Where Mo Salah sits in the all-time UCL top scorers and the four former Liverpool stars who join him in top 50

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Although Liverpool have a rich history in European competition, they have not often troubled the top scorers in the UEFA Champions League.

The Reds have won UEFA’s top club trophy six times to date, but only twice since the tournament’s rebrand from the European Cup to the Champions League in 1992.

As a result with the history books also reset in 1992, Liverpool players have had to watch as those from the likes of Real Madrid and FC Barcelona gobble up places in the all-time goals list.

However, that was all before Mohamed Salah arrived at Liverpool in 2017 and scored numerous goals in the Champions League.

With Liverpool featuring in the Champions League during seven of Salah’s eight seasons at Anfield, there have been plenty of chances to score plenty of goals.

And after the Egyptian notched the opener in the Reds’ 2-1 win over Lille, Salah became the first player in Liverpool history to hit 50 goals in European competitions. But where does he rank on the all-time goal-scoring charts for Europe’s premier club tournament?

Mohamed Salah is the joint-ninth Champions League top goalscorer

Salah has been a ridiculously consistent goalscorer for Liverpool in every competition he’s played in.

And the Champions League has often been where the winger has done some of his best work, with Salah’s record of 11 goals in 2017/18 still remembered as something truly special.

Since then, the Reds’ Egyptian King has found the back of the net 34 more times for Liverpool, and Salah previously scored five Champions League goals for FC Basel and one for AS Roma.

That puts him on 51 goals overall and before the penultimate round of league phase games in 2024/25, placing Salah level with Thierry Henry in ninth in the all-time Champions League top goalscorer charts.

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However, Kylian Mbappe’s goal for Real Madrid against RB Salzburg drew the Frenchman level with Salah on 51, meaning he, Henry and Mbappe have a three-way tie for ninth. What an attack that would be!

Salah’s next target is Bayern legend Thomas Muller, with his tally of 55 feeling doable for the Egyptian in the 2024/25 season after Liverpool breezed through the league phase of the Champions League.

Five Liverpool players are in the top 50 Champions League goalscorers

Although Salah is by far and away the top Champions League goalscorer for Liverpool, there are four more former Reds who sneak into the top 50 scorers.

It’s quite a way to go below Mo, but Luis Suarez is in joint 33rd place having scored 31 goals for Ajax, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid. Unfortunately, Suarez never even played a Champions League game for Liverpool.

Steven Gerrard certainly did, and the legendary former Reds captain sits just below Suarez having scored 30 goals in the Champions League – all of which came with Liverpool.

Sadio Mane is next up with Salah’s former strike partner blitzing 24 goals in 57 Champions League games for Liverpool. His three in nine appearances for Bayern Munich put the Senegalese winger on 27 goals and in joint 47th place.

Joining Mane on 27 Champions League goals is former Liverpool academy winger, Raheem Sterling. The long-time England international didn’t find the net in six outings for the Reds, but did manage 24 for Manchester City and three for Chelsea in the UEFA tournament.