#UCL campaign the most goal-filled ever
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
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Eleven goals in the semi-finals have taken this season's UEFA Champions League goal tally to 375, confirming it as the first to average three per games the competition's 1992/93 launch.
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Eleven goal sin the semi-finals took this season's UEFA Champions League goal tally to 375 – ensuring the 2016/17 campaign will end as the most prolific of the 25 to date regardless of if anyone scores in Cardiff on 3 June.
With 375 goals scored in the 124 matches since the group stage started mean the amount per game will end up as the highest ever and will average three for the first time. The previous record was 2.94 a game in 2012/13, 368 goals in 125 matches. The best goals total was 449 in 2000/01, but a second group stage meant that 157 matches were played in those days as opposed to 125 now.
The last occurrence of an average of more than three per game in the leading European club competition was in the last all-knockout European Champion Clubs' Cup season of 1990/91, when 190 goals were registered in 59 matches.
Here are the key goalscoring numbers – for more consult the UEFA Champions League stats handbook.
UEFA Champions League goals records at a glance (group stage to final only)
- Current season: 375 goals in 124 games, average 3.02
- Highest previous average: 2012/13 – 368 goals in 125 games, average 2.94
- Highest tally: 2000/01 – 449 goals in 157 games, average 2.86
- Most goals by one player in a season: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid), 17 in 2012/13
- Most goals by one club in a season: Barcelona 45 (16 games) in 1999/2000
- Most goals in current format by a club: Real Madrid 41 (13 games) in 2013/14
UEFA Champions League goal records set this season
- Highest-scoring game: 12 goals, Borussia Dortmund 8-4 Legia Warszawa
- Joint most goals in a single game by one team and most goals scored by a losing team: Borussia Dortmund 8-4 Legia Warszawa
- Group with most goals: 51, Group F (first to have more than 50)
- Most goals scored by a club in the group stage: Borussia Dortmund 21
- Most goals involving one team in the group stage: Legia Warszawa 33 (9-24)
- First player to 100 career UEFA Champions League goals: Cristiano Ronaldo
- Most UEFA Champions League career hat-tricks: Ronaldo has joined Lionel Messi on seven
- Joint most goals in a first half: 7 (5-2), Borussia Dortmund 8-4 Legia Warszawa
