Record-breaking Ronaldo takes scoring honours
Cristiano Ronaldo has broken new ground in the
European Cup this season with 17 goals to set a new
best for a single campaign in the competition – and
finish as the UEFA Champions League's top scorer for
the second term running and the third overall.
European Cup this season with 17 goals to set a new
best for a single campaign in the competition – and
finish as the UEFA Champions League's top scorer for
the second term running and the third overall.
Prior to last season, Ronaldo had not claimed the
scoring prize since 2007/08, when his eight goals –
including one in the final – helped Manchester United FC
lift the trophy for the third time. There followed four
years in which Lionel Messi took the honours, but in
2012/13 Ronaldo managed 12 goals to end two clear of
Borussia Dortmund's Robert Lewandowski, with Messi
two further back on eight.
The Portugal forward has been even more impressive in
the current campaign, opening with a hat-trick in
Madrid's 6-1 win at Galatasaray AŞ and going on to
notch nine goals in the group stage – a record. Two
ensued in each leg of the round of 16 tie against FC
Schalke 04, and it was not until the semi-final first leg
against FC Bayern München – Ronaldo's ninth
tournament appearance of 2013/14 – that he failed to
register.
He made amends with two more goals in the second
leg, establishing a high-water mark for a European Cup
campaign
by surpassing the previous best of 14 set by José
Altafini (1962/63) and matched by Messi (2011/12). His
120th-minute penalty – goal No17 – to make it 4-1 in
Saturday's final against Club Atlético de Madrid CF
merely iced the cake.
He thus finished six goals clear of Zlatan Ibrahimović,
with Atlético striker Diego Costa and Messi in joint-third
position on eight goals. Manchester City FC's Sergio
Agüero and Lewandowski mustered six apiece.
Ronaldo's treble at Galatasaray was the first of seven in
this season's competition, with Messi, Kostas Mitroglou
(Olympiacos FC), Álvaro Negredo (Manchester City),
Arturo Vidal (Juventus) and Neymar (FC Barcelona) also
netting hat-tricks in the group stage and Robin van
Persie scoring three in Manchester United's round of 16
second-leg defeat of Olympiacos. Ibrahimović struck
four times in Paris Saint-Germain's group stage victory
at Anderlecht – the tenth player to hit four in a single
match, not including Messi's five-goal haul against
Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 2012.
Ronaldo and Messi are also closing in on Raúl
González's record all-time UEFA Champions League
goal total; the former Madrid and Schalke ace has 71 in
the competition, four more than Messi and Ronaldo.
scoring prize since 2007/08, when his eight goals –
including one in the final – helped Manchester United FC
lift the trophy for the third time. There followed four
years in which Lionel Messi took the honours, but in
2012/13 Ronaldo managed 12 goals to end two clear of
Borussia Dortmund's Robert Lewandowski, with Messi
two further back on eight.
The Portugal forward has been even more impressive in
the current campaign, opening with a hat-trick in
Madrid's 6-1 win at Galatasaray AŞ and going on to
notch nine goals in the group stage – a record. Two
ensued in each leg of the round of 16 tie against FC
Schalke 04, and it was not until the semi-final first leg
against FC Bayern München – Ronaldo's ninth
tournament appearance of 2013/14 – that he failed to
register.
He made amends with two more goals in the second
leg, establishing a high-water mark for a European Cup
campaign
by surpassing the previous best of 14 set by José
Altafini (1962/63) and matched by Messi (2011/12). His
120th-minute penalty – goal No17 – to make it 4-1 in
Saturday's final against Club Atlético de Madrid CF
merely iced the cake.
He thus finished six goals clear of Zlatan Ibrahimović,
with Atlético striker Diego Costa and Messi in joint-third
position on eight goals. Manchester City FC's Sergio
Agüero and Lewandowski mustered six apiece.
Ronaldo's treble at Galatasaray was the first of seven in
this season's competition, with Messi, Kostas Mitroglou
(Olympiacos FC), Álvaro Negredo (Manchester City),
Arturo Vidal (Juventus) and Neymar (FC Barcelona) also
netting hat-tricks in the group stage and Robin van
Persie scoring three in Manchester United's round of 16
second-leg defeat of Olympiacos. Ibrahimović struck
four times in Paris Saint-Germain's group stage victory
at Anderlecht – the tenth player to hit four in a single
match, not including Messi's five-goal haul against
Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 2012.
Ronaldo and Messi are also closing in on Raúl
González's record all-time UEFA Champions League
goal total; the former Madrid and Schalke ace has 71 in
the competition, four more than Messi and Ronaldo.
2013/14 UEFA Champions League top scorers
17 Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid CF)
10 Zlatan Ibrahimović (Paris Saint-Germain)
8 Diego Costa (Club Atlético de Madrid)
8 Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona)
6 Sergio Agüero (Manchester City FC)
6 Robert Lewandowski (Borussia Dortmund)
17 Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid CF)
10 Zlatan Ibrahimović (Paris Saint-Germain)
8 Diego Costa (Club Atlético de Madrid)
8 Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona)
6 Sergio Agüero (Manchester City FC)
6 Robert Lewandowski (Borussia Dortmund)
UEFA Champions League top scorers by season
2012/13 – Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid CF (12)
2011/12 – Lionel Messi, FC Barcelona (14)
2010/11 – Lionel Messi, FC Barcelona (12)
2009/10 – Lionel Messi, FC Barcelona (8)
2008/09 – Lionel Messi, FC Barcelona (9)
2007/08 – Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United FC (8)
2006/07 – Kaká, AC Milan (10)
2005/06 – Andriy Shevchenko, AC Milan (9)
2004/05 – Ruud van Nistelrooy, Manchester United FC
(8)
2003/04 – Fernando Morientes, AS Monaco FC (9)
2002/03 – Ruud van Nistelrooy, Manchester United FC
(12)
2001/02 – Ruud van Nistelrooy, Manchester United FC
(10)
2000/01 – Raúl González, Real Madrid CF (7)
1999/00 – Mário Jardel, FC Porto; Rivaldo, FC
Barcelona; Raúl González, Real Madrid CF (10)
1998/99 – Andriy Shevchenko, FC Dynamo Kyiv; Dwight
Yorke, Manchester United FC (8)
1997/98 – Alessandro Del Piero, Juventus (10)
1996/97 – Milinko Pantić, Club Atlético de Madrid (5)
1995/96 – Jari Litmanen, AFC Ajax (9)
1994/95 – George Weah, Paris Saint-Germain FC (7)
1993/94 – Ronald Koeman, FC Barcelona; Wynton Rufer,
SV Werder Bremen (8)
UEFA Champions League overall top scorers
71 Raúl González (Real Madrid CF, FC Schalke 04)
67 Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo
(Manchester United FC, Real Madrid CF)
56 Ruud van Nistelrooy (PSV Eindhoven, Manchester
United FC, Real Madrid CF)
50 Thierry Henry (AS Monaco FC, Arsenal FC, FC
Barcelona)
48 Andriy Shevchenko (FC Dynamo Kyiv, AC Milan,
Chelsea FC)
46 Filippo Inzaghi (Juventus, AC Milan)
42 Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus)
41 Didier Drogba (Olympique de Marseille, Chelsea FC,
Galatasaray AŞ)
41 Zlatan Ibrahimović (AFC Ajax, Juventus, FC
Internazionale Milano, FC Barcelona, AC Milan, Paris
Saint-Germain)
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