The 10 fastest players to reach 100 PL goals for one club: Shearer, Salah…

Manchester United legend Cristiano Ronaldo has become the latest player to reach the Premier League’s 100 club in terms of goals.

The Portuguese icon has become the 33rd player to have notched a century of goals in England’s top-flight since it was rebranded in 1992 – and he joins a select few to have done so for one club.

His first Premier League goal came against Portsmouth in November 2003 and his hundredth came in a 3-1 defeat to Arsenal nearly two decades later. But Ronaldo doesn’t quite make it into the top 10 fastest players to reach that milestone in terms of appearances. It’s taken him 224 Premier League appearances to notch 100 goals for United. So who gets in ahead of him?

We’ve done some digging and identified the 10 quickest players to score 100 goals with a single Premier League club.

Rooney burst into the collective consciousness at Everton but it was at Old Trafford where he’d become a record-breaking goalscorer.

The striker quickly settled in at United after his 2004 move, scoring 11 league goals in his first season before overtaking Bobby Charlton as the club’s leading goalscorer with a free-kick against Stoke in January 2017.

Rooney also holds the distinction of being England’s highest goalscorer after notching 53 for his country in 120 appearances.

Probably the least glamorous name to appear on our list, Vardy’s goals led Leicester to the league title in 2016.

After rejecting a move to Arsenal that summer, the Sheffield-born striker has continued to bang them in ever since and scored his 100th Premier League goal during a win over Crystal Palace in July 2020.

He may not be remembered too fondly by Liverpool fans these days but Owen lit up the Premier League with his goalscoring exploits at Anfield.

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