Cris Ronaldo ends Leo Messi's dominance

• May 27, 2013 09:11

Cristiano Ronaldo ended Lionel Messi's four-year dominance by winning the 2012-2013 Champions League top scorer title.

This season, the Portuguese striker has scored a total of 12 goals, 4 goals ahead of 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 had to spend 4 years "hiding in the shadow" of Messi.

In the past 4 seasons, Messi has scored a total of 43 goals in Europe's most prestigious tournament. Messi scored 9 goals in the 2008-09 season, 8 goals (2009-2010), 12 goals (2010-2011) and 14 goals (2011-2012).



Ronaldo won the Champions League top scorer title with 12 goals.

Second on the list of top scorers is striker Robert Lewandowski. The Dortmund striker scored a total of 10 goals. There were 3 players who scored 8 goals, including Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Burak Yılmaz (Galatasaray) and Thomas Müller (Bayern).

Five players have scored five goals, including Oscar (Chelsea), Jonas (Valencia), Alan (SC Braga), Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) and Ezequiel Lavezzi (Paris Saint-Germain).

10 players scored 4 goals, 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 (since 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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