Kylian Mbappé's five goals place him top of the 2025/26 UEFA Champions League top scorer rankings, with Manchester City striker Erling Haaland and the English trio of Anthony Gordon, Harry Kane and Marcus Rashford close behind.
2025/26 Champions League top scorers
5 Kylian Mbappé (Real Madrid)
4 Anthony Gordon (Newcastle) 4 Erling Haaland (Manchester City)
4 Harry Kane (Bayern München)
4 Marcus Rashford (Barcelona)
3 Harvey Barnes (Newcastle)
3 Fermín López (Barcelona)
3 Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal)
3 Lautaro Martínez (Inter)
3 Felix Nmecha (B. Dortmund)
Mbappé's first three goals all came from the penalty spot, two helping Real Madrid to victory against Marseille on Matchday 1 before he opened the scoring at Kairat Almaty on Matchday 2.
The France international then struck twice from open play in the second half, including one from a Thibaut Courtois assist, sealing the first hat-trick of the 2025/26 Champions League proper.
Champions League all-time top scorers
There are four players just one adrift of Mbappé. Gordon and Haaland have both scored in all three of their respective teams' league phase games to date, including in Matchday 3 defeats of Benfica and Villarreal respectively, while Kane netted twice in each of Bayern's two opening victories and Rashford doubled his own personal tally with two against Olympiacos on Tuesday.
Full top scorer list
Most assists in the 2025/26 Champions League
Bayern's Michael Olise currently leads the Champions League assists charts with three. The likes of Nuno Mendes, Julián Alvarez, Kevin De Bruyne, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Hakan Çalhanoğlu are among a 14-strong group of players on two assists.
Olise's first assist came in Bayern's 3-1 success against Chelsea on Matchday 1 and the French midfielder followed that up with two more in the 5-1 triumph at Pafos next time out.
3 Michael Olise (Bayern München)
2 Karim Adeyemi (Borussia Dortmund)
2 Julián Alvarez (Atleti)
2 Bradley Barcola (Paris)
2Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Marseille)2 Hakan Çalhanoğlu (Inter)
2 Kevin De Bruyne (Napoli)
2 Håkon Evjen (Bodø/Glimt)
2 Serhou Guirassy (Borussia Dortmund)
2 Achraf Hakimi (Paris)
2 Nicolas Jackson (Bayern München)
2 Nuno Mendes (Paris)
2 Jacob Murphy (Newcastle)
2 Lukáš Provod (Slavia Praha)
2 Guus Til (PSV)
Full assists list
Hat-tricks in the 2025/26 Champions League
Kylian Mbappé (Kairat Almaty 0-5Real Madrid, 30/09/2025)
Fermín López (Barcelona 6-1 Olympiacos, 21/10/2025)
Champions League top scorers by season (group stage to final)
Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Erling Haaland are among the stellar names to have finished a Champions League season as the top scorer in the competition on more than one occasion.
Ronaldo achieved the feat in an incredible seven seasons while Messi did so on six separate occasions. Ruud van Nistelrooy topped the charts three times while, of the currently active Champions League players, Haaland leads the way with two.
2024/25: Serhou Guirassy (Borussia Dortmund), Raphinha (Barcelona) 13
2023/24: Harry Kane (Bayern München), Kylian Mbappé (Paris) 82022/23: Erling Haaland (Man City) 122021/22: Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) 152020/21: Erling Haaland (Borussia Dortmund) 102019/20: Robert Lewandowski (Bayern) 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), Neymar (Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 10
2013/14: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 17
2012/13: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 122011/12: Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 14
2010/11: Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 122009/10: Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 8
2008/09: Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 9
2007/08: Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) 8
2006/07: Kaká (AC Milan) 10
2005/06: Andriy Shevchenko (AC Milan) 9
2004/05: Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) 8
2003/04: Fernando Morientes (Monaco) 9
2002/03: Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) 122001/02: Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) 10
2000/01: Raúl González (Real Madrid) 71999/00: Mário Jardel (Porto), Rivaldo (Barcelona), Raúl González (Real Madrid) 10
1998/99: Andriy Shevchenko (Dynamo Kyiv), Dwight Yorke (Manchester United) 8
1997/98: Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus) 10
1996/97: Milinko Pantić (Atlético de Madrid) 5
1995/96: Jari Litmanen (Ajax) 9
1994/95: George Weah (Paris) 7
1993/94: Hristo Stoichkov (Barcelona) 5
1992/93: Franck Sauzée (Marseille) 5
All-time Champions League stats