Scoring 100 goals for a single club is a rare milestone at Manchester United and Bruno Fernandes has now joined that select group. The Portuguese captain reached his century despite a difficult period for the club, moving past the likes of David Beckham, Eric Cantona and Dwight Yorke in United\u2019s goalscoring charts. Eighteen players still sit ahead of him.<\/p>\n
Marcus Rashford is the only current United player among the centurions, although he is currently on loan at Barcelona and looks unlikely to play for the Red Devils again. Rashford has scored 138 goals for his boyhood club and is 13th on the all-time list, ahead of centurions Ole Gunnar Solskj\u00e6r, Andy Cole and Brian McClair.<\/p>\n
Tommy Taylor holds the best goals-per-game ratio among the hundred-goal scorers with 0.69 strikes per outing. David Herd managed 143 goals in 261 matches, while Ruud van Nistelrooy produced 150 goals in 219 appearances, 149 of which came from inside the penalty box. Cristiano Ronaldo sits between those two with 145 goals across two spells; it took him 346 matches to reach his century.<\/p>\n
Longevity helped both Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs climb into the century club. Scholes, a midfielder, finished with 155 goals in 716 games and reached his 100th against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux in March 2010. Giggs amassed 168 goals in 963 appearances, placing him seventh in the club\u2019s list.<\/p>\n
Several of United\u2019s historical forwards occupy the top positions. Dennis Viollet scored 173 goals in 284 outings, Jack Rowley managed 190, George Best 179 and Denis Law 243 in 405 matches. Bobby Charlton sits second with 245 goals in 746 appearances. Wayne Rooney tops the list, with 253 goals across 559 appearances.<\/p>\n
The club\u2019s century-makers range from midfielders and long-serving icons to prolific strikers, illustrating different routes to triple figures at Old Trafford. Fernandes\u2019s inclusion continues a tradition that spans the club\u2019s most celebrated eras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fernandes hits 100 for United; Rooney leads with 253 goals. Rashford is 13th on the club list. Read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,179],"tags":[342,452,450],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analytics-stats","category-manchester-united","tag-bruno-fernandes","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-david-beckham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}