Cristiano Ronaldo ended Leo Messi's dominance.
Cristiano Ronaldo ended Lionel Messi's four-year dominance by winning the top scorer title in the 2012-2013 Champions League.
This season, the Portuguese striker has scored a total of 12 goals, four goals more than Barcelona's brightest star.
Ronaldo also won the Champions League Golden Boot in the 2007-08 season while playing for Manchester United. However, since then, he has spent four years in Messi's shadow.
Over the past four seasons, Messi has scored a total of 43 goals in Europe's most prestigious competition. He scored 9 goals in the 2008-09 season, 8 goals in 2009-2010, 12 goals in 2010-2011, and 14 goals in 2011-2012.
Ronaldo won the Champions League Golden Boot with 12 goals.
Five players have scored five goals: Oscar (Chelsea), Jonas (Valencia), Alan (SC Braga), Karim Benzema (Real Madrid), and Ezequiel Lavezzi (Paris Saint-Germain).
Ten players have scored four goals each, including Arjen Robben (Bayern), Claudio Pizarro (Bayern), Kostas Mitroglou (Olympiacos), Fabio Quagliarella (Juventus), Lukas Podolski (Arsenal), Willian (Shakhtar Donetsk), Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Schalke 04), Eliseu (Málaga), Roberto Soldado (Valencia) and Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund).
| List of Champions League top scorers (from 1993-94 to present) 2012-13 – Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid (12 goals) 2011-12 – Lionel Messi, Barcelona (14) 2010-11 – Lionel Messi, Barcelona (12) 2009-10 – Lionel Messi, Barcelona (8) 2008-09 – Lionel Messi, Barcelona (9) 2007-08 – Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United (8) 2006-07 – Kaka, AC Milan (10) 2005-06 – Andriy Shevchenko, AC Milan (9) 2004-05 – Ruud van Nistelrooy, Manchester United (8) 2003-04 – Fernando Morientes, AS Monaco (9) 2002-03 – Ruud van Nistelrooy, Manchester United (12) 2001-02 – Ruud van Nistelrooy, Manchester United (10) 2000-01 – Raul Gonzalez, Real Madrid (7) 1999-00 – Mario Jardel, FC Porto; Rivaldo, Barcelona; Raul Gonzalez, Real Madrid (10) 1998-99 – Andriy Shevchenko, Dynamo Kiev; Dwight Yorke, Manchester United (8) 1997-98 – Alessandro Del Piero, Juventus (10) 1996-97 – Milinko Pantic, Atletico Madrid (5) 1995-96 – Jari Litmanen, AFC Ajax (9) 1994-95 – George Weah, Paris Saint-Germain (7) 1993-94 – Ronald Koeman, Barcelona; Wynton Rufer, Werder Bremen (8) |
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