List of association football players with 50 or more goals in a season

Note: This list is incomplete due to an absence of data for several South American and European players. It will be revised and updated if and when new information becomes available.

The following is a list of association football players with 50 or more goals in a season. The milestone is rare; due to the lack of complete data, the author of this list have only been able to find 48 players of 22 nationalities that have accomplished the feat in the top division, with a total of 20 leagues in the world represented.

Only twelve players have scored 50 goals on multiple occasions, Lionel Messi scored the most goals ever in a season when he scored 73 goals for Spanish team Barcelona in 2011–12, while Archie Stark is the only other player to ever break the 70 goal barrier, doing so 87 years earlier in 1924–25 for American team Bethlehem Steel. The 60 goal barrier has been reached by 16 different players.

The first to achieve the 50 goal milestone was Duncan Walker, scoring 56 goals for Scottish team St. Mirren in the 1921–22 season, while only Mário Jardel has scored 50 for two different teams, doing so for Portuguese teams FC Porto and Sporting CP.

Association football players with 50 or more goals in a season

Player	Club	Season	Goals
Werner Baßler	FC Kaiserslautern	1948–49	56
Joe Bambrick	Linfield	1929–30	57
Hans Berndt	TB Berlin	1946–47	53
Josef Bican	Slavia Prague	1939–40	52
		1941-42	62
		1943–44	60
Franz Binder	Rapid Wien	1940–41	50
Joaquín Botero	Bolívar	2002	55
Davey Brown	New York Giants	1926–27	52
José Cardozo	Deportivo Toluca	2002-03	58
Aleksandrs Čekulajevs	Narva Trans	2011	56
Giorgio Chinaglia	New York Cosmos	1980	50
Archie Stark	Bethlehem Steel	1924–25	70
		1925–26	54
Ferenc Deák	Ferencváros	1945–46	66
		1948–49	59
Dixie Dean	Everton	1927–28	67
Sam English	Rangers	1931–32	53
Eusébio	Benfica	1967–68	50
Jim Forrest	Rangers	1964–65	57
Rhys Griffiths	Llanelli	2007-08	56
Henk Groot	Ajax	1960–61	55
Mário Jardel	Porto	1999–2000	54
	Sporting CP	2001–02	55
Melih Kotanca	Fenerbahçe	1939–40	50
Isidro Lángara	Real Oviedo	1933–34	60
Henrik Larsson	Celtic	2000–01	53
Willie MacFadyen	St. Mirren	1931–32	52
Allan McGraw	Greenock Morton	1963–64	58
Jimmy McGrory	Celtic	1926–27	59
		1927–28	62
		1936–37	51
Dadá Maravilha	Internacional	1976	50
Túlio Maravilha	Botafogo	1995	50
Fernando Morena	Peñarol	1975	62
		1978	67
Lionel Messi	Barcelona	2010–11	53
		2011–12	73
		2012–13	60
		2014–15	58
Max Morlock	FC Nürnberg	1942–43	54
Gerd Müller	Bayern Munich	1971–72	50
		1972–73	67
Pelé	Santos	1958	66
		1959	53
		1961	62
		1963	51
		1965	64
Fernando Peyroteo	Sporting CP	1937–38	58
		1939–40	54
		1941–42	51
		1945–46	55
Ferenc Puskás	Kispest	1947–48	50
Refik Resmja	Partizani Tirana	1951	59
Fred Roberts	Glentoran	1930–31	59
Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	2010–11	53
		2011–12	60
		2012–13	55
		2013–14	51
		2014–15	61
Romário	Vasco da Gama	2000	67
Héctor Scotta	San Lorenzo	1975	60
József Takács	Ferencvárosi	1929	51
Duncan Walker	St. Mirren	1921–22	56
Ottmar Walter	FC Kaiserslautern	1947–48	54
Tom Waring	Aston Villa	1930–31	50
Vic Watson	West Ham United	1929–30	50
Marc Lloyd Williams	Bangor City	2001-02	63
Héctor Yazalde	Sporting CP	1973–74	50
Zico	Flamengo	1979	65
Gyula Zsengellér	Újpest	1938–39	65
		1945–46	51

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