They are used to showing themselves in the second division. Sokker.ru – on the most productive in the league.

As a rule, the second divisions of the leagues of different countries serve as a kind of springboard for talented players. If someone shows up there, then he has a lot of chances to advance to the elite league, even if his team doesn’t. But there are unique players who become specialists in the second division, where they achieve historical achievements.

In terms of goals, of course, everyone already remembered him last season, when the fantastic Aleksandar Mitrovic helped Fulham win the championship and scored an impressive 43 goals. But one can’t help but remember his previous season, when the scorer only scored three Premier League goals. Before that, in the same league, he had scored 26 goals. A real close specialist.

In total, Mitrovic spent four seasons in the English second division, also playing there for Newcastle. And he scored a total of 85 goals. But he has stopped on the threshold of ten of the most productive specialists in the Championship since his debut in his current form in the 2004/05 season. Let’s take a look at the ones that have been even more successful there in the long run.

10. Troy Deeney – 88 balls

84 of Deeney’s 88 league goals have come for Watford, who he helped reach the Premier League twice, in 2015 and 2020. Dini has had a good spate and has had a streak of four consecutive scoring seasons double-digit in the championship. His best result was 24 goals in the 2013/14 season. But in the Premier League they just didn’t manage to be seen. The 33-year-old striker now plays for Birmingham, where he scored four goals last season.

9. Charlie Austin – 88 balls

He has the same number of goals as Dini, but in 218 games, not 244 like Troy. Austin also had a chance to jump between divisions. His best season in the league came in 2012/13 when he scored 24 goals for Burnley. Austin, 32, played for the Queens Park Rangers last season, scoring five goals in 34 games. And his team finished in 11th place.

8. Lukasz Yutkiewicz – 90 goals

This is really who can be called a true championship fighter. Yutkiewicz has spent a total of 14 seasons in this league and played for six different clubs. Starting in Plymouth, he worked his way through Coventry, Middlesbrough, Bolton and Burnley before settling in Birmingham, where he has spent the last six years. There, the 33-year-old had his most productive period. In three of his six seasons, he scored double-digit goals, even though he only scored two goals last season.

7. Daryl Murphy – 93 balls

But Murphy is no longer playing. Throughout its performance, it has been a stable lens provider. He reached his peak in the 2014/15 season when he scored 27 goals for Ipswich Town and became the league’s top scorer. After leaving Ipswich in 2016, Murphy was unable to regain his former form. In Newcastle, he has scored five goals in one season and, as part of Nottingham Forest, he has scored 11 goals in two years.

6. Chris Martin – 109 balls

Of all the league’s top scorer leaders, Martin has the most games played – 423. During this period he represented seven teams. The Scottish international has played in 16 league seasons and knows everything about this league from the inside. He started there in Norwich in 2006. And his best time came at Derby County from 2013 to 2016, when he scored 53 goals in three seasons. The 33-year-old Scotsman is currently playing for Bristol City, where he finished second with 12 goals last season. The leader of the club was Andreas Weimann with 22 goals.

5. Lewis Grabban – 112 balls

Another “runner” among the championship clubs. None of the scorers can be compared to him in this one. Change eight teams. Starting from Crystal Palace, he has traveled through Millwall, Bournemouth, Norwich, Reading, Sunderland, Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest. Last season, Grabban helped promote Nottingham to the Premier League. The 34-year-old scored 12 goals.

4. Jordan Rhodes – 118 goals

The 32-year-old Scotsman still has every chance of climbing to the top of this league table, as he is likely to have several seasons in the league ahead of him. It’s here for real. Rhodes now plays for Huddersfield, but overall spent 14 league seasons for six different clubs. With Norwich in 2019 he even won the championship. And his most prolific stint was for Blackburn from 2012 to 2015, when he scored 26, 26 and 21 consecutively over three seasons.

3. Ross McCormack – 120 balls

There is a tendency to dominate the ranking of the Scots. McCormack is best remembered for his appearances in Cardiff City, Leeds and Fulham. In 2014 he was the top scorer in the league with 28 goals scored for Leeds. Twice he was named to the iconic team of the year in the league and twice became the best player of the year at Fulham.

2. David Nugent – 121 balls

The forward symbolized reliability and stability in the league. In 2014, he helped Leicester rise to the Premier League with 20 goals. Then two years later he did the same with Middlesbrough, scoring eight goals when that team finished second. At the time, he already had a reputation as a scorer. He has scored double figures in six seasons in the league. But in the Premier League, neither Portsmouth, nor Burnley, nor Leicester, nor Middlesbrough could do that.

1. Billy Sharp – 128 balls

The top scorer of the league era is still going strong. Even at 36. After all, he scored 14 goals for Sheffield United last season. The captain of his most recently played club Uremovich, who moved from Rubin, experienced a new wave at the end of his career, helping to move up from League One to Premier League in three seasons. But before that, he made his contributions to the game of Leeds, Doncaster, Reading, Nottingham Forest and Southampton. His best season of his was 2018/19, when he scored 23 goals and helped Sheffield United rise to the top.