Champions League top goal scorers 2022/23: Updated golden boot rankings as Erling Haaland leads

It's Erling Haaland alone atop the 2022/23 UEFA Champions League scoring chart with 12 goals as he heads into the semifinals.

Haaland is chasing the single-season Champions League record (17 goals in 2013/14 by Cristiano Ronaldo), but he only has a maximum of three games to do it.

He previously won the Champions League Golden Boot in 2020/21 when he topped the ranking with 10 goals. He has surpassed that total and then some during this campaign to set a career high for a single season.

He's followed by Liverpool's Mohamed Salah on eight goals, but the Egypt international is out of the competition after elimination in the Round of 16. With Kylian Mbappe and PSG also ousted from the competition, the only big threat to Haaland is Real Madrid's Vinicius Jr., who scored in the first leg against Man City.

The table below is updated after each round of matches beginning with the group stage. Assists are used as the first tiebreaker, and the second tiebreaker is fewest minutes played. Both are in line with the top scorer tiebreakers that European governing body UEFA implemented for the European Championships.

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Champions League Top Scorers 2022/23

Updated as of May 9, 2023
*Eliminated

• 3 goals: 15 players
• 2 goals: 48 players
• 1 goal: 100 players
• Own goals: 8 players

There have been 355 goals scored in the 2022/23 Champions League, including eight own goals

• Dinamo Zagreb (1): Robert Ljubicic
• FC Copenhagen (1): Davit Khocholava
• Inter Milan (1): Danilo D'Ambrosio
• Maccabi Haifa (1): Sean Goldberg
• Porto (1): Ivan Marcano 
• PSG (1): Danilo
• Shakhtar Donetsk (2): Artem Bondarenko, Valeriy Bondar

Champions League Golden Boot 2021/22

The 2021-22 Champions League scoring crown was claimed by Karim Benzema. He didn't score in the final against Liverpool, but he did enough damage in the earlier knockout rounds to finish on 15 goals, two better than Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski, but short of Cristiano Ronaldo's single-season record of 17 (2013/14).

Benzema, who also won the scoring race in La Liga with 27 goals, had a magical season in the Champions League, willing Real Madrid into the final with his goals. His three goals against Man City in the semis were critical, and in the quarterfinals Benzema silenced Chelsea's home crowd with three goals in the first leg, and then he also scored the decisive blow in extra time of the second leg.

• 3 goals: 20 players
• 2 goals: 30 players
• 1 goal: 111 players

NOTE: There were nine own goals among the total of 380 scored in the tournament.

Champions League Top Scorers (since 1992-93)

Here are the top scorers for each UEFA Champions League tournament since the new format was adopted in 1992-93.

No surprise as to who the players are who have topped the list on most occasions: Cristiano Ronaldo has led the charts seven times, and Messi six. Their dominant run has happened in the past 15 editions of the Champions League, though neither has claimed the honor in the past three campaigns.