If he scores the most goals in the Saudi Pro League this season, Cristiano Ronaldo will become the first player to win top scorer in four countries.
Al Nassr is going through an unsuccessful season, losing to Al Ain in the quarterfinals of the AFC Champions League and gradually losing hope of winning the Saudi Pro League. They are ranked second with 59 points, 12 points behind Al Hilal, with nine rounds left in the season.
But on a personal level, Ronaldo still shows remarkable scoring ability at the age of 39. The Portuguese striker just scored a hat-trick to help Al Nassr crush the penultimate team Al Tai 5-1 in round 25 of the Saudi Pro League. on March 30. He raised his all-time scoring record to 882 goals in 1,214 matches, getting closer to the 900 goal mark.
Ronaldo continues to lead the Saudi Pro League top scorer list with 26 goals, four more than Al Hilal’s Aleksandar Mitrovic. But Ronaldo holds a big advantage when Mitrovic is injured and may have to miss a few weeks. If he maintains this position until the end of the season, Ronaldo will become the first player to win the title of top scorer in four different top national leagues.
Ronaldo currently holds the record of being the only player to win top scorer in three of the top five European leagues, namely the Premier League, La Liga and Serie A. In the 2020-2021 season, while still playing for Juventus, Ronaldo scored 29 goals. scored through 33 matches, an average of 0.9 goals per match in Serie A. Both in number of goals and performance, he ranked first in the tournament.
Previously, the Portuguese striker won the Premier League’s top scorer in the 2007-2008 season with 31 goals in 34 matches. In La Liga, he scored the most goals three times, in the 2010-2011, 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 seasons. His best achievement is 48 goals in 35 matches in the 2014-2015 season, an average of 1.4 goals per match.
Luis Suarez also won top scorer in three tournaments, leading the scoring list in the Dutch National Championship in the 2009-2010 season (35 goals), the English Premier League in the 2013-2014 season (31 goals) and La Liga in the 2015-2016 season. (40). The Uruguayan striker can win top scorer in the fourth tournament, having landed in the American professional tournament MLS. He currently has five goals through seven matches for Inter Miami.
Similarly, Robert Lewandowski also won top scorer in three countries. The 35-year-old striker leads the scoring list in La Liga in the 2022-2023 season with 23 goals, has won the Bundesliga top scorer seven times in 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and won the “Bundesliga” title. “golden shoes” in the Lech Poznan shirt in the Polish National Championship in the 2009-2010 season with 18 goals.
Other players with this achievement are Romario when he won top scorer at Barca in La Liga in the 1993-1994 season, PSV in the Dutch National Championship in the 1988-1989 season, 1989-1990, 1990-1991 and Vasco da Gama in the National Championship. Brazil in 2001 and 2005. Romario’s fellow striker Marcio Amoroso led the scoring list for Guarani in Brazil in 1994, Dortmund in the Bundesliga in 2002 and Udinese in Serie A in 1999.
Ruud van Nistelrooy twice won top scorer with PSV in the National Championship in 1999 and 2000, Man Utd in the Premier League in the 2002-2003 season and Real Madrid in La Liga in the 2006-2007 season. Another former La Liga player, Sonny Anderson won top scorer with Servette in the Swiss National Championship in the 1992-1993 season, three times in Ligue 1 (once with Monaco and twice with Lyon) and with Al- Rayyan at the Qatar tournament 2004-2005 season.
Isidro Langara won top scorer in three different continents, in Spain (1934, 1935 and 1936), in Argentina (1940) and in Mexico (1944 and 1946). Legendary Alfredo di Stefano won top scorer five times in Spain with Real Madrid (1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959), Argentina with River Plate (1947) and in Colombia with Millonarios (1951, 1952).