List of Argentine Primera División top scorers

All-time Topscorers

Pos.	Player	Career	Goals	Matches
1	Arsenio Erico	1933-47	295	332	88%
2	Angel Labruna	1939-59	293	515	56%
3	Herminio Masantonio	1931-45	256	358	72%
4	Francisco Varallo	1928–39	236
5	Manuel Seoane	1921-33	233	249
6	Manuel Pellegrina	1938–1956	231	490	47%
7	Martín Palermo	1992–2000, 2004–11	227	330	68%
8	José Sanfilippo	1953–63, 1966–67, 1972	226	405	56%
9	Ricardo Infante	1942–61	217	439	49%
10	Oscar Más	1964-77, 1979, 1982, 1985	215	429	50%
11	Bernabé Ferreyra	1931-39	206	197	105%
11	Carlos Bianchi	1967-72, 1980-84	206	324	64%

Top scorers by year

Facts

• The youngest player ever to become top scorer in the Argentine Primera was Diego Maradona in the 1978 Metropolitano tournament at the age of 17.
• Héctor Horacio Scotta scored the most goals in a single calendar year, with 60 in 1975.
• Arsenio Erico is the only player to score more than 40 goals in a single tournament, he managed the feat twice in 1937, with 47 goals and in 1938 with 43 goals.
• José Sanfilippo and Diego Maradona are the only players to have been top scorer on four consecutive occasions.
• Pedro Pablo Pasculli and Diego Latorre became top scorers with the fewest goals, they only needed to score 9 times to claim their titles.
• Carlos Bianchi holds the record for the longest period in the top scorers list, his first came in the 1970 Nacional and his last came in 1981 Nacional, a gap of 11 years.
• Bianchi also holds the record for the longest gap between titles, he waited nearly ten years between his 1971 Metropolitano and his 1981 Nacional titles.
• Martín Palermo holds the record for goals in a season of 19 matches. His 20 goals in the 1998 Apertura also made him the first player to average more than 1 goal per match since Juan Gómez Voglino in 1973.
• Paraguayan Arsenio Erico and Uruguayan Enzo Francescoli are the two foreigners to have been top scorer of Argentina on the most occasions. Erico was the top scorer three times in a row, while Francescoli was the top scorer in the 1984 Metropolitano, the 1985–1986 season, and in the 1994 Apertura.
• Rolando and Mauro Zárate are the only brothers to have both been top scorer in the Argentine Primera.
• When Lisandro López claimed the 2004 Apertura title, he became the first Racing Club player to be top scorer in 35 years.
• In 2009 José Sand became the first player to become top scorer in consecutive tournaments since Diego Maradona in 1980.