Goals win games and a prolific centre-forward is worth their weight in gold in football.
The Premier League era has seen its fair share of great goal-getters, but only a select few have reached the fabled landmark of 30 league strikes in a single campaign.
Erling Haaland has been the latest to achieve the feat, following a phenomenal first season at Manchester City that has seen the Norwegian shatter goalscoring records.
Following Haaland’s record-breaking campaign, we’ve decided to look back through the archives at the division’s most lethal forwards. Here is every player to have scored 30+ goals in a single season.
Kevin Phillips – 30 (1999/2000)
Perhaps the most surprising name on this list, but having fired Sunderland to promotion the previous season, Phillips made an immediate impact on the Premier League by winning the Golden Boot in his first season in the top flight. Phillips’ goals helped Peter Reid’s newly-promoted side to a seventh-placed finish, whilst his 30 league goals earned him the prestigious European Golden Shoe as the continent’s top scorer.
He remains the only Englishman to have won the accolade.

Kevin Phillips catching it sweetly from long-range #GoalOfTheDay // @SunderlandAFC pic.twitter.com/1Y4eZx0fcQ
— Premier League (@premierleague) January 25, 2022

Thierry Henry – 30 (2003/04)
The most prolific league season of Arsenal legend Thierry Henry’s Premier League career, the French forward s...