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#5 Abel Balbo (Argentina) - 118 Serie A goals
Abel Balbo began his Serie A campaign with Udinese in 1989-90. He had a modest first season in the competition with 11 goals, but his 21-goal Serie A season in 1990-91 paved the way for a move to AS Roma.
In four glorious seasons with the Serie A giants, the Argentine centre-forward scored a fabulous tally of 64 goals, one of them being a fabulous hat-trick against Juventus.
After season-long stints at Parma and Fiorentina, Balbo returned to Roma and won the 2000-01 Serie A title. But the player's contribution was negligible, as he scored no goals in two league appearances.
In his prime, the 1990 FIFA World Cup runner-up was a lethal striker because of his ability to 'sniff' out goals, drift into spaces to evade his marker and open up passing lanes for teammates.
#5 Mauro Icardi (Argentina) - 112 goals
Mauro Icardi arrived in the Serie A when he was still a teenager, scoring ten goals for Sampdoria in his debut season in the competition.
That was enough to catch the attention of Inter Milan, who snapped him up in the summer of 2013. Although he had modest returns in his first Serie A campaign for the Nerazzurri, the then 21-year-old Icardi scored 22 goals in 2014-15 to become one of the youngest Capocannoniere winners.
Returns of 16 and 24 goals respectively followed in his next two Serie A seasons. Icardi then produced a 29-goal Serie A campaign in 2018-19 to win his second Capocannoniere award and help Inter return to the Champions League for the first time in seven years.
However, things soon turned sour for the then Inter captain, who joined French champions PSG in the summer of 2020.
#4 Gonzalo Higuain (Argentina) - 125 goals
After a productive stint at Real Madrid, Gonzalo Higuain landed on Italian shores in the summer of 2013.
In his first two Serie A campaigns with Napoli, the Argentine forward produced goal tallies of 17 and 18 before stepping it up a notch in his third. Higuain doubled his Serie A goal haul in a glorious 2015-16 season, becoming the first player to score 36 goals in an Italian top-flight campaign.
Serial Serie A champions Juventus came calling and shelled out €90 million to procure his services.
Higuain had a decent stint with the Bianconeri, scoring 24 and 16 goals respectively in his first two seasons to help Juventus win their fifth and sixth consecutive Serie A titles.
However, his goal returns soon diminished, and Higuain left Juventus at the end of the 2019-20 campaign.
