The All-Time European Goals Records at Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City, Man United and Spurs

By Club Ten · Published 10 August 2026 · Updated 28 August 2026 · Data through end of 2025/26 season

Which player has scored the most European goals for your club? We looked at every goal scored in UEFA competition, Champions League, Europa League, Conference League, UEFA Cup, and Cup Winners' Cup, for each of the Premier League's Big Six. The results span six decades of European football, and the answers split cleanly into two groups: players whose records look untouchable, and players actively adding to their tally right now.

Arsenal

Thierry Henry's 42 European goals are the Arsenal record by a wide margin. The large majority came in the Champions League, with the rest spread across the club's other European campaigns during his eight seasons at the club (1999–2007). Theo Walcott and Robin van Persie sit second and third, with Bukayo Saka already fourth despite Arsenal's relatively recent return to European football.

#	Player	Goals
1	Thierry Henry	42
2	Theo Walcott	21
3	Robin van Persie	20
4	Bukayo Saka	18
5	Aaron Ramsey	17

Chelsea

Didier Drogba is the undisputed king of European football at Chelsea with 36 goals, including that iconic Champions League final equaliser in 2012. Frank Lampard sits second, a reminder of how complete a player he was. Olivier Giroud's 18 goals are particularly impressive given his role as a squad player during Chelsea's 2021 Champions League win.

#	Player	Goals
1	Didier Drogba	36
2	Frank Lampard	25
3	Olivier Giroud	18
4	Fernando Torres	17
5	Peter Osgood	16

Liverpool

Mohamed Salah's 53 European goals make him not only Liverpool's all-time leader but one of the greatest European scorers in English football history. Steven Gerrard in second with 41 shows how deep Liverpool's European DNA runs. Gerrard scored in three separate European finals. Roger Hunt's 17 goals are a reminder that Liverpool's continental pedigree dates back to the 1960s.

#	Player	Goals
1	Mohamed Salah	53
2	Steven Gerrard	41
3	Sadio Mané	26
4	Roberto Firmino	24
5	Michael Owen	22

Manchester City

Sergio Agüero's 43 European goals are the current City record, but Erling Haaland is already at 37 and showing no signs of slowing. The gap between Haaland and Phil Foden in third (24) underlines just how extraordinary both strikers have been. Neil Young's 11 goals from the early 1970s are a nod to City's brief but memorable first spell in European football.

#	Player	Goals
1	Sergio Agüero	43
2	Erling Haaland	37
3	Phil Foden	24
4	Raheem Sterling	24
5	Gabriel Jesus	21

Manchester United

Wayne Rooney leads with 39 European goals, just one ahead of Ruud van Nistelrooy, whose 38 goals came in a five-season spell at the club (2001–2006) including a legendary 2002/03 Champions League campaign. Ryan Giggs (29) and Denis Law (28) show the depth of United's European history, stretching from the Busby Babes era to the treble and beyond.

#	Player	Goals
1	Wayne Rooney	39
2	Ruud van Nistelrooy	38
3	Ryan Giggs	29
4	Denis Law	28
5	Marcus Rashford	26

Tottenham Hotspur

Harry Kane's 45 European goals are the record at Spurs by a distance, and would rank him highly at most other clubs too. Son Heung-min in second with 27 underlines how much of Spurs' modern European output came from that partnership. Martin Chivers' 22 goals from the early 1970s UEFA Cup runs are a reminder of Spurs' pre-Premier League European pedigree.

#	Player	Goals
1	Harry Kane	45
2	Son Heung-min	27
3	Jermain Defoe	23
4	Martin Chivers	22
5	Mark Falco	13

Who's still climbing

Most of these records belong to retired players, but two active strikers are closing the gap fast. Erling Haaland's 37 European goals for Manchester City have come in barely three seasons. At his current scoring rate he could pass Sergio Agüero's 43 before this article is a year old. Bukayo Saka's 18 for Arsenal is smaller in absolute terms, but he's still only in his mid-twenties and playing every European campaign Arsenal reaches; a run to a Champions League final or two would put Thierry Henry's 42 within reach. Worth revisiting this list in a season or two.

Six decades in one table

Line the six leaders up by era and the spread is striking. Roger Hunt (Liverpool, 17 goals) and Neil Young (Man City, 11) built their totals in the 1960s and early 1970s, when English clubs' European football was intermittent and often cut short by bans or early exits. Martin Chivers' 22 for Spurs came almost entirely from UEFA Cup runs in a period when the competition carried far more genuine sporting weight than it's sometimes given credit for today. The rest of each club's leaderboard (Henry, Drogba, Gerrard, Agüero, Rooney, Kane) belongs to the Champions League era, when English clubs played more European fixtures per season than at any point before it. That's less a reflection of quality than of opportunity: a modern regular now racks up more European starts in five seasons than a 1970s squad player might get in a whole career.

The big picture

Mohamed Salah (53) leads all Big Six players, ahead of Harry Kane (45), Sergio Agüero (43), Thierry Henry (42) and Steven Gerrard (41). By these figures, Liverpool and Tottenham hold the top two spots, Salah's Liverpool record and Kane's Tottenham record ahead of Agüero's City tally.

Methodology & sources

Goal totals cover Champions League/European Cup, Europa League/UEFA Cup, Europa Conference League, and Cup Winners' Cup, plus qualifying rounds, for that specific club only. The UEFA Super Cup and the discontinued Intertoto Cup are excluded. Goals scored for other clubs, or in non-UEFA competitions, aren't counted. Figures are cross-checked against Wikipedia's season-by-season European appearance and goal tables, UEFA's own competition records, and each club's official all-time-scorers pages before publication. Data runs through the end of the 2025/26 season; it does not reflect the 2026 summer transfer window or any matches played after that cutoff.