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Denotes national top scorer (or joint top scorer) at the Euro [ ] Denotes tournaments where the player was part of the squad, but did not play in a match ( ) Denotes tournaments where the player played in a match, but did not score a goal Year: Denotes tournaments where the player's team won the title T Denotes tournaments where the player was ...
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 ...
Players in bold are still active at international level. Players in italics also hold the record for most caps for their nation. Rank is a count of the 211 FIFA nations. Fourteen nations (Azerbaijan, Bermuda, Brunei, Bulgaria, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Faroe Islands, Puerto Rico, Romania, Scotland, South Sudan, United States and U.S. Virgin Islands) have a pair of players tied ...
Originally a knockout competition, it later evolved to include group stages and a series of qualifying rounds. This article lists both the competition's seasonal top scorers and overall top scorers, including a list of goals scored in the competition proper and a list of goals scored including qualifying rounds.
FIFA, the international governing body of football, has never released a list detailing the highest goalscorers and does not keep official records; [8] [9] in 2020, it recognised Bican, an Austrian-Czech dual international who played between the 1930s and the 1950s, [10] as the record scorer with an estimated 805 goals, [11] [12] although CNN ...
Fewest goals per match in a tournament (since 1980) 1.93 goals per match, 1980 Most scorers in a tournament 85, 2024 Most players scoring at least two goals in a tournament 30, 2020 Most players scoring at least three goals in a tournament 13, 2020 Most players scoring at least four goals in a tournament 6, 2020
The players that came closest to this tally were Kocsis in 1954 (eleven goals), Müller in 1970 (ten goals), and Portugal's Eusébio in 1966 (nine goals). The top scorers with the fewest goals were from the 1962 tournament, when six players finished joint-top with just four goals each. Across the 22 tournaments of the World Cup, 31 footballers ...
The most goals scored in a single match in the Champions League era is twelve, which occurred when Borussia Dortmund beat Legia Warsaw 8–4 in the group stage in 2016–17. Bayern Munich beat Barcelona 8–2 in the quarter-finals in 2019–20. With ten goals, this is the highest-scoring individual knockout game in the Champions League era. [14]