Champions League top goal scorers 2022/23: Updated golden boot rankings

It’s Mohamed Salah atop the 2022/23 UEFA Champions League scoring chart after his goal in the Round of 16 first leg against Real Madrid. 

Salah took advantage of a gaffe by Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois to move ahead of PSG’s Kylian Mbappe, who could not find the back of the net against Bayern Munich in the first leg.

Real Madrid’s Vinicius Jr. outdid Salah in the same first leg match, scoring two goals to lift himself to third in the scoring table alongside penalty scoring machine Joao Mario of Benfica. Then there’s a group of players on five goals headlined by Erling Haaland who is taking on old Bundesliga foe RB Leipzig in the Round of 16.

There’s a pack of eight players on four goals, including two Napoli players, PSG’s Lionel Messi, and Bayern’s Leroy Sane, all of whom are still involved in the knockouts.

The table below is updated after each round of matches beginning with the group stage. Assists are used as the first tiebreaker, and the second tiebreaker is fewest minutes played. Both are in line with the top scorer tiebreakers that European governing body UEFA implemented for the European Championships.

MORE: Who has the most Champions League goals all-time?

Champions League Top Scorers 2022/23

Updated as of March 7, 2023
*Eliminated

Rank	Player	Team	Goals (PKs)	Assists	Matches	Mins
1.	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	8 (1)	2	7	534
2.	Kylian Mbappe	PSG	7 (1)	3	7	561
3.	Vinicius Jr	Real Madrid	6 (0)	2	7	531
	Joao Mario	Benfica	6 (5)	2	8	686
5.	Mehdi Taremi	FC Porto	5 (2)	2	5	440
	Rafa Silva	Benfica	5 (0)	1	8	656
	Erling Haaland	Manchester City	5 (0)	0	4	249
	Robert Lewandowski*	Barcelona	5 (0)	0	5	442
9.	Lionel Messi	PSG	4 (0)	4	6	525
	Giacomo Raspadori	Napoli	4 (0)	2	5	212
	Leroy Sane	Bayern Munich	4 (0)	2	5	381
	Olivier Giroud	AC Milan	4 (2)	2	7	430
	Mohammed Kudus*	Ajax	4 (0)	2	6	451
	Darwin Nunez	Liverpool	4 (0)	1	7	344
	Jude Bellingham*	Borussia Dortmund	4 (0)	1	7	630
	Giovanni Simeone	Napoli	4 (0)	0	6	251

• 3 goals: 15 players
• 2 goals: 50 players
• 1 goal: 97 players
• Own goals: 8 players

There have been 329 goals scored in the 2022/23 Champions League, including eight own goals

• Dinamo Zagreb (1): Robert Ljubicic
• FC Copenhagen (1): Davit Khocholava
• Inter Milan (1): Danilo D’Ambrosio
• Maccabi Haifa (1): Sean Goldberg
• Porto (1): Ivan Marcano 
• PSG (1): Danilo
• Shakhtar Donetsk (2): Artem Bondarenko, Valeriy Bondar

Champions League Golden Boot 2021/22

The 2021-22 Champions League scoring crown was claimed by Karim Benzema. He didn’t score in the final against Liverpool, but he did enough damage in the earlier knockout rounds to finish on 15 goals, two better than Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski, but short of Cristiano Ronaldo’s single-season record of 17 (2013/14).

Benzema, who also won the scoring race in La Liga with 27 goals, had a magical season in the Champions League, willing Real Madrid into the final with his goals. His three goals against Man City in the semis were critical, and in the quarterfinals Benzema silenced Chelsea’s home crowd with three goals in the first leg, and then he also scored the decisive blow in extra time of the second leg.

Rank	Player	Team	Goals (PKs)	Assists	Matches	Mins
1.	Karim Benzema	Real Madrid	15 (3)	1	12	1106
2.	Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich	13 (3)	3	10	876
3.	Sebastien Haller	Ajax	11 (1)	1	8	668
4.	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	8 (1)	2	13	1008
5.	Riyad Mahrez	Man City	7 (2)	2	12	986
	Christopher Nkunku	RB Leipzig	7 (0)	0	6	531
7.	Leroy Sane	Bayern Munich	6 (0)	6	10	798
	Kylian Mbappe	PSG	6 (0)	4	8	673
	Arnaut Danjuma	Villarreal CF	6 (1)	2	11	906
	Cristiano Ronaldo	Man United	6 (0)	0	7	611
	Darwin Nunez	Benfica	6 (1)	0	10	613
12.	Rodrygo	Real Madrid	5 (0)	2	11	505
	Sadio Mane	Liverpool	5 (0)	1	13	822
	Roberto Firmino	Liverpool	5 (0)	0	7	323
	Lionel Messi	PSG	5 (2)	0	7	630
16.	Vinicius Junior	Real Madrid	4 (0)	6	13	1199
	Thomas Muller	Bayern Munich	4 (0)	3	10	778
	Timo Werner	Chelsea	4 (0)	2	5	246
	Pedro Goncalves	Sporting CP	4 (1)	2	5	329
	Antoine Griezmann	Atletico Madrid	4 (0)	2	9	518
	Gabriel Jesus	Man City	4 (0)	1	8	352
	Luis Diaz	Liverpool/ Porto	4 (0)	1	13	908

• 3 goals: 20 players
• 2 goals: 30 players
• 1 goal: 111 players

NOTE: There were nine own goals among the total of 380 scored in the tournament.

Champions League Top Scorers (since 1992-93)

Here are the top scorers for each UEFA Champions League tournament since the new format was adopted in 1992-93.

No surprise as to who the players are who have topped the list on most occasions: Cristiano Ronaldo has led the charts seven times, and Messi six. Their dominant run has happened in the past 15 editions of the Champions League, though neither has claimed the honor in the past three campaigns.

Year	Player	Team	Goals
2021-22	Karim Benzema	Real Madrid	15
2020-21	Erling Haaland	B. Dortmund	10
2019-20	Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich	15
2018-19	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	12
2017-18	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	15
2016-17	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	12
2015-16	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	16
2014-15	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	10
	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	10
	Neymar	Barcelona	10
2013-14	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	17
2012-13	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	12
2011-12	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	14
2010-11	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	12
2009-10	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	8
2008-09	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	9
2007-08	Cristiano Ronaldo	Man United	8
2006-07	Kaka	AC Milan	10
2005-06	Andriy Shevchenko	AC Milan	9
2004-05	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Man United	8
2003-04	Fernando Morientes	AS Monaco	9
2002-03	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Man United	12
2001-02	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Man United	10
2000-01	Raul Gonzalez	Real Madrid	7
1999-00	Mario Jardel	Porto	10
	Rivaldo	Barcelona	10
	Raul Gonzalez	Real Madrid	10
1998-99	Andriy Shevchenko	Dynamo Kyiv	8
	Dwight Yorke	Man United	8
1997-98	Alessandro Del Piero	Juventus	10
1996-97	Milinko Pantic	Atletico Madrid	5
1995-96	Jari Litmanen	Ajax	9
1994-95	George Weah	PSG	7
1993-94	Hristo Stoichkov	Barcelona	5
1992-93	Franck Sauzee	Marseille	5