Top 5 players who scored the most Premier League goals in a calendar year

#2 Alan Shearer (Blackburn Rovers)

Alan Shearer held the record for 22 years

Year: 1995

Goals: 36

Games: 42

Before Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge formed the SAS partnership at Liverpool, there was a pair that actually won something and made that name famous. Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton were in fine form in the 1994/95 season and it was their partnership that eventually saw Blackburn Rovers beat Manchester United to the title by a single point!

Shearer's run in 1995 kicked off with hat-tricks against West Ham and Ipswich Town in January. He had even managed to grab a brace against Arsenal as he went home with not only a Premier League winners' medal but also the Golden Boot.

The following season saw Blackburn struggle to attain the same heights of the previous campaign. They would end up finishing seventh but Shearer was the player who carried his team. Without him they might have been flirting with relegation.

Three hat-tricks in the second half of 1995 saw him eventually end with 36 goals. Many do not consider his tally as a record because the league has been reduced to 20 teams (38 games) but it was a record nonetheless which stood for 22 years.