Top 10 Historically Best Strikers In Football

Strikers play a Pivotal role in a clubs success, the ability to convert or finish a goal is an important one, over the years we see A LOT of strikers come and go, but there are a select few that stick in the history books forever. In this list of Top 10 Historically Best Strikers In Football we compiled the strikers that made a huge impact in the game statistically.

These days we see the likes of Leo Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Alexis Sanchez, Diego Costa and so on mentioned as the best, However, those boys don’t compare to the Strikers on this list, on this list you will find THE BEST OF THE BEST, the lads who really made a huge impact playing the important role of GOAL SCORER for their retrospective clubs.

So who are the Top 10 Historically Best Strikers In Football? Have you ever wondered who are the Best Football Strikers of All Time? Some of you life long football fan will have heard or watched these players, for the ones that haven’t, then this will be a new learning experience for you.

Top 10 Historically Best Strikers In Soccer

Strikers in Football no doubt play a huge role and take on a lot of pressure to score goals, this causes quite a few players to flop, while others shine bright like a diamond and live on in the history books forever, we will soon find out who those select few footballer are below. let’s find out which footballers make the Top 10 Historically Best Strikers In Football.

10. Romario

Starting at number ten on the list of Top 10 Historically Best Strikers In Football is Brazilian legend Romario. a former professional footballer who notably played for big clubs PSV Eindhoven and Barcelona back in the early 90s, The Brazilian ace still remains in the history books as one of the best strikers ever to play the game. He is also one of the many few players to score more than 1,000 goals in their whole career.

9. Arthur Friedenreich

Arthur Friedenreich is up on 9th spot on the Top 10 Historically Best Strikers In Football. Friedenreich is yet another Brazilian ace who played for a number of top Brazilian clubs, Arthur was born on July 18 1892 and died at the age of 77 in 1969, Although it was many years ago ,the Brazilian is still considered by many as one of the best strikers of all time.

Arthur was nicknamed ” The Tiger” and the ”King of Football” before Pele took up these titles.

8. Fernando Peyroteo

Fernando Peyroteo was a Portuguese professional footballer who played as a striker for Sporting CP and also the Portuguese national team. Peyroteo was a one club man scoring 544 goals for Sporting Cp. He won eleven major titles and was named the top scorer for his country on six occasions.

The Portuguese had the highest goal per game ratio of 1.68 which was the highest compared to Brazilian veteran Pele of 0.96.

7. Gerd Müller

Sitting comfortably at number 7 is Bayern Munchen’s veteran striker Gerd Muller. The German retired professional footballer notably played for Bayern Munchen and the German national team, he also played for 1861 Nordlingen and Fort Lauderdale Strikers. Gerd Muller was renowned for his clinical finishing, especially inside the 18 yard box, he is regarded as one of the greatest football strikers ever.

The Former Bayern Munchen player scored 398 goals for Bayern Munchen in 453 appearances, Gerd also won 62 caps for the German national team founding the back of the net 68 times. Gerd Muller is the current assistant manager of Bayern Munchen II.

6. Marco Van Basten

Marc Van Basten had a successful career with AC Milan and Ajax. With Ajax he won the Dutch Championships and the Dutch cups twice when Marco Van Basten was leading the attack for them. Marco Van Basten is considered as an AC Milan and Ajax hero. The Dutch player was great in the air and had wonderful ball control.

Marco Van Basten was a very talented player who was forced to retire at an early age of 30 due to an ankle injury which had him out for soo long.

5. Eusébio

Eusebio was a Portuguese footballer who played as a striker notably for Benfica from 1960-1975. The Portuguese striker is regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time after scoring 749 goals in 745 matches at club level and 41 goals in 64 caps for the Portuguese national team making it a total of 790 goals in his career. Eusebio was nicknamed ”Black Panther” which meant ”the King”.

During the 1966 World Cup he scored nine goals which was the highest by any player which helped Portugal reach third place. In 1965 he won the Ballon d’Or award for European footballer of the year.

4. Diego Maradona

Not really classed as striker but more an attacking midfielder, he also played as a second striker during his football career. The Argentine could shoot from any position and scored some wonderful goals, he dribbled past defenders as if they where never there, not only was he good in front of goal but could also provide goals for other players on the team as he was playing a play making role in midfield.

He was joint FIFA Player of The 20th Century with Pele but many football fans, experts, football critics, former footballers and current footballers regard Diego Maradona as the greatest footballer of all time, is that right?.

He played for big European clubs playing for Barcelona, Napoli and Sevilla from the early 80s – early 90s.

3. Ronaldo

Ronaldo de Lima popularly known as Ronaldo is a retired Brazilian footballer who is regarded by many as one of the greatest footballers of all time by football fans and football experts and is popularly dubbed as ”the Phenomenon”. The Brazilian played for a number of top European sides during his playing career, playing for PSV, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Real Madrid & AC Milan he also played for Cruzeiro and lastly for the Corinthians before hanging up his playing boots in 2011.

Ronaldo was the leading goal scorer of the FIFA World Cup with 15 goals since the 2006 World Cup when he scored his 15th goal before it was broken at the 2014 FIFA World Cup by Germany‘s Miroslav Klose who managed to score his 16th goal. Ronaldo could scored from any position and would play in any football team and could make a difference.

He is also one of the four players to win FIFA Player of The Year more than three times, alongside Lionel Messi, Zinedine Zidane & Cristiano Ronaldo. He also won the FIFA Ballon D’or in 1997 and 2002.

2. Ferenc Puskás

The only Hungarian player on the list. Ferenc Puskas was one of the best strikers of his time and one of the best of all time. Ferenc Puskas played for Budapest Honved and Real Madrid but spent most of his career at Budapest Honved where he scored over 350 goals for the club in the 1940s-1950s. Ferenc joined Real Madrid in 1958 he went on to make 180 appearances founding the back of the net 156 times incredible right?

Puskas won 85 caps with the Hungarian national team scoring 84 times for the country, surprisingly he also played for Spain making 4 caps but ended without him scoring a goal. In total the former footballer scored a total of 514 goals in 529 league appearances. In 1952 he won the gold medal with Hungary at the Olympics, he also won them a place in the final of the 1954 World Cup.

Unfortunately on 17 November, 2006 Puskas died at the age of 79 in Budapest Hungary.

1. Pelé

Finally the top dog on the list is no other than Brazilian veteran Pele. Pele is quite respected even today because his statistics show how great of a striker he was and definitely deserves the top spot on the Top 10 Best Football Strikers Ever. Pele scored 1281 goals in 1363 appearances during his playing career no other player has made more appearances that the Brazilian striker. Pele wasn’t the tallest of players definitely knew how to head the ball, he scored a number of wonderful goals including bicycle kicks during his playing career, he would also shoot well with both his feet like he never had a week foot.