Champions League
Haaland’s goal scoring records in the Champions League
The Manchester City striker faces Bayern Munich looking to add yet more eye-watering stats to his goal-scoring feats.
Erling Braut Haaland is the authentic goal scoring machine. The Manchester City and Norway striker is smashing net-busting records wherever he goes, but even given his exploits in other competitions, the Champions League is already proving to be one of his favourite hunting grounds. Today he faces Bayern Munich as Man City host the German giants in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and where he got on the scoresheet in the 77th minute, to make it 3-0 to City.
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Four years ago Haaland made his UEFA Champions League debut wearing the RD Salzburg shirt, on September 17, 2019, and it took him just two minutes to make his debut as a scorer in Europe’s premier soccer competition. In fact, he ended the first half having already scored a hat-trick. The only footballer to score three goals on his Champions League debut.
In his most recent Champions League game, on March 14, 2023, against Leipzig, in the round of 16, Haaland once again put his name into the tournament’s record books, becoming the third footballer to score five goals in a single match. Only Messi and Luiz Adriano have performed the feat.
Now in his fourth season in the leading European competition he’s fired 33 goals in just 25 games. Putting him in 19th place of the all-time scorers in the competition, ahead of legends such as Samuel Eto’o, Griezmann, Kaká and Wayne Rooney. Even more impressive, he’s only taken four penalties, scoring them all.
| Team | Goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Salzburg | 8 | 6 |
| Borussia Dortmund | 15 | 13 |
| Manchester City | 10 | 6 |
Neither Messi nor Ronaldo come close to Haaland's numbers
The Norwegian is not only a goal machine, his blazing scoring rate is another of his hallmarks. It only took him seven games to reach ten goals and another seven to reach 20. Only Dortmund’s Haller prevents Haaland claiming the record for fastest to 10 - he did it in six games.
No one though has managed to hit twenty goals in so few games. To understand the magnitude of the feat, just look at Kane, the footballer who is next fasted, however he needed 24 games, TEN more than Haaland. Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski (both 36 games) and Kylian Mbappé (37 games) took far, far longer, while Ronaldo, who didn’t score until his 27th Champions League appearance, needed 56 games.
| Player | 10 goals | 20 goals | 30 goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haaland | 7 | 14 | 25 |
| Kane | 12 | 24 | - |
| Van Nistelrooy | 15 | 27 | 34 |
| Lewandowski | 16 | 36 | 46 |
| Messi | 23 | 36 | 46 |
| Neymar | 19 | 38 | 49 |
| Benzema | 14 | 34 | 50 |
| Mbappé | 15 | 37 | 51 |
| Ronaldo | 37 | 56 | 74 |
| Haller | 6 | - | - |
The Champions League records broken by Haaland
The Norwegian, since making his debut in September 2019, has already written his name into the UEFA Champions League record book with multiple entries
- The youngest to score 15 goals: 20 years and 126 days.
- The fastest to score 15 goals: 12 games.
- The youngest to score 20 goals: 20 years and 231 days.
- The fastest to score 20 goals: 14 games.
- The youngest to score 25 goals: 22 years and 47 days.
- The fastest to score 25 goals: 20 games.
- The youngest to score 30 goals: 22 years and 236 days.
- The fastest to score 30 goals: 25 games.
- Only player to score a hat-trick in the first half of their debut in the competition.
- Only player to have scored multiple goals in four consecutive games.
- The only player to have scored more than one goal in his debut in the competition with three different clubs.
What Champions League records are possible for Haaland now?
On Tuesday, April 11 Pep Guardiola’s team receives Bayern Munich at the Etihad Stadium for the Champions League quarterfinals. And Haaland is chasing another record - the youngest footballer to reach 40 goals in the tournament. The record is currently held by Kylian Mbappé (23 days and 317 days), it took him 59 games to achieve it. Haaland is now six goals away from that figure, at 22 years of age, after his goal this evening against Bayern.