2001-2010年世界后衛(wèi)最佳射手：塞爾吉奧·拉莫斯

Sergio Ramos is the highest scoring defenders of the Decade 2011-2020 in the world football. The Real Madrid’s star has scored 71 goals for club and 18 for Spanish national team during this period.?

With total amount of 89 goals, he has confidently won the contest. The runner-up Joseph Chipolina (Gibraltar) has 78 goals on his tally.

All goals at top senior level are counted (top national divisions, national cups, official international club tournaments, official games between national teams).

Brazilian state championships Paulista and Carioca have status equal to national leagues (according to IFFHS decision).

In the table below, 62 players who scored 33 and more goals over the decade. Only the players which held essential majority of their games as defenders are taken in consideration.?

2001-2010年世界后衛(wèi)最佳射手：田中斗莉王

We publish the ranking for highest scoring defenders in the world football in the first decade of XXI century. All goals scored in top level games since 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2010 are taken in consideration.

The Japanese Marcus Tulio Tanaka was the number one in this category with 58 goals followed by Daniel Van Buyten (Belgium) with 57.

The similar ranking for highest scoring defenders in 2nd decade (2011-2020) was published earlier. The winner was Sergio Ramos (89 goals).

2001-2020年世界后衛(wèi)最佳射手：塞爾吉奧·拉莫斯

Sergio Ramos leads the category of highest scoring defenders in the world top football in XXI Century at the beginning of 2022.

The centre-back of PSG has scored 127 goals for his clubs and Spain. However, 2021 was clearly not the best year in his career; he managed to add only 1 goal.

The second place belongs to Marcus Tulio Tanaka (Japan) who retired in 2019 with the tally of 104 top level goals (not counting the goals he scored in Japanese D2).

Only these two defenders have reached the 100-goal mark in XXI century so far.?

There are currently 55 defenders in the world who scored 50+ top level goals. They are gathered in the table and sorted by the main ranking (Total XXI).

Five of them have reached 50-goal mark in 2021: George Horan (England), David Alaba (Austria), Thiago Silva (Brazil), Francisco Calvo (Costa Rica), Murod Kholmukhamedov (Uzbekistan).

Also we put in the table other 5 players which are below 50 goals in XXI but have reached this amount adding the goals they scored in XX century. They are sorted in additional ranking (Total Career).?

These 5 defenders have still scored essential majority (not less than 65 percent) of their goals in XXI century (respectively, not more than 35 percent in XX) so they can be conditionally considered the “goal-scoring defenders of XXI century”.?

歷史世界后衛(wèi)最佳射手：羅納德·科曼

We publish for the first time the all-time ranking for highest scoring defenders in the world football.?

The record holder in this category belongs to Ronald Koeman whose 253 goals is an incredible amount for a defender. He leads the ranking with a big margin and will keep his record for many years yet.

Daniel Passarella takes the second position with 175 goals and Fernando Hierro the third with 170.

In total, 12 defenders have reached 100 goals so far, including Sergio Ramos, the only active players from this list. He is placed 4th with 128 goals, with not very realistic chances to lift up higher given a big gap from his countryman Hierro.

Two active defenders are quite close to the “Club 100+”. Keilor Soto (Costa Rica) has 91 goals (90 of them in the national league, 1 in Cup); he dreams about reaching 100 but at the age of 37 it will not be easy (also he is without club currently).?

Abderrahmane Hachoud (Algeria) has a better prospect: 93 goals at the age of 33 years.

Only the players which held essential majority of their games as defenders are taken in consideration. For this reason, several players (in particular, Paul Breitner and Franck Sauzée), despite scoring more than 100 goals, aren’t included. They have played some part of their career as defenders but still performed a midfield role in quite many games.