The Premier League returned this weekend and saw Mohamed Salah break a division record in round one.
Salah scored in Liverpool’s 2-0 win over Ipswich Town to continue his remarkable record on the season’s opening weekend. The Egyptian has now scored nine goals in the first game of the season, more than any other player.
Here are the Premier League players with the most opening weekend goals in the division’s history.
Sergio Aguero – 7
Sergio Aguero departed the Premier League as the division’s highest-ever overseas goalscorer, with seven of the Argentine’s 184 goals having come on the opening weekend.
Aguero produced one of the most memorable debut performances in Premier League history during the 2011/12 campaign, as he came off the bench to score twice in Manchester City’s 4-0 win over Swansea at the Etihad.
#OTD in 2011… ????
Sergio Aguero made his Manchester City debut… scoring the first of his 254 City goals ⚽️ pic.twitter.com/dwwROJOxo3
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) August 15, 2020
The forward – who scored a record-breaking 260 goals in all competitions across a decade with City – scored a further five goals in opening weekend fixtures, netting against Newcastle in both 2013 and 2014, and against Sunderland and Brighton.
Teddy Sheringham – 7
Teddy Sheringham also scored seven goals on the opening weekend, including the Premier League’s first ever televised goal as Nottingham Forest beat Liverpool 1-0 in their first fixture of the 1992/93 campaign.
Sheringham moved to Tottenham soon after that goal and had two stints with the north Londoners, in addition to a four-season spell at Manchester United that saw the forward win three league titles and the Champions League.
Sheringham is the 13th-highest goalscorer in Premier League history with 146 goals, while he holds the records as the division’s oldest outfield player (40 years, 272 days) and the oldest goalscorer (40 years, 268 days).
Jamie Vardy – 7*
Jamie Vardy has scored seven times in the first fixtures of a Premier League season.
The Foxes’ forward is one of just two active players on this list and will be hoping to improve his record when newly-promoted Leicester take on Tottenham on Monday night.
Wayne Rooney – 8
Wayne Rooney scored eight times in the season’s first round of fixtures.
Rooney scored his first opening weekend goal for Manchester United at former side Everton in 2005/06, before scoring twice as the Red Devils thrashed Fulham to begin the following season with an emphatic 5-1 win at Old Trafford.
Rooney also netted against Birmingham, West Brom, Swansea and Bournemouth on the opening weekend and ended his career with 208 goals in the Premier League – only Alan Shearer and Harry Kane have ever scored more.
Rooney is the only player to have reached 200+ goals and 100+ assists in the Premier League era.
Frank Lampard – 8
Frank Lampard’s frequent appearances in leading goalscorer rankings are a testament to his consistency around goal.
Lampard scored 177 goals in the Premier League, making the former Chelsea favourite the sixth-highest goalscorer in the division’s history.
Eight of those goals came on the opening weekend, including this special strike from distance as the west Londoners beat Hull in 2013.
Frank Lampard scored 177 #PL goals, is this one your favourite? ????
An opening day blockbuster from distance!#GoalOfTheDay // @ChelseaFC pic.twitter.com/T55JAVcoGQ
— Premier League (@premierleague) September 30, 2021
Lampard scored a club-record 211 goals in all competitions for Chelsea during a career that saw the former England international win 11 major honours at Stamford Bridge.
Alan Shearer – 8
Alan Shearer is the Premier League’s all-time record goalscorer and netted eight opening weekend goals.
Shearer had a spectacular start to his Premier League career after joining Blackburn from Southampton for a British record fee, scoring two brilliant goals in a thrilling 3-3 draw with Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park in 1992.
Alan Shearer's #PL legacy began #OnThisDay in 1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣2️⃣ when he joined @Rovers
The rest is history ⚽️???? pic.twitter.com/bqVuwb17R6
— Premier League (@premierleague) July 27, 2020
Shearer scored 112 goals in 132 league appearances for Rovers, winning the Premier League title in 1995, before joining Newcastle in a world-record deal.
The Geordie goal-machine racked up a record 206 goals for the Magpies across the next decade, retiring as both the club’s and Premier League’s all-time leading scorer.
Mohamed Salah – 9
Mohamed Salah is the new record holder after scoring his ninth opening-weekend goal against Ipswich Town on Saturday.
Salah is also one of an exclusive group to have scored a hat-trick on the Premier League’s opening weekend, having begun the 2020/21 season with a treble as Liverpool beat Leeds 4-3 at Anfield.
The Egyptian international is the only player to have scored in six successive opening games in the Premier League and has scored or assisted in each first fixture since signing for Liverpool from Roma.
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