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Cristiano Ronaldo is the competition's all-time top scorer with 140 goals. The UEFA Champions League, known until 1992 as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or colloquially as the European Cup, is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1955. Originally a straight knockout competition open only to champion clubs ...
England reached the semi-finals in 1968 and 1996 with the latter held on home soil. England's most capped player is Peter Shilton with 125 caps and its top goalscorer is Harry Kane with 68 goals. England compete in the FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, and UEFA Nations League.
This article concerns football records in England.Unless otherwise stated, records are taken from the Football League or Premier League.Where a different record exists for the top flight (Football League First Division 1888–1992, and Premier League 1992–present), this is also given.
The top tier in English football today is the Premier League, replacing the Football League First Division for the 1992–93 inaugural season. Since the 1888–89 season, the first year of top flight football, three players have scored over 300 goals with a further 25 players scoring over 200 goals.
Due to the close connections between English and Scottish football, several players have played for clubs in England and in the Scottish Football League and its successors and amassed over 200 goals across the two systems, including David McLean (over 160 goals in both), Joe Baker (over 140 in both), Neil Martin (over 110 in both) and Kenny ...
Real Madrid hold the record for the most goals conceded by a Champions League-winning team, conceding 23 goals in 17 matches in 1999–2000. Benfica achieved the highest-ever goals conceded-per-game ratio for Champions League-winning in the history of the competition (1.57), the club conceded 11 goals in 7 matches in 1961–62.
Alan Shearer CBE DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English football pundit and former professional player who played as a striker.Widely regarded as one of the best strikers of all time and one of the greatest players in Premier League history, he is the league's record goalscorer with 260 goals.
UEFA Champions League: Gabriel Jesus (1) Shakhtar Donetsk: 6–0 (H) 7 November 2018 UEFA Champions League: Raheem Sterling: Atalanta: 5–1 (H) 22 October 2019 UEFA Champions League: Gabriel Jesus (2) Dinamo Zagreb: 1–4 (A) 11 December 2019 UEFA Champions League: Erling Haaland 5: RB Leipzig: 7–0 (H) 14 March 2023 UEFA Champions League