Quiz! Can you name the 26 highest-scoring Premier League players by letter of the alphabet?

Wilfried Zaha celebrates another goal for Crystal Palace
This guy's name begins with a letter: that's all you're getting (Image credit: Getty Images)

Football quiz time. Are you ready?

Winners' medals? Golden boots? PFA awards? Daddy’s Sauce Dad of the Year? Throw all of these in the bin.

We all know the honour that each Premier League player truly craves: the title of being the highest ever scorer by starting letter of their surname.

Below are the players who top each category, from the ‘S’ man with 260 goals to Mr ‘X’ with just 17.

When a player has several names, it’s just the starting letter of the first part of their surname that we're looking for in this quiz. So, for example, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain would be an ‘O’ if he was in the below (he isn’t), while Graham Le Saux would be ‘L’ (he isn’t either).

We’ve given you seven minutes for this brainteaser, plus each player’s goal total: there are 26 letters of the alphabet (thanks, school), so 26 players to get.

Let us know which letters stumped you @FourFourTwo – then challenge some pals too.

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Sean Cole
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Sean Cole is a freelance journalist. He has written for FourFourTwo, BBC Sport and When Saturday Comes among others. A Birmingham City supporter and staunch Nikola Zigic advocate, he once scored a hat-trick at St. Andrew’s (in a half-time game). He also has far too many football shirts and spends far too much time reading the Wikipedia pages of obscure players.