Primera_División_Argentina_topscorers
This is a list of Argentine Primera División top scorers, that enumerates all players that have finished a season as top goalscorers in the top level of the Argentine football league system from 1891 (the year that the first championship was held) to date.[1][2]
The ranking includes Primera División tournaments from 1891 to date:[1]
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| Pos. | Player | Career in Primera División | Goals | Matches | Avg. |
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1 |  Arsenio Erico[3] | 1934–47 | 295 | 332 | 0.88 |
2 |  Ángel Labruna[4][5] | 1939–59 | 294 | 515 | 0.57 |
3 | Herminio Masantonio[6] | 1931–43, 1945 | 253 | 358 | 0.70 |
4 | Manuel Seoane[7] | 1921–32 | 249 | 299 | 0.83 |
5 | Roberto Cherro[8] | 1924–38 | 236 | 345 | 0.68 |
6 | Bernabé Ferreyra[9] | 1929–39 | 233 | 234 | 0.99 |
7 | Manuel Pelegrina[10] | 1938–55 | 231 | 490 | 0.47 |
8 | Martín Palermo[11] | 1993–2000, 2004–11 | 227 | 408 | 0.55 |
9 | José Sanfilippo[12] | 1953–63, 1966–67, 1972 | 226 | 330 | 0.68 |
10 | Ricardo Infante[13] | 1942–61 | 217 | 439 | 0.49 |
11 | Francisco Varallo[14] | 1928–39 | 216 | 282 | 0.76 |
12 | Oscar Más[15] | 1964–76, 1979, 1982, 1985 | 215 | 429 | 0.50 |
13 | Domingo Tarasconi[16][17] | 1921–31, 1934 | 208 | 289 | 0.71 |
14 | Carlos Bianchi[18] | 1967–73, 1980–84 | 206 | 324 | 0.64 |
15 | Miguel Brindisi[19] | 1967–1976, 1979–1983 | 194 | 441 | 0.44 |
16 | Delfín Benítez Cáceres[20] | 1932–44 | 193 | 269 | 0.71 |
17 | José Manuel Moreno[21] | 1935–44, 1946–48, 1950, 1953 | 187 | 359 | 0.52 |
18 | Hugo Gottardi[22] | 1973–83, 1986–88 | 186 | 450 | 0.41 |
19 | Roque Avallay[23] | 1973–83, 1986–88 | 184 | 522 | 0.35 |
20 | Alberto Zozaya[24] | 1929–39 | 183 | 224 | 0.81 |
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Below is the list of topscorers from 1891 to date:[2]
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- The youngest player ever to become top scorer in the Argentine Primera was Diego Maradona in the 1978 Metropolitano tournament at the age of 17.[25]
- Héctor Scotta scored the most goals in a single calendar year, with 60 in 1975.[26]
- Arsenio Erico is the only player to score more than 40 goals in a single tournament, he managed the feat twice in 1937, with 47 goals and in 1938 with 43 goals.
- Juan Taverna is the player who scored the most goals in a single match (7) when his club, Banfield, thrashed Bahía Blanca's Puerto Comercial 13–1 at Estadio Florencio Sola on October 6, 1974.[27][28]
- José Luis Chilavert is the only goalkeeper to have scored 3 goals in a match. He set the record on November 28, 1999, when Vélez Sarsfield beat Ferro Carril Oeste 6–1 at José Amalfitani Stadium in the 1999 Apertura. This was not only an Argentine but a worldwide record for a goalkeeper.[29]
- Clelio Caucia of Vélez Sarsfield became the first goalkeeper to have scored in Argentine football when he scored a penalty kick v Quilmes on June 24, 1924.[30]
- Carlos Seppaquercia of Gimnasia y Esgrima LP set the record for the fastest goal in a match, scoring on 5 seconds v Huracán, on March 18, 1979 at Estadio Juan Carmelo Zerillo. The match ended 1–1.[31][32][33]
- Eduardo Maglioni scored 3 goals within 1 minute and 51 seconds playing for Independiente v Gimnasia y Esgrima LP at "La Doble Visera" Stadium in a 1973 Metropolitano match on March 18, 1973.[34][35]
- José Sanfilippo (1958–1961) and Diego Maradona (1978–1980) are the only players to have been top scorers on four consecutive seasons.[2]
- Pedro Pasculli (1984 Nacional), and Diego Latorre and Darío Scotto (both in 1992 Clausura) became top scorers with the fewest goals, they only needed to score 9 times to claim their titles.
- Carlos Bianchi holds the record for the longest period in the top scorers list, his first came in the 1971 Metro and his last came in 1981 Nacional, a gap of 11 years.
- Bianchi also holds the record for the longest gap between titles, he waited nearly ten years between his 1971 Metropolitano and his 1981 Nacional titles.
- Martín Palermo holds the record for goals in a season of 19 matches. His 20 goals in the 1998 Apertura also made him the first player to average more than 1 goal per match since Juan Gómez Voglino (who is also the all-time Atlanta top scorer)[36] in 1973.
- Paraguayan Arsenio Erico and Uruguayan Enzo Francescoli are the two foreigners to have been top scorer of Argentina on the most occasions. Erico was the top scorer three times in a row (between 1937 and 1939), while Francescoli was the top scorer in the 1984 Metropolitano, the 1985–86 season, and in the 1994 Apertura.
- Rolando Zárate and Mauro Zárate are the only brothers to have both been top scorer in the Argentine Primera (2004 Clausura and 2006 Apertura respectively).
- When Lisandro López claimed the 2004 Apertura title, he became the first Racing Club player to be top scorer in 35 years.
- In 2009 José Sand became the first player to become top scorer in consecutive tournaments since Diego Maradona in 1980.
- The Buenos Aires English High School changed its name to "Alumni" in 1901.
- The Federación Amateurs de Football (FAF) was a rival association that organized its own championships from 1912 to 1914.
- The Asociación Amateurs de Football (AAm) was a rival association that organized its own championships from 1919 to 1926.
- The Liga Argentina de Football (LAF) was a dissident league that organised the first professional championships from 1931 to 1934. In 1935 it merged with the official AFA league (that remained amateur). As a result, all the AFA teams were relegated to the second division.
- Some sources say San Martín de Tucumán which is incorrect. The team where Tarasconi played were a club located in General San Martín Partido of Greater Buenos Aires.
- Copa de Honor
- Copa Campeonato
- Argentina - All-Time Topscorers in League by Pablo Ciullini and Tomás Rodríguez on the RSSSF
- Argentina list of Topscorers 1891-present by Pablo Ciullini and Emmanuel Castro on the RSSSF
- "Arsenio Erico, un paraguayo cuya dimensión futbolística pervive en el tiempo" [Arsenio Erico, a Paraguayan whose football dimension survives over time] (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 30 March 2015. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
- "Labruna gritó otro gol 67 años después", Clarín, 2 August 2008
- Ángel Labruna – Goals in Argentina League by Pablo Ciullini on the RSSSF
- Domingo Tarasconi biography and statistics on Historia de Boca
- Trece décadas (1891–2017) Los cinco récords imbatibles del fútbol argentino, Clarín, by Oscar Barnade. 31 Oct 2017
- Héctor Scotta. el hombre de los 60 goles on Télam, by JOSÉ POMMARÉS, 27 Sep 2020
- Juan Taverna y los 7 goles by Alejandro Fabbri
- 1974. BANFIELD 13 - PUERTO COMERCIAL 1. EL DÍA QUE TAVERNA HIZO 7 GOLES by Jack Barski on El Gráfico, October 1974
- rrepetible: el día que Chilavert marcó tres goles en un mismo partido on Página/12, 27 Nov 2019
- Carlos Seppaquercia, el gol más rápido de la historia del fútbol argentino on ABC Saladillo, March 18, 2021
- A 42 años del gol más rápido del profesionalismo argentino on LV12, 18 Mar 2021
- Se cumplen 40 años del gol más rápido del fútbol argentino El Patagónico, 17 Mar 2019
- Gómez Voglino: "Deseo ver a Atlanta en Primera", 30 Jul 2020 - C.A. Atlanta