Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have dominated the Champions League top scorers list for years.
Ronaldo alone have topped the list seven times, while Messi have won it five times.
The Argentinian have won all the Champions League top scorer awards with Barcelona, while Ronaldo won it once with Manchester United and the rest with Real Madrid.
The Portuguese football legend, who is currently playing for Juventus, won the award for the first time in the 2007/8 season when he was still with the Red Devils.
The following year he was beaten by Messi, who continued to win it for four seasons.
But from 2012/13 to 2017/18 Ronaldo again dominated at the top of the list, and scored a record 17 goals in the 2013/14 season.
In fact, in total, Ronaldo is the all time top UEFA Champions League scorer with 127 goals in the tournament.
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Messi comes second with an impressive 112 caps for Barcelona in the tournament.
So far this season, however, Messi is yet to score a goal after five attempts in his 121 minutes on the pitch but has managed one assist.
His Portuguese rival has scored one goal after eight attempts and 180 minutes on the field.
The results so far leaves the two football legends far down the list of top scorers, but the Champions League has only just begun and it wouldn’t be surprising if they both topped the list at the end of the season once again.
Champions League 2019/20 top scorers so far
1. Serge Gnabry, Bayern Munich: 4 goals, 1 assists
2. Erling Haaland, RB Salzburg: 4 goals, 0 assists
3. Mislav Orsic, Dinamo Zagrec: 3 goals, 0 assists
4. Robert Lewandowski, Bayern Munich: 3 goals, 0 assists
5. Hwang Hee-Chan, RB Salzburg: 2 goals, 3 assists
6. Sardar Azmoun, Zenit St Petersburg: 2 goals, 0 assists
7. Emmanuel Bonaventure Dennis, Club Bruges: 2 goals, 0 assists
8. Memphis Depay, Lyon: 2 goals, 0 assists
9. Quincy Promes, Ajax: 2 goals, 0 assists
10. Ángel Di María, PSG: 2 goals, 0 assists
UEFA.com has listed all of Messi and Ronaldo’s UEFA Champions League goals since they first struck at this level – picking out some noteworthy stats amid the numbers:
- Ronaldo was the first to reach 100 goals with a single club, reaching the mark for Real Madrid on 14 February 2018; Messi completed his century, all for Barcelona, exactly a month later
- Messi has been on the losing side just three times when he has scored
- 2017/18 was the seventh season running that Ronaldo scored ten goals or more in the UEFA Champions League
- Ronaldo has netted twice or more on 35 different occasions
- Each has scored eight hat-tricks
- Ronaldo did not score until his 30th game in the competition
- Ronaldo is the first player to amass 50 knockout goals, and is now past 60
- Ronaldo is the only player to score in three UEFA Champions League finals
- Ronaldo is the only player to score in 11 consecutive appearances in the competition proper
- Ronaldo’s ten goals against his current club Juventus is more than anyone has scored against a single opponent
- Messi leads Ronaldo 66–62 in all-time group stage goals
- Ronaldo took 144 games to reach 100; Messi 123