LECCE, ITALY - FEBRUARY 25: Lautaro Martinez of FC Internazionale celebrates after scoring the goal during the Serie A TIM match between US Lecce and FC Internazionale at Stadio Via del Mare on February 25, 2024 in Lecce, Italy. (Photo by Mattia Ozbot - Inter/Inter via Getty Images)

Lautaro, 100 (and 101) goals in Serie A!

Team

— Feb 25th 2024

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The Nerazzurri captain continues to rack up incredible numbers

Lautaro Martinez continues to rack up extraordinary numbers: his 15th-minute opener in Lecce vs. Inter on matchday 26 saw him make it 100 goals in Serie A, all of which he scored in a Nerazzurri shirt.

Then, after the restart, he bagged the team's third and, in doing so, improved his personal tally still further. 101 goals in the Italian top flight, 22 of which have arrived this campaign (in 23 appearances). Since joining the Nerazzurri, he's found the net a total of 127 times, putting him eighth in Inter's all-time top goalscorer ranking.

“This is a highly significant win: we continue to show real consistency and also played some fantastic football. The great thing is we’re doing it all together, both those who start and those who come on during matches. We’re doing some fantastic work and need to keep it up. 100 goals in Serie A? Choosing my favourite is difficult; perhaps I’ll go for my 100th, which was my first one tonight. I have to say that when I left home at the age of 15, I would never have imagined all of this: the work and sacrifices of my family when I was a child have made it all possible. All of this is for them. There isn’t a secret: we need to work every day and help each other out. I’m young and can still improve. We still haven’t won anything, so we need to continue to work hard. Goal records aren’t important; I’ll try to break them, but Inter winning is the most important thing. The goals I score help the team. We’ve built on our Champions League journey last season and have improved and matured, but we need to keep raising the bar every match and during every training session.”

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LAUTARO, 100 AND 101 GOALS IN SERIE A: THE FACTS

Lautaro Martínez is the only player to have scored more than 15 goals with his right foot, his left foot and with his head in the last six Serie A seasons.
Lautaro Martínez has become the ninth player to score 100 goals for a single Serie A team before turning 27 years old; he's followed in the footsteps of Giuseppe Meazza (Inter), Felice Borel (Juventus), Giampiero Boniperti (Juventus), Gino Pivatelli (Bologna), Omar Sivori (Juventus), Altafini (AC Milan), Luigi Riva (Cagliari) and Mauro Icardi (Inter).
The Inter captain has become the seventh Argentine to score 100 goals in Serie A, after Gabriel Batistuta, Hernán Crespo, Gonzalo Higuaín, Mauro Icardi, Abel Balbo and Paulo Dybala.
Lautaro Martínez has become the third non-Italian in Inter's history to reach the 100-goal mark in Serie A, following in the footsteps of Stefano Nyers (133) and Mauro Icardi (111).
Lautaro Martínez, who has scored 22 league goals this season, has become the third player in Inter's history to net at least 20 times for three consecutive Serie A campaigns. Giuseppe Meazza (five - from 1929/30 to 1933/34) and Stefano Nyers (four - from 1948/49 to 1951/52) previously did this.
Lautaro Martínez has become the fifth player in Inter's history to score at least 22 goals in the Nerazzurri's opening 25 matches of a single Serie A campaign. He's followed in the footsteps of Giuseppe Meazza, Stefano Nyers, Antonio Angelillo and Christian Vieri.
Of the 22 goals Lautaro Martínez has scored this Serie A season, 14 have arrived away from home: no player has bagged more on the road across the top five European divisions in 2023/24. Only two players have previously done better than this in a single top-flight campaign: Romelu Lukaku in 2019/20 and Stefano Nyers in 1949/50 (both 15).
Lautaro Martínez finished 2023 with 29 Serie A goals to his name. Only three players had previously reached such a total in a single calendar year in the Italian top flight with Inter: Giuseppe Meazza (30 in 1930 and 29 in 1933), Stefano Nyers (32 in 1951) and Antonio Angelillo (31 in 1958).
Lautaro Martínez is one of two Inter players to have scored a perfect hat-trick (left foot, right foot and header) since Opta started collecting such data (from 2004/05): he did so against Crotone on 3 January 2021, thus following in the footsteps of Mauro Icardi (against Atalanta on 12 March 2017).
Since the start of the three-points-per-win era (from 1994/95), Lautaro Martínez is the only player to have scored four goals as a substitute; he did so against Salernitana on 30 September 2023.

INTER'S ALL-TIME TOP GOALSCORERS IN SERIE A

Giuseppe Meazza 198 Benito Lorenzi 138 István Nyers 133 Alessandro Altobelli 128 Sandro Mazzola 116 Roberto Boninsegna 113 Mauro Icardi 111 Christian Vieri 103 Lautaro Martínez 101 Attilio Demaría 76

LECCE, ITALY - FEBRUARY 25: Lautaro Martinez of FC Internazionale celebrates with team-mates after scoring the goal during the Serie A TIM match between US Lecce and FC Internazionale at Stadio Via del Mare on February 25, 2024 in Lecce, Italy. (Photo by Mattia Ozbot - Inter/Inter via Getty Images)

LECCE, ITALY - FEBRUARY 25: Lautaro Martinez of FC Internazionale in action during the Serie A TIM match between US Lecce and FC Internazionale at Stadio Via del Mare on February 25, 2024 in Lecce, Italy. (Photo by Mattia Ozbot - Inter/Inter via Getty Images)

LECCE, ITALY - FEBRUARY 25: Lautaro Martinez of FC Internazionale score the goal during the Serie A TIM match between US Lecce and FC Internazionale at Stadio Via del Mare on February 25, 2024 in Lecce, Italy. (Photo by Mattia Ozbot - Inter/Inter via Getty Images)

LECCE, ITALY - FEBRUARY 25: Lautaro Martinez of FC Internazionale competes for the ball with Ahmed Touba of US Lecce during the Serie A TIM match between US Lecce and FC Internazionale at Stadio Via del Mare on February 25, 2024 in Lecce, Italy. (Photo by Mattia Ozbot - Inter/Inter via Getty Images)

INTER'S ALL-TIME TOP GOALSCORERS

Player	Goals scored	Appearances	Goal average per game
1. Giuseppe Meazza	284	408	0,7
2. Alessandro Altobelli	209	466	0,45
3. Roberto Boninsegna	171	287	0,6
4. Sandro Mazzola	160	565	0,28
5. Luigi Cevenini III	158	190	0,83
6. Benito Lorenzi	143	314	0,46
7. Istvan Nyers	133	182	0,73
8. Lautaro Martinez	127	271	0,47
9. Mauro Icardi	124	219	0,57
10. Christian Vieri	123	190	0,65