{"id":236951,"date":"2023-06-09T11:03:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T09:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sscnapoli.it\/osimhen-capocannoniere-e-primo-calciatore-africano-a-segnare-26-reti-in-un-solo-campionato-di-serie-a\/"},"modified":"2023-06-11T00:16:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T22:16:40","slug":"osimhen-capocannoniere-e-primo-calciatore-africano-a-segnare-26-reti-in-un-solo-campionato-di-serie-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sscnapoli.it\/en\/osimhen-capocannoniere-e-primo-calciatore-africano-a-segnare-26-reti-in-un-solo-campionato-di-serie-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Osimhen the all-time highest-scoring African in Serie A"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Besides claiming the Serie A top scorer award in 2022\/23, Victor Osimhen also became the first African player to bag 26 goals in a single Serie A campaign. The previous record was held by Samuel Eto\u2019o (21 goals in 2010\/11).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That tally also means Victor has now scored more total Serie A goals (50) than any other African, overtaking George Weah (46).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Osimhen is one of just four Napoli players to have scored 26 or more goals in a Serie A season, joining Edinson Cavani (26 in 2010\/11 and 29 in 2012\/13), Gonzalo Higua\u00edn (36 in 2015\/16) and Dries Mertens (28 in 2016\/17).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the season just ended the Nigerian netted the opening goal in more Italian top-flight fixtures than any other player (10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2000 only on three occasions has the team with the league&#8217;s top scorer also won the Scudetto: Juventus with David Trezeguet in 2002, AC Milan with Andrij Shevchenko in 2004 and Inter with Zlatan Ibrahimovic in 2009. However, none of them scored as many as Osimhen&#8217;s 26 this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here are all of Napoli goalscorers in the 2022\/23 Serie A season:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Player<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Goal<\/strong>s<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Victor Osimhen<\/td><td>26<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Khvicha Kvaratskhelia<\/td><td>12<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Eljif Elmas<\/td><td>6<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Giovanni Simeone<\/td><td>4<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Piotr Zielinski<\/td><td>3<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa<\/td><td>3<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Matteo Politano<\/td><td>3<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Hirving Lozano<\/td><td>3<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Giovanni Di Lorenzo<\/td><td>3<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Giacomo Raspadori<\/td><td>2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Math\u00edas Olivera<\/td><td>2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Amir Rrahmani<\/td><td>2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Kim Min-Jae<\/td><td>2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Tanguy Ndombele<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Stanislav Lobotka<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Gianluca Gaetano<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Juan Jesus<\/td><td>1<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-assets.sscnapoli.it\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Napoli-Sampdoria-92-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-236738\"\/ loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.sscnapoli.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Napoli-Sampdoria-92-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.sscnapoli.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Napoli-Sampdoria-92-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.sscnapoli.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Napoli-Sampdoria-92-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.sscnapoli.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Napoli-Sampdoria-92-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Victor lifts the Scudetto trophy<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides claiming the Serie A top scorer award in 2022\/23, Victor Osimhen also became the first African player to bag 26 goals in a single Serie A campaign. The previous record was held by Samuel Eto\u2019o (21 goals in 2010\/11). That tally also means Victor has now scored more total Serie A goals (50) than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":236743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Osimhen the all-time highest-scoring African in Serie A - SSC Napoli<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Besides claiming the Serie A top scorer award in 2022\/23, Victor Osimhen also became the first African player to bag 26 goals in a single Serie A campaign.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sscnapoli.it\/en\/osimhen-capocannoniere-e-primo-calciatore-africano-a-segnare-26-reti-in-un-solo-campionato-di-serie-a\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Osimhen the all-time highest-scoring African in Serie A - SSC Napoli\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Besides claiming the Serie A top scorer award in 2022\/23, Victor Osimhen also became the first African player to bag 26 goals in a single Serie A campaign. 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