Manchester City faced Manchester United in the latest derby match on September 14, with both teams having had troubled starts to the 2025/26 Premier League season.
It’s a fixture that Phil Foden and Erling Haaland have come to enjoy in recent years, and it was fitting that both got on the scoresheet as Pep Guardiola’s team took control of the game.
Haaland is no stranger to goal-scoring feats of brilliance, of course, but it is remarkable that he is one of the leading marksmen in this fixture given he only joined City in 2022.
Where does that leave the Norwegian phenomenon in the overall Manchester derby rankings?
Who has scored the most goals in the Manchester derby?
Wayne Rooney‘s iconic overhead kick to snatch a 2-1 win for United over City at Old Trafford in February 2011 stands as one of the greatest goals in the long history of this fixture.
It was also part of a haul of 11 derby strikes that puts Rooney top of the all-time standings.
City duo Francis Lee and Joe Hayes are up next on 10 apiece, one ahead of United and England great Bobby Charlton and Rooney’s contemporary Sergio Aguero.
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1. | Wayne Rooney | United | 11 |
| 2. | Joe Hayes | City | 10 |
| = | Francis Lee | City | 10 |
| 4. | Sergio Aguero | City | 9 |
| = | Bobby Charlton | United | 9 |
| = | Erling Haaland | City | 9 |
| 7. | Colin Bell | City | 8 |
| = | Eric Cantona | United | 8 |
| = | Brian Kidd | United (5)/City (3) | 8 |
| = | Joe Spence | United | 8 |
| = | Phil Foden | City | 8 |
| 12. | Paul Scholes | United | 7 |
| = | Dennis Violet | United | 7 |
| Marcus Rashford | United | 6 |
After a cluster of four players on eight derby goals, including Eric Cantona and Colin Bell — each transformative presences for their clubs during their respective eras in the 1990s and 1960s — United heroes Paul Scholes and Dennis Violet have seven each.
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