The top 10 goalscorers in Europe in 2024-25: Retegui, Salah, Lewandowski…

We’re still getting used to a new era in which Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo don’t continually dominate the European goalscoring charts.

Last season Harry Kane claimed his first European Golden Shoe, the award given out for the top goalscorer across the European leagues, but the Bayern Munich striker has his work cut out if he’s to retain it in 2024-25.

Here’s the full rundown of the top 10 goalscorers across Europe’s big five leagues so far this season – Ligue 1, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and the Premier League.

Note: if two players are tied on goals, we’ve ordered them by their goals-per-minute ratio. Vinicius Junior, Bryan Mbuemo, Mason Greenwood and Raphinha have each scored eight goals but miss out on cracking our top 10

10. Chris Wood – 8 goals

Nottingham Forest have made a flying start to the 2024-25 campaign as they currently occupy a spot in seventh and are level on points with Aston Villa and Tottenham.

Impressively, Wood has scored 53.3% of the goals that Forest have scored in the Premier League so far with eight in his first 12 appearances.

He’s also been the fourth most clinical player in the Premier League based on his xG overperformance so far.

9. Moise Kean – 8 goals

The Italian forward has come a long way since being dubbed as an Everton flop. After to failing to score in 19 Serie A appearances last season for Juventus, the 24-year-old has made a flying start at Fiorentina.

Currently averaging a goal every 114.4 minutes in Italy, Kean is on course to have the most prolific campaign of his career to date.

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8. Marcus Thuram – 9 goals

The Inter Milan forward is now only four goals away from matching his tally of 13 goals in Serie A last season.

Thuram scored twice during Inter Milan’s recent 5-0 thumping of Verona and he’s also been the second most clinical player in Serie A based on his xG overperformance.

7. Mohamed Salah – 10 goals

Season after season, Salah continues to deliver the goods for Liverpool. Now in the final year of his contract at Anfield, the 32-year-old isn’t showing any signs of slowing down soon.

Currently averaging a goal every 105.6 minutes in the Premier League, Liverpool’s Egyptian King is on course to have another 20+ goal season.

6. Bradley Barcola – 10 goals

People questioned whether the reigning Ligue 1 champions might struggle without any true superstars after Kylian Mbappe followed Lionel Messi and Neymar through the exit door.

While Mbappe is conspicuously absent from this list, with his new club Real Madrid trailing Barcelona in La Liga, PSG are absolutely flying. They’re unbeaten with ten wins from 12 and have scored 36 goals.

Whisper it but might Luis Enrique’s side be a stronger, better balanced team this year? Let’s see.

Among their standout players is 22-year-old rising star Barcola, who has regularly found the back of the net for the Parisiens. With Mbappe no longer in the league, the race for the Ligue 1 Golden Boot is wide open this season.

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5. Omar Marmoush – 11 goals

Serhou Guirassy was arguably the breakout star of last season, having emerged out of nowhere to notch an outrageous tally of 28 goals in 28 games to fire Stuttgart to second place in the Bundesliga table – above Kane’s Bayern.

We may well have found 2024-25’s equivalent already. Eintracht Frankfurt attacking midfielder Marmoush is on the hottest of hot streaks right now, having notched 11 goals and seven assists in his last 11 Bundesliga outings. He scored twice and set up another in a 3-3 draw with Bayern back in October, suggesting the 25-year-old Egyptian might be the real deal.

4. Erling Haaland – 12 goals

The Norwegian claimed his first European Golden Shoe in his debut season at Manchester City, in which he fired them to a treble, scoring 52 goals in all competitions and a Premier League record 36.

Last season was comparatively underwhelming, albeit he still scored a more-than-respectable 27 goals to retain the Premier League Golden Boot and end up third in the Europe-wide rankings.

Haaland came out hungry to break yet more records in 2024-25, racing out of the traps with a goal against Chelsea followed by back-to-back hat-tricks against Ipswich and West Ham.

But after building up that early head of steam and a comfortable lead in the European Golden Shoe race, Haaland has now dropped to second after only scoring two goals in his last seven Premier League appearances.

3. Mateo Retegui – 12 goals

Atalanta are doing it again.

Last season Gianluca Scamacca was among their standout players, notching 19 goals in all competitions for the Europa League winners. So there was understandable consternation when the Italian striker suffered an ACL rupture on the eve of the season that will keep him out until long int 2025.

But with Gian Piero Gasperini in the dugout, there was no need to worry. The veteran coach is a master at adapting and making the most of the resources at his disposal. Retegui has stepped up to the plate superbly after signing from Genoa with 12 goals in 13 games for Atalanta.

Whisper it but Italy might finally, finally have a goalscorer they can rely on.

2. Harry Kane – 14 goals

Kane won the Bundesliga Golden Boot at a canter last season and we certainly wouldn’t bet against him doing the same this time around.

The England skipper picked up where he left off with 14 goals in his first 11 league appearances. In the Bundesliga alone, he’s already scored three hat-tricks this season.

No player in Europe’s five major leagues has reached the 50-goal milestone in fewer games this century.

1. Robert Lewandowski – 15 goals

The legendary Polish goalscorer has worked under some of the greatest managers of the modern era, from Jurgen Klopp to Pep Guardiola to Carlo Ancelotti, but it’s under Hansi Flick that he produced his best goalscoring numbers – including 48 goals in all competitions in Bayern’s treble-winning 2020-21 campaign.

Now they’re together again at Barcelona and the early signs are very promising. Despite firing the Catalan club to the La Liga title in his debut season, some doubted the wisdom of handing a lucrative contract to an ageing player.

His increasingly immobile presence up top was arguably one of their issues last season.

But the 36-year-old has looked a fine fit as the spearhead of this newly energised Barca side, with a ridiculous tally of 15 goals from just 14 La Liga outings.