Juventus' all-time Champions League top scorers

For Juventus: "Winning isn't important, it's the only thing that matters."

On the domestic stage, the Old Lady have emphatically lived up to that club motto. However, the continent's most prestigious competition has more often been the setting of heartbreak rather than success for Juve.

Yet, while their record number of Champions League final defeats may loom over the club, that they have reached so many showpieces is a testament to their enduring status among Europe's greatest sides, with some of the finest players at their disposal in this period.

33. Alessandro Birindelli

Appearances: 52
Goals: 3

Roy Keane once warned that Juve's most important players were not in attack 'but tough, wily defenders, guys nobody's ever heard of, who closed space down, timed their tackles to perfection, were instinctively in the right cover positions and read the game superbly'.

He could have been talking about the unsung but invaluable Alessandro Birindelli.

32. Claudio Marchisio

Appearances: 47
Goals: 3

When Marchisio broke into Juve's first team in 2006, the grand Old Lady had scarcely been further away from the heights of European football, languishing in the second tier after an enforced relegation.

Yet, by 2008 they were back on the continental stage, reaching the final twice with Marchisio in the side.

31. Mauro Camoranesi

Appearances: 45
Goals: 3

In his debut season with the Bianconeri, Camoranesi helped Juve to their fourth Champions League final in eight years in 2003.

However, the Argentinian-born Italy international couldn't muster any goals in that year's dire, goalless final against Milan, with Camoranesi off the field before Juve bowed out via a penalty shootout.

30. Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Appearances: 19
Goals: 3

Ibrahimovic went goalless for his first 11 games in Europe after joining Juventus from Ajax in 2004.

He netted three in four as the then 24-year-old was still finding his feet on the continental stage.

29. Fernando Llorente

Appearances: 14
Goals: 3

Often used as an option from the bench, Llorente may not have been prolific.

However, he saved his goals for notable opponents, scoring both home and away against Real Madrid in 2013.

28. Michele Padovano

Appearances: 13
Goals: 3

The future Crystal Palace frontman netted the winner against Real Madrid in the 1996 quarter-finals.

That was en route to the club's first victory since the competition's rebranding.

27. Dani Alves

Appearances: 12
Goals: 3

In eight seasons of Champions League football with Barcelona, Dani Alves mustered five goals.

In in his sole season in Turin, the Brazilian full-back almost equalled that tally as he played in all but one of Juve's matches en route to the 2017 final.

26. Paolo Montero

Appearances: 56
Goals: 4

The most surprising aspect of Paolo Montero's Champions League statistics is not the relatively high goal total (he managed just six in his entire Juventus career) but the lack of a single red card.

The man Carlo Ancelotti once described as 'from the wrong side of the tracks, but with a code of honour' still holds the record of the most red cards in Serie A history with 16, but not one in Europe.

25. Juan Cuadrado

Appearances: 43
Goals: 4

Cuadrado's versatility may very well have extended his Juventus career.

However, the ever increasing tendency for Bianconeri managers to deploy the jet-heeled Colombian at full-back may limit his ability to add to that tally.

24. Miralem Pjanic

Appearances: 38
Goals: 4

Even though Cristiano Ronaldo took a stranglehold of all dead ball duties in 2018, all four of Pjanic's Champions League goals came from set pieces: two penalties and two direct free-kicks.

Nowadays he's frustrating Barcelona fans in La Liga.

23. Igor Tudor

Appearances: 34
Goals: 4

Chiefly concerned with keeping the ball out of Juve's net, the imposing centre-back was a threat from set pieces in the opponent's box.

Nowadays he's back at the club in an assistant manager capacity.

22. Federico Chiesa

Appearances: 8
Goals: 4

Chiesa is quickly establishing himself as Juve's brightest future prospect.

He's taken to the Champions League like a duck to water, scoring four goals in his debut campaign including two in a losing effort against Porto in 2021.

21. Christian Vieri

Appearances: 8
Goals: 4

In his first and only season at the Stadio Delle Alpi, only one player in the competition could better Vieri's haul of four Champions League goals as Juventus reached and then lost the 1997 final.

Aged 23, Vieri by then was the complete centre-forward and even though Juve's infamous Luciano Moggi described him as 'unsaleable' that summer, he went to Atletico Madrid.

20. Alen Boksic

Appearances: 8
Goals: 4

A striker who led the line effectively, providing decent hold-up play but not exactly prolific in his single season with Juve, Boksic scored more than half his goals for the club in European competition.

Boksic finished off his club career with a stint at Middlesbrough.

19. Vincenzo Iaquinta

Appearances: 7
Goals: 4

Following six years with Juve as they returned to their former glories at the turn of the last decade, the former World Cup winner has endured his fair share of troubles post-football.

On the pitch, he scored three goals in Juve's 2008/09 European campaign.

18. Antonio Conte

Appearances: 47
Goals: 5

The archetypal Italian midfielder during Juventus' golden period in the 1990s.

Conte's successes in the Champions League during his playing days are in stark contrast to the struggles he has endured as a manager.

17. Zinedine Zidane

Appearances: 35
Goals: 5

After a slow start to life in Turin, Zidane gradually began to dominate games, playing as the attacking midfielder in Marcelo Lippi's 4-3-1-2.

Zidane's performance in the 1997 semi-final against Ajax was so impressive Lippi gushed: "He is, without a doubt, the greatest player I ever coached."

16. Fabrizio Ravanelli

Appearances: 7
Goals: 5

Four of Ravanelli's five Champions League goals came in healthy group stage victories against Rangers and the club formerly known as Steaua București.

However, to eliminate any doubt that 'the White Feather' could be brushed aside on the big occasions, Ravanelli netted the opener in the 1996 final Juve would go on to win.

15. Marcelo Zalayeta

Appearances: 29
Goals: 6

With the scores level entering the final few minutes of extra time, Juventus - down to ten men - were struggling in the cauldron-like atmosphere of Barcelona's Camp Nou.

That was until the unheralded and oft-loaned out Marcelo Zalayeta stepped up to net the winner in the 114th minute and take Juve to the 2003 semi-finals.

14. Fabio Quagliarella

Appearances: 11
Goals: 6

It would later emerge that Quagliarella only moved from his boyhood club Napoli to Juventus at the behest of a long-term blackmailer.

However, during his time in Turin, the forward with a penchant for the spectacular enjoyed a better strike rate in the Champions League compared to domestic football.

13. Carlos Tevez

Appearances: 19
Goals: 7

Tevez had an eventful, if not always fruitful, four years with Manchester City.

He enjoyed a wonderful renaissance on the peninsula, finishing both seasons as Juve's top scorer.

12. Marco Di Vaio

Appearances: 18
Goals: 7

Di Vaio never really lived up to the 20-goal season which tempted Juve into bringing him to Turin in 2002.

His first-team opportunities gradually dwindled as the club ultimately made a £9m loss when selling him to Valencia in 2004.

11. Arturo Vidal

Appearances: 27
Goals: 9

More than two decades after the competition's inception, Arturo Vidal was responsible for just the fourth hat-trick in Juventus' Champions League history.

He's now back in Serie A with Inter after a stint with Barça.

10. Nicola Amoruso

Appearances: 22
Goals: 9

Amoruso didn't quite fulfil his superstar billing as a youngster across two seasons at Juve.

However, Alessandro Del Piero will surely have appreciated his arrival, as the fellow entrant on this list married his sister.

9. Mario Mandzukic

Appearances: 30
Goals: 10

A scorer of one of the great Champions League final goals, Mandzukic's acrobatic effort in the 2017 final was dealt the same fate as much of his industrious work on the football pitch: not nearly heralded enough.

Still, he managed some important goals for La Vecchia Signora in Europe.

8. Pavel Nedved

Appearances: 53
Goals: 11

In 2003, no player could stop Juventus' Nedved. Having been brought in as Zidane's replacement the season before, Nedved was in the midst of a career-defining campaign as he led the Bianconeri to that year's Champions League final.

However, a needless yellow card in the semi denied him the chance of appearing in the showpiece and Juve lost to domestic rivals Milan.

7. Gonzalo Higuain

Appearances: 30
Goals: 12

So often the scapegoat and primary recipient of critics' barbs, Gonzalo Higuain will go down as one of Juventus' most prolific players in the continent's most prestigious club competition.

He hit five UCL goals apiece and 2016/17 and 2017/18 but was used more sparingly in 2019/20 after a season away on loan.

6. Alvaro Morata

Appearances: 28
Goals: 13

In a career punctuated by false dawns, Morata always looked at his best during his first spell at Juventus and appears to be back to that fine form upon his return to Turin.

In 2020/21 he registered six goals in eight Champions League games - his best return in Europe.

5. Cristiano Ronaldo

Appearances: 23
Goals: 14

It took Ronaldo just two seasons to hit double figures in Europe for Juventus after notching a fair few in the competition for Real Madrid.

However, Juve are yet to enjoy a decent run in the Champions League with Ronaldo in their squad.

4. Paulo Dybala

Appearances: 48
Goals: 15

When Barcelona travelled to Turin for the Champions League quarter-final in April 2017, the headlines were inevitably stolen by a left-footed Argentinian.

However, It was Dybala and his brace which burst Barça's remontada-fuelled bubble as the wriggling number ten helped his side to that year's final.

3. Filippo Inzaghi

Appearances: 26
Goals: 17

Sir Alex Ferguson labelled the great striker as 'born offside'.

In fairness, the number of Inzaghi's European strikes that would have stood in the age of frame rates, armpit-based laws and VAR is probably best not dwelt over too long.

2. David Trezeguet

Appearances: 49
Goals: 25

An elegant striker who formed a formidable partnership with Del Piero, Trezeguet spent a decade with the Bianconeri, enjoying the heights of Champions League nights either side of the lows of the second tier.

His best campaign came in 2001/02 when he returned eight goals in ten games.

1. Alessandro Del Piero

Appearances: 89
Goals: 42

Unsurprisingly, Juventus' all-time top scorer also holds the distinction as the club's most prolific player in the Champions League.

An icon of the club, Del Piero actually boasted an improved strike rate on the continent compared to his Serie A return, reaching four finals with the Bianconeri but only winning one of them.