Ligue 1 Highest Goal Scorers in History (List)
Who is the all-time scorer in the League 1? What is the record for goals in a season of the Ligue 1? Who scored the fastest goal in Ligue 1? Who has the most hattricks in the Ligue 1? Also, Who is PSG all time top scorers? Fans often come up with all these queries on the internet. GoalTheBall speaks out to clarify all answers and represents the Ligue 1 Top Scorers List for All-Time.
Who has Scored the Most Goals in the Ligue 1?
Delio Onnis has the record for the most goals in French Ligue Un history. He has 299 goals in the French top flight. The Italy-born Argentine unfortunately missed out on the opportunity to score his 300th goal but even with his 299, he is miles ahead of the others. He registered in 449 games with a ratio of 0.67. Onnis has scored for 4 different clubs: Reims (39/65), Monaco (157/200), Tours (64/110), as well as Toulon (39/74). Most of his goals came wearing the AS Monaco shirt. He scored his maiden goal in 1971 and the latest one in 1986.
Ligue 1 Top Scorers All-Time
| Player Name | Goals | Ratio | Club(s) Scored For | Nationality |
| Delio Onnis | 299 | 0.67 | Reims, Monaco, Tours, Toulon | Argentina-Italy |
| Bernard Lacombe | 255 | 0.51 | Lyon, Saint Etienne, Bordeaux | France |
| Hervé Revelli | 216 | 0.56 | Saint Etienne, Nice | France |
| Roger Courtois | 210 | 0.73 | Sochaux, Troyes | France |
| Thadée Cisowski | 206 | 0.72 | Metz, Racing, Valenciennes | France |
| Roger Piantoni | 203 | 0.52 | Nancy, Reims, Nice | France |
| Kylian Mbappe | 191 | 0.78 | Monaco, PSG | France |
| Joseph Ujlaki | 190 | 0.43 | Stade Français, Sete, Nimes, Nice, Racing | France |
| Fleury Di Nallo | 187 | 0.44 | Lyon, Red Star | France |
| Carlos Bianchi | 179 | 0.81 | Lyon, PSG, Strasbourg | Argentina |
| Gunnar Andersson | 179 | 0.76 | Marseille, Bordeaux | Sweden |
| Hassan Akesbi | 173 | 0.59 | Nimes, Reims, Monaco | Morocco |
| Jean Baratte | 169 | 0.60 | Lille, Roubaix | France |
| Just Fontaine | 164 | 0.82 | Nice, Reims | France |
| Alain Giresse | 163 | 0.28 | Bordeaux, Marseille | France |
| Wissam Ben Yedder | 161 | 0.50 | Toulouse, Monaco | France |
| Andre Guy | 159 | 0.59 | Sochaux, Saint Étienne, Lyon, Lille, Renne | France |
| Désiré Koranyi | 157 | 0.62 | Sete | France |
| Jean Pierre Papin | 156 | 0.58 | Marseille, Bordeaux | France |
| Jacky Vergnes | 153 | 0.47 | Red Star, Nimes, Bastia, Reims, Laval, Strasbourg, Bordeaux | France |
| Josip Skoblar | 153 | 0.87 | Marseille | Yugoslavia |
| Lucien Cossou | 149 | 0.52 | Lyon, Monaco, Aix | France |
| Alexandre Lacazette | 146 | 0.53 | Lyon | France |
| Dominique Rocheteau | 145 | 0.35 | Saint Étienne, PSG, Toulouse | France |
| Rachid Mekhloufi | 143 | 0.44 | Saint Étienne, Bastia | Algeria |
| Pauleta | 141 | 0.53 | Bordeaux, PSG | Portugal |
| Yvon Douis | 140 | 0.40 | Lille, Le Havre, Monaco | France |
| Michel Platini | 139 | 0.55 | Nancy, Saint Étienne | France |
| Stéphane Bruey | 139 | 0.33 | Racing, Monaco, Angers, Lyon | France |
| Edinson Cavani | 138 | 0.69 | PSG | Uruguay |
| Sonny Anderson | 138 | 0.62 | Marseille, Monaco, Lyon | Brazil |
| Salif Keïta | 135 | 0.80 | Saint Étienne, Marseille | Mali |
| Hector De Bourgoing | 133 | 0.52 | Nice, Bordeaux | France |
| Jacques Foix | 132 | 0.37 | Racing, Saint Étienne, Nice, Toulouse | France |
| Yannick Stopyra | 132 | 0.29 | Soachaux, Rennes, Tolouse, Bordeaux, Cannes, Metz | France |
| Henri Hiltl | 131 | 0.52 | Excelsior, Roubaix | France |
| Bernard Zénier | 130 | 0.28 | Metz. Nancy, Bordeaux, Marseille | France |
| François M’Pelé | 129 | 0.37 | Ajaccio, PSG, Lens | Congo |
| Gérard Soler | 129 | 0.30 | Sochaux, Monaco, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Bastia, Lille, Rennes | France |
| Alberto Muro | 128 | 0.48 | Sochaux, Nice, Nancy | Argentina |
| Jean Grumellon | 126 | 0.62 | Rennes, Nice, Le Havre | France |
| Lilian Laslandes | 126 | 0.31 | Auxerre, Bordeaux, Bastia, Nice | France |
| Joseph Yegba Maya | 124 | 0.52 | Marseille, Valenciennes, Strasbourg | Cameroon |
| Bafétimbi Gomis | 122 | 0.36 | Saint Étienne, Lyon, Marseille | France |
| Henri Baillot | 121 | 0.50 | Metz. Bordeaux, Strasbourg | France |
| Ernest Schultz | 121 | 0.44 | Lyon, Tolouse | France |
| René Gardien | 121 | 0.36 | Sochaux | France |
| André Simonyi | 120 | 0.65 | Olympique Lillois, Sochaux, Red Star, Rennes, Stade Français, Roubaix | France |
| François Félix | 120 | 0.35 | Lyon, Bastia, Paris FC, Nimes, Angers, Auxerre | France |
| Serge Chiesa | 120 | 0.25 | Lyon | France |
| Jean Vincent | 119 | 0.28 | Lille, Reims | France |
| Oskar Rohr | 118 | 0.87 | Strasbourg | Germany |
| Nestor Combin | 117 | 0.53 | Lyon, Metz, Red Star | France |
| Didier Couécou | 117 | 0.38 | Bordeaux, Marseille, Nantes | France |
| Bernard Genghini | 117 | 0.33 | Sochaux, Saint Etienne, Monaco, Marseille, Bordeaux | France |
| Georges Lech | 117 | 0.31 | Lens, Sochaux, Reims | France |
| Dominique Rustichelli | 117 | 0.25 | Marseille, Sedan, Strasbourg, Reims, Nice, Stade Français, Rouen | France |
| Gines Liron | 116 | 0.49 | Nimes, Sochaux, Valenciennes, Saint Étienne | France |
| Pierre Sinibaldi | 115 | 0.61 | Reims | France |
| Zlatan Ibrahimovic | 113 | 0.93 | PSG | Sweden |
| Charly Loubet | 113 | 0.31 | Stade Français, Nice, Marseille | France |
| Maryan Wisniewski | 113 | 0.27 | Lens, Saint Etienne, Sochaux | France |
| Éric Pécout | 112 | 0.40 | Nantes, Monaco, Metz, Strasbourg | France |
| André Strappe | 112 | 0.33 | Lille, Le Havre | France |
| Bernard Blanchet | 111 | 0.31 | Nantes | France |
| Claude Papi | 110 | 0.28 | Bastia | France |
| Albert Emon | 110 | 0.27 | Marseille, Reims, Monaco, Lyon. Toloun, Cannes | France |
| Henri Skiba | 109 | 0.37 | Monaco, Strasbourg, Nimes, Sochaux, Stade Français | France |
| Pierre Flamion | 106 | 0.37 | Reims, Marseille, Lyon, Toryes, Limoges | France |
| Albert Gemmrich | 106 | 0.34 | Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Nice | France |
| Léon Deladerrière | 106 | 0.28 | Nancy, Toulouse | France |
| Michel Stievenard | 106 | 0.26 | Lens, Angers | France |
| Edouard Kargu | 105 | 0.50 | Bordeaux | France |
| Daniel Xuereb | 105 | 0.24 | Lille, Lens, PSG, Montpellier, Marseille, Toulon | France |
| Bernard Rahis | 104 | 0.43 | Nimes | France |
| Alain Caveglia | 104 | 0.33 | Sochaux. Le Havre, Lyon, Nantes | France |
| Robert Pintenat | 103 | 0.35 | Rouen, Red Star, Nimes, Sochaux, Nancy, Toulouse | France |
| Abdelkrim Merry | 103 | 0.31 | Bastia, Lille, Metz, Strasbourg, Tours, Le Havre, Saint Etienne, Racing | Morocco |
| Dimitri Payet | 103 | 0.21 | Nantes, Saint Etienne, Lille, Marseille | France |
| François Brisson | 103 | 0.20 | PSG, Laval, Lens, Strasbourg, Marseille, Lyon, Lille | France |
| Philippe Piat | 102 | 0.43 | Strasbourg, Monaco, Sochaux | France |
| Marc Berdoll | 102 | 0.41 | Angers, Marseille | France |
| André-Pierre Gignac | 102 | 0.35 | Lorient, Toulouse, Marseille | France |
| Mustapha Dahleb | 102 | 0.34 | Sedan, PSG | Algeria |
| Philippe Vercruysse | 102 | 0.22 | Lens, Bordeaux, Marseille, Nimes, Metz | France |
| Jimmy Briand | 102 | 0.21 | Rennes, Lyon, Guingamp, Bordeaux | France |
| Vahid Halilhodžić | 101 | 0.56 | Nantes, PSG | Yugoslavia |
| Kevin Gameiro | 101 | 0.33 | Strasbourg, Lorient, PSG | France |
| Victor Nurenberg | 101 | 0.33 | Nice, Sochaux, Lyon | Luxembourg |
| Patrick Revelli | 101 | 0.28 | Saint Etienne, Sochaux | France |
| Philippe Gondet | 100 | 0.47 | Nantes, Red Star | France |
| Mamadou Niang | 100 | 0.39 | Toryes, Starsbourg, Marseille | Senegal |
What is the Record for Goals in the Ligue 1?
Among the French footballers, Bernard Lacombe holds the top spot and the overall 2nd spot. Lacombe is the other player with over 250 Ligue Un goals (255). He netted his goals for Lyon, Saint Etienne, and Bordeaux. Roger Courtois owns the record for scoring most goals for a single club in France. Among his 210 goals, he registered 209 for Sochaux. Meanwhile, Kylian Mbappe leads the race among the current generation of footballers with his 191 goals. Mbappe is also the highest-ever league goal scorer for PSG or Paris Saint Germain.
On the contrary, after Kylian’s departure from Real Madrid, Alexandre Lacazette became the top scorer among the league’s active players. In fact, the Lyon legend has 146 goals beside his name, all scored for a single club. Hassan Akesbi is the top-scoring African (173) in French Ligue Un history. Among players with over 150 goals, Josip Skoblar has the best goals-per-game ratio (0.87). His 151 goals came only in 174 games over 12 years for Marseille. And if you consider players with more than 100 goals, then Zlatan Ibrahimovic is superior to all in terms of GPG ratio. The Swedish netted on 113 occasions only in 122 matches and has a 0.93 ratio in the league over his 4 years career at PSG.
