Top 5 goalscorers for Liverpool

#3 Gordon Hodgson

Gordon Hodgson during his spell at Liverpool F.C.

Gordon Hodgson was one of the greatest South African players to ever play for the elite Reds from Merseyside. He has an incredible record of scoring 241 goals in 377 games across an 11-year career. Hodgson is #3 on the list for the greatest goalscoring players to have played for Liverpool.

He had a prolific goal-per-game ratio right up to 0.65 in the English First Division - a stat that works out to mean that he scored a goal in every sixth appearance for the Reds. And performances so impressive that the Liverpool Echo were once quoted saying,

With the addition of the South African, Hodgson (Inside Right), I fail to see how any opposition will keep a clean sheet when all three play in the same side. A good striker is a necessity in the game. A brace of good strikers is very rare indeed. The Liverpool side now contains triplets of awesome power, that’s just downright greed. God help the first division when Liverpool come to town.

He is a true Liverpool striking legend with a mighty record of 233 league goals and the first Red to have topped the goal-scoring charts in seven of the nine seasons he played for the club.

#2 Roger Hunt

Manchester United v Liverpool fixture attended by Roger Hunt

"Oh Roger Hunt – is wonderful,

Oh Roger Hunt is won-der-ful!"

Roger Hunt, one of the most prolific goalscorers from Liverpool's most successful period of 1960s, played his football under Liverpool's all-time greatest manager, Bill Shankly. Lovingly known as the Blonde Bomber by the fans at the club, Roger Hunt is #2 on the list of the greatest goalscorers for Liverpool F.C. with 286 goals for the club.

#1 Ian Rush

Borussia Dortmund Legends v FC Liverpool Legends

"Ian Rush,

Ian Rush,

Ian, Ian Rush,

He gets the ball,

He scores a goal,

Ian, Ian Rush!"

Ian Rush is the greatest goalscoring forward to ever play for Liverpool F.C. He's the man right at the top of the all-time leading goalscorer list for the club. He netted an astronomical 346 goals to mark his time at the club, making him one of the greatest players in the history of Liverpool and in European football.

He is five-time English champion (1982,1983, 1984, 1986, 1990), two-time winner of the European Championship (1980/81 & 1983/84) and three-time English F.A. Cup winner (1986, 1989, 1992). he also won five English League Cup titles (1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1995) for Liverpool.