“As Harry Kane (213) continues to chase Alan Shearer’s record of 260 Premier League goals, I was wondering who was the last person to lead the chart before Shearer,” begins Eric Hardy-King. “How many different leaders have there been? Obviously Brian Deane was there at the very beginning, and I think Teddy Sheringham finished top scorer in the first season, but who else has been outright leader? And how long has each player been top?”
First things first: this answer required a subterranean data dive, with everything researched manually, so please don’t bet the farm on the table at the bottom being 100.00% correct. What we can say without fear of contradiction is that, in December, Alan Shearer will celebrate 30 years as the Premier League’s outright record goalscorer. He has been out on his own for the past 10,791 days, and in total for almost 11,000.
