HistoryMohamed Salah achieves another entry to LFC's 30-goal club

The No.11 struck twice in Tuesday night’s 4-0 defeat of Manchester United at Anfield to hit the scoring milestone on his 42nd appearance of 2021-22.

It is the 28th time in history that a Reds man has registered that total; Salah became the 13th and latest entrant into the elite club of goal-getters back in 2018.

Take a closer look at those who have done it for Liverpool below…

Sam Raybould: 32 goals (1902-03)

The first man to achieve the feat for Liverpool, Raybould had already claimed a league championship winner’s medal for the club in 1900-01 and would do so again five seasons later.

His personal best was in 1902-03, however, with a haul of 32 in just 34 appearances – including four against Grimsby Town in a league meeting at Anfield.

Such was the influence of the moustachioed marksman, when he was suspended by authorities for the first half of the next campaign for trying to complete an illegal transfer, it contributed to the team suffering relegation.

Jack Parkinson: 30 goals (1909-10)

Bootle-born Parkinson first caught attention when he fired 20 goals in 21 appearances during Liverpool’s season in the Second Division in 1904-05.

A series of injuries prevented him from becoming a mainstay in the side and building on that budding potential in the subsequent seasons.

But he returned to fitness and form in 1909-10, scoring 30 goals in 31 league appearances – more than anyone else in the First Division – as the team finished second in the table.

Gordon Hodgson: 32 goals (1928-29), 36 goals (1930-31)

The striker from South Africa was a phenomenally consistent goalscorer in the 1920s and ’30s, and achieved the feat in question twice for Liverpool.

After netting 32 times in 1928-29, Hodgson – the man with the second-highest number of league goals for the club – accumulated 36 in 1930-31.

The latter tally included no fewer than four hat-tricks. Indeed, no Reds player has yet managed more than his incredible haul of 17 trebles.

Billy Liddell: 31 goals (1954-55), 32 goals (1955-56)

Liddell was the shining light during a rare period in the doldrums for Liverpool.

His most prolific goalscoring spell began with the Scot breaking the 30-goal mark in successive seasons in 1954-55 and 1955-56 as the team toiled in the Second Division.

There was a very special Christmas gift within that streak too – Liddell grabbed four for himself in a 6-2 thrashing of Ipswich Town at Anfield on December 25, 1954.

John Evans: 33 goals (1954-55)

Liverpool actually had two players bag more than 30 goals in 1954-55 – and still didn’t gain promotion!

Evans scored his in batches, hitting all five in a 5-3 home victory over Bristol Rovers and each of the team’s four when Bury were beaten 4-3 on the road later that season.

Netting more than the prolific Liddell was no mean feat, but the club could only finish 11th.

Roger Hunt: 42 goals (1961-62), 33 goals (1963-64), 37 goals (1964-65), 32 goals (1965-66), 30 goals (1967-68)

‘Sir’ Roger was the goalscorer-in-chief in Bill Shankly’s first great Liverpool team.

He stuck in 42 goals – all but one in the league – to help fire the Reds out of the Second Division in 1961-62 and produced similar exploits as they went on to win two league titles and a maiden FA Cup, with Hunt scoring in the Wembley final against Leeds United.

His penchant for net-busting did not abate as the years passed, and he reached the 30-goal mark for the fifth and final time a decade after joining the club.

Kenny Dalglish: 31 goals (1977-78)

The King’s most prolific season for Liverpool was actually his first. Having joined from Celtic in August 1977 as a replacement for Kevin Keegan – who had departed for Hamburg that summer – Kenny scored in six of his first eight appearances.

Dalglish’s name was on the scoresheet 31 times in total that term, with the last of his tally the most important: a delicate dink over Bruges goalkeeper Birger Jensen at Wembley that retained the European Cup for the Reds.

He reached the 20 mark in four of the next five seasons, though that minor reduction of his own output was offset by his ability to create goals for those around him.

Ian Rush: 30 goals (1981-82), 31 goals (1982-83), 47 goals (1983-84), 33 goals (1985-86), 40 goals (1986-87)

It is no surprise to see Liverpool’s all-time record goalscorer on this list, of course.

The pace of Rush’s goalscoring was ferocious, with the Welshman clocking up 30 in his first full season in the team, 31 a season later and 47 – the most ever by a Red in one campaign – as the treble of league, League Cup and European Cup was won in 1983-84.

A fallow season followed, just the 26 goals, before back-to-back hauls of 33 and 40 were recorded ahead of his brief jaunt to Juventus. Incomparable.

John Aldridge: 31 goals (1988-89)

Having had to wait until his late 20s to achieve the dream of a move to Anfield, boyhood Red Aldridge wasted no time in racking up serious numbers for his club.

He fell one short of reaching the 30 mark during the vintage season of 1987-88, but broke the barrier a season later from his 47 appearances in all competitions.

Six of those strikes were recorded in the FA Cup, including the opener in the 3-2 victory over Everton in the final at Wembley.

Robbie Fowler: 31 goals (1994-95), 36 goals (1995-96), 31 goals (1996-97)

More than a decade after his mentor, Rush, broke the 30-goal barrier three seasons in a row, the Toxteth terror emulated his predecessor’s feat with 98 strikes in all competitions between 1994 and 1997.

Successive hauls of 31, 36 and 31 again established Fowler as one of the Premier League’s deadliest forwards and deserved more than the solitary League Cup trophy they helped to yield under Roy Evans.

Only Salah has managed to score more in a single season for the Reds in the past 35 years than the Scouser’s stunning record of 36 in 1995-96.

Fernando Torres: 33 goals (2007-08)

There can have been few more enjoyable exhibitions of finishing prowess in Liverpool history than Torres’ thrilling debut season at Anfield.

The Spaniard served notice of his intention to destroy defences when he pounced to slide a fine effort beyond Petr Cech on his first home appearance, against Chelsea.

And they just kept coming, including three hat-tricks and six goals in the Reds’ run to the Champions League semi-finals, as the Kop christened a new hero.

Luis Suarez: 30 goals (2012-13), 31 goals (2013-14)

Given the elite talisman he soon became, it is difficult to imagine now that Suarez’s finishing ability was questioned in some quarters during his first 18 months on Merseyside.

But where the Uruguayan was guilty of squandering chances in that initial period, he rarely wasted one in the two full campaigns that followed.

Suarez bagged exactly 30 in Brendan Rodgers’ first term as Liverpool manager and went one better the following year with 31 – all in the Premier League as the Reds fell agonisingly short of Manchester City in the title race.

Mohamed Salah: 44 goals (2017-18), 31 goals (2020-21), 30 goals* (2021-22)

Salah became the 13th man to join this elite club at the very first opportunity as he netted a bewildering 44 times during his debut year at Anfield.

An integral figure as Jürgen Klopp’s Reds hoisted aloft the Champions League and Premier League in the two seasons that followed, the Egyptian surpassed 30 again last term as he soared up the club’s list of highest scorers.

And, with a minimum of nine fixtures left to play, Salah has already reached the 30 figure in the current campaign, with Liverpool competing for three more trophies having already clinched the Carabao Cup in February.