Argentine Primera Division: Top Goalscorers of All Time

The Primera Division is a professional football league in Argentina. Now let’s have a look at the all time top scorers in the Primera Division.

Independiente legend Arsenio Erico, Credit: Twitter/@APFOficial
By annirudh bhalla | Jun 15, 2022 | 2 Min Read follow icon Follow Us

The Primera Division known in today’s time as Torneo Socios.com is a professional football league in Argentina. It sits at the top of the Argentine football league system being the primary football division. The league is one of the oldest in world football with only the ones in the United Kingdom to have commenced before. IFFHS ranked the Argentine League as one of the strongest leagues in the planet by placing it in the top 10. Since 1931, the league has been played in four separate formats every season.

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The 2022 Argentinian season will be contested by 28 teams unlike the usual 26 clubs that have contested in the previous seasons. The Championship works in a round-robin system wherein the participating clubs come up against each other over a total of 27 rounds. Some of the greatest players of all time including Diego Maradona, Alfredo Di Stefano, Sergio Aguero, Javier Zanetti have all laid the foundations of their careers in the Primera Division. The league is undoubtedly one of the most exciting and attractive championships in the Americas.

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The Primera Division: Top goalscorers of all time

Argentina has been blessed with some supremely talented players over the years. The quality of the forwards that this great nation has produced is hard to match for most countries in the world. Yet, the all-time top-scorer of the Primera Division is not an Argentine but rather a Paraguayan striker, Arsenio Erico who played for famous club, Independiente in the 1930s. Now let’s have a look at the all time top scorers of all time in the Primera Division.

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S.No.PlayerGoals Scored
1.Arsenio Erico295
2.Angel Labruna294
3.Herminio Masantonio253
4.Manuel Seoane249
5.Roberto Cherro236
6.Bernabe Ferreyra233
7.Manuel Pelegrina231
8.Martin Palermo227
9.Jose Sanfilippo226
10.Ricardo Infante217