Erling Haaland smashed one other scoring document Thursday after racing to his fiftieth Champions League purpose in Manchester Metropolis’s 2-0 win over Napoli.
The Norwegian striker reached the half-century mark in his forty ninth event look, well lifting a header previous the outstretched Napoli goalkeeper Vanja Milinkovic-Savic after a intelligent help by Phil Foden.
Ruud van Nistelrooy was beforehand the quickest participant to amass 50 objectives after he reached the milestone in 62 outings.
Quickest to 50
Participant
Matches
Erling Haaland
49
Ruud van Nistelrooy
62
Lionel Messi
66
Robert Lewandowski
77
Kylian Mbappe
79
Karim Benzema
88
Cristiano Ronaldo
91
Haaland is averaging 1.07 objectives each Champions League match. Cristiano Ronaldo, the all-time main scorer within the competitors with 140 objectives after the qualification part, struck at a price of 0.77 objectives per sport.
Erling Haaland scores his fiftieth purpose within the UEFA Champions League in simply his forty ninth sport, reaching a half century quicker than anybody within the competitors’s historical past.
He comfortably beats the earlier document set by Ruud van Nistelrooy (62 video games).#UCL pic.twitter.com/N409fJk9bj
— Opta Analyst (@OptaAnalyst) September 18, 2025
“The numbers converse for themselves and the way lucky we’re to have him,” Pep Guardiola stated of Haaland.
“Together with the 2 monsters of the previous 15 to twenty years Ronaldo and (Lionel) Messi, Erling is there. When it comes to objectives he’s unbelievable,” Guardiola added. “In that rhythm (he can break the document). If he can play 10 to 12 extra years and keep this development, completely.”
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