Alessia Russo of Arsenal has moved three goals clear in the race to finish as the 2025/26 UEFA Women's Champions League top scorer after increasing her tally to eight, putting her ahead of Wolfsburg's Lineth Beerensteyn, Bayern München's Pernille Harder, Roma's Evelyne Viens and Real Madrid's Caroline Weir.
Top scorer standings
2025/26 Women's Champions League top scorers (league phase onwards)
8 Alessia Russo (Arsenal)
5 Lineth Beerensteyn (Wolfsburg)
5 Pernille Harder (Bayern München)
5 Evelyne Viens (Roma)
5 Caroline Weir (Real Madrid)
4 Melchie Dumornay (OL Lyonnes)
4 Fiamma (Atlético de Madrid)
4 Ewa Pajor (Barcelona)
Women's Champions League top scorer: Watch Caroline Weir goals
Russo started the season with goals on the opening matchdays against OL Lyonnes and Benfica, and she added two more in a 2-1 comeback win against Madrid. The England forward then came off the bench to strike in Arsenal's knockout phase play-off opener at OH Leuven, and got two more a week later to match her 2024/25 competition tally of seven. Her eighth came as she scored the Gunners' third in a 3-1 quarter-final first-leg triumph over Chelsea.
Harder and Viens led after the league phase, though with Harder's Bayern automatically through to the quarter-finals and Viens' Roma eliminated, that gave other players to chance to catch them.
And while Russo surged ahead thanks to her play-off efforts against Leuven, Weir boosted her own haul in Madrid's tie against Paris FC. Beerensteyn scored the first goal of the quarter-finals in Wolfsburg's 1-0 win over OL Lyonnes to join those on five.
Most assists in the 2025/26 Women's Champions League (league phase onwards)
8 Klara Bühl (Bayern München)
4 Linda Caicedo (Real Madrid)
4 Beth Mead (Arsenal)
4 Alexia Putellas (Barcelona)
3 Fiamma (Atlético de Madrid)
3 Caitlin Foord (Arsenal)
3 Chloe Kelly (Arsenal)
3 Melvine Malard (Manchester United)
3 Eva Navarro (Real Madrid)
3 Johanna Rytting Kaneryd (Chelsea)
3 Svenja Huth (Wolfsburg)
Women's Champions League top scorer: Watch Evelyne Viens goals
Most goals and assists combined in the 2025/26 Women's Champions League (league phase onwards)
10 Alessia Russo (Arsenal)
9 Klara Bühl (Bayern München)
7 Beth Mead (Arsenal)
7 Fiamma (Atlético de Madrid)7 Alexia Putellas (Barcelona)
7 Caroline Weir (Real Madrid)
Women's Champions League top scorers by season
2024/25: Clàudia Pina (Barcelona) 10
2023/24: Kadidiatou Diani (Lyon) 8
2022/23: Ewa Pajor (Wolfsburg) 9
2021/22: Alexia Putellas (Barcelona) 11
*group stage/league phase to final