Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo seem to
pass goalscoring landmarks every week, but
there are plenty of UEFA Champions League
records they have yet to break.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi's ongoing
battle to be the top goalscorer in European
football remains perhaps the greatest
footballing drama of our age, but both need
to raise their game considerably if they are
to scoop the following European Champion
Clubs' Cup and UEFA Europa League records.


Final goals
Most goals in European Cup finals: 7 –
Alfrédo Di Stéfano, Ferenc Puskás (both
Real Madrid CF)

Goals in most European Cup finals: 5 –
Alfrédo Di Stefano (Real Madrid, 1956,
1957, 1958. 1959, 1960)

Most goals in a single European Cup final:
4 – Ferenc Puskás (Real Madrid, 1960)

Most goals in a single UEFA Champions
League final: 2 – Daniele Massaro (AC
Milan, 1994), Karl-Heinz Riedle (Borussia
Dortmund, 1997), Hernán Crespo (Milan,
2005), Filippo Inzaghi (Milan, 2007), Diego
Milito (FC Internazionale Milano, 2010)

With two finals goals each – and only one in
any single final (Messi in 2009 and 2011,
Ronaldo in 2008 and 2014) – Ronaldo and
Messi both have a way to go to emulate the
all-time final star strikers. Two other
players have also scored in two UEFA
Champions League finals: Raúl González
(Real Madrid, 2000, 2002) and Samuel Eto'o
(FC Barcelona, 2006, 2009).



Goals in European Cup/UEFA Champions
League stages
Most UEFA Champions League group stage
goals: Raúl González (53)

Most European Cup/UEFA Champions League
quarter-final goals: Alfrédo Di Stéfano (14)

Most European Cup/UEFA Champions League
semi-final goals: Alfrédo Di Stéfano (11)



Raúl González - still the top group stage
scorer

Raúl's twin records as the leading UEFA
Champions League and UEFA club
competition goalscorer have fallen to
Ronaldo (who holds both) and Messi (who
shares the former only), but the ex-Madrid
ace retains his status as the all-time top
marksman in the UEFA Champions League
group stage; Messi on 44 and Ronaldo on 38
may surpass that mark yet.
Di Stéfano remains king in terms of
quarter-final and semi-final goals, though
his throne appears increasingly vulnerable.
Ronaldo has registered 12 in the quarters
and eight in the semis; Messi has notched 10
and two respectively at those stages.
Success with different sides



Final wins with the most teams in the UEFA
Champions League: 3 – Clarence Seedorf
(AFC Ajax 1995, Real Madrid 1998, Milan
2003, 2007)

Highest number of teams scored for in the
UEFA Champions League: 6 – Zlatan
Ibrahimović (Ajax, Juventus,
Internazionale, Barcelona, Milan, Paris
Saint-Germain)
Zlatan Ibrahimović has scored in the UEFA
Champions League for six clubs

Cristiano Ronaldo is unique in having scored
in UEFA Champions League finals for two
different winning sides – Manchester United
FC in 2008 and Madrid in 2014. The luckless
Velibor Vasović is the only other player to net
in European Cup finals for two clubs, as a
loser with FK Partizan in 1966 and Ajax in
1969. Ronaldo will require a transfer if he is
to match Clarence Seedorf's unique
achievement of winning the competition with
three separate teams.
Ibrahimović's record looks even safer from
Messi and Ronaldo, who would have to start
moving clubs regularly – while still scoring –
to make it to six. All of Messi's goals to date
have come for Barcelona, while Ronaldo has
only found the target for United and
Madrid in the UEFA Champions League.


Oldest goalscorer
UEFA Champions League final: Paolo Maldini
(36 years 333 days) Milan v Liverpool FC
(25/05/2005)


UEFA Champions League, group stage to
final: Francesco Totti (38 years 59 days)
PFC CSKA Moskva v AS Roma (25/11/2014)
European Cup: Manfred Burgsmüller (38
years 293 days)
SV Werder Bremen v SC Dynamo Berlin
(11/10/1988)

Totti's landmark goal and more
If our dynamic duo are to eclipse Maldini's
record as the oldest final scorer, they will
have to be patient. Ronaldo's first chance
will be in the 2021/22 final, while Messi will
not be in line until the 2023/24 showpiece –
and only then provided it does not take
place before 23 May, in which case he would
have to wait another year.
To overtake the UEFA Champions League
oldest scorer mark, Ronaldo will need to
register in the competition, group stage to
final, after 1 April 2023, and Messi after 22
August 2025. To become the European Cup's
all-time oldest scorer, Ronaldo will have to
hit the target after 22 November 2023, and
Messi after 13 April 2026.



Fastest goals
Fastest UEFA Champions League goal: Roy
Makaay (10.12 seconds)
FC Bayern München v Real Madrid
(07/03/2007)

Fastest UEFA Champions League final goal:
Paolo Maldini (53 seconds) Milan v Liverpool
(25/05/2005)

Fastest Champions League goals
Roy Makaay has established a somewhat
daunting target with his strike pretty much
straight from the kick-off against Madrid.
Ronaldo and Messi's earliest UEFA
Champions League efforts both came in the
fourth minute – Ronaldo for Madrid against
Juventus in October 2013 , and Messi against
FC Basel 1893 in October 2008 .
Paolo Maldini's quickfire final goal versus
Liverpool is also a mark neither Ronaldo nor
Messi have come close to achieving; both of
Messi's final goals were in the second half,
with the earliest of Ronaldo's two coming 26
minutes into the 2008 decider with Chelsea
FC in Moscow.


Hat-tricks
Fastest UEFA Champions League hat-trick:
Bafétimbi Gomis (8 mins)
GNK Dinamo Zagreb v Olympique Lyonnais ,
07/12/2011
Hat-tricks in consecutive UEFA Champions
League games: Luiz Adriano (2)
FC BATE Borisov v FC Shakhtar Donetsk
(21/10/14) & FC Shakhtar Donetsk v FC BATE
Borisov (05/11/14)

Messi has the record for most UEFA
Champions League hat-tricks – five in total
to Ronaldo's two – though neither has
seriously threatened to outstrip Bafétimbi
Gomis's lightning-quick treble against
Dinamo . The swiftest of Messi's hat-tricks –
his first – took 22 minutes (v Arsenal FC,
06/04/10 ), though a mere 16 minutes
separated his second and fourth strikes in
his five-goal salvo against Bayer 04
Leverkusen on 7 March 2012 . The fastest of
Ronaldo's two trebles took 27 minutes,
against Galatasaray AŞ on 17 September
2013 .
Luiz Adriano broke new ground by scoring
back-to-back UEFA Champions League trios
against BATE this term – five goals in the
first group meeting and three in the second.
Long-distance records
Goals in most successive UEFA Champions
League seasons: Raúl González (14)


Goals in most UEFA Champions League
seasons: Ryan Giggs (16)


Sporting Clube de Portugal did not get
through qualifying in Ronaldo's only attempt
with the club, and the forward then failed
to net in his first two UEFA Champions
League seasons with United. However, he has
registered in the last nine campaigns – and
nine in all – meaning he must keep playing
and scoring for five more seasons to catch
Raúl. To replicate Giggs's total he may – like
the Welshman – need to play on until he is
over 40.
There were no false starts for Messi, yet he
has scored in only ten UEFA Champions
League campaigns and will be well into his
30s before he can trouble Raúl or Giggs in
this respect.



Single-season total
Most goals in a single European season:
Radamel Falcao (18), FC Porto 2010/11

Falcao's glorious exploits in the 2010/11
UEFA Europa League set a mark that Messi
and Ronaldo have been unable to emulate.
The Colombian's haul included one goal in
qualifying and 17 in the competition proper.
Messi's best year came in 2011/12 when he
ended the European season with 14 strikes,
while Ronaldo set a new European Cup/UEFA
Champions League record with 17 in 2013/14.
Both men have notched eight this term,
meaning they will have to make it to the
final and score at a rate of over two a game
if they are to outgun Falcao.


Goalscoring consistency
Goals in most consecutive appearances: Ruud
van Nistelrooy (9), Manchester United,
2002/03
Best goals per game average in European
Cup/UEFA Champions League: 0.97 – Gerd
Müller (Bayern)
Best goals per game average in UEFA club
competition*: 0.90 – Radamel Falcao (Porto,
Club Atlético de Madrid)
Ruud van Nistelrooy did not figure in all
United's games in the 2002/03 UEFA
Champions League but managed to score in
nine straight appearances in that
campaign – ten if you include his goal in
qualifying. Ronaldo has come the closest to
bettering that mark, with strikes in eight
successive 2013/14 outings.
However, when it comes to goals per match,
Ronaldo cannot compete with the all-time
record holders. His UEFA Champions League
record stands at 0.66 a game – 76 goals in
115 games – and it is 0.66 in all UEFA club
competitions too – 78 in 118. Messi has
registered more consistently (0.80 in the
UEFA Champions League – 75 goals in 94
games; 0.78 in all UEFA competitions – 76 in
97). If Falcao's awesome total may yet come
down when he returns to European action,
Gerd Müller's European Cup ratio still seems
unbeatable.

*UEFA club competitions means European
Champion Clubs' Cup/UEFA Champions
League, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League,
European/South American Cup, UEFA Cup
Winners' Cup, UEFA Super Cup and UEFA
Intertoto Cup

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