Real Madrid is the king of the Champions League. His 13 titles, six more than Milan, seven more than Liverpool and Bayern and eight more than FC Barcelona, prove his superiority in the most demanding club competition in the world.. But if we go to the scorer section, the whites are also clear dominators. Last Wednesday, in the 2-1 victory against Shakhtar they became the first club in history to reach 1,000 goals in the tournament. With the last two of Benzema he reaches 1,001 and puts the difference with his closest pursuer, Bayern, at 233. The Germans add 768. Behind the Bavarians are Barcelona with 655 and Manchester United with 529, to which Madrid takes 346 and 472 respectively. The Top-5 is completed by Juventus with 468 goals, less than half of those added by the Chamartín club.
Madrid also prevails in the average number of goals per game. He has scored 1,001 in 455 games, 2.2 points each. If we analyze the Top-30, there are only two other teams that are close to that number: Bayern, with an average of 2.09 and Manchester City, which reaches 2.03. However, the English have the advantage of having played far fewer games: just 199. Paris Saint Germain and Barcelona are also close, but they do not exceed two goals per game: 1.98 and 1.97 respectively.
Atlético de Madrid is the other Spanish representative that sneaks into the Top-30. He is ranked 25th thanks to the 216 goals he has scored in his 148 games in the competition. His average, yes, is much worse than that of his compatriots: 1.45.
The four Champions League lifted in the last decade have been key for Madrid to increase its advantage at the top of the table. In the year of La Décima, with Ancelotti on the bench, 41 goals were scored and, adding the three in a row with Zidane, 97: 28 were scored in 2015-2016, 36 in 2016-2017 and 33 in 2017-2018. In total, 138 points that were key to winning the tournament. Of course, the pace has dropped significantly since then. In the last three seasons without counting the current one, Madrid has barely scored 50, an average of 16.6 per edition, far from the 32.3 that was achieved during the same period between 2015 and 2018.
Great Gunners Team
The top scorers in the Champions League have passed through Madrid. The most notable is Cristiano Ronaldo, who has 140 goals in the competition and 105 of them were wearing white. In addition, it was with an impressive average of more than one per game. Benzema is fourth in the historical classification behind Messi (123) and Lewandowski (81) with 75 of which 63 have been in Madrid. It is followed by another myth of the Bernabéu such as Raúl, who was leader of the table for many years and finished his career with 71 (66 being merengue). In the Top-10 there are two other players who have played in the ranks of Madrid. The seventh is the Dutch Ruud van Nistelrooy, who scored 60 goals in 81 matches of the highest continental competition, celebrating 13 of white. Finally, closes a legend like Alfredo Di Stéfano with 49 in 58, having the Hispanic-Argentine one of the best averages of the list: 0.84.