What is the ranking of the Champions League top scorers throughout history?

Learn about the Champions League top scorer ranking table throughout history, and what is the rank of Ronaldo, Messi and Salah among them? Who is the historical top scorer in the Champions League?

Since its inception, the European Champions League presented us with a number of the most prominent scorers known to history, and considering that the same ears are a competition in which the strongest clubs in the old continent and even the world compete, it was natural that each of its stages witnessed the emergence of wonderful players who represented the football icon in their time.

Raul Gonzalez and Andriy Shevchenko were the top scorers in the Champions League during the nineties of the last century and the first decade of the current millennium, but now there are two stars who have imposed themselves strongly on the football field, and therefore they are the most powerful competitors in the tournament, namely Ronaldo and Messi.

In recent years, an Arab star has begun to infiltrate the list of the most scored players in the history of the Champions League, the Egyptian star of Liverpool, Mohamed Salah, who has placed himself firmly among the top players in the recent period.

But, what is the ranking of the Champions League top scorers throughout history? And what is the arrangement of the legends of this time among them? Goal reviews the list of Champions League scorers since its inception in 1955 to the present day.

In this report, we will go back in time and explore together the top scorers of the European Champions League throughout the ages, starting from its first edition in 1955 to the present day.

Cristiano Ronaldo is the top scorer in the Champions League throughout the ages, but he is not safe on his throne. Lionel Messi is the runner-up by a narrow margin for the flea.

Robert Lewandowski succeeded in overtaking Raul Gonzalez, the legend of Real Madrid, and became the third in the ranking of the historical scorers, followed by Karim Benzema, the star of Real Madrid.

As for Liverpool star Mohamed Salah, he comes in 15th on the list, having scored 43 goals so far in the Champions League.

Most of the scorers played in the tournament in its new format, which began the 1992 season, and the reason for this is that the tournament with the new system allowed a greater number of matches during one season, and this also caused the presence of a number of players in the previous table who played in the nineties.

However, there is a player who managed to maintain his presence among the top 10 scorers in the history of the Champions League, despite the fact that he attended the era prior to 1992 in which the format and system of the tournament changed. This player is former Real Madrid star Alfredo Di Stefano.

The two former Meringue stars who defended the white shirt between 1950 and 1960, Ferenc Puskas and Francesco Gento, were also in the list of twenty, as well as former Bayern Munich striker Gerd Mueller, who has the highest goal rate in the match so far, 0.95.

The average goals per match for Puskas reached 0.85, while Di Stefano reached 0.84, while Lionel Messi did not exceed 0.81, who has the highest average goals per match in the new era that began since 1992.