Top 20 Goals Scorers in UEFA Champions League

UEFA Champions League is one of the most popular football league in the Europe and it is viewed all around the globe. Since 1992 it has been growing and it’s structure is getting vast day by day. As more games increase in the tournament, chances of scoring goals is also hiked. Hence here today we’ll find out top goal scorers in Champions League history.

In modern era, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Roonaldo are the two most popular footballers. The way they play game, its amazing and they are the arch rivals to each other whenever there is a talk about making football list of records. Hence when we are heading to bring the list of top 20 goal scorers, both these stars can’t be kept away. The mentioned data in table is as on 20 October, 2016.

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo tops the list with 95 goals in 130 matches. Meanwhile FC Barcelona’s star striker Lionel Messi has scored 89 goals in 108 matches played so far. Although Ronaldo stands at the top of the list but The ratio of scoring goals is better for Messi than Ronaldo.

Let’s have a look at the complete list of top 20 goal scorers in UEFA Champions League.

Top Goal Scorers in Champions League

No.	Player	Current Club	Goals	Matches	Ratio
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	95	130	0.73
2	Lionel Messi	FC Barcelona	89	108	0.82
3	Raul	Schalke 04	71	142	0.50
4	Ruud Van Nistelrooy	Real Madrid	56	73	0.77
5	Thierry Henry	FC Barcelona	50	112	0.45
6	Alfredo Di Stefano	Real Madrid	49	58	0.84
7	Andriy Shevchenko	Chelsea	48	100	0.48
7	Zlatan Ibrahimovic	Paris-Saint Germain	48	119	0.40
9	Eusebio	Benfica	46	65	0.71
	Karim Benzema	Milan	46	81	0.54
	Filippo Inzaghi	Real Madrid	46	85	0.57
12	Didier Drogba	Galatasaray	44	92	0.48
13	Alessandro Del Piero	Juventus	41	89	0.46
14	Thomas Muller	Real Madrid	38	84	0.45
15	Ferenc Puskas	Bayern Munich	36	41	0.88
16	Gerd Müller	Bayern Munich	35	35	1
16	Francisco Gento	Real Madrid	35	89	0.39
18	Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich	31	52	0.65
19	Fernando Morientes	Valencia	31	90	0.33
20	Samuel Eto’o	Chelsea	30	78	0.38
	Kaka	Real Madrid	30	85	0.35
	Wayne Rooney	Manchester United	30	86	0.35