Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United player, tops the list of the best scorers of the European Champions League throughout history, before the start of the new football season 2022-2023 of the continental competition.
Ronaldo scored 140 goals in the Champions League, to top the list of historical scorers, surpassing his Argentine rival, Lionel Messi, the runner-up, with 125 goals.
Portuguese star Ronaldo is absent from participating in the new version of the Champions League, after his Manchester United team failed to qualify for the tournament.
The competitions for the new version of the European Champions League will start on Tuesday evening, with Chelsea’s confrontations with Dinamo Zagreb of Croatia, and Borussia Dortmund with Copenhagen of Denmark.
The list of the top 10 scorers in the history of the Champions League is as follows:
1- Cristiano Ronaldo: 140 goals
2- Lionel Messi: 125 goals
3- Robert Lewandowski: 86 goals
4- Karim Benzema: 86 goals
5- Raul Gonzalez: 71 goals
6- Ruud van Nistelrooy: 56 goals
7- Thomas Muller: 52 goals
8- Zlatan Ibrahimovic: 48 goals
9- Andrey Shevchenko: 48 goals
10. Filippo Inzaghi: 46 goals