Who are Cristiano Ronaldo's favourite opponents?

Cristiano Ronaldo seems to enjoy scoring against any side, but do some teams have more to fear from him than others?

• With 137 goals in 15,793 minutes of UEFA club competition football, Cristiano Ronaldo scores at an average rate of a goal every 115 minutes and 17 seconds.

• Ronaldo has played against 55 teams in UEFA club competition, scoring against 36. As a Madrid player, he faced 32 sides in Europe, with only four stopping him from finding the net: Barcelona, Dinamo Zagreb, Legia Warszawa and Napoli.

Watch all Ronaldo's goals against Juventus

• Ronaldo has scored more UEFA club competition goals (ten) against Juventus, the club he joined in summer 2018, than any other side.

• Benfica are now the side that has gone the longest without conceding against Ronaldo (337 minutes) after he finally broke his duck against Barcelona in December 2020. Ronaldo had failed to score in 450 minutes against Barça in UEFA competition – 270 with United and 180 with the Merengues – before striking twice in Juve's 3-0 win at Camp Nou in his final group stage game of 2020.

• The opponents he has found it easiest to score against are Malmö, with his six goals across 180 UEFA Champions League minutes against the Swedish club constituting a strike every 30 minutes.

• The team Ronaldo has encountered most in Europe are Lyon, whom he has met 12 times – 1,064 minutes in total – scoring six goals.

Who has Ronaldo scored against in UEFA competitions?

• Of Europe's big five footballing nations, Ronaldo has found German club defences most porous, averaging over a goal a game – 28 strikes in 26 matches.

• He may be well advised to avoid a move to Scotland in the future: Ronaldo is yet to score in 352 minutes of UEFA club action against Scottish sides, by far the longest period that clubs from any country have been able to resist him.

Which nations' clubs has Ronaldo scored against?

When Ronaldo has scored his UEFA club competition goals

• The statistics strongly suggest that Ronaldo is at his goalscoring best in the opening phases of each half; he is relatively quiet in the latter phase of the first half.

• Ronaldo has scored 19 penalties in UEFA club competition but failed to find the target with three; two saved (vs Copenhagen, December 2013, and vs Ludogorets, October 2014) and one where he missed the target (vs Barcelona, April 2008).

Last updated: 23/03/21