All 27 players to score a Premier League penalty for Liverpool as Dominik Szoboszlai joins the list
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Liverpool need a new penalty-taker this season after almost a decade of Mohamed Salah taking responsibility from the spot, with Dominik Szoboszlai making an early claim for the job.Szoboszlai lashed home a brilliant effort to earn the Reds a point in their season opener against Newcastle, scoring his first penalty in the Premier League in the process.In doing so the Hungarian became the 27th Liverpool player to score from 12 yards since the competition’s inception in 1992. Who should be Liverpool’s designated penalty-taker this season?
Plenty of fans seem to think Alexander Isak should have stepped up against Newcastle… Photo Credit: Getty Images/Alfie Cosgrove/News Images/NurPhoto/Robbie Jay Barratt/AMA Szoboszlai joins nine more players on one penalty goalSzoboszlai looks likely to move up this list during the current season, and will surely end his Liverpool career with more than one Premier League penalty goal.For the time being, however, the 25-year-old joins nine other players who did it once from 12 yards and never again for the Reds.Alexis Mac Allister is the only other current Liverpool player to score a Premier League penalty for the Reds, finding the net against Manchester City in March 2024.Jordan Henderson scored a forgettable one against Arsenal during a 4-1 defeat in April 2015, with Daniel Sturridge doing the same in a 5-0 win over Swansea City in February 2013.READ MORE: Mark Clattenburg says whether Liverpool’s late penalty vs Newcastle should have been overturned by VARChristian Benteke held his nerve in Szoboszlai-esque fashion to grab a winner from the spot at Selhurst Park in March 2016, while Charlie Adam scored one of only two Liverpool goals from the spot against West Brom at the Hawthorns in October 2011.Further back through the annals of time, and John Barnes, Jari Litmanen, Harry Kewell and Gary McAllister are the other players forever stuck on one Liverpool penalty goal in the Premier League.12 more have scored under 10 If scoring one Premier League penalty for Liverpool is something of a novelty, scoring two or more means that you were likely seen as something of a penalty specialist.That is absolutely not what comes to mind when most Liverpool fans think of Roberto Firmino, but the legendary Brazilian did score two penalties for the Reds in the Premier League. The same is also probably true of Jamie Redknapp, who also bagged thrice.Photo by Nick Taylor//Liverpool FC via Getty ImagesMark Walters scored four times from the spot in the early 1990s, and Danny Murphy, who will always be remembered as a Liverpool penalty-taker thanks to the spot-kick which won a clash at Old Trafford in April 2004, finished on five.When talking about penalty specialists at Liverpool, you’ve got to mention Jan Molby, who sits third on the club’s all-time list of goals from 12 yards.
The Dane spent the majority of his career playing in the old First Division, but still managed seven Premier League spot-kicks.Dirk Kuyt also made a habit of scoring big penalty goals for Liverpool, famously grabbing a double – including a late winner – in a Merseyside Derby at Goodison Park in October 2007.That was one of eight Premier League pens for Kuyt, who also scored a memorable last-ditch equaliser at the Emirates Stadium in April 2011.Three players sit in the 10-15 bracketBeyond 10, and you really are in the territory of penalty kings, and that is where the very best takers in Liverpool’s recent history reside.In fifth place is Michael Owen, who notched 11 of his 118 Premier League goals for Liverpool from the spot. Milner scored 13 Premier League penalties for the Reds, only missing one, which puts him fourth in the all-time list.Rounding out the top three is who else but Robbie Fowler, who, with Owen also sharing duties, struck 14 times from the spot.Mohamed Salah and Steven Gerrard reign supremeWhile players like Owen, Milner and Fowler were very good penalty scorers for Liverpool, they cannot get anywhere near Steven Gerrard and Salah, who are easily the most prolific of the Premier League era.As he does with most lists since the competition began 34 years ago, Salah sits at the top, having blasted in 35 penalties over the years.Gerrard is not too far behind on 32, but as he so often does, the Egyptian King wins this one.In overall Liverpool terms, Salah does come in just behind Gerrard, with the Scouser winning the battle 47 to 46, but when it came to scoring them in league matches, nobody could beat Mo.Now that he has left the building, others such as Alexander Isak will be aiming to get themselves onto this list during the 2026/27 season.