IFFHS World's Most Effective Top Division Goal Scorer

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IFFHS Most Effective Top Division Goal Scorer
SportAssociation football
Awarded forMost effective top division goal scorer of the league season
Presented byInternational Federation of Football History & Statistics
History
First award1997
Editions8
Final award2004
First winnerTurkey Hakan Şükür
Most winsBrazil Mário Jardel (2 awards)
Most recentUzbekistan Shuhrat Mirkholdirshoev
Websitewww.iffhs.com
Mário Jardel scored 42 league goals in 30 matches in 2002.

The IFFHS World's Most Effective Top Division Goal Scorer was a football award given annually from 1997 to 2004 to the player with the best goal ratio (goals/matches played) in a league season in any of the top 60 leagues in the world (as ranked by IFFHS for that given year). The award was given by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS).[1]

Mário Jardel is the only player to have won the award more than once, winning it in 1999 and 2002. He also holds the record for the best ratio with an average of 1.4 goals per matches played in 2002.

José Alfredo Castillo and Mateja Kežman finished in the top three twice but never won the award, both of them finishing at the second and third place each once.

Men's winners[]

List of winners[]

Year Rank Winner Club Ratio
1997 1st Turkey Hakan Şükür[2] Turkey Galatasaray 1.188
2nd Brazil Edmundo Brazil Vasco da Gama 1.036
3rd Romania Sabin Ilie Romania FCSB 1.000
1998 1st Japan Masashi Nakayama[3] Japan Júbilo Iwata 1.276
2nd Italy Marco Negri Scotland Rangers 1.103
3rd Greece Nikos Machlas Netherlands Vitesse 1.063
1999 1st Brazil Mário Jardel[4] Portugal Porto 1.125
2nd Brazil Guilherme Brazil Atlético Mineiro 1.037
3rd Mexico Cuauhtémoc Blanco    Mexico América 1.033
2000 1st Saudi Arabia Hamzah Idris[5] Saudi Arabia Al Ittihad 1.320
2nd Netherlands Ruud van Nistelrooy Netherlands PSV Eindhoven 1.261
3rd Brazil Mário Jardel Portugal Porto 1.188
2001 1st Brazil Romário[6] Brazil Vasco da Gama 1.167
2nd Bolivia José Alfredo Castillo Bolivia Oriente Petrolero 1.105
3rd Mexico Jared Borgetti Mexico Santos Laguna 1.051
2002 1st Brazil Mário Jardel[7] Portugal Sporting CP 1.400
2nd Bolivia Joaquín Botero Bolivia Club Bolívar 1.256
3rd Bolivia José Alfredo Castillo Bolivia Oriente Petrolero 1.211
2003 1st Paraguay José Cardozo[8] Mexico Toluca 1.381
2nd Serbia and Montenegro Mateja Kežman Netherlands PSV Eindhoven 1.061
3rd Bulgaria Georgi Chilikov Bulgaria Levski Sofia 1.048
2004 1st Uzbekistan Shuhrat Mirkholdirshoev[9] Uzbekistan Navbahor Namangan 1.192
2nd Uzbekistan Zafar Kholmurodov Uzbekistan Nasaf Qarshi 1.160
3rd Serbia and Montenegro Mateja Kežman Netherlands PSV Eindhoven 1.069

Statistics[]

Ruud van Nistelrooy is the player with the highest ratio to never have won the award (1.261 in 2000).
Masashi Nakayama is the only Japanese player to win the award.
Winners (1997–2004)
Player Wins Years
Brazil Mário Jardel 2 1999, 2002
Turkey Hakan Şükür 1 1997
Japan Masashi Nakayama 1998
Saudi Arabia Hamzah Idris 2000
Brazil Romário 2001
Paraguay José Cardozo 2003
Uzbekistan Shuhrat Mirkholdirshoev 2004
Best ratios
Rank Player Year Ratio
1 Brazil Mário Jardel 2002 1.400
2 Paraguay José Cardozo 2012 1.381
3 Saudi Arabia Hamzah Idris 2000 1.320
4 Japan Masashi Nakayama 1998 1.276
5 Netherlands Ruud van Nistelrooy 2000 1.261
6 Bolivia Joaquín Botero 2002 1.256
7 Bolivia José Alfredo Castillo 2002 1.211
8 Uzbekistan Shuhrat Mirkholdirshoev 2004 1.192
9 Turkey Hakan Şükür 1997 1.188
Brazil Mário Jardel 2000
Wins by club
Club Total Players
Saudi Arabia Al Ittihad 1 1
Turkey Galatasaray 1 1
Japan Júbilo Iwata 1 1
Uzbekistan Navbahor Namangan 1 1
Portugal Porto 1 1
Portugal Sporting CP 1 1
Mexico Toluca 1 1
Brazil Vasco da Gama 1 1
Wins by nationality
Nationality Total Players
Brazil Brazil 3 2
Japan Japan 1 1
Paraguay Paraguay 1 1
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia 1 1
Turkey Turkey 1 1
Uzbekistan Uzbekistan 1 1

See also[]

References[]

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