Who’s within the lead within the race to change into the all-time high scorer in Europe’s main membership competitors? We have taken a have a look at the highest finishers
The Champions League has featured a number of the greatest goalscorers in historical past. Because the premier membership competitors in Europe and arguably the world, it’s a stage that has been graced by numerous icons of soccer.
Placing sensations corresponding to Raul and Andriy Shevchenko dominated in the course of the Nineties and 2000s, whereas Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have taken the artwork of scoring to a complete new degree.
GOAL takes a have a look at the all-time high scorers within the competitors’s historical past, relationship again to the inaugural European Cup in 1955.
Who’s the all-time Champions League high scorer?
As you possibly can see from our desk beneath, Cristiano Ronaldo is the highest scorer within the historical past of the Champions League (together with the European Cup). He is intently adopted by his arch-rival, Lionel Messi.
There’s a vital gulf between that pair and the remaining, Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski following in third.
Karim Benzema follows in fourth, whereas Raul completes the highest 5, with the likes of Ruud van Nistelrooy, Thomas Muller and Thierry Henry among the many better of the remaining.
Checklist of Champions League/European Cup all-time high 20 goalscorers
*Right as of video games performed on November 1st, 2022
**The listing takes into consideration information from 1955-present
***Gamers in daring are nonetheless energetic
The composition of the all-time goalscorers listing is generally made up of gamers who’re enjoying or performed within the trendy Champions League period (i.e. 1992 onwards) which has added extra continental video games to the fashionable day calendar. Particularly, of the 20 gamers within the listing above, 17 of them performed from the mid Nineties on.
Nevertheless, regardless of that, two gamers who performed within the pre-Champions League period (when the match was referred to as the European Cup) nonetheless determine prominently, with former Actual Madrid star Alfredo Di Stefano and Benfica icon Eusebio that includes in and across the high 10.
Ferenc Puskas , who shone for Actual Madrid within the Nineteen Fifties and Sixties, is additionally within the high 20. Former Bayern Munich striker Gerd Muller was within the high 20 earlier than being edged out by Mohamed Salah. Regardless of being nudged out, no participant comes remotely near Gerd Muller’s phenomenal goals-per-game ratio of 0.95.
Puskas boasted a goal-to-game ratio of 0.85 and Di Stefano’s was 0.84, whereas Messi’s is at the moment 0.8, which is undoubtedly the perfect within the trendy period.