Raphinha & Yamal absolutely off the charts for most goals + assists in Europe in 2026-27
Superstar names from Barcelona, Real Madrid and Chelsea feature prominently among Europe’s leading goal contributors at this early stage of the 2026-27 campaign.
The usual elite names are joined by a few surprise packages when you look at combined goals and assists across the Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A and Ligue 1.
Here are the 10 players leading the way. Note: Where players are tied on total goals and assists, we’ve ordered them in order of the superior goal contribution per minute ratio.
10. Fermin Lopez – 6 (4 goals, 2 assists)
Another La Masia graduate, Fermin has kicked off the campaign with the bit between his teeth after the disappointment of being sidelined for Spain’s World Cup triumph.
He’s already looks like one of the best attacking midfielders in world football, but recent evidence suggests he might just be taking a step forward to become a bona fide star.
9. Yassir Zabiri – 6 (6 goals, 0 assists)
The 21-year-old Morocco international announced himself as one to watch with a hat-trick for newly-promoted Racing Santander in a 3-2 win over Elche last month.
He’s since added further goals against Alaves and Barcelona, although his club are struggling at the bottom end of the table, shipping goals at a rate of knots, and he’s picked up bookings in each of his last four outings.
8. Joao Pedro – 6 (3 goals, 3 assists)
The only Premier League player in this list, Pedro has scored and assisted in three of his four appearances so far.
He drew a blank against Arsenal, and Chelsea’s defensive record raises all kinds of questions, but the Brazilian striker looks to be establishing a great understanding with Morgan Rogers and Cole Palmer.
Is the Blues’ long-running No.9 nightmare finally over?
7. Mariano Diaz – 6 (3 goals, 3 assists)
The most unlikely comeback story of 2026.
We’ve not even reached the first international break of the season and the one-time Real Madrid flop has already bettered his tally for league goals and assists for the past seven seasons.
That’s not each of the past seven seasons. That’s the last seven seasons combined. He managed just three goals and one assist between 2019 and 2026.
Who saw this coming from the Alaves man? A good chance that we’re seeing a regression to the mean now, after he’s drawn a blank in each of his last three outings.
6. Donyell Malen – 6 (6 goals, 0 assists)
Like Yamal and Fernandez, former Aston Villa forward Malen also has six goals and zero assists.
But he’s managed that with considerably fewer minutes, averaging a goal every 42(!) minutes for the Serie A table-toppers.
The Netherlands international has 21 goals in just 25 appearances for the Giallorossi since arriving in January. An outrageous return.
5. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang – 7 (5 goals, 2 assists)
Another unlikely comeback story.
We say unlikely, but Auba has consistently scored goals pretty much everywhere he’s been (apart from Chelsea).
Still, we didn’t expect to see the 37-year-old, who shipped off to the Saudi Pro League wilderness two years ago, scoring at this rate.
The first player to score in the first five matches of a La Liga season since Zlatan Ibrahimovic in 2009.
4. Sergio Camello – 8 (7 goals, 1 assist)
There must be something in the water in La Liga this season. Eight of this top 10 play their football in Spain.
Everyone’s favourite Letterboxd reviewer of arthouse cinema, Rayo Vallecano attacker Camello has never had a particularly impressive record, but he’s suddenly burst into life.
This is his fifth season with Rayo and he’s already matched his best-ever tally for league goals.
3. Kylian Mbappe – 9 (7 goals, 2 assists)
“I always think I’m the best [player in the world] but everyone has their own opinion,” Mbappe recently stated, lodging his campaign for this year’s Ballon d’Or.
His self-confidence is backed up by his numbers, to be fair.
Mbappe scored his seventh goal of the season – no player in Europe has more – in Real Madrid’s 3-2 victory over Elche, before assisting Carlos Espi’s injury-time match-winner.
2. Lamine Yamal – 11 (7 goals, 4 assists)
The teenage prodigy has been as much of a creator as a finisher at this fledgling stage of his career, having notched an almost perfectly symmetrical ratio of 56 goals and 54 assists for his boyhood club Barcelona.
Curiously, for whatever reason, his exploits have shifted towards the goalscoring side of things at the start of the new season. He’s scored seven goals in La Liga, and notched his first two assists of the campaign in Barca’s 7-2 mauling of Racing Santander, adding another two as they kept up their 100% start against Sevilla.
This season might just be where he goes truly stratospheric. The signs are impossible to ignore.
1. Raphinha – 15 (12 goals, 3 assists)
Barcelona waved goodbye to Robert Lewandowski and Ferran Torres in the summer and failed to land top target Julian Alvarez as a replacement.
But the early evidence is that things might work out alright in the end for Barca, with Raphinha thriving in his new role as their main striker. He already has an excellent understanding with Yamal, while summer signings Anthony Gordon and Karim Adeyemi have made bright starts.
We could be on for an all-timer of a season if Raphinha can keep this up.
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