islands | 17 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 25 | |
| 27 | Paulinho (João Paulo Dias Fernandes) | Braga | Portugal | 15 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 25 | |
| 28 | Lukáš Juliš | Sigma, Sparta Praha | Czech Republic | 18 | 2 | 5 | 25 | ||
| 29 | Patson Daka | Salzburg (Austria) | Zambia | 18 | 5 | 2 | 25 | ||
| 30 | Amahl Pellegrino | Kristiansund | Norway | 25 | 25 | ||||
| 31 | Igor Sergeev | Pakhtakor | Uzbekistan | 16 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 24 | |
| 32 | André Silva | Eintracht (Germany) | Portugal | 18 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 24 | |
| 33 | Olivier Girou | Chelsea (England) | France | 11 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 23 | |
| 34 | Timo Werner | Leipzig/Chelsea (England) | Germany | 14 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 23 | |
| 35 | Harry Kane | Tottenham | England | 16 | 1 | 6 | 23 | ||
| 36 | Akram Afif | Al Sadd | Qatar | 15 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 23 | |
| 37 | Karim Benzema | Real Madrid (Spain) | France | 17 | 1 | 5 | 23 | ||
| 38 | Artem Dzyuba | Zenit | Russia | 17 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 23 | |
| 39 | Maksim Skavysh | BATE | Belarus | 19 | 3 | 1 | 23 | ||
| 40 | Jonathan Rodríguez | Cruz Azul (Mexico) | Uruguay | 22 | 1 | 23 | |||
| 41 | Omar Al Somah | Al Ahli (Saudi Arabia) | Syria | 19 | 3 | 1 | 23 | ||
| 42 | Neymar | PSG (France) | Brazil | 8 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 22 | |
| 43 | Dennis Man | FCSB | Romania | 15 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 22 | |
| 44 | Odsonne Édouard | Celtic (Scotland) | France | 15 | 1 | 6 | 22 | ||
| 45 | Alexander Sørloth | Trabzonspor (Turkey), Leipzig (Germany) | Norway | 12 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 22 | |
| 46 | Marinho (Mário Sérgio Santos Costa) | Santos | Brazil | 18 | 4 | 22 | |||
| 47 | Brenner | São Paulo | Brazil | 12 | 6 | 4 | 22 | ||
| 48 | Philip Zinckernagel | Bodø/Glimt (Norway) | Denmark | 19 | 3 | 22 | |||
| 49 | Son Heung-Min | Tottenham (England) | South Korea | 17 | 2 | 3 | 22 | ||
| 50 | Wout Weghorst | Wolfsburg (Germany) | Netherlands | 18 | 2 | 2 | 22 | ||
| 51 | Sardar Azmoun | Zenit (Russia) | Iran | 21 | 1 | 22 | |||
| 52 | Zlatan Ibrahimović | Milan (Italy) | Sweden | 20 | 1 | 1 | 22 | ||
| 53 | Emilio Zelaya | Apollon (Cyprus), Damak (Saudi Arabia) | Argentina | 21 | 1 | 22 | |||
| 54 | Stanislav Iljutcenko | Pohang Steelers (South Korea) | Germany | 19 | 3 | 22 | |||
| All goals at top senior level are counted (top national divisions, national cups, official international tournaments, official games between national teams). | |||||||||
| Brazilian state championships Paulista and Carioca have status equal to national leagues (according to IFFHS decision). | |||||||||
| Abbreviatures: | |||||||||
| NL – National League | |||||||||
| NC – National Cups | |||||||||
| ICC – International Club Competitions | |||||||||
| NT – National Team | |||||||||
| Period: from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020. | |||||||||
| Tiebreaking criteria in case of equal number of total goals: 1) international goals (ICC + NT), 2) goals scored for national team (NT), 3) goals scored in domestic league (NL), 4) strength of the league (according to IFFHS ranking), 5) number of total games played. | |||||||||