'%20x='0'%20y='0'%20height='100%25'%20width='100%25'%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20xlink%3Ahref='data:image/jpg;base64,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'%3E%3C/image%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Raheem Sterling may not be the greatest scorer the Premier League has seen but he notched up a unique milestone last weekend.
With a penalty against Wolves in Manchester City's 1-0 victory, he became just the 32nd player in history to surpass the 100-goal mark in the English top-flight.
Having racked up 18 goals for Liverpool, he's added another 82 since joining the Sky Blues in 2015 and the winger's milestone came on his 304th league appearance.
While he's not the fastest to get 100 Premier League goals, at 27, he's certainly among the youngest, and here we plot his record against the all-time list:
Trending
#10 Robbie Keane - 27 years and 171 days
Robbie Keane scored in the Premier League with six different clubs, but enjoyed the best spell with Tottenham Hotspur where he scored 91 top-flight goals in 238 games.
In the final season of his first spell with the club, the Irishman also surpassed the 100-goal mark in the league with a brace in the 5-1 destruction of Fulham on December 2007.
#9 Andy Cole - 27 years and 126 days
Another Premier League great, Andy Cole initially burst to stardom for his 34-goal haul with Newcastle United in the 1993/94 season before starring with Manchester United for eight years.
During that period, he lifted five league titles and also became one of the first players to score 100 league goals. He reached his century with a brace in the 8-1 demolition of Nottingham Forest in 1999.
#8 Raheem Sterling - 27 years and 3 days
Raheem Sterling's Liverpool days weren't glorious but he's become a beast at Manchester City under Pep Guardiola. Indeed, only Sergio Aguero has struck more times since the Spaniard took charge.
He recently became the 32nd player to join the Premier League's 100-goal club and at 27 years and three days, is also the eighth youngest to achieve the feat.
#7 Thierry Henry - 26 years and 177 days
A bona fide legend of the Premier League, Thierry Henry's record with Arsenal was something else. Between 1999 and 2007, he struck 174 times from 254 games, winning four Golden Boots.
He set numerous records along the way and took only 160 games to surpass the 100-goal mark in the league, which at the time was the fastest after only Alan Shearer.
#6 Alan Shearer - 25 years and 139 days
Speaking of Shearer, he achieved 100 league goals at a younger age than Henry, and holds the distinction of being the first to rack up a century of strikes back in 1996.
He played for Blackburn Rovers at the time and it was only the fourth Premier League season in history. It also took him only 124 games to achieve the feat.
#5 Romelu Lukaku - 24 years and 308 days
Romelu Lukaku was already a Premier League great by the time he joined Manchester United in 2017, having struck 85 times from 176 games.
While the Belgian failed to live up to the hype, he surpassed the 100-goal mark in his first season at the club with a goal in the 2-0 victory over Swansea City at just 24 years.
#4 Harry Kane - 24 years and 191 days
About six weeks before Lukaku, Harry Kane scored his 100th Premier League goal from the penalty spot in a 2-2 draw with Liverpool.
He's a few months younger than the Belgian, so that helped, while in 141 appearances, Kane also became the fastest player to achieve the feat after Shearer.
#3 Wayne Rooney - 24 years and 100 days
In January 2010, Wayne Rooney joined the Premier League's 100-goal club with a strike against Arsenal, the same team he also scored his first top-flight goal against.
The former Manchester United legend was just over 24 years of age at the time, the third youngest, although it took him well over 200 appearances to achieve the feat.
#2 Robbie Fowler - 23 years and 283 days
Robbie Fowler was the first Liverpool player to cross the 100-goal milestone in the Premier League, and when he did, the striker was also the youngest at the time.
Interestingly, his centurion strike came as part of a hat-trick against Southampton in January 1999 in a 7-1 shellacking.
#1 Michael Owen - 23 years and 134 days
More than four years later, Michael Owen broke his teammate's record to become the youngest Premier League player to score 100 goals at the age of 23 years and 134 days.
His milestone also came when he struck four goals in a 6-0 demolition of West Brom on his 185th appearance. That's some way to claim the record, I guess!
