Liverpool have won six European Cups, and the club’s scoring records in the competition split at 1992, when it was rebranded as the Champions League. Almost everything since then belongs to four players, one of whom finished so far clear that his total may stand for a generation.
Knockout ties like Liverpool vs Atletico Madrid are where those numbers were built, two legs at a time. Here is the order, and the goals that are still worth watching back.
Mohamed Salah, 48 goals
Salah left Anfield at the end of 2025-26 after nine years, having scored 48 Champions League goals for Liverpool. That is 18 clear of second place. He also became the first African player to reach 50 in the competition, passing the mark against Galatasaray in his final season.
Two nights carry the record. On 24 April 2018 he scored twice and made two more in a 5-2 semi-final win over Roma, the club that had sold him nine months earlier, and he declined to celebrate either goal. On 12 October 2022 he came off the bench at Ibrox and scored three times in six minutes and 12 seconds, the fastest hat-trick in Champions League history.
His most valuable goal was the plainest of the lot. Liverpool won a penalty 23 seconds into the 2019 final against Tottenham for a handball by Moussa Sissoko, and Salah converted it in the second minute. Liverpool won 2-0 for a sixth European title.
Steven Gerrard, 30 goals
Gerrard held the record before Salah and remains second on 30. One goal is the one everybody reaches for. Olympiacos led at Anfield through a Rivaldo free kick on 8 December 2004, and Liverpool needed to win by two goals to reach the last 16. Florent Sinama-Pongolle scored on 47 minutes and Neil Mellor on 81, then Mellor headed the ball down for Gerrard to drive it in from 20 yards on 86. Liverpool won 3-1.
That win took them to Istanbul. Gerrard headed in on 54 minutes with Liverpool 3-0 down to Milan in the final, then was fouled by Gennaro Gattuso for the penalty that Xabi Alonso rebounded in after Dida saved the first attempt to make it 3-3. Liverpool won the shootout.
Sadio Mane, 24 goals
Mane is third on 24, and his two best European performances came 13 months apart. At the Estadio do Dragao on 14 February 2018 he scored on 25, 53 and 85 minutes in a 5-0 round of 16 win, then the joint-biggest away victory in a Champions League knockout tie.
In March 2019 he scored both ends of a 3-1 win at the Allianz Arena. The first, on 26 minutes, saw him collect Virgil van Dijk’s long pass, shuffle around Manuel Neuer and chip over two covering defenders. The second, on 84, was a header from Salah’s cross that put Bayern Munich out.
Roberto Firmino, 23 goals
Firmino sits one behind Mane on 23, which means Liverpool’s front three of the Jurgen Klopp years account for 95 of the club’s Champions League goals between them.
His best-known finish came while he was carrying an eye injury picked up at Tottenham three days earlier. He came on after 72 minutes against Paris Saint-Germain on 18 September 2018 with Liverpool 2-1 ahead, watched Kylian Mbappe equalise on 83, then curled a shot into the far corner in the 92nd minute to win it 3-2. He covered one eye as he celebrated.
Who comes next, and who came before
Fifth place is Dirk Kuyt on 12, then Peter Crouch on 11, Luis Garcia on 10 and Michael Owen on nine. Kuyt is remembered for an 89th-minute header in the 2007 final defeat to Milan and for the penalty that beat Chelsea in the semi-final shootout.
Before the 1992 rebrand, Ian Rush, Kenny Dalglish and Terry McDermott all scored in European Cup campaigns that produced four of Liverpool’s six titles, but those goals sit in a separate column.
What the list tells you
The concentration is the point. Four players scored 125 of these goals, and three of the four played in the same forward line. That is worth holding on to when you read Champions League betting odds on a Liverpool tie, because a scoring record set by one attacking unit says very little about the next one. Salah’s 48 took nine years, and only three other players in the club’s history have reached 20. Betting is for over-18s only.
