Champions League top goal scorers 2022/23: Final golden boot rankings as Erling Haaland wins title

Simon Borg

Champions League top goal scorers 2022/23: Final golden boot rankings as Erling Haaland wins title image

Erling Haaland won the 2022/23 UEFA Champions League Golden Boot, capping off his season by hoisting the trophy after Man City won the final.

Haaland was chasing the single-season Champions League record (17 goals in 2013/14 by Cristiano Ronaldo), but he didn't score in the semifinal matches vs. Real Madrid or the final vs. Inter Milan.

He previously won the Champions League Golden Boot in 2020/21 when he topped the ranking with 10 goals. He has surpassed that total during this campaign to set a career high for a single season.

Liverpool's Mohamed Salah finishes in second place with eight goals, but he was eliminated from the competition in the Round of 16. Kylian Mbappe (tied for third place) and PSG were also ousted in the Round of 16.

The table below was updated after each round of matches beginning with the group stage. Assists were used as the first tiebreaker, and the second tiebreaker was fewest minutes played. Both are in line with the top scorer tiebreakers that European governing body UEFA implemented for the European Championships.

MORE: Who has the most Champions League goals all-time?

Champions League Top Scorers 2022/23

Final table as of June 10, 2023.

Rank Player Team Goals (PKs) Assists Matches Mins
1. Erling Haaland Manchester City 12 (1) 1 11 845
2. Mohamed Salah* Liverpool 8 (1) 2 8 624
3. Vinicius Jr Real Madrid 7 (0) 5 12 975
  Kylian Mbappe* PSG 7 (1) 3 8 651
5. Joao Mario* Benfica 6 (5) 2 10 865
6. Mehdi Taremi* FC Porto 5 (2) 2 7 613
  Rodrygo Real Madrid 5 (2) 2 12 825
  Olivier Giroud AC Milan 5 (2) 2 12 940
  Rafa Silva* Benfica 5 (0) 1 10 827
  Victor Osimhen* Napoli 5 (0) 0 6 423
  Robert Lewandowski* Barcelona 5 (0) 0 5 442
  • 4 goals: 11 players
  • 3 goals: 17 players
  • 2 goals: 51 players
  • 1 goal: 97 players
  • Own goals: 8 players

There have been 372 goals scored in the 2022/23 Champions League, including eight own goals:

  • Dinamo Zagreb (1): Robert Ljubicic
  • FC Copenhagen (1): Davit Khocholava
  • Inter Milan (1): Danilo D'Ambrosio
  • Maccabi Haifa (1): Sean Goldberg
  • Porto (1): Ivan Marcano 
  • PSG (1): Danilo
  • Shakhtar Donetsk (2): Artem Bondarenko, Valeriy Bondar

Champions League Golden Boot 2021/22

The 2021-22 Champions League scoring crown was claimed by Karim Benzema. He didn't score in the final against Liverpool, but he did enough damage in the earlier knockout rounds to finish on 15 goals, two better than Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski, but short of Cristiano Ronaldo's single-season record of 17 (2013/14).

Benzema, who also won the scoring race in La Liga with 27 goals, had a magical season in the Champions League, willing Real Madrid into the final with his goals. His three goals against Man City in the semis were critical, and in the quarterfinals Benzema silenced Chelsea's home crowd with three goals in the first leg, and then he also scored the decisive blow in extra time of the second leg.

Rank Player Team Goals (PKs) Assists Matches Mins
1. Karim Benzema Real Madrid 15 (3) 1 12 1106
2. Robert Lewandowski Bayern Munich 13 (3) 3 10 876
3. Sebastien Haller Ajax 11 (1) 1 8 668
4. Mohamed Salah Liverpool 8 (1) 2 13 1008
5. Riyad Mahrez Man City 7 (2) 2 12 986
  Christopher Nkunku RB Leipzig 7 (0) 0 6 531
7. Leroy Sane Bayern Munich 6 (0) 6 10 798
  Kylian Mbappe PSG 6 (0) 4 8 673
  Arnaut Danjuma Villarreal CF 6 (1) 2 11 906
  Cristiano Ronaldo Man United 6 (0) 0 7 611
  Darwin Nunez Benfica 6 (1) 0 10 613
12. Rodrygo Real Madrid 5 (0) 2 11 505
  Sadio Mane Liverpool 5 (0) 1 13 822
  Roberto Firmino Liverpool 5 (0) 0 7 323
  Lionel Messi PSG 5 (2) 0 7 630
16. Vinicius Junior Real Madrid 4 (0) 6 13 1199
  Thomas Muller Bayern Munich 4 (0) 3 10 778
  Timo Werner Chelsea 4 (0) 2 5 246
  Pedro Goncalves Sporting CP 4 (1) 2 5 329
  Antoine Griezmann Atletico Madrid 4 (0) 2 9 518
  Gabriel Jesus Man City 4 (0) 1 8 352
  Luis Diaz Liverpool/
Porto
4 (0) 1 13 908
  • 3 goals: 20 players
  • 2 goals: 30 players
  • 1 goal: 111 players

NOTE: There were nine own goals among the total of 380 scored in the tournament.

Champions League Top Scorers (since 1992-93)

Here are the top scorers for each UEFA Champions League tournament since the new format was adopted in 1992-93.

No surprise as to who the players are who have topped the list on most occasions: Cristiano Ronaldo has led the charts seven times, and Messi six. Their dominant run has happened in the past 15 editions of the Champions League, though neither has claimed the honor in the past three campaigns.

Year Player Team Goals
2022-23 Erling Haaland Man City 12
2021-22 Karim Benzema Real Madrid 15
2020-21 Erling Haaland B. Dortmund 10
2019-20 Robert Lewandowski Bayern Munich 15
2018-19 Lionel Messi Barcelona 12
2017-18 Cristiano Ronaldo Real Madrid 15
2016-17 Cristiano Ronaldo Real Madrid 12
2015-16 Cristiano Ronaldo Real Madrid 16
2014-15 Lionel Messi Barcelona 10
  Cristiano Ronaldo Real Madrid 10
  Neymar Barcelona 10
2013-14 Cristiano Ronaldo Real Madrid 17
2012-13 Cristiano Ronaldo Real Madrid 12
2011-12 Lionel Messi Barcelona 14
2010-11 Lionel Messi Barcelona 12
2009-10 Lionel Messi Barcelona 8
2008-09 Lionel Messi Barcelona 9
2007-08 Cristiano Ronaldo Man United 8
2006-07 Kaka AC Milan 10
2005-06 Andriy Shevchenko AC Milan 9
2004-05 Ruud van Nistelrooy Man United 8
2003-04 Fernando Morientes AS Monaco 9
2002-03 Ruud van Nistelrooy Man United 12
2001-02 Ruud van Nistelrooy Man United 10
2000-01 Raul Gonzalez Real Madrid 7
1999-00 Mario Jardel Porto 10
  Rivaldo Barcelona 10
  Raul Gonzalez Real Madrid 10
1998-99 Andriy Shevchenko Dynamo Kyiv 8
  Dwight Yorke Man United 8
1997-98 Alessandro Del Piero Juventus 10
1996-97 Milinko Pantic Atletico Madrid 5
1995-96 Jari Litmanen Ajax 9
1994-95 George Weah PSG 7
1993-94 Hristo Stoichkov Barcelona 5
1992-93 Franck Sauzee Marseille 5

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Simon Borg is a senior editor at The Sporting News who has covered football/soccer for over a decade. A supporter of Italian club Parma Calcio from his years growing up in Europe, he was previously a long-time member of Major League Soccer's digital media team, as a multimedia content producer, on-air personality, and Editor-in-Chief. Based in New York City, Borg is multilingual and has covered the domestic and global scene for TSN since 2021.