Scoring goals is easy for some, but doing so across Europe’s top four or five leagues is no small feat and for the few who have achieved this very rare feat, it elevates them to a very rare class.

This article spotlights ten exceptional footballers who’ve found the net in four or all five of Europe’s top leagues like the English Premier League, Spanish LaLiga, Italian Serie A, German Bundesliga, and the French Ligue 1.

These players are not just credited for their talent but also adaptability, which allows them to thrive in diverse tactical systems, cultures, and competitive environments.

Nevertheless, many of these players reached this rare milestone not by design, but through a lack of stability that saw them constantly on the move across borders.

Yet, in the midst of uncertainty, they carved out memorable moments in front of goal. Here's a look at the unique careers of football’s true globetrotting finishers.

10 Players To Score Across Europe's Top 4 or 5 Leagues

10 Players To Score Across Europe's Top 5 Leagues

1. Florin Raducioiu

Romanian striker Florin Raducioiu etched his name into European football history by becoming the first player to score in each of the top five leagues—Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, and Ligue 1.

Between the 90s and early this century, the forward quietly achieved what would become a benchmark of versatility over a career that lasted 11 years in elite leagues.

From Bari to Hellas Verona, Brescia, AC Milan, Espanyol, to Stuttgart, and then AS Monaco, Raducioiu toured all of Europe's top five leagues with brief but impactful stints that saw him leave a scoring footprint in every one of these leagues.

While he never stayed long enough to become a cult hero at any one club, his journey remains a testament to the unique path of a player who thrived across borders, and will forever be famous as the first player to achieve the feat of scoring in all of Europe's top five leagues.

2. Stevan Jovetić 

Aside never being sent off in just career, Stefan Jovetic is also famous as one of the four players to play in each of Europe's top five leagues as well as the second to score in all of these leagues after Raducioiu.

He moved to Fiorentina in 2008, where he made a name for himself as a rising star, earning him a move to Manchester City in the English Premier League.

Although things didn't go quite well, he was able to leave his scoring mark and same was the case with his loan spell with Sevilla and in Spain, before leaving for France in 2017, signing for AS Monaco.

He moved to Hertha Berlin at the end of his four-year contract with Monaco, completing the set as the third player, at the time, to play in all of Europe's top five leagues.

On 14 August 2021, he scored six minutes into his Bundesliga debut in a 3-1 loss at Koln, and became the second player, after Florin Raducioiu, to score at least one league goal in Europe's top five leagues. He went to score nine more in the competition 

3. Justin Kluivert

Justin Kluivert may have grown up in the shadow of a legendary surname, but he’s carving out his own legacy, one league at a time. 

In November 2023, the Dutch winger became one of the three players to score in all six of Europe’s top leagues after finding the back of the net in a 3-1 Bournemouth win over Sheffield United.

Justin, who began his career at Ajax, joined AS Roma in 2018. His failure to meet expectation led to loan moves to RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga, Nice in Ligue 1 and then Valencia in LaLiga, before securing a permanent move to Premier League side Bournemouth.

He may not enjoy a career as illustrious as his father Patrick’s, but his achievement of scoring in each of Europe’s top five leagues is a rare feat that even the game’s biggest names haven't matched.

Kluivert made his time at these clubs count with goals that saw him achieved a very rare feat. It’s a milestone that ensures his relevance in the modern football conversation.

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4. Philippe Coutinho 

Coutinho moved to Europe a month before his 16th birthday, joining Italian club Inter from his boyhood club Vasco da Gama. He would go on to spend five years before sealing a move to English side Liverpool.

In Merseyside, the Brazilian reached the peak of his career, starring under Jurgen Klopp and becoming one of the best midfielders around at the time.

He then moved to Barcelona early in 2018, where he struggled to replicate his best years and was loaned to Bayern Munich, where he achieved the feat of scoring in four of Europe's top five leagues.

5. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 

Teenager Aubameyang joined AC Milan Academy from Bastia. Although he impressed, he was unable to debut for the senior the club before returning to France in 2008. How he must regret that as it may have seen him also achieve the feat of scoring in each of Europe's top five leagues.

The Gabonesse striker went on to score in the other four, excluding the Serie A, playing for Dijon, Lille, Monaco and Saint Etienne in France before moving to Germany with Borussia Dortmund and then Arsenal in England.

He then spend six months with Barcelona, completing the feat of scoring in four of the top five leagues — Aubameyang did not only score goals, he scored quite some of them, and he won the top scorer award in both the Premier League and the Bundesliga.

6. Kevin Prince Boateng 

A true journeyman. Only a few in the game played in as many clubs as Kevin Prince Boateng, who spent his career roaming Europe, but unfortunately, never considered a move to Ligue 1 to complete the feat.

He played for multiple clubs across the top four leagues. Tottenham Hotspur and Portsmouth in England, Las Palmas and Barcelona in LaLiga, Hertha Berlin, Dortmund, Schalke 04 and Frankfurt in Germany and then Milan, Monza, Sassuolo, Genoa and Fiorentina in Italy.

He completed the feat of scoring in all of Europe's top four leagues at Las Palmas in a 2-1 defeat to Villarreal in October 2016, a goal that was recognized as one of the best in the Spanish topflight that campaign.

7. Obafemi Martins

Ex Nigerian international was a force during his time. Obafemi Martins, famously known as Obagoal kicked off his journey in elite leagues with Inter in 2001. After three and a half year with the first team, he moved to England, signing for Newcastle United.

Martins also had stints at Wolfsburg and then Levante, where he made it four top leagues scored in thanks to his strike in a 2-1 win over Real Sociedad on his debut in 2012.

8. Bojan Kirk

That Barcelona prodigy that never fulfilled his potential, scoring in top four leagues could be a consolation for Bojan, as his name will relatively be mentioned when it comes down to it.

He scored for Barcelona in LaLiga, Milan and Roma in Serie A, Stoke City in the Premier League and Mainz 04 in the Bundesliga, with only a goal in the Ligue 1 missing in his collection.

9. Jonathan de Guzman

Former Dutch midfielder Jonathan de Guzman is one of those who scored in all top four leagues of Europe. Even though scoring goals wasn't his thing, he managed just enough in the right occasions.

Through stints at Mallorca, Swansea City, Napoli and Frankfurt, the Canadian born player was able to leave his goalscoring footprint on the four top leagues, earning his place in a list of few.

10. Jon Dahl Tomasson

Former Danish striker Jon Dahl Tomasson played and scored for Newcastle United, AC Milan, Stuttgart and Villarreal in their respective leagues, adding his name to the list of players to score in Europe's top four leagues.