The UEFA Champions League has produced some sensational matches ever because it’s formation within the 1992/93 season. Successful the Champions League stays the last word membership honour – and most of soccer’s best goalscorers have performed a component within the match throughout its lengthy historical past.
Actual Madrid have been essentially the most profitable crew within the historical past of Europe’s elite membership competitors. Los Blancos have received the European Cup or Champions League on 14 events.
The Champions League has featured among the greatest objective scorers 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. These gamers although have taken scoring to an entire new degree within the UCL, and are the highest scorers within the historical past of the competitors.
Cristiano Ronaldo – 140 objectives
Cristiano Ronaldo is the Champions League all-time high scorer, one among solely two gamers in historical past to astonishingly rating greater than 100 objectives within the competitors. The Al Nassr ahead leads the best way, having scored 140 objectives within the competitors throughout his illustrious profession, which has seen him bag objectives for Manchester United, Actual Madrid and Juventus in Champions League play.
In fact, he won’t be including to that tally for now, after his current switch to Saudi Arabia giants Al Nassr, however Ronaldo’s data counsel this may not be damaged any time quickly.
Lionel Messi – 129 objectives
Lionel Messi left Barcelona for Paris Saint-Germain in the summertime of 2021 having scored 120 objectives for the Spanish membership within the Champions League, and is the one participant to have scored in 16 successive campaigns in Europe’s high membership competitors for a similar crew.
The Argentinian joined Barcelona in early 2001 when he was simply 13, and caught with the crew for the subsequent 20 years, profitable the Champions League 4 occasions along with ten Liga titles, seven editions of the Copa del Rey and three UEFA Tremendous Cups.
Robert Lewandowski – 91 objectives
Lewandowski is third having discovered the web on 91 events. The Poland worldwide grew to become the primary participant to attain a hat-trick for 3 totally different groups within the competitors – Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich and Barcelona.
After coming shut on many events, Lewandowski’s consistency and endurance bore fruit as he lastly acquired his fingers on the most important prize in membership soccer when Bayern received the Champions League within the 2019/20 season. That silverware thereby accomplished the second treble in Bayern’s historical past, changing into solely the second membership after FC Barcelona to take action.
Karim Benzema – 89 objectives
Karim Benzema is subsequent, having risen up the record due to his unbelievable 2021/22 season. Benzema has loved a really fruitful profession on the Spanish capital, particularly within the Champions League.
Scoring 89 objectives throughout spells at Lyon and now Actual Madrid, he has received 4 Champions League trophies, together with the hat-trick of titles with Actual between 2015 to 2018.
Raul – 71 objectives
The Actual Madrid youth product stays the best goalscorer amongst non-active gamers. He scored 71 objectives in 142 video games within the competitors, with nearly all of them coming for Actual Madrid (66). For his efforts, Raul lifted the Champions League title on three events, all with Los Blancos.
Raul was additionally the primary footballer to make 100 appearances within the UEFA Champions League.
