The top 10 goalscorers in Europe in 2024-25: Can anyone catch Mo Salah?

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. Chris Wood has scored 12 goals but misses out on cracking our top 10.

10. Marcus Thuram – 12 goals

Lautaro Martinez currently holds the Cappocannoniere award for Serie A’s top goalscorer but it’s his Inter team-mate Thuram that’s out in front this season.

The France international is already just one goal off matching his career-best tally of 13 from last season and could well end up on 20+ come the end of the campaign.

9. 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 17 games for Atalanta.

Whisper it but Italy might finally, finally have a goalscorer they can rely on. His rate of a goal every 80 minutes in Serie A this season betters every player on this list bar one. 

8. Bryan Mbeumo – 13 goals

Brentford have been among the Premier League’s most entertaining sides this season. Only Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham and Liverpool have scored more goals, and no team is more potent on their own patch.

The likes of Yoane Wissa and Kevin Schade have chipped in, but Mbeumo is undoubtedly their star man. Ivan who?

7. Cole Palmer – 13 goals

Those who claimed Palmer would be a ‘one-season wonder’ have firmly been left with egg on their face as the Chelsea playmaker has gone from strength to strength under Enzo Maresca.

Despite often dropping into a deeper role to help Chelsea play through the lines, he’s still managed to average a goal or assist every 92 minutes this season.

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6. Alexander Isak – 13 goals

The most in form striker in European football right now? Isak has fired Newcastle back into the top-four race with goals in each of his last seven Premier League appearances, including a hat-trick away to Ipswich.

If the Magpies’ finest No.9 since Alan Shearer can keep this up, he might just be in with a shout for the European Golden Shoe – an award that evaded Tyneside’s favourite son.

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5. Omar Marmoush – 13 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 13 goals and seven assists in just 15 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. Harry Kane – 14 goals

Kane won the Bundesliga Golden Boot at a canter last season and if he stays fit he’ll surely retain it 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.

3. Erling Haaland – 16 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 dropped back in the race. Although he’s been back in the goals of late after enduring a fallow patch during Man City’s disastrous mid-season stumble.

2. Robert Lewandowski – 16 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 rekindling that magic. Lewandowski has slowed down a bit of late as Barca have stuttered in the La Liga title race, but he remains one of the most reliable goalscorers in Europe on his day as the numbers show.

1. Mohamed Salah – 18 goals

Not only is Liverpool’s Egyptian King top across Europe’s five major leagues for goals but he’s also top for assists. That’s absolutely outrageous.

There can be no questioning who’s leading the race for the Ballon d’Or in 2025.

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Author Of article : Nestor Watach

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