Champions League top goal scorers 2022/23: Updated golden boot rankings

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.

MORE: Who has the most Champions League goals all-time?

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 (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

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