The 10 players with the most goals & assists in Europe in 2024-25
Two Barcelona stars are alongside players from Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Bayern Munich when it comes to the most combined goals and assists in 2024-25 so far.
It takes something special to be able to create and finish, and there are an interesting mix of the usual suspects alongside some surprise names when you take a look at which players have notched the most direct goal contributions in Europe’s top five leagues – Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A and Ligue 1 – so far this season.
Without further ado, here are the 10 players who have registered the most combined goals and assists in Europe’s major leagues at this stage of the campaign.
Note: if two players are tied on goal contributions, we’ve ordered them by their ratio of goals and assists per minute. Erling Haaland, Lamine Yamal and Florian Wirtz have each produced 14 goal contributions but just miss out on cracking our top 10.
10. Alexander Isak – 14 (10 goals, 4 assists)
The Newcastle forward has leapt into the top 10 following his emphatic hat-trick against Ipswich Town over the weekend.
“He is a world-class talent and the way he took his goals today, he has got that coolness in front of goal, that composure that very few players have,” Eddie Howe told reporters after the Ipswich game.
“When you add his other qualities into the mix, how quick he is, how technically gifted he is, for me, he has got it all.”
9. Marcus Thuram – 14 (11 goals, 3 assists)
As Lautaro Martinez has struggled to match this output from last season, Thuram has taken over as Inter’s main goalscoring outlet.
The French forward has been directly involved in 35% of the league goals Inter have scored this season, with his latest goal coming in Inter’s 6-0 hammering of Lazio.
8. Bukayo Saka – 15 (5 goals, 10 assists)
Largely thanks to his pinpoint accuracy from set-pieces, Saka was the first player across all the major European leagues to reach double figures for assists.
However, following a hamstring injury that he recently sustained against Crystal Palace, Arsenal’s starboy could be set for a few weeks on the sidelines.
READ: Comparing Bukayo Saka’s Premier League stats to Rooney, Ronaldo, Owen & Fabregas at the age of 23
7. Mateo Retegui – 15 (12 goals, 3 assists)
If we’d told you that only one summer signing would feature in this top 10, you might’ve guessed Kylian Mbappe. Nope – Atalanta’s Retegui is outperforming Real Madrid’s latest Galactico to lay a claim as the signing of the summer.
Atalanta have done superbly well to replace injured star striker Gianluca Scamacca, who suffered a serious ACL injury on the eve of the campaign.
Retegui might just be the most in-form player in Serie A right now. Music to the ears of Italy fans everywhere – might the Argentina-born Boca Juniors academy graduate be the man to fire the Azzurri to their first World Cup since 2014?
6. Raphinha – 17 (11 goals, 6 assists)
The former Leeds United winger won the La Liga title in his debut season with Barcelona, and had more than his fair share of decent moments, but it would be fair to say that he’s never entirely convinced in Catalonia.
That’s all changed in the early months of the 2024-25 campaign, in which the Brazilian has stepped things up another level under Hansi Flick. He deservedly picked up La Liga’s Player of the Month for August, notched his first career hat-trick against Real Valladolid, and shows no signs of slowing down with another hat-trick against Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
Raphinha is producing the best football of his career right now.
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5. Cole Palmer – 17 (11 goals, 6 assists)
Only Kylian Mbappe and Harry Kane notched more combined goals and assists than Palmer last season. The 22-year-old has picked up where he’s left off, continuing to dazzle for a young Chelsea side that are finally starting to piece things together with Palmer their undisputed star.
He set up each of Noni Madueke’s hat-trick goals and scored the pick of the bunch himself in the Blues’ 6-2 mauling of Wolves before once again assisting Nicolas Jackson against Crystal Palace. But it was his four-star performance against Brighton and his eye-catching game against Spurs that had pundits questioning whether he might genuinely be the best footballer in England right now.
Good job Chelsea have got him tied down to 2057.
4. Robert Lewandowski – 18 (16 goals, 2 assists)
We’re seeing a whole host of new and exciting names in this top 10, but Lewandowski very much belongs to the old guard.
The second Barcelona player to feature here, they might be a serious force if they can keep Lewandowski, Yamal and Raphinha fit and firing like this throughout the whole campaign.
Flick has a proven track record of getting the best out of the veteran Polish striker. The 36-year-old has notched 16 goals and two assists so far in 18 La Liga appearances in 2024-25.
3. Omar Marmoush – 20 (13 goals, 7 assists)
You’re looking at 2024-25’s breakout star. The 25-year-old has 13 goals and seven assists in just 15 Bundesliga appearances, averaging a direct goal contribution in the Bundesliga every 63.9 minutes.
Earlier in the campaign he made scouts across Europe sit up and take notice when scored twice and set up another in Eintracht’s recent 3-3 draw with table-toppers Bayern, and he’s maintained that blistering form ever since.
2. Harry Kane – 20 (14 goals, 6 assists)
The England captain might not have lifted a trophy last term but his numbers in his debut season with Bayern Munich were off the scale, and so far in 2024-25 he’s somehow on track to better them.
Surely he’ll get his hands on some silverware this season with that sort of output.
1. Mohamed Salah – 26 (15 goals, 11 assists)
You ought to be used to this cycle by now. Salah looking sluggish after returning from AFCON, only to make his doubters look incredibly daft by starting the following season like a house on fire.
Liverpool’s Egyptian King has been among the Premier League’s standout players at this early stage. He’s been directly involved in 26 of the 37 goals that Arne Slot’s Reds have scored so far, scoring 15 and assisting 11.
Following his four-goal contributions against Tottenham, Salah became the first player in Premier League history to register 10+ goals and assists before Christmas.
He’s going to break all sorts of records this season, isn’t he?