European - All time goalscoring records

[Karlos]

Just stumbled accross the all time European Competitions (i.e Champions League/Uefa Cup) Goalscoring records - interesting to see Larsson in the top 10 ahead of Shevchenko, Van Nistelrooy & Henry.

1. Gerd Müller 66 Bayern München
2. Eusebio Ferreira da Silva 57 SL Benfica
3. Jupp Heynckes 51 Hannover ’96 / Borussia Mönchengladbach
4. Alfredo di Stéfano 49 Real Madrid CF / RCD Espanyol
5. Raul Gonzalez Blanco * 48 Real Madrid CF
6. Santillana 47 Real Madrid CF
7. Henrik Larsson * 45 Feyenoord Rotterdam / Celtic FC / FC Barcelona
8. Allan Simonsen 43 Vejle BK / Borussia M'gladbach / FC Barcelona
9. Andriy Shevchenko * 42 Dynamo Kyiv / AC Milan
10. Filippo Inzaghi * 41 AC Parma / Juventus / AC Milan
11. Ruud van Nistelrooy * 40 PSV Eindhoven / Manchester United
12. Ulf Kirsten 40 Dynamo Dresden / Bayer Leverkusen
13. Thierry Henry 40 AS Monaco / FC Arsenal
14. Ferenc Bene 39 Ujpest Dosza
15. Alessandro Altobelli 39 Internazionale
16. Patrick Kluivert * 39 AFC Ajax / FC Barcelona / Newcastle Utd
17. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge 39 Bayern München / Internazionale / Servette Geneve
18. Dieter Muller 38 FC Koln / VfB Stuttgart / Girondins Bordeaux
19. Jean-Pierre Papin 38 Club Brugge / Olympique M / Bayern / Girondins B
20. Zoran Filipovic 38 FK Crvena zvezda / Club Brugge / SL Benfica

[Risteard]

Looks likely to be broken in the next two or three years, probably by Raul.
Shevchenko, Van Nistlerooy and Henry are also capable of reaching 66 goals.
Its hard to compare across generations as Rauls already probably played more European games than those above him because of the modern group stages.
Gerd Muller scored 66 goals in all knockout ties?
Impressive.

[Dick Long]

Muller scored 68 goals in 62 international appearances.

[pineapple stu]

Gerd Muller scored 66 goals in all knockout ties?
Impressive.
Top scorer evern in World Cups too (14 goals - think Ronaldo's close to that though), and 68 goals in 62 internationals for Germany - unbelievable record! Scored against England too! :D

[drinkfeckarse]

Thought Just Fontaine was the top scorer in World Cup Finals?

Open to correction obviously...

[Risteard]

Top scorer in a single final 13 in 1938 i think.
That'll be tough to beat.

[Aldini98]

Thought Just Fontaine was the top scorer in World Cup Finals?

Open to correction obviously...

He holds the record for the most goals in one single World Cup, 12-13 I think, Muller has scored more over two World Cups

[eirebhoy]

7. Henrik Larsson * 45 Feyenoord Rotterdam / Celtic FC / FC Barcelona
Larsson is the second highest scorer in Europe out of all the currently active players, not a lot of people knew that. Also, those 45 goals were all scored in just 70 something matches.

[Slash/ED]

1. Gerd Müller 66 Bayern München


Didn't he do that in exactly 66 games too? Along with his record of more goals than games at international level, simply a goal scoring machine.

[Macy]

Gerd Muller scored 66 goals in all knockout ties?
Impressive.
Yes, but it's still hard to compare as with the knock out you could get easy games right up to final (certainly if you look at some of the teams that got to European semi's and finals in the 80's they were hardly giants of world football).

Too hard to compare really, rather than number of games....

[pineapple stu]

He holds the record for the most goals in one single World Cup, 12-13 I think, Muller has scored more over two World Cups
That's correct, yeah - Fontaine got 13 in '38, but Muller got ten in '70 and four in '74. Think Ronaldo got six in '98 and eight in '02 as well.


Yes, but it's still hard to compare as with the knock out you could get easy games right up to final (certainly if you look at some of the teams that got to European semi's and finals in the 80's they were hardly giants of world football).
Don't know if I'd necessarily agree with that. Obviously if you got Newport County in the quarters, you were laughing, but teams across Europe were a lot more evenly-matched pre-Bosman.