The UEFA Champions League is the largest membership competitors in soccer – and a lot of the sport’s biggest goalscorers have performed a component within the event throughout its lengthy historical past.
Actual Madrid are probably the most profitable crew within the historical past of Europe’s elite membership competitors, having gained the European Cup/Champions League on 115 separate events.
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Los Blancos have been aided by having a number of the most prolific goalscorers in Champions League historical past through the years, together with Cristiano Ronaldo, Raul and Karim Benzema, whereas their arch-rivals Barcelona have primarily relied upon the companies of Lionel Messi.
Beneath, FootballTransfers runs by way of the highest goalscorers in Champions League historical past.
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Which participant has probably the most objectives in Champions League historical past*?
| Participant | Targets | Video games |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Cristiano Ronaldo | 140 | 183 |
| 2. Lionel Messi | 129 | 163 |
| 3. Robert Lewandowski | 101 | 125 |
| 4. Karim Benzema | 90 | 152 |
| 5. Raul | 71 | 142 |
| 6. Ruud van Nistelrooy | 56 | 73 |
| 7. Thomas Muller | 54 | 155 |
| 8. Thierry Henry | 50 | 112 |
| 9. Alfredo di Stefano | 49 | 58 |
| = Kylian Mbappe | 49 | 78 |
| 11. Andriy Shevchenko | 48 | 100 |
| = Zlatan Ibrahimovic | 48 | 124 |
| 13. Erling Haaland | 46 | 44 |
| = Eusebio | 46 | 65 |
| = Filippo Inzaghi | 46 | 81 |
| 16. Mohamed Salah | 45 | 84 |
| 17. Didier Drogba | 44 | 92 |
| 18. Neymar | 43 | 81 |
| 19. Alessandro Del Piero | 42 | 89 |
| 20. Sergio Aguero | 41 | 79 |
*Excluding qualifying.
Ronaldo is the all-time prime goalscorer in Champions League historical past with 140 objectives within the competitors. He has additionally netted as soon as in Champions League qualifying, however this purpose hasn’t been included.
His long-term nemesis Lionel Messi has the second-highest variety of Champions League objectives (129), though each gamers are actually unlikely so as to add to their totals as a result of truth Ronaldo performs for Al-Nassr and Messi is at Inter Miami.
Robert Lewandowski is third on the checklist with 101 Champions League strikes and he’s the one different participant to hit triple digits within the competitors.
Actual Madrid legend Karim Benzema has 90 profession objectives within the Champions League, however he could discover it troublesome to extend his tally as he’s not at the moment taking part in in Europe.
Fellow ex-Los Blancos striker Raul is fifth, with 71 objectives, and he was the highest-scoring participant in Champions League historical past from 2005 till 2014.
Ruud van Nistlerooy (56), Thomas Muller (54) and Thierry Henry (50) are the ultimate three gamers with a minimum of a half-century of Champions League objectives to their title.
Actual Madrid icon Alfredo di Stefano scored 49 objectives in simply 58 appearances within the European Cup, serving to Los Blancos to a report 5 triumphs in a row within the late Fifties and early 60s. He’s the ninth-highest goalscorer within the competitors’s historical past.
Kylian Mbappe has additionally scored 49 Champions League objectives, and is predicted to soar up this checklist over the subsequent few years, whereas Erling Haaland is in thirteenth place with 46 objectives within the competitors.
