5 greatest strikers of the Premier League era

#1 Alan Shearer

The all-time highest goalscorer in PL history.

Teams represented: Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United

The only player to have scored 100+ goals for two different teams, Alan Shearer sits atop the Premier League scoring charts with an extremely comfortable margin. With Rooney in second position with 208 goals, Shearer sits at 260 goals over his two clubs in the Premier League. This is an even bigger achievement considering both these clubs weren't necessarily the best clubs at the time.

Shearer led Blackburn Rovers to an upset title victory in the 1994/95 Premier League season where he scored a mammoth 34 goals, 9 ahead of second place Robbie Fowler. Shearer had been part of Blackburn Rovers since the first ever edition of the Premier League where he netted just 16 times, but would score 96 goals in the next three seasons, which came from 117 appearances. He left Blackburn for his hometown Newcastle where he would score 148 Premier League goals in 303 appearances.

Shearer is the only player in PL history to score 30+ goals in three seasons, with him achieving this feat in Blackburn Rovers. Shearer has come third in Ballon d'Or voting and has won the Premier League Golden Boot an unprecedented 6 times. Along with that, Shearer has other PL goalscoring records to his name such as most PL hat-tricks, most penalties scored, most goals from inside the box and most goals in a single match. Shearer was deemed the best player of the first decade of the PL, but it is a crown he holds even today and will probably hold for many years to come.