The 10 players with the most goals and assists in Europe’s major leagues in 2024

Superstars from Liverpool, Manchester City, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea and Bayern Munich feature in the most dangerous attackers of 2024, while Kylian Mbappe is surprisingly nowhere to be found.

Goal contributions – combined goals and assists – are always a decent measure of how attack-minded players are performing, making this year’s list an interesting mix of the usual suspects and some surprise packages that might soon be on the move.

Here are the 10 players that have registered the most combined goals and assists across Europe’s five major leagues so far in the calendar year of 2024.

10. Erling Haaland – 29 (27 goals, 2 assists)

Only the man that tops this list has scored more league goals in 2024 than Manchester City’s one-man battering ram, but Haaland finds himself surprisingly low down in the top 10 thanks to his comparatively paltry return of assists.

In spite of City’s recent struggles, the Norwegian is well in the mix to claim a third successive Premier League Golden Boot. Only a certain Liverpool forward has scored more goals than Haaland, who has notched 14 goals in 19 games since the summer.

Haaland also only notched one assist in the title run-in last term, setting up Phil Foden to complete a hat-trick at Brentford back in February. His game is all about providing that finishing touch himself, which is some contrast to the time Pep Guardiola’s City won the title (2021-22) without a traditional centre-forward.

9. Jonathan David – 30 (25 goals, 5 assists)

Out of contract at the end of the season, you imagine this coming summer will surely be the time that Lille finally cash in on their star asset.

No player in Ligue 1 has notched more goal contributions this calendar year, and the Canada international might well be French football’s biggest star following the summer departure of Kylian Mbappe.

There’ll be no shortage of suitors chasing David’s signature, with Barcelona, Liverpool, Juventus and Manchester United said to be among the clubs interested.

8. Alexander Isak – 31 (25 goals, 6 assists)

Newcastle’s best forward since Alan Shearer?

The numbers certainly make that case.

7. Alexander Sorloth – 31 (25 goals, 6 assists)

Haaland’s compatriot surprisingly sits just above him for goal contributions this calendar year, having been a little more generous with his assist-giving.

The only player to represent two clubs in this top 10 is not Mbappe, but rather another La Liga hotshot who moved to Madrid in the summer.

He’s taken time to bring his scintillating Villarreal form to Atletico, but he’s up to eight league goals since his summer transfer and recently notched a vital last-minute winner away to Barcelona.

6. Vinicius Junior – 31 (19 goals, 12 assists)

Amid the discourse around Vinicius Junior’s failure to land the Ballon d’Or, his detractors pointed out that last season he notched fewer goal contributions than the likes of Crystal Palace’s Jean-Philippe Mateta.

But that was mostly because he only played around half of the available minutes for Real Madrid in 2023-24. When you look at this calendar year, when he’s been largely fit and firing, his output has been commensurate with his superstar status.

5. Omar Marmoush – 31 (16 goals, 12 assists)

Arguably the story of 2024-25 so far, Marmoush has been on fire for Eintracht Frankfurt so far this season.

He’s up there with a certain Egypt team-mate when it comes to goal contributions so far this season (13 goals; seven assists), time and again making himself decisive for a surprise package that currently sit third in the Bundesliga.

Marmoush’s respectable numbers in the latter half of last season (five goals, five assists) went a bit under the radar for a side that finished sixth. But scouts across Europe have surely sat up and taken notice since his numbers have gone stratospheric.

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4. Robert Lewandowski – 33 (27 goals, 6 assists)

Lewandowski has been a frequent fixture of these lists for well over a decade now, so seeing Poland’s all-time top goalscorer somewhere near the top ought to be no surprise.

Last season, as Barcelona went trophyless, some questioned whether their No.9 was past it. Those doubters have largely been silenced so far this season, with Hansi Flick once again getting the very best out of the 36-year-old.

He’s well in the mix for yet another European Golden Shoe in 2024-25 with 16 La Liga goals. Just over half of his goal contributions (16 goals, two assists) have come since Barca changed managers in the summer.

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3. Mohamed Salah – 39 (23 goals, 16 assists)

“Keep up this current form and you’d expect he’ll climb up a few more places in this top 10 come the end of the year,” we wrote last time this list was updated back in mid-November.

Even then we didn’t envisage Liverpool’s Egyptian King putting on the afterburners to move all the way up to third, just short of the top spot, come the end of the year.

But Salah was nothing short of outrageous in December, breaking the Premier League record for the most goals and assists in a single calendar month with 15 (eight goals, seven assists) from eight games. Unquestionably the best footballer in the world on current form.

2. Cole Palmer – 40 (26 goals, 14 assists)

It will be fascinating to see how Thomas Tuchel integrates Palmer as England prepare for the 2026 World Cup. The talent is off the scale.

Palmer has demonstrated that his astonishingly good debut season at Chelsea was no flash in the pan. He’s taking his game to new levels with 12 goals and six assists from just 19 outings in his second season at Stamford Bridge.

1. Harry Kane – 41 (29 goals, 12 assists)

Another Englishman, Kane enjoyed his greatest-ever goalscoring season last term as an otherwise lacklustre Bayern side toiled to an unthinkable third-place finish in the Bundesliga.

The current European Golden Shoe holder has shown no signs of slowing down since Tuchel was replaced by Vincent Kompany in the dugout.

He’s already notched 14 goals and five assists in just 13 Bundesliga appearances so far this season. Bayern look much more functional, and with Kane in this kind of form – surely, surely, silverware is on its way in 2025.