Champions League all-time top scorers: Haaland among elites

Posted at: April 13, 2023

Erling Haaland

Erling Haaland is climbing up the Champions League all-time top goalscorer list rapidly. With the goal on Tuesday night against Bayern Munich Haaland put him alongside Bayern club icon Gerd Müller on the Champions League all-time top goalscorer list.

Haaland aims arrows at Bayern icon in brutal CL hunt

In seven CL games this season, Haaland scored eleven goals for Manchester City. Last season he made three in three games, the year before ten in eight games, just like in his first Champions League year. In short: unprecedented figures from the Norwegian. With that, he now stands at 34 CL goals and occupies 22nd place on the all-time top scorers list.

A goal against Bayern Munich puts him level with Müller. After that he can hunt Edinson Cavani (35 goals), Ferenc Puskás (36 goals) and Kylian Mbappé (40 goals). Of all players in the top fifty (including European Cup), Haaland played the fewest matches in the Champions League. Partly because of this, he also has the highest goal average of all. Haaland scores an average of 1.31 per game.

The player that follows is Müller. He averaged 0.97 per CL game in his career. So he just didn’t walk one on one. Even leaders Cristiano Ronaldo (140 goals) and Lionel Messi (129 goals) score relatively significantly less than Haaland with respective goal averages of 0.77 and 0.79.

Champions League all-time top goalscorer list

Rank	Player	Goals	Appearances	Ratio	Years
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	140	183	0.77	2003–2022
2	Lionel Messi	129	163	0.79	2005–
3	Robert Lewandowski	91	111	0.82	2011–
4	Karim Benzema	89	148	0.6	2005–
5	Raúl	71	142	0.5	1995–2011
6	Ruud van Nistelrooy	56	73	0.77	1998–2009
7	Thomas Müller	53	141	0.38	2009–
8	Thierry Henry	50	112	0.45	1997–2012
9	Alfredo Di Stéfano	49	58	0.84	1955–1964
10	Andriy Shevchenko	48	100	0.48	1994–2012
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	48	124	0.39	2001–
12	Eusébio	46	65	0.71	1961–1974
	Filippo Inzaghi	46	81	0.57	1997–2012
14	Mohamed Salah	44	79	0.56	2013–
	Didier Drogba	44	92	0.48	2003–2015
16	Neymar	43	81	0.53	2013–
17	Alessandro Del Piero	42	89	0.47	1995–2009
18	Sergio Agüero	41	79	0.52	2008–2021
19	Kylian Mbappé	40	61	0.66	2016–
20	Ferenc Puskás	36	41	0.88	1956–1966
21	Edinson Cavani	35	70	0.5	2011–
22	Erling Haaland	34	26	1.31	2019–
	Gerd Müller	34	35	0.97	1969–1977
24	Fernando Morientes	33	93	0.35	1997–2009
25	Arjen Robben	31	110	0.28	2002–2018
26	Samuel Eto’o	30	78	0.38	1999–2014
	Antoine Griezmann	30	85	0.35	2014–
	Wayne Rooney	30	85	0.35	2004–2015
	Kaká	30	86	0.35	2003–2014
	Francisco Gento	30	89	0.34	1955–1969
31	David Trezeguet	29	58	0.5	1997–2009
	Roy Makaay	29	61	0.48	2000–2007
	Patrick Kluivert	29	71	0.41	1994–2006
34	Jean-Pierre Papin	28	37	0.76	1989–1994
	Edin Džeko	28	71	0.39	2009–
	Ryan Giggs	28	145	0.19	1993–2014
37	Sadio Mané	27	63	0.43	2017–
	Luis Suárez	27	73	0.37	2010–2022
	Rivaldo	27	73	0.37	1997–2007
	Raheem Sterling	27	80	0.34	2014–
41	Mario Gómez	26	44	0.59	2007–2013
42	Mário Jardel	25	46	0.54	1996–2001
	Robin van Persie	25	59	0.42	2002–2014
	Hernán Crespo	25	65	0.38	1997–2007
45	José Altafini	24	28	0.86	1959–1976
	Marco Simone	24	46	0.52	1989–2001
	José Augusto	24	56	0.43	1960–1969
	Giovane Élber	24	69	0.35	1997–2004
	Gonzalo Higuaín	24	83	0.29	2007–2020
	Luís Figo	24	103	0.23	1997–2009
	Paul Scholes	24	124	0.19	1994–2013

Rohan Premkumar

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