Between the 1989-90 and 1998-99 seasons, Anton Polster had the most goals in Europe's top five leagues, with 164 goals in LaLiga and Bundesliga.

most goals by a player in the 1990s

	NAME	G	M	MIN	START	G/M	A	G+A	PK
1	Anton Polster A. Polster	164	320	26,554	302	0.51			30
2	Alan Shearer A. Shearer	153	216	18,647	207	0.71	39	192	28
3	Ulf Kirsten U. Kirsten	142	259	21,030	249	0.55			8
4	Giuseppe Signori G. Signori	136	229	18,829	219	0.59			35
5	Roberto Baggio R. Baggio	134	277	22,184	258	0.48			48
6	Gabriel Omar Batistuta G. Omar Batistuta	129	213	18,895	212	0.61			12
7	Lyuboslav Mladenov Penev L. Mladenov Penev	129	305	24,997	286	0.42			43
8	Jürgen Klinsmann J. Klinsmann	126	289	24,760	282	0.44			6
9	Jean-Pierre Roger Papin J. Roger Papin	123	231	18,012	207	0.53			21
10	Iván Luis Zamorano I. Luis Zamorano	115	265	21,178	240	0.43			0
11	Davor Šuker D. Šuker	114	239	18,505	218	0.48			19
12	Abel Eduardo Balbo A. Eduardo Balbo	114	231	18,427	209	0.49			24
13	Ian Wright I. Wright	113	213	17,779	202	0.53	22	135	16
14	Les Ferdinand L. Ferdinand	111	223	18,650	217	0.50	42	153	0
15	Gianfranco Zola G. Zola	110	294	23,431	270	0.37			12
16	Tony Yeboah T. Yeboah	109	227	18,694	209	0.48			3
17	George Weah G. Weah	107	279	23,101	261	0.38			3
18	Robbie Fowler R. Fowler	106	185	15,849	179	0.57	23	129	11
19	Stéphane Chapuisat S. Chapuisat	106	228	18,320	206	0.46			2
20	Roberto Mancini R. Mancini	106	307	26,040	297	0.35			14
21	Stefan Kuntz S. Kuntz	106	255	21,768	247	0.42			22
22	Andy Cole A. Cole	104	195	15,661	174	0.53	39	143	0
23	Youri Djorkaeff Y. Djorkaeff	102	277	20,672	229	0.37			26
24	Alain Caveglia A. Caveglia	102	289	20,431	221	0.35			20
25	Andreas Möller A. Möller	101	292	25,182	289	0.35			5