Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Native Born Leading Football Goal Scorers


This table shows the nations that have had a drought of native born goal scoring leaders in their top-level leagues. The players listed must have been "born" in the country of their league to make the list. This means that Polish-born Miroslav Klose in Germany and Jamaican-born Jeff Cunningham in MLS didn't make the list, even though they both lead their leagues in scoring in 2006.

The table shows the last player to lead their home league in scoring.

PlayerClubNation
Goals
Year
Michael PreetzHertha BerlinGermany
23
1998-99
Kevin PhillipsSunderlandEngland
30
1999-00
Diego TristanDeportivo La CorunaSpain
21
2001-02
Djibril CisseAuxerreFrance
26
2001-02
Naohiro TakaharaJubilo IwataJapan
26
2002
Simão SabrosaBenficaPortugal
18
2002-03
Markus RosenbergHamstads BKSweden
14
2004
Taylor TwellmanNew England RevolutionUSA
17
2005
Steffen HojerViborg FFDenmark
16
2005-06
Dirk KuytFeyenoordNetherlands
24
2005-06


Serie A has had an Italian born top scorer since 2003-04, when Andriy Schevchenko led the league. David Trezeguet, Adrian Mutu, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic are all close to the top this season though.

German Born Mario Gomez is three goals back of Luca Toni in the Bundesliga, it looks like another year may go by without a German born top scorer.

Jermaine Defoe has 12 goals, Cristiano Ronaldo has 28. I don't think he's going to catch up.

It looks like Lyon's Karim Benzema may end the six year French scoring title drought in Ligue 1, he leads the league with 17 goals currently, two more than trailing Mamadou Niang from Senegal.

Which American born player can take the MLS scoring crown this year?

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