UEFA BEST GOAL SCORER OF XXI CENTURY

• Jan 28, 2024
• History Statistics

The UEFA Best Goal Scorer of XXI Century: Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo leads the ranking of best European scorers in XXI century after 2023 with 873 goals.
In total, 31 representatives of the UEFA countries have reached 50 top-level goals in this century (active are highlighted in bold).
11 other players are below 300 goals in XXI but reached this amount adding the goals from XX century having still scored a significant majority (not less than 65 percent) of their goals in XXI (so they can be conditionally categorized as the “goal-scorers of XXI century”). They are also listed in the table but not ranked.

	BEST GOAL-SCORERS	UEFA
	IN XXI CENTURY	2001-2023
	Player	Nationality	NL	NC	ICC	NT	Total	Total	Total
							XXI	XX	Career
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	532	52	161	128	873		873
2	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	375	53	102	82	612		612
3	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	393	46	57	62	558	3	561
4	Karim Benzema	France	290	44	101	37	472		472
5	Edin Džeko	Bosnia and Herzegovina	254	33	58	65	410		410
6	Eran Zahavi	Israel	269	44	47	34	394		394
7	David Villa	Spain	280	18	28	59	385		385
8	Klaas-Jan Huntelaar	Netherlands	257	28	55	42	382		382
9	Romelu Lukaku	Belgium	219	25	49	83	376		376
10	Harry Kane	England	234	24	49	62	369		369
11	Wayne Rooney	England	231	31	45	53	360		360
12	Dejan Damjanović	Montenegro	268	39	43	8	358		358
13	Bafétimbi Gomis	France	262	37	48	3	350		350
14	Robbie Keane	Republic of Ireland	224	34	23	61	342	27	369
15	André-Pierre Gignac	France	280	18	32	7	337		337
16	Thierry Henry	France	232	15	42	43	332	79	411
17	Nemanja Nikolić	Hungary	239	67	14	8	328		328
18	Robin van Persie	Netherlands	204	39	29	50	322		322
19	Marcus Berg	Sweden	230	29	39	24	322		322
20	Rhys Griffiths	Wales	272	44	4		320		320
21	Mario Gómez	Germany	205	30	42	31	308		308
22	Kylian Mbappé	France	182	35	43	46	306		306
23	Martin Kamburov	Bulgaria	287	18	1		306	2	308
	Marc Lloyd Williams	Wales	236	39			275	90	365
	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Netherlands	159	28	62	34	283	81	364
	Maksim Gruznov	Estonia	199	26	3		228	109	337
	Dimitar Berbatov	Bulgaria	181	29	27	46	283	42	325
	Roy Makaay	Netherlands	168	23	27	6	224	97	321
	Dirk Kuyt	Netherlands	213	26	29	24	292	27	319
	Alessandro Del Piero	Italy	152	20	25	13	210	109	319
	Francesco Totti	Italy	201	13	30	5	249	67	316
	Alexander Frei	Switzerland	191	19	30	42	282	25	307
	Miroslav Klose	Germany	169	25	29	71	294	8	302
	Frank Lampard	England	173	42	25	29	269	32	301

NL – National League
NC – National Cups
ICC – International Club Competitions
NT – National Team

Tie-breaker: more international goals (ICC + NT).
Period:
from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2023 (for the ranking Total XXI);
from career start to December 31, 2023 (for the ranking Total Career).