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Top 10 Italian scorers in 2025: A golden year for Retegui and Orsolini
HONG KONG, CHINA – AUGUST 20: Mateo Retegui of Al Qadisah looks on during the Saudi Super Cup semi final between Al-Ahli and Al-Qadsiah at Hong Kong Stadium on August 20, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Yu Chun Christopher Wong/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images)
Mateo Retegui is the leading Italian goalscorer for the 2025 calendar year with 18 in competitive matches for Atalanta and Al-Qadsiah, but only three Azzurri representatives have hit double figures since the beginning of January.
Retegui, who left Atalanta to join Al-Qadsiah in a whopping €65m deal over the summer, hit 10 goals in Italy before moving to Saudi Arabia, where he has since added a further eight competitive goals to his annual tally.
Bologna’s Orsolini is the second-highest goalscoring Italian in 2025 with 15 goals across all competitions. He is also the leading Italian goalscorer who does not regularly play at centre-forward. He has nine goals to his name already in 2025-26: Six in Serie A, two in the Europa League and one in the Supercoppa Italiana.
Fiorentina’s Moise Kean is the third-highest goalscoring Italian, and the only other Italian in Europe’s top five leagues to have hit double figures in 2025. In what has been a poor season on a collective level for La Viola, Kean has come up with four Serie A goals and one goal in the Conference League so far this season.
Curiously, Fiorentina, who sit dead last in Serie A as things stand, have three players included among the top 10 goalscorers in Europe’s top five leagues. Rolando Mandragora ranks joint-fourth with nine goals, while summer signing Roberto Piccoli comes in at seventh with seven goals in 2025. * = spent some portion of 2025 outside Europe’s top 5 leagues
2025 top Italian goalscorers in Europe’s top 5 leagues
1 Mateo Retegui (Al-Qadsiah, Atalanta) – 18 goals*
2. Riccardo Orsolini (Bologna) – 15 goals
3. Moise Kean (Fiorentina) – 12 goals
4. Vincenzo Grifo (Freiburg) – nine goals
4. Rolando Mandragora (Fiorentina) – nine goals
6. Andrea Pinamonti (Sassuolo, Genoa) – eight goals
7. Roberto Piccoli (Fiorentina, Cagliari) – seven goals
8. Ciro Immobile (Bologna, Besiktas) – six goals*
8. Lorenzo Lucca (Napoli, Udinese) – six goals
8. Mattia Zaccagni (Lazio) – six goals
