Who are the Premier League’s best strikers right now?

The Premier League is home to some of the world’s most lethal strikers.

Some phenomenal goalscorers (and some not so good forwards) have graced the beautiful game in England’s top flight in years gone by and we are lucky to have witnessed some of their greatness. From Alan Shearer to Thierry Henry to Harry Kane to Sergo Aguero and everyone in between, the Premier League has been blessed with the world’s most lethal marksmen.

But what about the strikers in the division today?

With the 2024/25 season fast approaching, here are the best-performing strikers in the Premier League ranked by their Squawka Score from last season. Only players with 1,710+ minutes (half of the possible minutes across the season) under their belts are considered.

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More Premier League player rankings:

=5. Chris Wood 

• Club: Nottingham Forest
• Squawka Score: 61%

Chris Wood equalled his best ever goals tally in a single Premier League campaign in 2023/24, with his 14 goals also being the second most ever scored in a single Premier League season for Nottingham Forest after Stan Collymore in 1994/95 (22). Six of his Premier League goals were assisted by Anthony Elanga, the most any player assisted another in the competition in 2023/24. 

Out of every player to play 500+ minutes in the competition last season, only Diogo Jota (0.78) scored more non-penalty goals per 90 than the Forest forward (0.7).

=5. Darwin Nunez

• Club: Liverpool
• Squawka Score: 61%

It probably will, but it absolutely shouldn’t surprise you to see Darwin Nunez here. Even despite the odd inexplicable moment of frustration in front of goal, the Uruguay international has still helped himself to 11 goals in the Premier League this season. Perhaps more importantly, Nunez has also provided eight assists — second only to Mohamed Salah at Liverpool — while he’s looked threatening pretty much every time the ball has come near the opposition box.

He’s also been unlucky, becoming the first player in Premier League history to hit the woodwork 4+ times in the same game . However, ‘Captain Chaos’, as he has been nicknamed by the Liverpool faithful, has more than made up for his misses with some important goals, especially away from home.

Three of the Uruguay forward’s seven away league goals have come in stoppage time, two have been stoppage-time winners, including a 90+9′ minute winner vs Brentford, while four have been the opening goal of the game.

4. Son Heung-min

• Club: Tottenham
• Squawka Score: 63%

After many seasons playing out from the left alongside Harry Kane, Son Heung-min was used more centrally by Ange Postecoglou in 2023/24 and it paid off. The South Korean finished the campaign with 17 goals and 10 assists, becoming one of just six players to score 10+ goals and provide 10+ assists in six different Premier League seasons after Eric Cantona, Wayne Rooney, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba and Mohamed Salah.

He was also the man for the big occasion with seven of his goal involvements coming against fellow ‘Big Six’ sides and 10 of them coming against the sides that finished in the top four.

3. Ollie Watkins

• Club: Aston Villa
• Squawka Score: 68%

With Harry Kane now at Bayern Munich, Ollie Watkins has a very strong case to be named as the best English striker in the Premier League right now, and the stats prove it.

The Aston Villa man was the first player in the competition to score 10+ goals and provide 10+ assists and finished the the campaign with the Playmaker Award after setting up his teammates a league high 13 times. As well as his impressive assist numbers, Watkins also found the back of the net with ease, equalling Christian Benteke’s record for the most goals ever scored in a single Premier League campaign for Aston Villa (19).

And that’s not all, for England at the EUROs, he became the first substitute to score a 90th-minute winning goal in a European Championship knockout tie.

2. Alexander Isak

• Club: Newcastle
• Squawka Score: 69%

In his short time in the Premier League Alexander Isak has already proven himself to be one of the top strikers in the competition. The Swedish international scored 21 goals in 27 league starts in 2023/24, with only Erling Haaland (0.95) scoring more goals per 90 than the Newcastle forward (0.85).

It was a season where he became just the third player to score in seven consecutive Premier League home games for Newcastle after Andy Cole and Alan Shearer, also becoming the first player to score 25+ goals across all competitions for the club since Alan Shearer in 2003/04 (28).

1. Erling Haaland 

• Club: Man City
• Squawka Score: 77%

No surprises here. Erling Haaland was the best striker in the Premier League in 2023/24.

The Norwegian scored 27 goals and provided five assists last season, meaning that in just 66 appearances in the English top-flight he has been involved in 76 goals (63 goals, 13 assists) and is averaging a goal involvement every 70.2 minutes on average. His 27 strikes was also enough to secure the Premier League Golden Boot for the second consecutive season and become the first overseas player to win the award in each of his first two campaigns in the competition.

The Cyborg is also the first player in the competition’s history to win the Golden Boot and the PL title in back-to-back campaigns and has already won as many Premier League Golden Boots as Didier Drogba, Robin van Persie, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Michael Owen.

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Squawka Score metrics and weighting

We used Twenty3 Sport’s Discovery Tool to run a customised search. The Discovery Tool rates a player’s per 90 output in the metrics detailed below to produce a percentage score, referred to above as the Squawka Score.

Each player’s stats are compared to the average output of strikers across the past three seasons of big-five European league football. The higher the score, the closer they rank to the 95th percentile and above for each metric.

We also weighted each stat from 1 to 5 to highlight the most important aspects of a striker’s play style, with five being the most important.

Here are the metrics used and weighting given to each metric to come up with the overall Squawka Score:

• 5: Goals Scored, Non-Penalty Expected Goals per shot
• 4: Conversion rate, Non-Penalty Expected Goals, Assists
• 3: Big chances scored, Non-penalty expected goals on target, Shot placement ratio, Shot accuracy (%)
• 2: Offsides, Big chances missed, Non penalty shots, Touches in opp. box, % of open play chances created that are big chances, Non penalty shots on target, Percentage of sequences featured that end in a shot
• 1: Fouls won in final third, Disspossesions, Ground duel success (%), Aerial duel success (%)

To be awarded a score, a player must have reached the automatically calculated minutes threshold, in this case, 1,710 league minutes during the 2023/24 campaign.