Europa League top scorers: Rashford tops 2022/23 rankings
Sunday, March 26, 2023
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Manchester United's Marcus Rashford stands alone at the top of the list of the top scorers in the 2022/23 UEFA Europa League with six goals.
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Manchester United's Marcus Rashford has gone clear in his own right at the top of the 2022/23 UEFA Europa League goalscorers rankings, taking his total to six in the round of 16 deciders.
UEFA.com shines a spotlight on the competition's top goalscorers and providers, as well as detailing the leading scorers by Europa League season.
Top scorers in this season's Europa League
Rashford scored the only goal in United's 1-0 win at Real Betis in the round of 16 second leg to take his total to six for the season, while Feyenoord's Santiago Gimenez registered in his side's 7-1 win against Shakhtar Donetsk to join Union Saint-Gilloise's Victor Boniface in joint second place in the list.
6 Marcus Rashford (Man United)
5 Victor Boniface (Union Saint-Gilloise)
5 Santiago Gimenez (Feyenoord)
4 Vitinha (Braga)
4 Wissam Ben Yedder (Monaco)
4 Robin Knocke (Union Berlin)
4 Ángel Di María (Juventus)
Players level on goals scored are ordered first on assists then on fewest minutes played.
Most assists in this season's Europa League
Former Brazil U17 player Evander has the most assists in the 2022/23 Europa League, teeing up five of Midtjylland's 12 group stage goals (he also scored another).
5 Evander (Midtjylland)
4 Anastasios Bakasetas (Trabzonspor)
3 Simon Adingra (Union Saint-Gilloise)
3 Ludovic Blas (Nantes)
3 Bruno Fernandes (Man United)
3 Cody Gakpo (PSV)
3 Amine Gouiri (Rennes)
3 Loïc Lapoussin (Union Saint-Gilloise)
3 Juan Miranda (Real Betis)
3 Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma)
3 Diego Rossi (Fenerbahçe)
Most goals and assists combined in this season's Europa League
Rashford (six goals, one assist) and Boniface (five goals, two assists) have now drawn level with Trabzonspor's Greek playmaker Anastasios Bakasetas, who scored three goals and set up four more before his side were eliminated from the 2022/23 Europa League.
7 Anastasios Bakasetas (Trabzonspor)
7 Victor Boniface (Union Saint-Gilloise)
7 Marcus Rashford (Man United)
6 Ludovic Blas (Nantes)
6 Evander (Midtjylland)
6 Cody Gakpo (PSV)
6 Luca Pellegrini (Roma)
5 Orkan Kökçü (Feyenoord)
5 Robin Knoche (Union Berlin)
5 Wissam Ben Yedder (Monaco)
5 Amine Gouri (Rennes)
5 Oussama Idrissi (Feyenoord)
5 Gustav Isaksen (Midtjylland)
5 Rick (Ludogorets)
5 Teddy Teuma (Union Saint-Gilloise)
5 Vitinha (Braga)
How many Europa League hat-tricks have there been this season?
There have been three Europa League hat-tricks so far in 2022/23. Before this term there had been 74 hat-tricks in the Europa League era at an average of 5.7 per season. The record for hat-tricks in one season stands at 12, set in 2014/15. There have never been fewer than three hat-tricks in a Europa League season (2009/10, 2011/12). Radamel Falcao alone scored three in 2010/11, an unmatched haul by a player in one campaign.
Vitinha (Union Saint-Gilloise 3-3 Braga)
Kevin Volland (Monaco 4-1 Crvena zvezda)
Ángel Di María (Nantes 0-3 Juventus)
Europa League top scorers by season (group stage to final)
Radamel Falcao holds the record for most goals in a Europa League campaign, scoring a remarkable 17 across 14 appearances for Porto in 2010/11. The Colombian was top scorer again the following season, this time in the colours of Atlético de Madrid. Only one other player has twice finished top scorer: Aritz Aduriz of Athletic Club in 2015/16 and 2017/18.
2021/22 James Tavernier (Rangers) – 7
2020/21 Gerard Moreno (Villarreal), Pizzi (Benfica), Borja Mayoral (Roma), Yusuf Yazıcı (LOSC Lille) – 7
2019/20 Bruno Fernandes (Sporting CP/Man United) – 8
2018/19 Olivier Giroud (Chelsea) – 11
2017/18 Ciro Immobile (Lazio), Aritz Aduriz (Athletic) – 8
2016/17 Edin Džeko (Roma), Giuliano (Zenit) – 8
2015/16 Aritz Aduriz (Athletic Club) – 10
2014/15 Alan (Salzburg), Romelu Lukaku (Everton) – 8
2013/14 Jonathan Soriano (Salzburg) – 8
2012/13 Libor Kozák (Lazio) – 8
2011/12 Radamel Falcao (Atlético de Madrid) – 12
2010/11 Radamel Falcao (Porto) – 17
2009/10 Óscar Cardozo (Benfica), Claudio Pizarro (Werder Bremen) – 9
