The UEFA Champions League has been a platform for the top players from around the world to demonstrate their abilities since its establishment. The competition brought together champions from around Europe in a battle for supremacy. In the competition, a lot of players have stood out for their outstanding goal-scoring abilities.
In the UEFA Champions League, the best forwards in the world have competed.The tournament has produced and continues to produce many legendary forwards from around the world. In the early 2000s, the competition featured legendary strikers such as Raul, Fillippo Inzaghi, Samuel Eto'o, Didier Drogba, Ronaldo, and others. Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski, Kylian Mbappe, and Erling Haaland now dominate the competition's forwards.
The best goal ratio in the Champions League in the twenty-first century belongs to five players who have played at least one entire group stage (or equivalent).
Lionel Messi is ranked #5 among the best footballers in the world (0.80 goals per game)
Lionel Messi of Paris Saint-Germain holds the record for scoring the second most goals in the history of the UEFA Champions League. In 156 appearances in the competition, the former FC Barcelona forward has 125 goals for an average of 0.80 goals per game.
In December 2004, Messi made his debut in the competition as a member of FC Barcelona. He made his debut against Shakhtar Donetsk as a substitute. The Argentine forward spent the following 17 years in the competition with the Spanish club until joining PSG last summer. In a 1-1 draw against Lyon, he made his PSG debut in the competition.In 2006, 2009, 2011, and 2015, Messi was the winner of the competition four times. In the competition's history, he has scored the most goals in the group stage (76) and the Round of 16 (29).
Robert Lewandowski is the fourth best player in the world. (an average of 0.82 goals scored per game)
Robert Lewandowski of Bayern Munich is currently one of the top strikers in the world. With 12 goals in the 2021-22 season for his German club, the Polish striker is now the UEFA Champions League's leading goal scorer. With an average of 0.82 goals per game, he has 85 goals in 104 appearances in the competition.In September 2011, Lewandowski's first experience of Champions League football came as a Borussia Dortmund player in a 1-1 draw against Arsenal. In 2012-13, he led the team to the competition's final, where they were defeated by Bayern Munich. After scoring 17 goals in 28 appearances for Borussia Dortmund in the competition, he joined the Bavarian giants in 2014.
Only once has Lewandowski won the UEFA Champions League, in 2020. That season, the striker scored 15 goals in ten appearances in the competition.
Harry Kane (#3) (0.83 goals per game)
Tottenham Hotspur's Harry Kane is on the verge of becoming a legend. The Englishman has only ever played for the club in the UEFA Champions League, most recently in 2019. Kane has a goal-per-game ratio of 0.83 after scoring 20 goals in 24 appearances in the competition.
Kane debuted for Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League against AS Monaco in a 2-1 defeat in September 2016. In three appearances in the competition, he managed to score two goals.
In 2018-19, he guided his team to the competition final, where they were defeated by Liverpool, scoring five goals in nine appearances.In recent years, Tottenham has failed to qualify for the Champions League. As a result, Kane may be open to joining another club where he can mix with Europe's top. Before he quits, the striker hopes to win the prized trophy.
Erling Haaland is ranked No. 2 in the world (1.2 goals per game)
Erling Haaland, a Norwegian kid, made his mark on the grandest stage of all with a hat-trick in the Champions League. When he debuted in the competition in September 2019, the striker was only 19 years old. He scored a hat-trick in Red Bull Salzburg's 6-2 win over Genk.In 19 games in the UEFA Champions League, he has 23 goals.
Midway through the 2019-20 season, Haaland joined Borussia Dortmund, where he continued his outstanding goalscoring record. In 13 appearances for Dortmund, the Norwegian teenager has scored 15 goals, including three in three this season.
Haaland has the record for being the only youngster in the Champions League to score in each of his first five appearances. He's also the only adolescent in the competition's history to score in five straight appearances.
Sebastian Haller is ranked number one (1.4 goals per game)
On a personal level, Ivorian attacker Sebastien Haller has produced one of the greatest Champions League surprises in recent memory. The former Eintracht Frankfurt and West Ham United striker failed miserably in England before joining Ajax in 2020. In his first season of competition (2021-22), he scored 11 goals in eight appearances.
In September 2021, Haller made his competitive debut for Ajax, scoring four goals in a 5-1 win over Sporting Lisbon. He scored goals in each of his next six outings in the competition to follow up his hat trick. In the Round of 16 second leg, he failed to score as his side lost 1-0 to Benfica, crashing out of the competition.Haller is the first guy to score in seven straight outings in the competition's history.
He's also the only player, other from Cristiano Ronaldo, to have ever scored in every group stage match of a season.
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