IFFHS STATISTICS - BEST ONE SEASON GOAL SCORERS IN MAJOR EUROPEAN COMPETITIONS


Picture : Radamel Falco scored 18 goals with FC Porto !


Benzema: third best one-season scorer in Champions League

Karim Benzema has scored 15 goals in the current Champions League campaign. It is 3rd best seasonal performance in the history of competition including European Cup period (since 1955).
The French striker concedes only to Cristiano Ronaldo who managed to score 17 and 16 goals in a season, both during his great spell in Real Madrid. In the final game vs Liverpool, Benzema has a chance to equal or maybe even beat the CR7 record.
Below, we publish the ranking of players to score most goals in a season taking in consideration all major European club competitions. Radamel Falcao leads it with 18 goals for Porto in Europa League 2010-11 campaign; 1 of them in qualifying stage (QS) and 17 in main stage (MS) of the tournament.
Excluding qualification, Falcao shares the record with Cristiano Ronaldo (17 goals for both).  


 BEST ONE-SEASONSCORERS      
 IN MAJOR EUROPEANCLUBCOMPETITIONS     
         
 PlayerSeasonNationalityClubGoalsQSMSTournament
         
1Radamel Falcao 2010-11ColombiaPorto (Portugal)18117Europa League 
2Cristiano Ronaldo2013-14PortugalReal Madrid (Spain)17 17Champions League 
3Cristiano Ronaldo2015-16PortugalReal Madrid (Spain)16 16Champions League 
4Jürgen Klinsmann1995-96GermanyBayern15 15UEFA Cup
 Cristiano Ronaldo2017-18PortugalReal Madrid (Spain)15 15Champions League 
 Robert Lewandowski2019-20PolandBayern (Germany)15 15Champions League 
 Karim Benzema2021-22FranceReal Madrid (Spain)15 15Champions League 
8José Altafini1962-63ItalyMilan14 14European Cup
 Lothar Emmerich1965-66GermanyBorussia Dortmund14 14Cup Winners’ Cup
 Ruud Geels1975-76NetherlandsAjax14 14UEFA Cup
 John Wark1980-81Scotland Ipswich (England)14 14UEFA Cup
 Lionel Messi2011-12ArgentinaBarcelona (Spain)14 14Champions League 
13Alfredo Morelos 2019-20ColombiaRangers (Scotland)1486Europa League