Champions League top scorers 2022/23: Mohamed Salah leads the way

Who has scored the most goals in this season’s UEFA Champions League? Who has provided the most assists?

Mohamed Salah is currently top of this season’s UEFA Champions League scoring charts with eight goals, closely followed by Kylian Mbappé and Vinícius Júnior.

 

Salah finished the group stage having found the net in five successive Champions League games, incorporating the quickest hat-trick in competition history, timed at just six minutes and 12 seconds, in the Matchday 4 win at Rangers. He added to his tally in Liverpool’s round of 16 first leg defeat by Real Madrid.

 

Mbappé also split his goals across five matches in the group stage, before drawing a blank in the round of 16 first leg at home to Bayern. Vinícius Júnior closed the gap at the top with a double at Anfield in the round of 16 first leg.

 

2022/23 Champions League top scorers

8 Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
7 Kylian Mbappé (Paris)
6 Vinícius Júnior (Real Madrid)

5 Erling Haaland (Man City)
5 Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona)
5 João Mário (Benfica)
5 Mehdi Taremi (Porto)

4 Jude Bellingham (Dortmund)
4 Olivier Giroud (Milan)
4 Mohammed Kudus (Ajax)
4 Lionel Messi (Paris)
4 Darwin Núñez (Liverpool)
4 Giacomo Raspadori (Napoli)
4 Leroy Sané (Bayern)
4 Rafa Silva (Benfica)
4 Giovanni Simeone (Napoli)

 

João Mário made it four players on five goals with the opening goal from the penalty spot in Benfica’s win at Club Brugge in the round of 16 first leg, going level with Erling Haaland, Mehdi Taremi and the eliminated Robert Lewandowski.

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