As of 2023, Billy Sharp had scored the most goals in the EFL Championship, with a career total of ***. The former LA Galaxy forward played for *** different clubs in the league, including Sheffield United and Leeds.

Danish right back Mathias Gidsel was the top scorer at the 2025 IHF World Men's Handball Championship, with a total of 74 goals. His teammate, Simon Pytlick, ranked joint fourth with 49 goals. Both players became world champions again in 2025 as Denmark lifted the trophy for the fourth time in a row.

After the cancellation of the Liga MX Clausura 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the soccer top-level league continued virtually in the form of eSport. During the digital version of the Liga MX, Nicolás Sosa, player for Club León, was the player who scored the most goals during the competition, with a total of 48 goals scored.

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During the 2023 Clausura championship, which is the second of two championships that make up Mexico's top professional soccer league, CF América's Henry Josué Martín was the competition's top-scorer with 14 goals. Meanwhile, CF Monterrey's Rogelio Gabriel Funes ranked second with 12 goals.

As of 2024, Lamine Yamal was the youngest goal scorer in the history of the men's UEFA European Championship, aged just 16 years and 362 days when he scored against France in the semi-finals of EURO 2024. Yamal was also the competition's youngest appearance maker.

As of 2024, Cristiano Ronaldo had scored the most UEFA European Championship goals, with a total of 14. In second place was former UEFA president Michel Platini, who scored nine EURO goals for France during his playing career.

The European Championships (EURO) 2020 were postponed by one year as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and took place in 11 different nations across Europe from June 11 to July 11, 2021. Cristiano Ronaldo and Patrick Schick both scored five goals in the tournament.

During the 2022 Apertura championship, which is the first of two championships that make up Mexico's top professional soccer league, CF Pachuca's Nicholas Alejandro Ibanez was the competition's top-scorer with 11 goals. In second place was CF América's Henry Joshua Martin with 10 goals.

Ahead of the 2025 tournament, the record for the most goals scored in the UEFA Women's EURO was held by Inka Grings and Birgit Prinz, with each player scoring a total of ** goals. Prinz also holds the record for the most UEFA Women's EURO titles.

Pukki used this boot while playing for Norwich FC in the English Championship season 2018-2019. Pukki was the Championship's top scorer (29 goals).

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The third IHF Wheelchair Handball World Championship took place in 2024, with Egypt winning the title. The tournament's top scorer was Magdy Talaat Abdo Abbas with 72 points.

Paulinho, playing for Atlético Mineiro, was the leading goal scorer at the Brazilian professional soccer league – known as Brasileirão – in 2023. That year, he defeated their opponent's goalkeeper 20 times.

With 14 goals scored, Amanda Gutierres from Palmeiras was the leading footballer at the Brazilian women's professional soccer league — Série A1— in 2023. Meanwhile, the following two female soccer players in the ranking scored 11 goals each in that season.

Fernando Zampedri of Universidad Católica was the top goal scorers of the highest professional soccer league in Chile in 2023, having hit the back of the net ** times in that season. Huachipato was the title holder of the championship in that year.

The European Championships (EURO) 2020 were postponed by one year as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and took place in 11 different nations across Europe from June 11 to July 11, 2021. Italy and Spain were the joint highest scoring nations in the tournament, having both bagged a total of 13 goals. Italy were ultimately crowned champions of Europe for the second time in the nation's history after beating England on penalties in the final.

The 2019 Guinness Six Nations was the 20th Six Nations Championship, the annual rugby union competition contested by the national teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, and Wales.

This statistic presents the players that scored the greatest number of points during the 2019 Six Nations. England’s Owen Farrell scored the greatest number of points in the 2019 Championship with 59. This is just the fifth time in Six Nations history when the top points scorer in a single Championship scored fewer than 60 points. The second highest point scorer was Wales’ Gareth Anscombe with a total of 43 points scored. Perhaps the most significant reason why these two individuals fall within the top two positions is because they are both frequently enlisted to kick for penalties or conversions during play. Gareth Anscombe kicked more penalties than any other player in the 2019 Six Nations. Jonny May, the fourth highest scoring player in this statistic, is the highest scoring player in this list that did not score either a conversion or penalty goal. In the in the 2019 Six Nations, Jonny May scored 30 point , from six tries, the joint-highest total number of tries for an English player in a single Championship.

As of September 2024, the Republic of Ireland's top scorer in soccer was Robbie Keane, with a total of 68 goals. Keane represented Ireland in the 2002 World Cup, as well as the 2012 and 2016 European Championships.

During the 2023 Men's Six Nations Championship, Irish fly-half Johnny Sexton became the competition's all-time top points scorer, reaching a record 566 points in a win against England. That game also proved to be an important milestone for the Irish national rugby team, with its victory over England securing the team's fourth-ever Grand Slam title in the Six Nations.

As of November 2022, legendary Brazilian forward Pelé held the record for the youngest World Cup goal scorer, having been 17 years and 239 days old when he scored against Wales in 1958. At the 2022 World Cup, Gavi became the youngest goal scorer in Spanish World Cup history when he scored against Costa Rica.

Surfers from the United States picked up the most points at the 2021 World Para Surfing Championship, with a combined total of 12,822. Surfing hotspots Hawai'i and Australia ranked fifth and sixth respectively.