Top 5 Free Kick Scorers in Serie A History

Free Kick Scorers in Serie A History: Serie A has produced some of the most technically gifted and lethal free-kick takers in the history of football. These five men curled, dipped, and thundered the ball over walls and past helpless goalkeepers more than any other players in the competition’s history.

5. Roberto Baggio 🇮🇹

• Nationality: Italy 🇮🇹
• Free-Kick Goals: 21
• Years Active: 1982 to 2004

Twenty-one direct free kicks across Fiorentina, Juventus, AC Milan, Bologna, Inter Milan, and Brescia. What made Baggio’s free kicks different was the subtlety. No thunderous hit, no dramatic knuckleball. Just a low, curling right-foot delivery that bent late and sat inside the post before a goalkeeper could react.

He was still scoring them deep into his thirties at Brescia, in the same measured, unhurried way he had done at Juventus a decade earlier. At 25 yards he might bend it, at 30 he might dip it, from a tight angle he might drive it low. Defenders couldn’t set a wall for a player with that many options.

4. Francesco Totti 🇮🇹

• Nationality: Italy 🇮🇹
• Free-Kick Goals: 21
• Years Active: 1992 to 2017

Every one of Totti’s 21 Serie A free-kick goals came in an AS Roma shirt. For 25 years he walked up to dead balls at the Stadio Olimpico calm, unhurried, and certain. His right-foot delivery bent away from the goalkeeper and arrived with pace rather than placement.

Those 21 free kicks sit alongside his 162 Serie A assists and 250 Serie A goals, all scored for the same club across the same career. Nobody in the history of the competition has been more valuable to a single club.

3. Alessandro Del Piero 🇮🇹

• Nationality: Italy 🇮🇹
• Free-Kick Goals: 22
• Years Active: 1991 to 2014

The Del Piero Zone became an actual tactical concept — a wide angle to the right of goal from which Del Piero bent the ball around the wall and into the far corner so consistently that opposing managers had to account for it in team meetings. All 22 of his Serie A free-kick goals came for Juventus.

He also holds the all-time record for most free-kick goals in all competitions by an Italian player with 43, ahead of every other name on this list in that broader measure. He won the Champions League in 1996 and the FIFA World Cup with Italy in 2006.

2. Andrea Pirlo 🇮🇹

• Nationality: Italy 🇮🇹
• Free-Kick Goals: 26 (later equalled 28, see note)
• Years Active: 1995 to 2017

Pirlo scored 26 direct free-kick goals in Serie A as of December 2017, then added two more to finish joint-record holder alongside Mihajlović at 28, recognised by Guinness World Records. His technique was the knuckleball: minimal backlift, struck through the centre of the ball with the top of the foot, producing a delivery that dipped and moved unpredictably in flight. Walls were largely useless against it.

His most productive stretch came after joining Juventus at 32, where he produced free-kick goals at nearly double the rate he had managed at AC Milan. He won six Serie A titles, the Champions League twice, and the FIFA World Cup with Italy in 2006.

1. Siniša Mihajlović 🇷🇸

• Nationality: Serbia 🇷🇸
• Free-Kick Goals: 28
• Years Active: 1992 to 2006

The record holder. Mihajlović scored 28 direct free-kick goals across 353 Serie A appearances for Roma, Sampdoria, Lazio, and Inter Milan. He was a left back or central defender by position, which makes the record even more astonishing. His left foot from 30 to 35 yards combined power and late curl that goalkeepers found almost impossible to stop.

On 13 December 1998, playing for Lazio against Sampdoria, he became the only player in Serie A history to score a hat-trick of direct free kicks in a single match, as Lazio won 5-2. He scored 66 free-kick goals across all competitions and passed away in December 2022 after a long battle with leukaemia. His record remains standing more than 25 years after he set it.