Erling Haaland, who scored 44 goals last year, remains unavailable despite not playing in the final weeks of 2023.
He ends 2023 one goal ahead of Harry Kane and one ahead of Kylian Mbappethe trio are expected to dominate Manchester City, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain/Real Madrid again in 2024.
Criteria: All club goals in all competitions for the top 10 European league clubs.
10) Krzysztof Piatek (Basaksehir) – 27 goals
This really helps if you have to play around 427 games in the league before the season officially starts.
9) Luke de Jong (PSV) – 27 goals
PSV have dropped 11 points throughout the Eredivisie season, with De Jong’s 33-year-old form a major factor. 29 goals and 15 assists in the league season. At the beginning of the new season, he scored two goals in the equivalent of the Dutch Community Shield. at last Scored in his third league appearance. Then it was the fifth time. sixth. seventh. eighth. And the 10th.
8) Cole Palmer (Chelsea) – 28 goals
Even without any European football statistics, Palmer has proven his ability to score goals. He scored three Premier League hat-tricks in 2024, including two with four goals, and he’s also in the top ten for assists this year.
7) Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid) – 31 goals
One hat-trick helped beat Barcelona in January’s Spanish Super Cup, while another helped beat Borussia Dortmund in October’s Ballon d’Or voting. he was very good about it. He secured another treble against Osasuna to start the race for the 2025 award.
6) Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain/Real Madrid) – 35 goals
Drawing games against teams in France’s sixth tier is handy when you want to start the new year quickly. Mbappe scored a hat-trick in a 9-0 win and then added two more goals for the third-tier side. But he failed to feature twice against Dortmund Paris Saint-Germain were eliminated in the Champions League semi-finals.
He started off with Real Madrid with a Super Cup goal and now has 12 goals in 22 games for his Spanish club, which feels a little underwhelming. he The game against Liverpool was really bad.
5) Jonathan David (Lille) – 36 goals
A hat-trick came in the 2024 Coupe de France, but since then the Ligue 1 goals have been avalanche. In fact, it’s surprising that he hasn’t been a more active summer transfer target. He has scored 17 goals this season since qualifying for the Champions League, and then defeated Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid.
4) Erling Haaland (Manchester City) – 37 goals
Not bad for a player at the second level of the league. Any talk of him being a flat-footed bully should be silenced by the two-goal salvo against Tottenham that almost won City the title. At the beginning of the new season, he scored two hat tricks and scored a total of 10 goals in the first five games. this is crazy. He still has 18 goals in 21 games this season, but Manchester City in crisiswhich really didn’t help his condition.
3) Harry Kane (Bayern Munich) – 39 goals
He is the player with the most goals on his Bundesliga debut. In fact, he has the most goals scored in a single season with 44. But he still ended the season without a trophy, which is never not interesting. With 20 goals in 19 games this season, the Germans are chanting “But is he a stumbling block for Bayern?”.
He scored a hat-trick against Augsburg a week after his England place was again in doubt. But then there were blanks against Paris Saint-Germain and Borussia Dortmund.
2) Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona) – 40 goals
Old dogs still have life. At 35 years old, he still starts (and scores) goals for Barcelona. The first hat-trick of the season came against Alaves and he looked after the boys from the academy at Real Madrid. Now, with Barca resurgent, seven out of four players in the Champions League have won.
1) Victor Chockers (Sporting Lisbon) – 50 goals
The former Coventry City man has scored 29 goals in the league as Sporting Lisbon challenge for the Portuguese title. He has started the 2024/25 season comfortably with 16 goals in his first 12 league games, scoring in two of his first three Champions League games. Surprisingly, the 2024 top scorer is not a summer transfer target. Now he has scored a hat-trick against Manchester City, He would be absolutely too good for Manchester United. After Ruben Amorim’s exit, he failed to score against Arsenal and Santa Clara, but scored in the team’s 2-1 loss to Moreirense.
