Liverpool's all-time Champions League top scorers
- Liverpool have won the European Cup more than any other English side
- The Reds' most recent triumph came in 2019
- Merseyside club have had some prolific European goalscorers
Not many relationships in football are as enduring as Liverpool's love affair with European football.
Manchester United might have their '20 times', but Liverpool have Rome twice, Wembley, Paris, Madrid, and, in the most dramatic circumstances of them all, Istanbul. Try knocking them off that perch!
Unsurprisingly, quite a few players have contributed towards this glittering European pedigree, and when it comes specifically to the modern Champions League, the Reds might have one of the most eclectic lists of goalscorers.
Without further ado, here are the top 30 goalscorers for Liverpool in the Champions League era.
30. Trent Alexander-Arnold - 2 goals
Given how sweetly Alexander-Arnold strikes a football, it's perhaps a surprise that he doesn't have more goals to his name in Europe.
The right-back netted his first in a 7-0 thrashing of Maribor and grabbed a second with a beautiful free kick against Rangers during the 2022/23 campaign.
29. Virgil van Dijk - 2 goals
While best known for his immense defensive ability, Van Dijk has always been a menace in the opposition penalty box due to his frame and heading prowess.
The Dutchman has scored plenty of goals across his career from centre-back, with two in the Champions League for the Reds.
28. Daniel Sturridge - 2 goals
In a world where life was fair, Sturridge would be right at the top of this list having had a long and healthy career.
As it is, he was released by Liverpool three days after their last European triumph - at least he got to keep the winner's medal.
27. Robbie Fowler - 2 goals
One of the most legendary marksmen in Liverpool's history, a man who practically breathed goals...only got off the mark for the Reds in the Champions League in 2008 during his second spell at the club?
In fairness, it probably has something to do with Liverpool mainly playing in the UEFA Cup when Fowler was in his prime.
26. John Arne Riise - 3 goals
Riise was another Champions League winner who possessed a jackhammer of a left foot.
Unfortunately, the moment that he is best remembered for in Europe involves a very angry Welshman hitting him repeatedly with a golf club.
25. Danny Murphy - 3 goals
Murphy's area of expertise was arguably Europe's second-tier competition.
After winning the UEFA Cup with Liverpool in 2001, he came agonisingly close to doing so with Fulham in what would have been a pretty unique achievement.
24. Vladimir Smicer - 3 goals
Smicer never quite became the Steve McManaman replacement that Liverpool fans were looking for.
But given that his outside of the box effort played a part in dragging the Reds back into the 2005 final, they probably don't mind.
23. Milan Baros - 3 goals
Liverpool's 2005 squad was incredibly weird, and you wonder if they'd even manage to crack the top ten in the current Premier League.
Baros was Liverpool's joint top-scorer in all competitions that season with - wait for it - 13 goals, and yet they still managed to beat Europe's best and brightest.
22. Naby Keita - 3 goals
Keita was meant to be the missing piece in Liverpool's midfield, providing a box-to-box threat in the engine room.
However, his injury record meant his career fell flat at Anfield, although he did rack up three strikes in the Champions League.
21. Djibril Cisse - 3 goals
His decent goalscoring returns in England were invariably less spectacular than his unique fashion choices.
However, Cisse deserves credit for coming back from a fractured tibia to score one of Liverpool's penalties in the 2005 final.
20. Jari Litmanen - 3 goals
Litmanen's body was basically falling apart at this point, and his relationship with Gerard Houllier wasn't too great either.
To his credit, three Champions League goals in his second season at Anfield isn't too shabby.
19. Sami Hyypia - 4 goals
One of many Liverpool greats that you'd have loved to have seen in the current side, Hyypia wasn't just a beacon of calm at the back for the Redmen, but had an eye for goal himself.
His volley against Juventus in the 2005 quarter-final was a vital part of Liverpool's journey to Istanbul.
18. Divock Origi - 4 goals
Where do we start with this man?
Origi has scored some of Liverpool's most iconic goals in the Champions League, and yet he's still in single figures. He doesn't make any sense, but Liverpool fans don't care.
17. Emile Heskey - 4 goals
Today's kids will never remember, but before the existence of YouTube and those stepovers against Algeria, Heskey was a very highly regarded target man.
He was responsible for one of Liverpool's great European goals, dumping Roma out of Europe with a thumping header.
16. Darwin Nunez - 4 goals
The expensive summer signing didn't make a dream start to life at Anfield during the 2022/23 season, quickly becoming renowned for his lack of ruthlessness in front of goal.
However, he still finished his debut campaign with four Champions League goals, including a lovely backheel flick against Real Madrid.
15. Georginio Wijnaldum - 5 goals
We're often told that Wijnaldum does the things you don't see on the pitch, but in vital moments for Liverpool he was very often the man in the spotlight.
He netted in the topsy-turvy semi-final against Roma in 2018, scored twice against Barcelona the year after, and came close to rescuing Liverpool's bonkers tie against Atletico Madrid in 2020.
14. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain - 5 goals
While the guy's knees are undoubtedly made of porridge, he was a useful player for the Reds when fit and firing. Remember when the Reds comprehensively blew Man City away in the 2018 quarter final first leg?
Oxlade-Chamberlain was front and centre of the carnage, scoring one of the great Champions League goals in the process.
13. Diogo Jota - 5 goals
Jota wasted little time making his presence felt in the Champions League with his new side in 2020/21.
Having previously played in the competition for Porto, the Portugal international returned with a bang, first netting against Midtjylland before scoring a hat-trick at Atalanta.
12. Philippe Coutinho - 5 goals
This man would have enjoyed quite the sigh of relief after Kingsley Coman got on the end of Joshua Kimmich's cross in Lisbon in 2020's final, because up to that point it looked as if he'd chucked his best ever chance of a Champions League winner's medal away.
And yet, it was his sale which facilitated the Liverpool rebuild before their 2019 victory in Madrid, so in a way...he was always a winner.
11. Yossi Benayoun - 6 goals
If you were compiling a list of the Premier League's all-time greats, you'd spend at least six hours in conversation before landing on Benayoun.
And yet the clutch midfielder has seemingly popped up in half of the big games of the 2000s, not least in a smash-and-grab win at the Bernabeu for Liverpool in 2009.
10. Michael Owen - 6 goals
Like Fowler, Owen just missed the boat for the return of Liverpool's European glory days.
To make matters worse, after refusing to take part in Liverpool's 2004/05 campaign to avoid getting cup tied before a move to Real Madrid, Owen ended up watching the Reds win the whole thing, with that particular trophy missing from his repertoire.
9. Ryan Babel - 7 goals
Yes, that Ryan Babel.
Things weren't ideal for him on Merseyside but a guy who made 69 appearances for the Netherlands is always going to be handier than the headlines suggest, and he was a useful figure in Liverpool's run to the 2008 semis.
8. Fernando Torres - 8 goals
Liverpool weren't quite the European juggernaut that they are now towards the back end of the 2000s, but they were still a force to be reckoned with, especially with this man up top.
From Inter to Arsenal, a host of mighty opponents were toppled by Torres' brilliance before he left for pastures new, but ironically the one opponent that he could never quite master was his future club Chelsea.
7. Dirk Kuyt - 9 goals
Though he was mainly known for doing lots of running around and scoring from about two yards out, Kuyt's European credentials are pretty damn good, and he has the privilege of being in an exclusive group of Liverpool players to have scored in a European final.
The goal in question, in Liverpool's losing effort against AC Milan, is vintage Kuyt, a scrappy flick-on from a corner that only a mother could love.
6. Peter Crouch - 9 goals
As Spurs fans will tell you, it wasn't always pretty with Crouchy, but when the floodlights came on and the Handel started playing, he turned into a different animal.
Just like Benayoun and Babel, his tally has been conspicuously inflated by being involved in an 8-0 dismantling of Besiktas - but they all count.
5. Luis Garcia - 10 goals
Gerrard, Xabi Alonso and Jerzy Dudek are the men who will forever be credited with Liverpool's fifth Champions League trophy, but Luis Garcia laid the best teams in Europe to waste in the knockout rounds.
His hat trick against Bayer Leverkusen was pretty good, and his dipping half-volley against Juventus was even better, but he saved his best magic trick for Chelsea, scoring a goal where the ball quite possibly never even crossed the line.
4. Steven Gerrard - 21 goals
For a long time, Gerrard's record as Liverpool's top scorer in the Champions League looked untouchable. He was, after all, their clutch king on the most magical nights at Anfield
In a very different time when he was carrying the likes of Baros and Igor Biscan, with Liverpool having to scrap for every knockout victory, the local hero came up time and time again. He's since been surpassed at the top of this particular tree, but Gerrard's record remains a testament to one of Europe's great one-man shows.
3. Roberto Firmino - 22 goals
The silky Brazilian was universally adored by Liverpool fans during his days on Merseyside and, despite being a false nine at Anfield, he still managed to score an impressive 22 Champions League goals for the Reds.
Firmino netted his final Liverpool goals in Europe at Ibrox, bagging a brace in a 7-1 demolition of Rangers.
2. Sadio Mane - 24 goals
Ahead of Bobby is his colleague in one of the all-time most destructive front threes, and just like the former Hoffenheim man, Mane's fingerprints are all over some of Liverpool's most glorious nights.
You can't really argue against that turn and off-balance chip against Manuel Neuer as the pick of the bunch, while he does of course have the honour of a Champions League final goal to his name.
1. Mohamed Salah - 41 goals
In 2017/18 during his debut Liverpool season, everything Mohamed Salah touched turned to gold. Scoring ten goals, it remains his best return in the Champions League for a season, but his appearance in the final was cut short due to injury.
However, he came back stronger a year later to dispatch a penalty early on in the final against Tottenham and has continued to score with regularity on the continent, if not quite matching the ridiculous pace he set in his first season.
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