Most Goals in UEFA European Championship History
About This Dataset
Most Goals in UEFA European Championship History
Players ranked by total goals scored across all UEFA European Championship tournaments combined. Cristiano Ronaldo is the all-time leading scorer in the history of the European Championship with 14 goals across six tournaments — a record that stands more than five goals ahead of Michel Platini, who scored 9 goals in a single edition in 1984.
Analysis
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) (14), Michel Platini (France) (9) and Antoine Griezmann (France) (7) take the top three in Goals in European Championship. No single entity dominates: the leader, Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), holds 24.6% of the combined total of all 8. Below the top two the field is tightly packed: the remaining 6 run from 7 down to 5.
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) leads in Goals in European Championship with 14.
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Average Goals in European Championship: 7 · median: 6.
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Gap: Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) is 2.8× larger than Jurgen Klinsmann (Germany).
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 8 observations
- Measure
- Goals in European Championship
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
Data Sources & References
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