Highest La Liga Goalscorers All-Time: Where is Messi?

Nov 26, 2019

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Highest La Liga Goalscorers All-Time

Highest La Liga Goalscorers All-Time? Who are the highest Goalscorers in the Spanish La Liga of all time? Is it Lionel Messi? Are these two fantastic players on the list? Well, let’s find out as we have prepared a list of the Highest La Liga Goalscorers All-Time.

The Spanish La Liga was formed as Spain’s top division league in 1929 since then Athletic Bilbao’s Telmo Zarra held the record of being the competition’s all-time top scorer until 2014. He was the top scorer for six seasons of the Spanish league between the years 1945 and 1953.

Top 10 La Liga Top Scorers 2019/20

Here are the current top scorers in La Liga 2019/20 season.

*As of 26 October 2019:

#	Player	Team	Nationality	Goals
1.	Karim Benzema	Real Madrid	France	10
2.	Gerard Moreno	Villarreal	Spain	8
3.	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	Argentina	8
4.	Loren Moron	Real Betis	Spain	8
5.	Lucas Pérez	Alavés	Spain	7
6.	Luis Suarez	Barcelona	Uruguay	7
7.	Daniel Parejo	Valencia	Spain	6
8.	Joselu	Alavés	Spain	6
9.	Maximiliano Gómez	Valencia	Uruguay	6
10.	Willian José	Real Sociedad	Brazil	6

All Time Highest Goal Scorer in La Liga

Who is the all time leading goal scorer in the Spanish La Liga? Let’s find out. Lionel Messi is the all time leading goal scorer with 427 goals in 460 appearances. The Argentine has only played for Barcelona in the league as it is where he kick started his career through the clubs youth ranks.

In second is rival Cristiano Ronaldo who left La Liga in 2018 and had managed to score 311 goals in 292 appearances for Real Madrid making him the second all time leading goal scorer in La Liga.

Cristiano Ronaldo has the best goal ratio among all the players on the list with a ratio of 1.896 per goal.

All time highest Goalscorers in Spanish La Liga

We have prepared a list with the Top 20 Highest La Liga Goalscorers of All Time. Here is the full list of the all time leading Goalscorers in La Liga. Enjoy!

Rank	Player	Years	Goals	Apps	Ratio
1	Lionel Messi	2004–	427	460	0.92
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	2009–2018	311	292	1.07
3	Telmo Zarra	1940–1955	251	278	0.9
4	Hugo Sánchez	1981–1994	234	347	0.67
5	Raúl	1994–2010	228	550	0.41
6	Alfredo Di Stéfano	1953–1966	227	329	0.69
7	César Rodríguez	1939–1955	223	353	0.63
8	Quini	1970–1987	219	448	0.49
9	Pahiño	1943–1956	210	278	0.76
10	Edmundo Suárez	1939–1950	195	231	0.84
11	Santillana	1970–1988	186	461	0.4
12	David Villa	2003–2014	185	352	0.53
13	Juan Arza	1943–1959	182	349	0.52
14	Guillermo Gorostiza	1929–1945	178	256	0.7
15	Samuel Eto’o	1998–2008	162	280	0.58
16	Luis Aragonés	1960–1974	160	360	0.44
17	Karim Benzema	2009–	158	324	0.49
18	Aritz Aduriz	2002–	158	439	0.36
19	Ferenc Puskás	1958–1966	156	180	0.87
20	Julio Salinas	1982–2000	152	417	0.36

Goalscorers with most hat-tricks in Spanish La Liga

Rank	Player	Hat-tricks	Last hat-trick
1	Lionel Messi	34	9 November 2019
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	34	18 March 2018
3	Telmo Zarra	23	15 March 1953
4	Alfredo di Stéfano	22	15 March 1964
5	Mundo	19	4 March 1951
6	César Rodríguez	15	19 October 1952
7	Isidro Lángara	13	15 December 1946
8	Ferenc Puskás	12	15 December 1963
9	László Kubala	11	19 March 1961
	Pahiño		11 September 1955
	Manuel Badenes		29 March 1958
12	Quini	10	7 October 1981
12	Luis Suárez	10	28 October 2018