Here We Have the Top Scorers in Europe 2025/2026

With the Champions League final played and concluded yesterday (congratulations Paris Saint-Germain!), we can consider the 2025/2026 football season in Europe officially over. Even though we of course want to congratulate all the teams that won their leagues, we will focus on the top scorers here. We primarily go through the big national leagues but also take a look at the European cups and the slightly smaller leagues.

Premier League - Erling Haaland, 27 goals

As expected, it was Erling Haaland who won the Premier League top scorer title, and he did so with a total of 27 goals, after having led the scoring charts from matchday 1 all the way through. This was his third title as top scorer in four seasons in EPL, and in total he has scored 112 goals during these seasons, giving him an average of 28 goals per season.

Second in the scoring charts was Brentford's Igor Thiago with 22 goals. He arrived as a new signing ahead of the 2024/2025 season, but had it completely ruined by injuries and did not score a single goal during the limited playing time he got, which is why he must be considered one of the biggest surprises of the season. Even though he did not win the top scorer title, he scored 40% of all Brentford's goals, which is the highest percentage when it comes to goals for one's club in the league.

If we look at young players high up in the scoring charts, Bournemouth's 19-year-old Eli Junior Kroupi stands out. In total, the young Frenchman scored 13 goals and he has already grown into the team's natural replacement for Antoine Semenyo, who left the club for Manchester City during the season. He also had only 130 minutes between his goals on average, beaten only by Haaland (109 minutes between each goal), and he will be exciting to follow next season.

La Liga - Kylian Mbappé, 25 goals

Just like in the Premier League, we got the completely expected winner in La Liga as well, and we are of course talking about Kylian Mbappé, who became top scorer for the second season with 25 goals. Incidentally, this was the eighth season in a row in which he won the scoring title in the league he has been playing in, so one can hardly complain that he is an inconsistency goalscorer.

Albanian Vedat Muriqi was not only a surprising runner-up, but he was also only two goals behind Mbappé after scoring 23 goals in total. This was by far the 32-year-old's best season, and he accounted for a very impressive 48.9% of all Mallorca's goals. But despite all of Muriqi's goals, Mallorca were relegated, and the question is whether he will stay at the club down in Segunda División or not.

The youngest player in the battle at the top of the scoring charts was, not unexpectedly, Barcelona's Lamine Yamal. The now 18-year-old scored 16 goals, and even though many perhaps expected even more goals from him, it is worth remembering that he missed 10 league matches due to injury.

Bundesliga - Harry Kane, 36 goals

We continue on the theme of expected winners when we make our next stop in the Bundesliga, but here the winner is even more dominant. In his third season at Bayern Munich, Harry Kane repeated his result from his debut season in 2023/2024 with 36 goals scored. This season was, however, his most efficient season, as overall he needed only 66 minutes between each goal on average.

Second was Stuttgart's German Deniz Undav with 19 goals, that is, 17 goals fewer than Kane. But considering that Undav's fine season has led to him being selected in Germany's World Cup squad, he is surely quite pleased anyway.

When it comes to younger players high up in the scoring charts, who may be worth keeping an eye on going forward, we find both Köln's German Said El Mala, who scored 13 goals, and RB Leipzig's Ivorian Yan Diomandé with 12 goals, both 19 years old.

Serie A - Lautaro Martinez, 17 goals

It is not unusual to see far fewer goals to be required in Italy's Serie A to become top scorer, and that was the case this season. Inter's Lautaro Martinez won the scoring title with a relatively modest 17 goals. This was the Argentine's second top scoring title in Italy, as he also won it in 2023/2024, but then with 24 goals.

One could, however, argue that the moral winner of the top scoring title was Roma's Donyell Malen. The Dutchman joined Roma in January from Aston Villa, after half the season had been played. He never really managed to find his feet in England, and he only scored 4 goals in 21 matches there. Back in Italy (he previously played for Inter), however, things really clicked. At Roma he scored 14 goals (in half a season, remember), which meant that he finished in a shared second place in the scoring charts with Como's Greek Tasos Douvikas. In his 18 matches for Roma, Malen accounted for 40% of the team's goals and needed only 108 minutes of playing time between goals on average.

Ligue 1 - Estéban Lepaul, 21 goals

Ahead of the season, the top scorer in French Ligue 1 had come from Paris Saint-Germain for ten seasons in a row (some as shared top scorer, admittedly), but that trend was broken this season. Instead, it was Frenchman Estéban Lepaul who won with his 21 goals in total. He started the season at Angers but was bought by Rennes at the end of August 2025 (one of the goals he scored for Angers was against Rennes, in fact).

In shared second place in the scoring charts, with 16 goals each, we find Strasbourg's Argentine Joaquín Panichelli as well as controversial Englishman Mason Greenwood, Marseille.

European cups

Becoming top scorer in the European cups is not as prestigious as winning the scoring title in a national league, but we will still go through them here.

In the Champions League, Kylian Mbappé won the scoring title with his 15 goals, despite Real Madrid having a less successful tournament and going out against Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals. At Bayern, we find the runner-up in the scoring charts, Harry Kane (of course), with 14 goals.

Nottingham signed Brazilian Igor Jesus ahead of the season and even though he did not make a huge impression in the Premier League (6 goals in 37 matches), he performed all the better in the Europa League. His 7 goals in the tournament were enough to become joint top scorer, with Serbian Petar Stanic of Bulgarian side Ludogorets also scoring the same number of goals.

In the least prestigious tournament, the Europa Conference League, it was Crystal Palace's Ismaïla Sarr who scored the most goals, with 9 in total, and he was therefore a major contributor to Crystal Palace winning the title.

Ayase Ueda was the top scorer in the Dutch Eredivisie

Other leagues

This is a selection of top scorers from other smaller leagues during the 2025/2026 season.

Primeira Liga, Portugal - Luis Suárez, Sporting - 28 goals. This is, of course, the Colombian Suárez, and not the more famous Uruguayan. Luis Suárez was brought in as the replacement for Gyökeres who left for Arsenal, and, in other words, had a very successful first season. He scored 31.5 percent of the team's goals and had only 96 minutes between goals on average.
Eredivisie, Netherlands - Ayase Ueda, Feyenoord - 25 goals. The Japanese Ueda had a brilliant season and won the first scoring title of his career, while accounting for 35.7% of the team's goals and having 101 minutes of playing time between each goal.
Jupiler Pro League, Belgium - Nicolo Tresoldi, Club Brügge - 19 goals. This 21-year-old German (also of Italian descent) had a very fine debut season in Belgium and won the scoring title ahead of his teammate Christos Tzolis (17 goals).
Süper Lig, Turkey - Eldor Shomurodov, Istanbul Basaksehir and Paul Onuachu, Trabzonspor - 22 goals. In Turkey, we got a shared top scorer title. The big favourite to win the scoring title here was Galatasaray's Nigerian Victor Osimhen, but he finished "only" fourth with 15 goals.
Ekstraklasa, Poland - Tomás Bobcek, Lechia Gdansk - 20 goals.
Chance Liga, Czech Republic - Tomás Chorý, Slavia Prague - 17 goals.
A1 Ethniki Katigoria, Greece - Ayoub El Kaabi, Olympiakos - 18 goals.
Superliga, Denmark - Franculino Djú, Midtjylland - 17 goals.
Cypriot First Division, Cyprus - Ryan Mmaee, Omonia Nicosia - 25 goals.
Super League, Switzerland - Christian Fassnacht, Young Boys - 18 goals.
Fußball-Bundesliga, Austria - Otar Kiteishvili, Sturm Graz - 15 goals.
Scottish Premiership, Scotland - Tawanda Maswanhise, Motherwell - 17 goals.
Nemzeti Bajnokság, Hungary - Aljosa Matko, Újpest and Dániel Lukács, Puskás Akadémia - 17 goals.
SuperSport HNL, Croatia - Dion Drena Beljo, Dinamo Zagreb - 31 goals.
Super liga Srbije, Serbia - Aleksandar Katai, Red Star Belgrade - 24 goals.