ALL TIME TOP GOAL SCORERS IN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE HISTORY

Above are the players who have scored goals after 1992, when new Champions League formate was introduced, while if we look at the all time top goal scorers we only have a couple of past legends appearing in the list with Di Stefano and Eusebo of Portugal.

update (29th April 2014)

No	Player	Goals	APP	Ratio
1	Raul	73	142
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	68	102
3	Lionel Messi	66	85
4	Ruud V Nistelrooy	56	73
5	Thierry Henry	50	111
6	Alfredo De Stefano	49	58
7	Andriye Shevchenko	48	100
8	Eusebio	46	65
9	Flippo Inzaghi	46	81
10	Zlatan Ibrahimović	42	103
11	Alsandro Del Piero	42	89
12	Didier Drogba	42	79
13	Ferenc Puskás	36	41
14	Karim Benzema	36	60
15	Gerd Müller	35	35
16	Fernando Morientes	33	93
17	Samuel Eto’o	31	74
18	Francisco Gento	30	89
19	Kaká	30	85
20	David Trezeguet	29	59
21	Roy Makaay	29	61
22	Patrick Kluivert	29	71
23	Jean-Pierre Papin	29	37
24	Wayne Rooney	29	72
25	Ryan Giggs	28	134

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Over the years Champions League have graced some of the big forwards in the world, with the likes of legendry players like Ronaldo, Raul, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Theirry Henry, Alsendro Del Piero, Andrie Shevchenko and Flipo Inzaghi are the most familiar European face in the last decade or so, but in the last 3-4 years two players have totaly dominated the world football and Champions League alike, With Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi we have two players who have been breaking record and setting the bar high year and year out, so we decided to look back at the top Champions League goal scorers of all times here is the list.

Raul Goals 71 – Matches 144 – Ratio 0.49

Lionel Messi Goals 59 – Matches 78 – Ratio 0.76

R. Van Nistelrooy Goals 56 – Matches 88 – Ratio 0.64

Theirry Henry Goals 50 – Matches 114 – Ratio 0.45

Cristiano Ronaldo Goals 50 – Matches 95 – Ratio 0.53

Andriye Shevchenko Goals 48 – Matches 116 – Ratio 0.41

Flippo Inzazghi Goals 46 – Matches 85 – Ratio 0.54

A. Del Piero Goals 42 – Matches 92 – Ratio 0.46

UEFA CHampions League football is the ultimate stage for any player to perform year and year out, on some of the European Nights we have seen some of the magnificent football ever played in Europe with all the super heavyweights clubs playing on top of their game, and this one trophy the Champions League is every big club’s main objective at the start of every season.