LIONEL MESSI ALL TIME BEST GOAL SCORER IN EUROPE
Picture : Lionel Messi collects all Trophies and also new records !
Messi surpasses CR7 as all-time best club scorer in Europe!
The goal scored by Messi in the French league game Nice vs PSG (0-2) on 8 April made him the new all-time best club goal-scorer in Europe.
It was Messi 702nd top level goal for this category while ex-record holder Cristiano Ronaldo stopped his European career in 2022 at 701 club goals (next 11, he scored in Asia).
In the table below, the ranking of players with 500+ top level goals for European clubs.
| ALL-TIME BEST | CLUB | SCORERS IN | EUROPE | |||||||
| Player | Goals | Nationality | Career | NL | RL | NC | OC | MIC | OIC | |
| 1 | Lionel Messi | 702 | Argentina | 2004- | 494 | 56 | 15 | 137 | ||
| 2 | Cristiano Ronaldo | 701 | Portugal | 2002-2022 | 498 | 41 | 10 | 152 | ||
| 3 | Josef Bican | 690 | Austria, BM, CS | 1931-1955 | 515 | 75 | 59 | 15 | 26 | |
| 4 | Ferenc Puskás | 640 | Hungary, Spain | 1943-1966 | 515 | 69 | 38 | 18 | ||
| 5 | Jimmy Jones | 636 | Northern Ireland | 1947-1964 | 332 | 43 | 247 | 2 | 12 | |
| 6 | Joe Bambrick | 608 | Northern Ireland | 1926-1943 | 348 | 40 | 220 | |||
| 7 | Abe Lenstra | 591 | Netherlands | 1936-1963 | 289 | 284 | 18 | |||
| 8 | Glenn Ferguson | 563 | Northern Ireland | 1987-2011 | 313 | 56 | 185 | 6 | 3 | |
| 9 | Jimmy McGrory | 540 | Scotland | 1922-1937 | 409 | 77 | 54 | |||
| 10 | Fernando Peyroteo | 539 | Portugal | 1937-1949 | 332 | 132 | 70 | 2 | 3 | |
| 11 | Gerd Müller | 526 | Germany | 1964-1979 | 365 | 78 | 14 | 69 | ||
| 12 | Robert Lewandowski | 515 | Poland | 2008- | 361 | 43 | 10 | 101 | ||
| 13 | Uwe Seeler | 509 | Germany | 1954-1978 | 180 | 267 | 24 | 17 | 21 |
Abbreviatures:
NL = National Leagues (top divisions),
RL = relevant Regional Leagues,
NC = (major) National Cup,
OC = other relevant domestic club tournaments,
MIC = major international club competitions,
OIC = other relevant international club competitions.