Mohamed Salah has achieved the remarkable feat of scoring 20 goals in a Premier League season for the fifth time. His first-half penalty against Bournemouth on Saturday allowed him to extend his lead as the top scorer in the Premier League for the 2024-25 season, and he later netted another goal, bringing his season total to 21. This second goal also marked his 178th in the Premier League, surpassing Frank Lampard in the all-time scoring rankings.
Salah has displayed extraordinary form this season, contributing at an impressive rate with both goals and assists. He currently leads the league with 13 assists, in addition to his goal tally. Historically, only two players have finished a Premier League season as the sole leader in both goals and assists: Andy Cole in 1993-94 and Harry Kane in 2020-21. Salah came close in the 2021-22 season, where he topped the assist chart while sharing the goal-scoring title with Son Heung-min.
This marks Salah’s fifth season reaching the 20-goal milestone, placing him behind only Alan Shearer (7), Sergio Agüero (6), and Harry Kane (6) for the most such seasons. He is now tied with Thierry Henry at five.
While there are ongoing uncertainties regarding Salah’s contract at Liverpool, and he could potentially leave Anfield at the end of the season, he remains the only active player among those who have achieved this milestone. If he continues to perform at this level, he may climb even higher in the rankings. Although he will turn 33 this June, his current form indicates that he is far from declining.
This season, Salah reached the 20-goal mark in just 23 matches, which is fewer than any previous season. In his record-setting debut season of 2017-18, he needed 25 games to score his 20th goal before finishing with an impressive 32 goals.
Salah’s availability has been crucial; he has started all 23 of Liverpool’s Premier League matches thus far. If this continues, he has a strong chance of surpassing his personal best of 32 goals in a season, a record achieved while starting in 34 games.
Reflecting on his fifth season with 20 goals, Salah has come close to this milestone in three other seasons, suggesting he could have been at the top of the list alongside Shearer. In the 2019-20 and 2022-23 seasons, he scored 19 goals, and in 2023-24, he tallied 18. On two occasions when he scored 19, he ended the season without finding the net in his final games. As it stands, Salah ranks joint third on this particular list for now.
