Northern Ireland Players with Twenty-plus Goals in a Season

A list of (Northern) Ireland players to have scored more than twenty goals in a Football League/Premier League season since the Second World War...

Season	Gls	Team			Div	- Bobby Campbell (Bradford City) Derek Dougan (Leicester City) Willie Irvine (Burnley) Jimmy Quinn (Reading) Dave Walsh (West Bromwich Albion) Jimmy McIlroy (Burnley)
George Best			63/64-81/82	411/147
1967/68	±28	Manchester U.			(I)
Bobby.Campbell			73/74-87/88	457(19)/179
1981/82 1982/83 1984/85	24 25 23	Bradford City Bradford City Bradford City			(IV) (III) (III)
Colin Clarke			80/81-92/93	367(31)/134
1984/85 1985/86 1986/87	22 26 20	Tranmere Rovers Bournemouth Southampton			(IV) (III) (I)
Johnny Crossan			62/63-69/70	230(2)/70
1963/64	22	Sunderland			(II)
Peter Doherty			33/34-52/53	406/197
1936/37 1937/38 1949/50	30 23 ±27	Manchester City Manchester City Doncaster Rovers			PW (I) PW (I) (III)
Only NI player to top 20 goals before and after WW2
Derek Dougan			57/58-74/75	532(14)/222
1963/64 1966/67	20 25	Peterborough U. Leicester City Wolverhampton			(III) (16) (I) (9) (II)
Stuart Elliott			02/03-08/09	169(54)/67
2004/05	27	Hull City			(III)
Will Grigg			08/09-date	-(-)/-
2014/15 2015/16	20 25	MK Dons Wigan Athletic			(III) (III)
Terry Harkin			62/63-70/71	257(4)/126
1964/65 1967/68	*34 21	Crewe Alexandra Southport			(IV) (III)
* some sources list seasons total as 35
Willie Irvine			62/63-72/73	276(10)/133
1964/65 1965/66	22 ±29	Burnley Burnley			(I) (I)
Ian Lawther			59/60-75/76	577(21)/180
1960/61 1964/65	24 24	Sunderland Scunthorpe U. Brentford			(II) (13) (III) (11) (III)
Billy McAdams			53/54-67/68	343/147
1959/60 1962/63	22 22	Manchester City Brentford			(I) (IV)
Sammy McCrory			46/47-59/60	457/188
1950/51 1957/58	21 30	Ipswich Town Southend United			(III) (III)
Jimmy.McLaughlin			60/61-73/74	436(25)/126
1960/61 1961/62 1965/66	20 22 20	Shrewsbury T. Shrewsbury T. Swansea Town			(III) (III) (III)
Peter McParland			52/53-63/64	352/122
1959/60	22	Aston Villa			(II)
Jimmy Quinn			81/82-99/00	475(100)/210
1987/88 1993/94 1997/98	21 ±35 20	Swindon Town Reading Peterborough U.			(II) (III) (IV)
Derek Spence			72/73-83/84	336(12)/97
1980/81	21	Southend United			(IV)
Dave Walsh			46/47-55/56	293/137
1946/47 1947/48 1948/49	28 22 23	West Brom. Alb. West Brom. Alb. West Brom. Alb.			(II) (II) (II)
Kevin Wilson			79/80-99/00	524(72)/149
1986/87	20	Ipswich Town			(II)
The only other NI player to have scored more than 100 Football League goals since WW2:
Jimmy McIlroy			50/51-67/68	570(6)/133
1953/54	*17	Burnley			(I)
* best season

Under-21 international Billy Kee topped 20 goals in League Two for Accrington Stanley in 2017/18.

KEY
Gls - Season's goal tally (League games only)
Div - Tier (ie, to 1991/92 Division One = (I), Division Two = (II), etc; 1992/93-2003/04 Premier League = (I), Division One = (II), etc; from 2004/05 Premier League = (I), Championship = (II), League One = (III), etc)
PW - Pre-Second World War

± = Divisional topscorer
+ = Season in progress

Stats for the English Premier and Football League since 1946/47 only. Does not include English non-league, Irish League, Scottish League etc.

See Also:

20+ Goals in the Scottish League

Northern Ireland's Top Goalscorers