5 players with most Premier League goals in 2025 calendar year

As 2025 concludes, football fans have seen remarkable shifts in the Premier League scoring charts. Erling Haaland leads with 28 goals while Mohamed Salah follows with 18 goals.

Erling Haaland has scored the most Premier League goals in 2025.

As the curtains draw on a rollercoaster 2025, football fans have witnessed a fascinating shift in the scoring charts. While a certain Norwegian robot continues to defy logic, the calendar year has thrown up some surprising names that have outscored global icons over the last 12 months.

Forget the "per-season" talk—these are the players who simply couldn't stop finding the net in the 2025 calendar year.

1. Erling Haaland (Manchester City) – 28 Goals

If 2024 was a year of "human" numbers for Erling Haaland, 2025 was the year he returned to his robotic best. Haaland’s calendar year total of 28 goals is a masterpiece of efficiency.

He spent the first half of the year as the clinical finisher in Manchester City’s charge toward a historic fifth consecutive league title, netting 9 goals between January and May.

However, it was the start of the 2025/26 campaign where he truly exploded. With a staggering 19 goals in just 17 matches this autumn, he hasn't just led the Golden Boot race; he has turned it into a one-man show.

In December alone, he surpassed the 100-goal mark in the Premier League, doing so faster than legends like Alan Shearer and Harry Kane.

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2. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) – 18 Goals

Despite rumors of a move away from Anfield every transfer window, Mohamed Salah spent 2025 proving why he remains Liverpool’s most indispensable asset.

Salah’s year was heavily weighted toward a spectacular spring. From January to May 2025, he was the league’s most in-form player, bagging 14 goals to help secure a top-three finish for the Reds.

In the current 2025/26 season, under the evolving tactical setup at Liverpool, Salah has transitioned into a more creative "playmaker" role, but he still chipped in with 4 goals during the latter half of the year.

His total of 18 goals in 2025 solidifies his status as the most consistent winger in the competition's history.

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3. Alexander Isak (Newcastle / Liverpool) – 13 Goals

Alexander Isak’s 2025 will be remembered for the massive summer move that shook the Premier League.

Before his departure from St. James’ Park, Isak was Newcastle’s crown jewel, scoring 11 goals in the first five months of the year, including sensational braces against Wolves and Nottingham Forest.

Following his high-profile transfer to Liverpool, Isak has had to adapt to a new system.

While he hasn't yet reached the scoring frequency he enjoyed on Tyneside, his 2 goals for his new club bring his yearly total to 13.

He remains one of the few players in the league capable of scoring a goal out of absolutely nothing.

4. Igor Thiago (Brentford) – 11 Goals

The Brazilian forward is the definition of a "half-year wonder." Having joined the league in the summer of 2025, he had zero goals to his name in June.

However, his 11 goals since August have made him the fastest player in Brentford’s history to reach double digits. He sits second only to Haaland in the current season’s standings.

5. Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest) – 11 Goals

At the age of 34, Chris Wood had perhaps the most impactful year of his career.

His 9 goals in early 2025 were the lifeblood of Forest’s survival campaign.

Although he has only found the net 2 times in the current season, his combined tally of 11 keeps him among the elite for the calendar year.

2025 calendar year: Most Premier League goals

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