2023/24 Europa League top scorer: Aubameyang
Thursday, May 9, 2024
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Marseille's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is the leading scorer in the 2023/24 UEFA Europa League ahead of Roma's Romelu Lukaku, Gianluca Scamacca of Atalanta and Brighton's João Pedro.
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Marseille's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang leads the goalscorer rankings for the 2023/24 UEFA Europa League ahead of Roma's Romelu Lukaku.
UEFA.com shines a spotlight on the competition's top marksmen and providers, as well as detailing the leading scorers by Europa League season.
Top scorers in this season's Europa League
Aubameyang struck ten in Marseille's run to the semi-finals, surpassing Radamel Falcao (30) as the 34-goal all-time Europa League leading scorer.
Lukaku is second having scored in seven for Roma, who also reached the last four, while Gianluca Scamacca has joined João Pedro on six goals after helping Atalanta seal their place in a first UEFA showpiece.
Victor Boniface and Patrik Schick are the highest scoring players from finalists Leverkusen on five goals apiece.
10 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Marseille)
7 Romelu Lukaku (Roma)
6 João Pedro (Brighton)
6 Gianluca Scamacca (Atalanta)
5 Victor Boniface (Leverkusen)
5 Michael Gregoritsch (Freiburg)
5 Viktor Gyökeres (Sporting CP)
5 Fotis Ioannidis (Panathinaikos)
5 Juninho (Qarabağ)
5 Mohammed Kudus (West Ham)
5 Darwin Núñez (Liverpool)
5 Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
5 Patrik Schick (Leverkusen)
Most assists in this season's Europa League
Marseille pair Jonathan Clauss and Amine Harit top the assist rankings. Leverkusen pair Alejandro Grimaldo and Florian Wirtz are the leading active players with five and four respectively.
6 Jonathan Clauss (Marseille)
6 Amine Harit (Marseille)
5 Kostas Fortounis (Olympiacos)
5Alejandro Grimaldo (Leverkusen)
5 Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma)
4 Jarrod Bowen (West Ham)
4 Harvey Elliott (Liverpool)
4 Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
4 James Ward-Prowse (West Ham)
4 Florian Wirtz (Leverkusen)
Most goals and assists combined in this season's Europa League
Aubameyang has been involved in 13 Europa League goals this season, moving clear of a congested field led by Mohamed Salah on nine. Lukaku is on eight along with Aubameyang's Marseille team-mate Clauss and Leverkusen's Florian Wirtz.
13 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Marseille)
9 Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
8 Jonathan Clauss (Marseille)
8 Romelu Lukaku (Roma)
8 Florian Wirtz (Leverkusen)
7 Victor Boniface (Leverkusen)
7Alejandro Grimaldo (Leverkusen)
7 Viktor Gyökeres (Sporting CP)
7 Amine Harit (Marseille)
How many Europa League hat-tricks have there been this season?
There have been four hat-tricks in the Europa League this season. Freiburg's Vincenzo Grifo scored the first against TSC on Matchday 3, with team-mate Michael Gregoritsch hitting the second inside the first 37 minutes of a 5-0 home win over Olympiacos on Matchday 5. Later the same night, Aubameyang notched three against Ajax for Marseille. Benjamin Bourigeaud has scored the only hat-trick of the knockout stages so far in 2023/24.
Vincenzo Grifo (TSC 1-3 Freiburg, 26/10/23)
Michael Gregoritsch (Freiburg 5-0 Olympiacos, 30/11/23)
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Marseille 4-3 Ajax, 30/11/23)
Benjamin Bourigeaud (Rennes 3-2 Milan, 22/02/24)
Before this term, there had been 77 trebles in the Europa League era at an average of about five 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 single campaign (2009/10, 2011/12, 2022/23). Radamel Falcao alone claimed three in 2010/11, an unmatched haul by a player in one campaign.
Europa League top scorers by season (group stage to final)
Radamel Falcao holds the record for most goals in a Europa League campaign, netting a remarkable 17 across 14 appearances for Porto in 2010/11. The Colombian was top scorer again the following season, this time in Atlético de Madrid colours. Just one other player has twice finished top scorer: Aritz Aduriz of Athletic Club in 2015/16 and 2017/18.
2022/23 Victor Boniface (Union SG), Marcus Rashford (Man United) – 6
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 Club) – 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