In this article we look at the top 10 goalscorers in Serie A history
Table
| Rank | Player | Club(s) | Goals | Apps | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silvio Piola | Pro Vercelli, Lazio, Juventus, Novara | 274 | 537 | 0.51 |
| 2 | Francesco Totti | Roma | 250 | 619 | 0.4 |
| 3 | Gunnar Nordahl | AC Milan, Roma | 225 | 291 | 0.77 |
| 4 | Giuseppe Meazza | Inter Milan, AC Milan, Juventus | 216 | 367 | 0.59 |
| José Altafini | AC Milan, Napoli, Juventus | 216 | 459 | 0.47 | |
| 6 | Antonio Di Natale | Empoli, Udinese | 209 | 445 | 0.47 |
| 7 | Roberto Baggio | Fiorentina, Juventus, AC Milan, Bologna, Inter Milan, Brescia | 205 | 452 | 0.45 |
| 8 | Kurt Hamrin | Juventus, Padova, Fiorentina, AC Milan, Napoli | 190 | 400 | 0.48 |
| 9 | Giuseppe Signori | Foggia, Lazio, Sampdoria, Bologna | 188 | 344 | 0.55 |
| Alessandro Del Piero | Juventus | 188 | 478 | 0.39 | |
| Alberto Gilardino | Piacenza, Hellas Verona, Parma, AC Milan, Fiorentina, Genoa, Bologna, Palermo | 188 | 502 | 0.37 |
Summary
The all time top scorer is Silvio Piola, he played 566 Serie A games, putting him fourth on the all-time list for appearances in Italy’s top flight. Piola is the only player to have the honour of being the all-time Serie A top scorer of three different teams (Pro Vercelli, Lazio and Novara). He also played 34 games for Italy and score 30 goals. What is more surprising that a few years of his career was lost because of Word War 2.
The Italian striker finished as the Serie A top goalscorer during the 1936-37 and 1942-43 seasons.
The next player on the list is a genuine one club legend, Francesco Totti, Totti spent his entire career at Roma, winning a Serie A title, two Coppa Italia titles, and two Supercoppa Italiana titles. He was a 2006 FIFA World Cup winner and UEFA Euro 2000 finalist with Italy, despite only winning 59 caps.
The next player on thie list is the top scoring foreign player,Gunnar Nordahl. Nordahl is Milan’s all-time record goalscorer, with 210 goals in 267 games, an incredible scoring rate. What is more remarkable with Nordahl is that he only spent 10 seasons in total in Italy. The amount of goals he could have scored if he had played longer is a staggering thought.
Completing the top 5 are Giuseppe Meazza and José Altafini who both scored 216 goals.
Giuseppe Meazza was famous for playing both Inter Milan and AC Milan then Juventus. He scored the vast majority for Inter over 11 seasons. The San Siro stadium in Milan, which is today shared by two of his former clubs, Inter Milan and A.C. Milan, was named Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in the player’s honour on 3 March 1980
Jose Latafina played for AC Milan, Napoli, Juventus where he scored 120, 71 and 25 goals repectively.
At international level, he represented both Brazil and Italy; he was a member of the Brazilian side that won the 1958 FIFA World Cup, and later also represented Italy at the 1962 FIFA World Cup.
In the rest of the top 10 you will see several players that will be familiar if you followed Italian football in the 80s to 2000s – Antonio Di Natale, Roberto Baggio, Giuseppe Signori, Alessandro Del Piero and Alberto Gilardino