Football Stats: Top 5 African highest Goal Scorers in Premiership History..

 


No prize for guessing who topped the chart here, it's the one and only ex-Chelsea S triker Didier Drogba. The Five players consists of players from three different countries, among which is a name many wouldn't have predicted. However none of these players made the Top 20 as Drogba was ranked 22 and Yakubu 25 in the Top 100. See list below.

1. Dider Drogba               Cote d'Ivoire      100 goals

2. Yakubu Ayegbeni         Nigeria                95 goals

3. Emmanuel Adebayo      Togo                   83 goals

4. Kanu Nwankwo           Nigeria                 54 goals

5. Efan Ekoku                   Nigeria                 52 goals          

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Nigeria's Yakubu however toppled Drogba in the chart for players with most Hat-trick. Yakubu was ranked joint 11th with four hat-tricks, same as the likes of Torres, Dwight Yorke and Carlos Tevez while  Drogba's and Adebayo were ranked joint 21st alongside Defoe, Anelka and Luis Suarez.