Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s goalscoring run at Leeds United has quickly become one of the Premier League’s standout talking points. Seven goals across six consecutive Premier League matches is hard to ignore, particularly when so many of them have come at moments when Leeds needed a lift rather than padding a scoreline late on.
Scoring in
six straight league games puts Calvert-Lewin into rare territory. Scoring in
six consecutive Premier League matches, he now holds the longest scoring
streak the league has seen in six years, a level of consistency rarely
sustained in the modern game.
In doing so,
he’s also equalled a 65-year club record at Leeds, placing his run firmly in
the club’s history rather than just this season’s narrative. Looking back at
some of the most notable goal streaks helps put his achievement into
perspective.
Jamie
Vardy - 11
The
benchmark remains Jamie Vardy, who scored in 11 consecutive Premier League
matches during Leicester City’s title-winning season. Across that run, Vardy
scored 13 goals, averaging just over a goal per game. The streak came against a
mix of opponents, including Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea, and was
built largely on counter-attacks and quick transitions.
Vardy’s
streak became a weekly talking point as it gathered pace, eventually breaking
Ruud van Nistelrooy’s long-standing record and becoming one of the defining
storylines of the season.
Ruud Van
Nistelrooy - 10
Before
Vardy, Ruud van Nistelrooy held the record with goals in 10 consecutive Premier
League matches for Manchester United. His run spanned the latter part of the
2002–03 season, and the first two games of the 2003-04 season, and included
goals against Arsenal, Liverpool and Newcastle.
The streak
underlined his role as United’s main source of goals at the time and was a
major factor in their title challenge that season.
Alexander
Isak - eight
Last season,
Alexander Isak put together a run of eight consecutive Premier League matches
with a goal, a streak that arrived at a key moment in Newcastle United’s
season. Isak joined Newcastle in 2022 for a club-record fee at the time, and
this run of form felt like a clear return on that investment. His goals came
against a range of opponents and helped sustain Newcastle’s momentum during a
demanding stretch of fixtures, reinforcing his status as the club’s leading
attacking figure and justifying the expectations that came with his price tag.
Daniel
Sturridge - eight
Daniel
Sturridge also scored in eight straight Premier League games during Liverpool’s
2013–14 title challenge, a season remembered for its attacking intensity. His
run came alongside Luis Suarez, who won the Golden Boot that season, and
featured goals against sides including Everton, Arsenal and Fulham, helping
Liverpool remain firmly in the title race deep into the season.
Despite
Liverpool’s second-place finish in the league that season, Sturridge’s streak
was a key part of Liverpool’s attacking surge and remains one of the standout
individual runs of that era.
Vardy and
Van Nistelrooy’s eight-game streaks
Both Ruud
van Nistelrooy and Jamie Vardy also recorded goalscoring streaks of eight
consecutive Premier League matches, though the context around each was very
different. Vardy’s eight-game run came during the 2019–20 season, but it was
inevitably overshadowed by his record-breaking 11-game streak.
Van
Nistelrooy’s run, meanwhile, came earlier in his Manchester United career
during the 2001–02 season, and in hindsight felt like a sign of what was to
come.
Players
with seven-game runs
A number of
Premier League greats have also recorded seven-game goalscoring streaks,
underlining how rare that level of consistency remains.
Erling
Haaland reached the mark during his record-breaking debut season at Manchester
City in 2022-23, while Mohamed Salah has managed the feat at Liverpool during
the 2021-22 season.
Thierry
Henry achieved a seven-game run during his peak years at Arsenal in 2000-01, as
the focal point of one of the league’s most dominant attacks, and Alan Shearer
did the same during his time at Newcastle United in 1996-97, reinforcing his
reputation as one of the Premier League’s most reliable scorers.
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