How Many Goals Did Alan Shearer Score In His Career?

Legendary footballer Alan Shearer broke numerous goal scoring records during his playing career, which started as a 15-year-old schoolboy at Southampton FC in 1986 and finished twenty years later, in 2006, when he retired from his beloved Newcastle FC.

Alan Shearer scored 422 goals in his career at club and international level.  During his career he averaged 25 goals a season, which is prolific by anyone's standards!  On his full debut for Southampton he scored a hat.-trick against Arsenal, earning rave reviews and setting him on the road to international stardom.

Overall, he scored 23 goals for Southampton, 112 goals for Blackburn Rovers, 148 goals for Newcastle, 13 goals for England Under-21 and 30 goals for the full England team.

Shearer´s goal scoring record is better than one goal in two games and his return of 30 goals from 63 caps means that he stands fifth in the all-time England goalscorers chart, along with Nat Lofthouse and Tom Finney.