Even though I have been in the Premier League, Erling Haaland It remains an unsolvable problem for opposing managers. The Manchester city The striker continues to dismantle defensive game plans and score goals at a pace that English football has not seen for decades.
This Saturday, the Norwegian striker scored a brace Everton in a 2-0 win for the Citizens at the Etihad Stadium. His first header came from a cross from the left, and just five minutes later he doubled the lead with a composed finish that the opposition goalkeeper could not stop.
With those goals, Haaland extended his lead at the top Premier League‘s scorecard. He now has eleven goals – five more than the next top scorer in the league, Bournemouth – Antoine Semenyo. With just eight games played, Haaland is averaging an astonishing 1,375 goals per game.
But that’s not all. Since the Premier League was founded in 1992 Only three times has a player reached double-figure goals within the first eight matchdays of a season – and incredibly, all three copies are by Erling Haaland.
Premier League all-time top scorer Alan Shearer.
The 2022-2023 season was his first in England after arriving from England Borussia DortmundHaaland has scored 11 goals in his first eight games. In 2024-2025 he hit 10 in the same period. His ‘worst’ start came in 2023-2024, when he scored eight goals in the first eight games – still an average of one per game.
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Haaland’s dominance of the Premier League
Haaland is now entering his fourth season at Manchester city. He has finished as the Premier League’s top scorer in two of the past three seasons. He won his first Golden Boot in 2022-2023 with a league record 36 goals for Harry Kane’30.
In his second year, Haaland repeated this feat with 27 goals – five more Cole Palmer. However, in the most recent season the Norwegian could not maintain that pace and finished third in the scoring race with 22 goals, behind Mohamed Salah from Liverpool (29) and Alexander Isak from Newcastle (23).
How far is Haaland from becoming the Premier League’s all-time top scorer?
He has been the all-time top scorer since the Premier League was founded in 1992 Alan Scheerder, who scored 260 goals Blackburn Rovers And Newcastle between 1992 and 2006. Behind him on the list Harry Kane (213) and Wayne Rooney (208).
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Erling Haaland has scored 96 goals in 105 Premier League appearances since arriving in England in 2022. He is just four goals shy of the 100-goal mark – a milestone only 34 players have achieved in the history of the competition.
At his current pace, Haaland should reach the century mark within weeks. From there, he was able to quickly climb the all-time rankings and take a serious step toward Shearer’s historic mark.
There is another record that Haaland could soon make his mark on: becoming the Premier League’s all-time foreign top scorer. That record currently belongs to Mohamed Salah, who recently overtook it Sergio Aguero with 188 goals against Argentina’s 184.
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