Erling Haaland: What is Manchester City striker's record in the UEFA Champions League? How many goals has he scored?
Updated 01/10/2024 at 22:03 GMT+1
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Erling Haaland will look to continue breaking records in the UEFA Champions League this season. During his debut campaign with Manchester City, Haaland played a key role and helped the club win the competition for the first time in their history. Will the Norway international be back to his best when the new format gets underway, and can he lift his second Champions League trophy in three years?
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Erling Haaland looks like a man on a mission for Manchester City this season.
The Norway international looks fresher and even more menacing in front of goal after enjoying a summer off from international exploits.
Haaland started the Premier League by notching back-to-back hat-tricks against Ipswich Town and West Ham United.
Pep Guardiola will be hopeful that his main striker can continue his run of form in the Champions League, where Haaland seems to thrive the bigger the occasion gets.
At just 24 years of age, Haaland has established himself as a great in the competition and only tasted Champions League glory with City in 2023.
Here are all the stats you need to know about his career in the elite European club competition.
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HOW MANY GOALS HAS HAALAND SCORED IN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE?
Haaland has scored 42 goals in just 41 Champions League appearances for Red Bull Salzburg, Borussia Dortmund and Manchester City.
HOW MANY TIMES HAS HAALAND WON THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE?
Haaland has won the Champions League once during his short career.
HOW MANY CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINALS HAS HAALAND PLAYED?
Haaland has featured in one Champions League final and won it with Manchester City during the 2022/23 season.
During his debut campaign at the Etihad Stadium, the Norwegian striker played a key role in Pep Guardiola's side winning the treble that season.
Haaland played the full 90 minutes as City defeated Inter Milan 1-0 courtesy of a second-half strike from Rodri.
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HOW MANY CHAMPIONS LEAGUE HAT-TRICKS HAS HAALAND SCORED?
Haaland has scored two hat-tricks in the Champions League during his career.
In typical Haaland fashion, the first hat-trick in the competition came on his Champions League debut for RB Salzburg.
The striker bagged a first-half treble as Salzburg strolled to a 6-2 win over Gent in September 2019.
Haaland had to wait until 2023 to record another hat-trick in the competition as he notched three goals in the first half again in Manchester City's 7-0 round of 16 victory over RB Leipzig.
City's No. 9 went on to score another two goals in the second half to become only the third player to score five goals in a single Champions League match since Lionel Messi and Luiz Adriano.
WHO ARE HAALAND'S FAVOURITE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OPPONENTS?
Haaland has scored the most Champions League goals against Sevilla and RB Leipzig.
The Norway international has bagged six goals in three appearances against Sevilla and the same amount in five matches against Leipzig.
WHICH TEAMS HAS HAALAND FAILED TO SCORE AGAINST IN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE?
Haaland has faced a total of 19 different teams in the Champions League and has failed to score against five of them.
Those five teams are Ajax, Manchester City (back when he was a Dortmund player), Real Madrid, Inter Milan and Red Star Belgrade.
Haaland had the chance to remove Inter Milan from that list when City kicked off their Champions League campaign against the reigning Serie A champions, but the game ended 0-0.
HOW MANY TIMES HAS HAALAND FINISHED AS TOP SCORER IN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE?
Haaland has led the goalscoring in the competition only once in his career.
He topped the charts during Manchester City's crowning season in 2022/23 when he bagged a total of 12 goals.
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