This article details men's professional football club records and statistics (individual and collective) in Europe.
The records and stats look across all European clubs competing in the highest divisions and levels of European professional football, allowing for cross-competition comparison. Therefore, the coverage only considers for domestic competitions the top-division of the national league and its cups (national cup, league cup, super cup); for continental competitions, all UEFA club competitions including – although recognized but not organized by UEFA – the Fairs Cup as the predecessor to the UEFA Cup; [1] [2] and additionally, on an intercontinental scale, both the FIFA Club World Cup and its defunct predecessor, the Intercontinental Cup, which was endorsed by UEFA (Europe) and CONMEBOL (South America).
National club competitions | European club competitions | Intercontinental / worldwide club competitions | ||||||||||
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League | National Cup | League Cup | Super Cup | European Cup /Champions League [1955–1992 / 1992–] | Fairs Cup [1955–1971] | UEFA Cup /Europa League [1971–2009 / 2009–] | Cup Winners' Cup [1960–1999] | Europa Conference League [2021–] | UEFA Super Cup [1973–] | UEFA Intertoto Cup [1995–2008] | Intercontinental Cup [1960–2004] | FIFA Club World Cup [2000–] |
UEFA club competition | UEFA club competition | FIFA club competition |
Only the period starting from the implementation of the modern offside rule in 1925 is considered for this list. Under the revised offside rule introduced in 1925, a player would be deemed offside unless there were two opposing players (including the goalkeeper) positioned ahead of them.
National League | |
National Cup | |
League Cup | |
Super Cup | |
European Cup / UEFA Champions League | |
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League | |
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | |
UEFA Europa Conference League | |
UEFA Super Cup | |
Fairs Cup | |
Intercontinental Cup | |
FIFA Club World Cup |
Number of goals scored in a national club competition | |
Number of goals scored in a European club competition | |
Number of goals scored in an intercontinental / worldwide club competition | |
‡ | Player won the European Golden Shoe |
GM | Player won the Gerd Müller Trophy |
Red | Number of goals with which the European Golden Shoe was won |
Player (X) | Denotes the number of times the player had scored 50 or more goals in a season at that time |
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147,365 – Celtic vs Aberdeen, 1936–37 Scottish Cup [154]
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