Italian Serie A Top Scorers of all-time

 

Serie A is regarded as one of the best football leagues in the world and it is often depicted as the most tactical and defensively sound national league.the Italian league is ranked third among European leagues according to UEFA's league coefficient.

Even though Serie A is known as defensive league they also provided great strikers to football like Van Basten and R9.here we are looking the top 5 goal scorers in Serie A history.

4-José Altafini

The Italian-Brazilian former forward José João Altafini is fifth in the joint-fourth highest scorer in Italian Serie A history.Altafini began his career in Italy with AC Milan and scored 161 goals from 246 appearances for AC Milan. he also played for Juventus and Napoli in his Serie A career.

he scored 216 goals from 459 appearances in Serie A career.he holds the record for being the fifth-youngest player in Serie A history to score 100 goals and also held the record for the most goals scored in a single European Cup campaign for over 50 years.he was a member of the Brazilian side that won the 1958 FIFA World Cup, and later also represented Italy at the 1962 FIFA World Cup.

4-Giuseppe Meazza

Giuseppe Meazza was an Italian football manager and player. He is the joint-fourth highest scorer in Italian Serie A history.he played mainly for Inter Milan in the 1930s, scoring 242 goals in 365 games for the club, and winning three Serie A titles, as well as the Coppa Italia.

He scored 216 goals from 367 appearances in Serie A career. Meazza won the Serie A top-scorer award on three occasions in his career.He is also the youngest player ever to score 100 goals in Serie A, a feat which he achieved at the age of 23 years and 32 days.At international level, he led Italy to win two consecutive World Cups in 1934 and 1938.

3- Gunnar Nordhal

Former Swedish professional footballer Gunnar Nordhal is third in this list. He mainly played for AC Milan from 1949 to 1956, in which he won the scudetto twice, and also the title of pluricapocannoniere, with an unprecedented five top scorer (capocannonieri) awards, more than any other player in the history of the Italian championship.

He scored 225 goals from 291 appearances in Serie A career.Nordahl is Milan’s all-time record goalscorer and joint Most braces scored in Serie A with 49 braces also scored the most hat-tricks in Serie A history with 17 hat-tricks.

2- Francesco Totti

The As Roma legend Francesco totti is the second in this list.Totti spent his entire career at Roma, winning a Serie A title, two Coppa Italia titles, and two Supercoppa Italiana titles.he holds the record for the most goals scored in Serie A while playing for a single club, and also holds the record for the youngest club captain in the history of Serie A.

He is the second-highest scorer of all time in Italian league history with 250 goals from 619 appearances.he also held the record for scoring against Most different teams  in Serie A alongside Roberto Baggio and Alberto Gilardino with 38 goals.

1- Silvio Piola

The Italian former stricker Silvio Piola is the highest goalscorer in Italian Serie A history.Piola is third in the all-time goalscoring records of the Italy national team the only player to have the honour of being the all-time Serie A top scorer of three different teams (Pro Vercelli, Lazio and Novara).

He scored 274 goals from 537 appearances in Serie A career.he is also the highest scoring Italian player in all competitions, with 364 goals.After his death, a pair of Italian stadiums were renamed after him: one in Novara in 1997 and another in Vercelli in 1998. In 2011, he was posthumously inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame.

Information collected: Wikipedia