5 highest Premier League goalscorers never to win the league
The English Premier League, since its inception in 1992 from the First Divison, is one of the toughest and most physically challenging league in the world.
The premier division of English football has seen just 6 winners in its short history of 26 years with Manchester United dominating the league with 13 league titles followed by Chelsea with 5, Arsenal and Manchester City with 3 each and Blackburn Rovers and Leicester City with 1 each.
The glamour and outreach of the Premier League have seen many players from distinct nationalities plying their trade in the league. This list also includes many world famous players who made their very first steps into stardom in this league with Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale being the prime examples.
The Premier League though has seen many big names failing to win the title with only around 250 players able to say that they have won the league. The goal scoring record in the league is also another milestone that has stood the test of time for a very long time with Alan Shearer sitting at the perch with 260 goals for more than 12 years.
The Englishman though has had the fortune of winning the Premier League once, with Blackburn, in 1995 but not all players in the list can call themselves Premier League champions.
Here let's look at the highest Premier League goalscorers never to win the Premier League in their time.
#5 Robbie Keane (126 goals)
The former Ireland captain makes the list just ahead of another Tottenham Hotspur goal-machine Harry Kane. The striker started his Premier League career with Coventry City, moving for a then record fee for a British teenager, from Wolverhampton Wanderers.
The debut season saw the striker score 12 goals before moving away from the league for 6 months to Inter Milan before making his comeback with Leeds. With the Peacocks, Keane scored 13 times before moving to Tottenham Hotspur, in the 2002-03 season, where he made his name.
A six and a half year spell with Spurs was followed by 6 months in Liverpool before once again returning back to White Hart Lane for another 1 and a half years. Loan moves to Scottish giants Celtic and London rivals West Ham United soon followed before finally bidding his farewell to the Premier League with a loan move to Aston Villa from LA Galaxy.
A legend on and off the field Robbie Keane has made a total of 349 appearances in the Premier League and has scored 126 goals (91 Tottenham, 13 Leeds, 12 Coventry, 5 Liverpool, 3 Aston Villa and 2 West Ham). The Irish striker is the 14th player in the all-time list of goal scorers in the Premier League.
The closest the Irish international came to winning the Premier League was in the 2009-10 season when Spurs finished 4th. Robbie Keane was a part of the side that won the last piece of silverware in Tottenham Hotspur (League Cup Title).