Revealed! Leigh Griffths' special place in Celtic's goalscoring pantheon

The prowess of Leigh Griffiths in front of goal isn’t all that makes the Celtic striker stand apart from so many peers.

Celtic's Leigh Griffths' love of goals has never been in doubt.

The 30-year-old has a knowledge of his scoring exploits and where it places him in the pantheon of goal-plundering greats at the Parkhead club that is almost unnerving, and entirely atypical for his profession.

Griffiths’ next strike for the club won’t merely be his 118th (forget some sources erroneously putting his total at 116 presently). That goal, which he will be seeking if given any game time in the Scottish Cup semi-final against Aberdeen on Sunday, would place the player in exalted company. As he knows. “I think I’m only just short of breaking into the top 20 for goal scorers for this football club in its history,” he said. ‘That would be a big achievement for me.”

It certainly would, since it would allow him to overtake Bobby Collins, with whom he is tied in 20th/21st placed, depending how you treat such rankings.

The full top Celtic’s scorers list of the 28 players to have scored 100 goals for the club or more in which Griffiths has carved himself a place across close on seven years in Glasgow’s east end, is as follows:

1.468 James McGrory

273 Bobby Lennox 242 Henrik Larsson 231 Stevie Chalmers 217 Jimmy Quinn 192 Patsy Gallacher 189 John Hughes 177 Sandy McMahon 168 Jimmy McMenemy 167 Kenny Dalglish 148 Adam McLean 134 Willie Wallace 130 Jimmy Johnstone 126 Tommy McInally 125 Charlie Nicholas 124 Dixie Deans 123 Jimmy McColl 121 Brian McClair 121 Harry Hood 117 Bobby Colllins 117 Leigh Griffiths 113 Johnny Campbell 10 John Hartson 109 Frank McGarvey Neil Mochan 103 Joe Cassidy(1912) 102 Bobby Murdoch 100 Alec Thomson

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