UEFA Champions League Each Season’s Leading Goal Scorer – Since 1956
UEFA Champions League Each Season’s Leading Goal Scorer? Players with most Champions League goals? Who is the player with most goals in Champions League history? Who are the top goal scorers in Champions League History? Have you ever thought of finding out who is the Champions League all time leading goal scorer?
Which players have finished the top scorer at the end of each Champions League tournament? Well, if you don’t know then worry not because we have prepared a list of the Champions League Each seasons Leading goal scorer. Here we look at the UEFA Champions League Each Season’s Leading Goal Scorer.
Brief Information About The UCL
The Champions League is one of the most competitive competition is European football, which is consisted of the most power teams in Europe. The UEFA Champions League is the biggest football tournament in the world besides from the FIFA World Cup. The tournament is contested by European sides.
Champions League is the biggest rivalry in world football, in fact in the world of sports. The match draws over 500 million viewers around the world making one of the most watched football games in world. Apart from the World Cup final, it is the biggest game in world football.
Originally Champions League match matches which were held in the Spanish championship but nowadays it has been generalized to every single match between the two giants. The two clubs are among the richest and the most successful clubs in the world. In 2014, Forbes ranked the two the most valuable clubs in the world.
2018-19 season
This season has possibly been the best Champions League campaign in a a long long time.
For the first time in almost 10 years, Cristiano Ronaldo did not turn up for Real Madrid. There was the introduction of VAR. Then there was the promise of Lionel Messi who told Camp Nou he would bring back the Champions League to Catalonia.
Real Madrid, the three time defending champion on the trot looked like a toothless tiger without their talismanic Cristiano Ronaldo. They were knocked out by a young Ajax club full of heart. The Dutch club played some of the best football as they left the world awed by beating Real Madrid and Juventus.
On the other hand, Messi had 7 man of the matches in 8 attempts and had given Barcelona a 3-0 lead at Nou Camp against Liverpool before returning to Anfield to see his dreams crashed by a ruthless and determined Liverpool side who staged the mother of all comebacks.
Finally there was Tottenham Hotspur who stopped Ajax’ pure football with some great determination and heroic football and now they wait to play Liverpool in the final 3 weeks from today.
We must not also forget how Ole’s ruled out team came from 2-0 down at home to beat PSG 3-1 with a depleted side. What a season it has been.
So who is the leading goal scorer in this topsy turvy season? Read below to find out!
UEFA Champions League Past Golden Boot Winners! UEFA Champions League Each Season’s Leading Goal Scorer!
Here is the UEFA Champions League Each seasons top leading goal scorers since 1956-2018. Enjoy. ( Note * means goals scored so far).
UEFA Champions League Each Season’s Leading Goal Scorer since 2000-2018
| Season | Top scorer | Team | Goals | ||
| 2018/19 |  | Lionel Messi |  | FC Barcelona | 12 |
| 2017/2018 |  | Cristiano Ronaldo |  | Real Madrid | 15 |
| 2016/2017 | | Cristiano Ronaldo | | Real Madrid | 12 |
| 2015/2016 | | Cristiano Ronaldo | | Real Madrid | 16 |
| 2014/2015 |  | Neymar | | FC Barcelona | 10 |
| Lionel Messi | | FC Barcelona | 10 | |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | | Real Madrid | 10 | |
| 2013/2014 | | Cristiano Ronaldo | | Real Madrid | 17 |
| 2012/2013 | | Cristiano Ronaldo | | Real Madrid | 12 |
| 2011/2012 | | Lionel Messi | | FC Barcelona | 14 |
| 2010/2011 | | Lionel Messi | | FC Barcelona | 12 |
| 2009/2010 | | Lionel Messi | | FC Barcelona | 8 |
| 2008/2009 | | Lionel Messi | | FC Barcelona | 9 |
| 2007/2008 | | Cristiano Ronaldo |  | Manchester United | 8 |
| 2006/2007 | | Kaká |  | AC Milan | 10 |
| 2005/2006 |  | Andriy Shevchenko | | AC Milan | 9 |
| 2004/2005 |  | Ruud van Nistelrooy | | Manchester United | 8 |
| 2003/2004 |  | Morientes |  | AS Monaco | 9 |
| 2002/2003 | | Ruud van Nistelrooy | | Manchester United | 12 |
| 2001/2002 | | Ruud van Nistelrooy | | Manchester United | 10 |
| 2000/2001 | | Jardel |  | Galatasaray | 9 |
| Andriy Shevchenko | | AC Milan | 9 | |
| 1999/2000 | | Sergiy Rebrov |  | Dinamo Kiev | 10 |
| Rivaldo | | FC Barcelona | 10 | |
| Raúl | | Real Madrid | 10 | |
| Jardel |  | FC Porto | 10 | |
UEFA Champions League Each Season’s Leading Goal Scorer since 1955-1999
| Season | Top scorer | Team | Goals | ||
| 1998/1999 | | Andriy Shevchenko | | Dinamo Kiev | 10 |
| 1997/1998 |  | Alessandro Del Piero |  | Juventus | 10 |
| 1996/1997 |  | Milinko Pantić |  | Atlético Madrid | 5 |
| 1995/1996 |  | Jari Litmanen |  | AFC Ajax | 9 |
| 1994/1995 |  | George Weah |  | Paris Saint-Germain | 8 |
| 1993/1994 |  | Wynton Rufer |  | Werder Bremen | 8 |
| Ronald Koeman | | FC Barcelona | 8 | |
| 1992/1993 | | Romário |  | PSV Eindhoven | 7 |
| 1991/1992 |  | Sergei Yuran |  | SL Benfica | 7 |
 | Jean-Pierre Papin |  | Olympique Marseille | 7 | |
| 1990/1991 |  | Peter Pacult |  | FC Wacker Innsbruck | 6 |
| Jean-Pierre Papin | | Olympique Marseille | 6 | |
| 1989/1990 | | Romário | | PSV Eindhoven | 7 |
| Jean-Pierre Papin | | Olympique Marseille | 7 | |
| 1988/1989 | | Marco van Basten | | AC Milan | 9 |
| 1987/1988 | | Rui Águas | | SL Benfica | 4 |
 | Rabah Madjer |  | Valencia CF | 4 | |
| Michel | | Real Madrid | 4 | |
| Jean-Marc Ferreri |  | Girondins Bordeaux | 4 | |
 | Gheorghe Hagi |  | Steaua Bucureşti | 4 | |
 | Alistair McCoist |  | Rangers FC | 4 | |
| 1986/1987 |  | Boro Cvetkovic |  | Crvena Zvezda | 7 |
| 1985/1986 |  | Torbjörn Nilsson |  | IFK Göteborg | 7 |
| 1984/1985 | | Torbjörn Nilsson | | IFK Göteborg | 7 |
| Michel Platini | | Juventus | 7 | |
| 1983/1984 |  | Viktor Sokol |  | Dinamo Minsk | 6 |
| 1982/1983 | | Paolo Rossi | | Juventus | 6 |
| 1981/1982 |  | Dieter Hoeneß |  | Bayern München | 7 |
| 1980/1981 |  | Terry McDermott |  | Liverpool FC | 6 |
| Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | | Bayern München | 6 | |
| Graeme Souness | | Liverpool FC | 6 | |
| 1979/1980 |  | Sören Lerby | | AFC Ajax | 10 |
| 1978/1979 |  | Claudio Sulser |  | Grasshoppers Zürich | 11 |
| 1977/1978 | | Allan Simonsen |  | Bor. Mönchengladbach | 5 |
| 1976/1977 | | Gerd Müller | | Bayern München | 5 |
| Franco Cucinotta |  | FC Zürich | 5 | |
| 1975/1976 | | Jupp Heynckes | | Bor. Mönchengladbach | 6 |
| 1974/1975 | | Gerd Müller | | Bayern München | 5 |
 | Eduard Markarov |  | FC Ararat | 5 | |
| 1973/1974 | | Gerd Müller | | Bayern München | 8 |
| 1972/1973 | | Gerd Müller | | Bayern München | 12 |
| 1971/1972 | | Sylvester Takac |  | Standard Liège | 5 |
| Johan Cruyff | | AFC Ajax | 5 | |
 | Antal Dunai |  | Újpest FC | 5 | |
| 1970/1971 |  | Antonis Antoniadis |  | Panathinaikos | 10 |
| 1969/1970 | | Ove Kindvall |  | Feyenoord | 7 |
| Mick Jones |  | Leeds United | 7 | |
| 1968/1969 | | Dennis Law | | Manchester United | 9 |
| 1967/1968 | | Eusébio | | SL Benfica | 6 |
| 1966/1967 |  | Paul van Himst |  | RSC Anderlecht | 6 |
| 1965/1966 | | Florian Albert |  | Ferencvárosi TC | 7 |
| Eusébio | | SL Benfica | 7 | |
| 1964/1965 | | José Torres | | SL Benfica | 9 |
| Eusébio | | SL Benfica | 9 | |
| 1963/1964 | | Vladimir Kovacevic |  | Partizan | 7 |
| Sandro Mazzola |  | Inter | 7 | |
| Ferenc Puskas | | Real Madrid | 7 | |
| 1962/1963 | | Altafini | | AC Milan | 14 |
| 1961/1962 | | Heinz Strehl |  | 1. FC Nürnberg | 8 |
| 1960/1961 | | José Aguas | | SL Benfica | 11 |
| 1959/1960 | | Ferenc Puskas | | Real Madrid | 12 |
| 1958/1959 | | Just Fontaine |  | Stade Reims | 10 |
| 1957/1958 | | Alfrédo di Stefano | | Real Madrid | 10 |
| 1956/1957 | | Dennis Viollet | | Manchester United | 9 |
| 1955/1956 | | Milos Milutinovic | | Partizan | 8 |
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