ALL TIME RANKING EUROPEAN CLUB COMPETITIONS GOAL SCORERS

• Sep 25, 2023
• History Statistics

Picture : After Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski became the third player to reach 100 goals.

All-time ranking for goal-scorers in European club competitions

As we have already reported, Robert Lewandowski has scored (in the game Barcelona vs Royal Antwerp 5-0) his 100th goal in major European club competitions.
He became just 3rd player in the history to reach this milestone, after Cristiano Ronaldo (145 goals) and Lionel Messi (132).
Lewandowski’s tally is made up of 92 goals in Champions League and 8 in UEFA Cup/Europa League.
By clubs, he scored 6 for Lech, 18 for Borussia Dortmund, 69 for Bayern and 7 for Barcelona.
With this opportunity, we publish for the first time the all-time ranking of best goal-scorers in major European club competitions. 
22 players have scored 50 or more goals at the moment; 8 of them are active (taken in bold); only 4 of them currently play in Europe (taken in blue). 
Lewandowski’s tally is almost twice larger compared to any other active European-based striker.

	MOST   GOALS   IN	EUROPEAN									CLUB	COMPETITIONS
	Player	Country	CL	CQ	EL	CC	CO	IC	SC	Total	First Goal	Last Goal
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	140	1	2				2	145	09/08/2005	27/10/2022
2	Lionel Messi	Argentina	129						3	132	02/11/2005	25/10/2022
3	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	92		8					100	17/07/2008	19/09/2023
4	Karim Benzema	France	90						2	92	06/12/2005	12/04/2023
5	Raúl	Spain	71		4				1	76	18/10/1995	05/04/2012
6	Filippo Inzaghi	Italy	46	4	10	2		7	1	70	28/09/1995	03/11/2010
7	Gerd Müller	Germany	34		11	20			3	68	05/10/1966	19/10/1977
8	Andriy Shevchenko	Ukraine	48	11	7				1	67	06/12/1994	10/03/2011
9	Sergio Agüero	Argentina	41	6	15				1	63	16/08/2007	09/12/2020
10	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Netherlands	56	4	2					62	26/08/1998	01/04/2010
11	Thierry Henry	France	50	1	8					59	14/10/1996	08/04/2009
12	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	7	4	40	8				59	14/09/1994	16/07/2009
13	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	48	1	8					57	20/09/2001	17.09,2020
14	Eusebio	Portugal	46		4	7				57	08/11/1961	24/10/1973
15	Edin Džeko	Bosnia & H	29		25		2			56	06/11/2008	31/08/2023
16	Edinson Cavani	Uruguay	35		20					55	26/08/2010	26/05/2021
17	Klaas-Jan Huntelaar	Netherlands	14	7	34					55	21/10/2004	06/08/2019
18	Mohammed Salah	Egypt	44	4	6					54	11/04/2013	21/09/2023
19	Thomas Müller	Germany	53							53	10/03/2009	12/10/2022
20	Alessandro Del Piero	Italy	42	2	6			2	1	53	12/09/1994	16/09/2010
21	Jupp Heynckes	Germany	14		29	8				51	01/10/1968	15/03/1978
22	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	44		6					50	16/09/2003	25/11/2014

We break down the total goals for each player by tournaments:
Champions League, main stage (CL), 
Champions League, qualification (CQ), 
Fairs’ Cup/ UEFA Cup/Europa League (EL), 
Cup Winners' Cup (CC),
Conference League (CO), 
Intertoto Cup (IC), 
Super Cup (SC).
Tie-breaker: goals in Champions League.