Victor Osimhen overtook Erling Haaland, Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappé in the race to become 2025/26 UEFA Champions League top scorer on Matchday 4, moving to six goals with a hat-trick against Ajax.
Kane and Mbappé remained on five goals as they failed to score, while Haaland was on target against Borussia Dortmund.
2025/26 Champions League top scorers
6 Victor Osimhen (Galatasaray)
5 Erling Haaland (Manchester City)5 Harry Kane (Bayern München)
5 Kylian Mbappé (Real Madrid)
4 Anthony Gordon (Newcastle)
4 Lautaro Martínez (Inter)
4 Marcus Rashford (Barcelona)
Osimhen leads the way despite missing the Matchday 1 defeat at Frankfurt, a mark of the impact he has made in the three Galatasaray victories since.
The Nigerian forward scored the only goal in a home win over Liverpool on Matchday 2 and struck two more in a 3-1 victory over Bodø/Glimt before maintaining his upward trajectory with a hat-trick at Ajax on Matchday 4.
A trio of prolific forwards lead the chase with five goals: Kylian Mbappé, Harry Kane and Erling Haaland.
Watch Kylian Mbappé's five goals
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 to seal the first hat-trick of the 2025/26 Champions League proper.
Kane, meanwhile, has scored in three of Bayern's four wins so far, finding the net twice against both Chelsea and Pafos before also getting in on the act in a 4-0 defeat of Club Brugge.
See Harry Kane's five goals
Champions League all-time top scorers
Haaland started the season by becoming the fastest player to 50 goals in Champions League history and has not looked back since, scoring in each of Manchester City's three matches since – his latest a powerful finish against former club Borussia Dortmund.
Full top scorer list
Most assists in the 2025/26 Champions League
Bayern's Michael Olise currently leads the Champions League assists charts with a total of four. Marseille's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Liverpool's Dominik Szoboszlai are one behind on three, as is Manchester City midfielder Tijjani Reijnders after providing two assists against Dortmund.
4Michael Olise (Bayern München)
3Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Marseille)
3 Tijjani Reijnders (Manchester City)
3 Dominik Szoboszlai (Liverpool)
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)
Victor Osimhen (Ajax 0-3Galatasaray, 05/11/2025)
Champions League top scorers by season (group stage/league phase 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