Most Goals in UEFA Champions League History
About This Dataset
Most Goals in UEFA Champions League History
Players ranked by total goals scored in the UEFA Champions League and its predecessor the European Cup. Cristiano Ronaldo holds the all-time Champions League scoring record with 140 goals — a total accumulated across spells at Manchester United, Real Madrid, and Juventus and representing nearly one in five goals he has ever scored in his professional career. His record of 17 goals in a single Champions League season in 2013-14 remains the highest single-season tally.
Analysis
The top three in UEFA Champions League Goals are Cristiano Ronaldo (140), Lionel Messi (129) and Robert Lewandowski (94). Cristiano Ronaldo tops the list without dominating it, holding 20.6% of what the 8 entities record between them. The other 6 are bunched between 48 and 94.
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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Cristiano Ronaldo leads in UEFA Champions League Goals with 140.
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Average UEFA Champions League Goals: 85 · median: 81.
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Gap: Cristiano Ronaldo is 2.9× larger than Andriy Shevchenko.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 8 observations
- Measure
- UEFA Champions League Goals
- 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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