Betting on who will be the top scorer in the Champions League is a very popular bet with punters. The Champions League format gives a potential for players to rack up plenty of goals, especially of they play for a team that progresses a long way through the competition. You can bet on a player to be the top scorer in the Champions League outright or even each-way. Many bookmakers offer a quarter the odds for your pick to be in the top four of the betting in the top goalscorer market and it can be a fun season long side bet to have.
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Raul tops the goal scoring charts in the Champions League history, having scored a goal in every two games since his debut in 1995 for Real Madrid. Alfredo Di Stefano, Ferenc Puskas and Eusebio would feature in the list below had we included top scorers from the old European Cup format as well as the Champions League. An impressive statistic if you think that those players didn't play anywhere near to the same amount of games in the old knockout cup. The top six listed below are still plying their trade in the Champions League this season.
| Player | Goals | Games | Ratio | Clubs | |
| 1 | Raul | 65 | 124 | 0.52 | Real Madrid |
| 2 | R. V. Nistelrooy | 56 | 72 | 0.77 | PSV, Man Utd, Real Madrid |
| 3 | T Henry | 50 | 107 | 0.46 | Monaco, Arsenal, Barcelona |
| 4 | A Shevchenko | 47 | 94 | 0.5 | Dynamo Kiev, AC Milan, Chelsea |
| 5 | F Inzaghi | 44 | 73 | 0.6 | Parma, Juventus, AC Milan |
| 6 | A Del Piero | 42 | 87 | 0.48 | Juventus |
| 7 | F Morientes | 33 | 91 | 0.36 | Real Madrid, Monaco, Liverpool, Valencia |
| 8 | R Makaay | 29 | 61 | 0.47 | Dep. La Coruna, Bayern Munich |
| 9 | P Kluivert | 29 | 71 | 0.4 | Ajax, Barcelona |
| 10 | D Trezeguet | 28 | 55 | 0.5 | Monaco, Juventus |
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| Rooney, W | 5/2 | 5/2 | 5/2 | 5/2 | 5/2 | - | 5/2 |
| Messi, L | 5/2 | 9/4 | 5/2 | 9/4 | 9/4 | - | 5/2 |
| Bendtner, N | - | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | - | 20 |
| Ibrahimovic, Z | 20 | 33 | 20 | 25 | 22 | - | - |
| Ciani, M | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Olic, I | 40 | - | 40 | - | - | - | - |
| Eto`o, S | 28 | 50 | 28 | 40 | 33 | - | 33 |
| Krasic, M | - | 50 | 40 | - | 40 | - | 50 |
| Pjanic, M | - | 50 | 33 | - | 25 | - | 25 |
| van Persie, R | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pogrebnyak, P | - | - | 66 | - | - | - | - |
| Milito, D | 50 | 50 | 66 | 66 | 40 | - | - |
| Muller, T | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Gomez, M | 66 | - | 66 | - | - | - | - |
| Chamakh, M | 33 | 50 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Balotelli, M | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Berbatov, D | 80 | - | 100 | 100 | - | - | - |
| Owen, M | 80 | - | 100 | - | - | - | - |
| Ribery, F | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Stankovic, D | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Robben, A | - | - | - | - | 100 | - | - |
| Rios, P | - | 100 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Nasri, S | - | 100 | - | - | 80 | - | - |
| Dzagoyev, A | 40 | 100 | 50 | 100 | 66 | - | - |
| Fabregas, C | 40 | 50 | 40 | 50 | 66 | - | 40 |
| Gomis, B | 66 | - | 66 | - | 100 | - | - |
| Henry, T | 66 | - | 66 | 100 | 100 | - | - |
| Scholes, P | - | - | - | 125 | - | - | - |
| Bojan | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lisandro Lopez | 66 | - | 66 | - | 125 | - | - |
| Arshavin, A | 100 | - | 100 | - | 100 | - | - |
| Eduardo | - | - | 100 | - | - | - | - |
| Iniesta, A | - | - | 150 | - | - | - | - |
| Klose, M | - | - | 100 | 150 | - | - | - |
| Gourcuff, Y | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Love, V | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Cristiano Ronaldo tops the betting for the 2010 Champions League top goal scorer market after his multi-million pound move to Real Madrid in the summer. The Portuguese star has already racked up four goals in the early part of the group stages but he's a very short priced favourite considering he's struggling with injury and there's no guarantee that Real Madrid will progress that far in the competition as a whole. The record winners of the European Cup have not progressed past the last sixteen for the last five seasons, a staggering record for a club of this stature.
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Last years top goal scorer in the Champions League, Lionel Messi is one of the main contenders in the betting again in the 2009/10 season. The Argentine scored nine goals for Barcelona on the way to winning the final which takes his tally in the competition to eighteen. The little maestro scored the second goal in Barcelona's 2-0 final win over Manchester United in Rome and looks a decent bet for a repeat in this season's top goalscorer market.
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Didier Drogba is still one of the favourites to win top goal scorer in this years Champions league, despite a two match ban he had to take at the beginning of the group stages due to his behaviour in last years semi-final at Stamford Bridge. The Ivorian was incensed that Chelsea were denied three penalties in their semi-final second leg against Barcelona and his behaviour resulted in suspension. Missed games aside Drogba still has the weapons to make mincemeat of opposing defences and is a decent each-way bet to land the Golden Boot prize.
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Wayne Rooney has fifteen goals to his name in the Champions League and has scored four in each of his last three campaigns in the competition. For this reason the striker looks poor value in the Champions League top goal scorer market. The Manchester United player is a superstar but he is not what you would call an out and out goal scorer. His selfless running for the team means he gets more than his fair share of assists but we'd be worried about backing him in the top gaol scorer outright market.
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Samel Eto'o is now plying his trade in Serie A having transferred from Barcelona in the summer. The Cameroon forward has sixteen goals to his name in the Champions League including the first in last years final against Manchester United. Eto's direct style of play means he's always a threat to defences but there would be concerns over his club side Inter's chances in the competition. Inter are serial under-achievers in the Champions League, especially when taking into account their domestic record. Eto'o may not be such a threat as he was when playing for Barcelona.
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It says a lot about Arsenal's style of football in that it is very hard pinning down one top goal scoring option as they can score from anywhere. Robin Van Persie would be regarded as the Gunners main tour de force as he plays high up the field with a wicked left foot. Van Persie scored four goals in last season's Champions League but may have a sneaky each-way chance if the team progresses deep into the knockout stages.
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The young Brazilian known simply as Pato holds the key to AC Milan's best goalscoring options. Pato has relatively little in the way of Champions League experience and he has big boots to fill after fellow Brazilian Kaka left for Real Madrid in the summer. Say what you like about AC Milan however they are always there or there abouts in the Champions League and Pato would seem to have plenty of matches in this years competition to get his name up there in the top scorer chart.
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There are of course plenty of other betting opportunities in the top goalscorer market. Chelsea's Nicolas Anelka for example is in the form of his life and has a two game head start on his colleague Didier Drogba in this season's Champions League. Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be looking to justify the money Barcelona spent on him in the summer and chip in with some valuable Champions League goals plus the likes of Andres Iniesta and Xavi Fernandez are always likely to chip in with goals from midfield and are both huge prices in the betting. Other interesting runners include Wolfsberg's Brazilian centre forward Grafite and Sevilla's Luis Fabiano. Fabiano should be able to take advantage of some weak looking defences in the group stages and has a chance to put down a marker before the knockout competition begins.
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