After becoming the highest scoring Premier League player in a single season across all competitions, the records just keep on falling for Manchester City’s frightening number nine as he notched in his 35th league goal of the domestic season to surpass Alan Shearer and Andy Cole’s shared milestone. With a tie of epic proportions on the horizon in the Champions League semi-finals this evening, we are taking a look at a handful of potential Erling Haaland record milestones that he can achieve before the season’s close.
Potential Erling Haaland Records
Most Goals in a Champions League Campaign For an English Club
The current holder of this record is former Manchester United marksman Ruud van Nistelrooy, who scored 12 Champions League goals in nine consecutive matches. This was also an overall competition record that stood until Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo took goalscoring in Europe to dizzying new heights.
Haaland is currently on 12 after scoring in both legs of the quarter-final against Bayern Munich to move level with Van Nisterlrooy, and with the potential for three games with which to add to his tally, this particular record is well within reach.
Most Goals in a Champions League Campaign
The Champions League is undoubtedly where the 22-year-old appears the most ravenous, and his 35 goals in 27 games is frankly stupendous – for reference, Cristiano Ronaldo had a grand total of zero European goals at this stage of his career, so one’s imagination runs wild when contemplating what Haaland’s tally will be in the future.
For now, he will have his focus firmly fixed on claiming a first European title, and after helping his side dismantle one of the tournament favourites in a first-leg three goal rout in the previous round, the wait for a Champions League trophy at the Etihad may well be over sooner rather than later.
Magical touch by Haaland…#UCL pic.twitter.com/UXz1PyawlJ
— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) May 8, 2023
As mentioned, he also has three potential fixtures with which to add to his goal haul in this season’s campaign, and it certainly wouldn’t come as a surprise to see him creep towards Cristiano Ronaldo’s single-year record of 17 (Haaland needs five to move level).
Most Goals in a Single Champions League Knockout Stage
Equalling Lionel Messi’s feat of five goals in a single Champions League game in the knockout tie against Leipzig has quickly made this next record very achievable.
Both Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo are the current joint-holders in terms of most goals in a knockout stage with 11 goals. Haaland needs four goals to break the record set by the Real Madrid duo.
Records Already Broken by Erling Haaland This Season
- Most goals in a season for Manchester City
- Most goals scored in a by a Premier League player across all competitions
- Most goals scored in a single Premier League season (38 and 42 game records surpassed)
- Fewest games to score four Premier League hat-tricks (19)
- Quickest to score 10 Premier League goals in a season (six games)
- Fewest games to score 30 Champions League goals (25)
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