Kylian Mbappe has the lead atop the 2022/23 Champions League top scorer rankings, but he finds himself with company at the summit heading into the final group stage matchday.
Mbappe’s two goals against Maccabi Haifa last time out raised his season total to six goals in the competition. However, Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah, who scored a hat-trick off the bench the previous week, bagged the opener against Ajax in Liverpool’s 3-0 win, bringing him even with the Frenchman.
The closest contenders are Erling Haaland who failed to score at former club Borussia Dortmund last time out and is stuck on five himself. With Barcelona eliminated from knockout stage contention, Robert Lewandowski has just one more game in the Champions League to add as many goals as he can.
There’s a group of six players on four goals including Bayern’s Leroy Sane, Borussia Dortmund star Jude Bellingham, Napoli’s Giacomo Raspadori, and PSG’s Lionel Messi, with the Argentine legend scoring twice against Maccabi Haifa on Matchday 5. Mehdi Taremi of FC Porto and Giovanni Simeone both joined them in that group thanks to Matchday 5 braces.
The table below is updated after each round of matches beginning with the group stage. Assists are used as the first tiebreaker, and the second tiebreaker is fewest minutes played. Both are in line with the top scorer tiebreakers that European governing body UEFA implemented for the European Championships.
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Champions League Top Scorers 2022/23
Updated as of Tuesday, November 1, 2022
| Rank | Player | Team | Goals (PKs) | Assists | Matches | Mins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Kylian Mbappe | PSG | 6 (1) | 2 | 5 | 438 |
| Mohamed Salah | Liverpool | 6 (1) | 1 | 5 | 354 | |
| 3. | Erling Haaland | Manchester City | 5 (0) | 0 | 4 | 249 |
| Robert Lewandowski* | Barcelona | 5 (0) | 0 | 5 | 442 | |
| 5. | Lionel Messi | PSG | 4 (0) | 3 | 4 | 345 |
| Leroy Sane | Bayern Munich | 4 (0) | 2 | 4 | 292 | |
| Giacomo Raspadori | Napoli | 4 (0) | 2 | 4 | 209 | |
| Jude Bellingham | Borussia Dortmund | 4 (0) | 1 | 5 | 450 | |
| Mehdi Taremi | FC Porto | 4 (2) | 2 | 4 | 350 | |
| Giovanni Simeone | Napoli | 4 (0) | 0 | 4 | 242 | |
| 11. | Piotr Zielinski | Napoli | 3 (1) | 2 | 5 | 298 |
| Mykhaylo Mudryk | Shakhtar Donetsk | 3 (0) | 2 | 5 | 444 | |
| Mohammed Kudus* | Ajax | 3 (0) | 1 | 5 | 361 | |
| Vinicius Jr | Real Madrid | 3 (0) | 1 | 5 | 378 | |
| Rafa Silva | Benfica | 3 (0) | 1 | 5 | 419 | |
| Joao Mario | Benfica | 3 (3) | 1 | 5 | 433 | |
| Noah Okafor | RB Salzburg | 3 (1) | 0 | 5 | 393 | |
| Edin Dzeko | Inter Milan | 3 (0) | 1 | 5 | 341 | |
| Sadio Mane | Bayern Munich | 3 (0) | 1 | 5 | 430 |
* Will not be participating in knockout round (confirmed elimination in group stage)
- 2 goals: 36 players
- 1 goal: 97 players
- Own goals: 6 players
There have been 248 goals scored in the 2022/23 Champions League, including six own goals
- Danilo D’Ambrosio (Inter Milan)
- Artem Bondarenko (Shakhtar Donetsk)
- Danilo (PSG)
- Davit Khocholava (FC Copenhagen)
- Sean Goldberg (Maccabi Haifa)
- Robert Ljubicic (Dinamo Zagreb)
Champions League Golden Boot 2021/22
The 2021-22 Champions League scoring crown was claimed by Karim Benzema. He didn’t score in the final against Liverpool, but he did enough damage in the earlier knockout rounds to finish on 15 goals, two better than Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski, but short of Cristiano Ronaldo’s single-season record of 17 (2013/14).
Benzema, who also won the scoring race in La Liga with 27 goals, had a magical season in the Champions League, willing Real Madrid into the final with his goals. His three goals against Man City in the semis were critical, and in the quarterfinals Benzema silenced Chelsea’s home crowd with three goals in the first leg, and then he also scored the decisive blow in extra time of the second leg.
| Rank | Player | Team | Goals (PKs) | Assists | Matches | Mins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Karim Benzema | Real Madrid | 15 (3) | 1 | 12 | 1106 |
| 2. | Robert Lewandowski | Bayern Munich | 13 (3) | 3 | 10 | 876 |
| 3. | Sebastien Haller | Ajax | 11 (1) | 1 | 8 | 668 |
| 4. | Mohamed Salah | Liverpool | 8 (1) | 2 | 13 | 1008 |
| 5. | Riyad Mahrez | Man City | 7 (2) | 2 | 12 | 986 |
| Christopher Nkunku | RB Leipzig | 7 (0) | 0 | 6 | 531 | |
| 7. | Leroy Sane | Bayern Munich | 6 (0) | 6 | 10 | 798 |
| Kylian Mbappe | PSG | 6 (0) | 4 | 8 | 673 | |
| Arnaut Danjuma | Villarreal CF | 6 (1) | 2 | 11 | 906 | |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | Man United | 6 (0) | 0 | 7 | 611 | |
| Darwin Nunez | Benfica | 6 (1) | 0 | 10 | 613 | |
| 12. | Rodrygo | Real Madrid | 5 (0) | 2 | 11 | 505 |
| Sadio Mane | Liverpool | 5 (0) | 1 | 13 | 822 | |
| Roberto Firmino | Liverpool | 5 (0) | 0 | 7 | 323 | |
| Lionel Messi | PSG | 5 (2) | 0 | 7 | 630 | |
| 16. | Vinicius Junior | Real Madrid | 4 (0) | 6 | 13 | 1199 |
| Thomas Muller | Bayern Munich | 4 (0) | 3 | 10 | 778 | |
| Timo Werner | Chelsea | 4 (0) | 2 | 5 | 246 | |
| Pedro Goncalves | Sporting CP | 4 (1) | 2 | 5 | 329 | |
| Antoine Griezmann | Atletico Madrid | 4 (0) | 2 | 9 | 518 | |
| Gabriel Jesus | Man City | 4 (0) | 1 | 8 | 352 | |
| Luis Diaz | Liverpool/ Porto |
4 (0) | 1 | 13 | 908 |
- 3 goals: 20 players
- 2 goals: 30 players
- 1 goal: 111 players
NOTE: There were nine own goals among the total of 380 scored in the tournament.
Champions League Top Scorers (since 1992-93)
Here are the top scorers for each UEFA Champions League tournament since the new format was adopted in 1992-93.
No surprise as to who the players are who have topped the list on most occasions: Cristiano Ronaldo has led the charts seven times, and Messi six. Their dominant run has happened in the past 15 editions of the Champions League, though neither has claimed the honor in the past three campaigns.
| Year | Player | Team | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | Karim Benzema | Real Madrid | 15 |
| 2020-21 | Erling Haaland | B. Dortmund | 10 |
| 2019-20 | Robert Lewandowski | Bayern Munich | 15 |
| 2018-19 | Lionel Messi | Barcelona | 12 |
| 2017-18 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Real Madrid | 15 |
| 2016-17 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Real Madrid | 12 |
| 2015-16 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Real Madrid | 16 |
| 2014-15 | Lionel Messi | Barcelona | 10 |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | Real Madrid | 10 | |
| Neymar | Barcelona | 10 | |
| 2013-14 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Real Madrid | 17 |
| 2012-13 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Real Madrid | 12 |
| 2011-12 | Lionel Messi | Barcelona | 14 |
| 2010-11 | Lionel Messi | Barcelona | 12 |
| 2009-10 | Lionel Messi | Barcelona | 8 |
| 2008-09 | Lionel Messi | Barcelona | 9 |
| 2007-08 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Man United | 8 |
| 2006-07 | Kaka | AC Milan | 10 |
| 2005-06 | Andriy Shevchenko | AC Milan | 9 |
| 2004-05 | Ruud van Nistelrooy | Man United | 8 |
| 2003-04 | Fernando Morientes | AS Monaco | 9 |
| 2002-03 | Ruud van Nistelrooy | Man United | 12 |
| 2001-02 | Ruud van Nistelrooy | Man United | 10 |
| 2000-01 | Raul Gonzalez | Real Madrid | 7 |
| 1999-00 | Mario Jardel | Porto | 10 |
| Rivaldo | Barcelona | 10 | |
| Raul Gonzalez | Real Madrid | 10 | |
| 1998-99 | Andriy Shevchenko | Dynamo Kyiv | 8 |
| Dwight Yorke | Man United | 8 | |
| 1997-98 | Alessandro Del Piero | Juventus | 10 |
| 1996-97 | Milinko Pantic | Atletico Madrid | 5 |
| 1995-96 | Jari Litmanen | Ajax | 9 |
| 1994-95 | George Weah | PSG | 7 |
| 1993-94 | Hristo Stoichkov | Barcelona | 5 |
| 1992-93 | Franck Sauzee | Marseille | 5 |
