UEFA Champions League Top Goal Scorers of All-Times

UEFA Champions League Top Goal Scorers times

Cristiano Ronaldo leads champions league all-time goal scoring chart with 95 strikes to his name closely followed by Messi who has 89 goals after his hat-trick against Man City. Raul’s haul of 71 strikes in his long illustrious career keep him behind Messi and Ronaldo.

Lionel Messi and Ronaldo are taking turns to become all time top goal scorers in UEFA Champions League history for best part of last 2 years. Ronaldo has overtaken Messi as the all time top scorer in Champions league history having netted 95 times while Messi’s has 89 goals to his name as of 19th October 2016. We take a look at top 25 all time goal scorers in Champions League history.

These are the uefa champions league top goal scorers times

UEFA Champions League All-Time Top Goal Scorers (as of October 2016)

NO#.	PLAYER	GOALS	MATCHES	RATIO
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	95	130	0.73
2	Lionel Messi	89	108	0.82
3	Raul	71	142	0.50
4	Ruud Van Nistelrooy	56	73	0.77
5	Thierry Henry	50	112	0.45
6	Alfredo Di Stéfano	49	58	0.84
7	Andriy Shevchenko	48	100	0.48
8	Zlatan Ibrahimović	48	119	0.40
9	Eusébio	46	65	0.71
10	Karim Benzema	46	80	0.58
11	Filippo Inzaghi	46	81	0.57
12	Didier Drogba	44	92	0.48
13	Alessandro Del Piero	41	89	0.46
14	Ferenc Puskás	36	41	0.88
15	Thomas Muller	36	78	0.46
16	Gerd Müller	35	35	1.00
17	Francisco Gento	35	89	0.34
18	Robert Lewandowski	31	49	0.63
19	Fernando Morientes	31	90	0.35
20	Samuel Eto’o	30	78	0.38
21	Kaká	30	86	0.35
22	Wayne Rooney	30	85	0.35

The list contains some of the greatest goal scorers in history with the likes of Alfredo Di Stefno, Puskas and Gerd Muller. They might have scored a lot more games if than European cup also featured group matches. Unfortunately in those times European Cup (now known as Champions League) only featured knockout home & away ties from the round 1. So those players played far less games than they could have in modern era.

Most of the top 10 players in the list were out and out center forwards like Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Raul and Henry but Lionel Messi and Ronaldo both started their careers playing in attacking midfield roles and them to top this list shows how great these two are in terms of scoring goals at the highest stage of them all.

In terms of goal-to-game ratio Germany’s Gerd Muller leads the way with 1.00 while Ferenc Puskás  and Stefno also has healthy .88 and .87 ratios. Ruud Van Nistelrooy was another striker who scored freely in last decade notching up 3 yearly top goal scorers awards. But to sum it up we have to agree that Ronaldo and Messi are the two greatest goal scorers in UEFA Champions League history.

UEFA Champions League Top Goal Scorers