Highest Scoring FPL Players in History

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Robin van Persie, 2012/132× on this listMan Utd

Van Persie's first season at Man Utd after a transfer that caused no shortage of ill feeling among Arsenal supporters. Twenty-six goals, a Premier League title, and no sign the controversy touched him on the pitch.

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Harry Kane, 2022/23Tottenham

A surprise that Kane features only once given how relentlessly consistent he was. Thirty goals and nine assists is more impressive still for the context: Tottenham were poor throughout and finished eighth.

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Alexis Sanchez, 2016/17Arsenal

Many remember Sanchez for his Man Utd years. At Arsenal he was a different player — arguably the best in the league at the time — and twenty-four goals from the left made him close to unmissable.

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Mohamed Salah, 2021/223× on this listLiverpool

Twenty-three goals and fourteen assists, which for most players would be a career season and for Salah is his third appearance on this list.

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Frank Lampard, 2004/052× on this listChelsea

Thirteen goals and eighteen assists from midfield, powering Chelsea's first Premier League title. The comparison that dates it best: Thierry Henry scored twenty-five goals that same season and finished thirty-eight points behind.

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Robin van Persie, 2011/122× on this listArsenal

Van Persie's peak came at Arsenal rather than at Man Utd. Thirty goals here, followed by a title-winning first season at Old Trafford, earned him a £14.0m starting price for 2013/14 — still the most expensive any player has ever begun an FPL season at.

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Erling Haaland, 2022/23Man City

Thirty-six goals in a debut Premier League season, and the year not owning a player was genuinely ruinous. What makes it more remarkable is the minutes: 2,767 of a possible 3,420, so this was not a case of simply being on the pitch more than anyone else.

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Thierry Henry, 2002/03Arsenal

Henry appears once but dominated the game's early years completely. Other than Lampard's 2004/05, he finished top scorer every season from 2002/03 to 2005/06, and the only other player to pass 200 points across those four years was Robert Pires with 216. Henry's worst return in that span was 231.

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Cristiano Ronaldo, 2007/08Man Utd

Thirty-one goals while listed as a midfielder, which is the detail that carries this season. Only Salah has bettered that tally. For a sense of the rate: those thirty-one came in 2,746 minutes, against eighteen in 2,454 minutes in 2021/22 — and the latter was still a fine return.

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Frank Lampard, 2009/102× on this listChelsea

Lampard's best campaign, and the strongest answer to the long argument about him, Gerrard and Scholes. Thirty-six appearances, thirty-six goal involvements — a return in every game. He made the FPL dream team in seven of the game's first eight seasons.

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Luis Suarez, 2013/14Liverpool

There is a real argument this is the greatest single FPL season ever played, because of what it did not include. Suarez was suspended for Liverpool's first five matches, and not one of his thirty-one goals came from a penalty — Steven Gerrard took those, converting ten of eleven. Give Suarez the same spot kicks across a full campaign and he finishes north of 335.

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Mohamed Salah, 2017/183× on this listLiverpool

The first player to break 300 points, and the season that established what a Salah year looks like. He started it at £9.0m and finished at £10.6m; he has not begun a season below £12.0m since. Some managers still argue his average position warrants a forward classification, which rather makes the point about how far ahead of the midfielder field he has been.

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Mohamed Salah, 2024/253× on this listLiverpool

Not only does Salah hold the top two places, this season may never be beaten. Twenty-nine goals and eighteen assists is a haul no midfielder has come close to, and it arrived in his eighth season at Liverpool rather than a one-off peak. Across those eight years he has averaged 261 points a season — an average that would itself place him on this list.