Thursday 29/January/2026 – 08:00 AM
The Egyptian star continued Mohamed Salah The Liverpool player wrote his name in golden letters in the Champions League records, after he became the 11th top scorer in the history of the tournament.
Mohamed Salah scored Liverpool’s third goal against Azerbaijan’s Karabakh in the Champions League in a wonderful way from assist Dominik Suboslai.
Only one goal separates Mohamed Salah from the top 10 of the Champions League’s all-time top scorers
Mohamed Salah reached goal No. 49; To become the 11th player in history in the Champions League, surpassing two legends of the giants of European football, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Andriy Shevchenko, whose tally each stopped at 48 goals.
Salah continues to lead the tournament’s all-time top scorers, led by Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo with 140 goals, followed by Argentine Lionel Messi with 129 goals, then Polish Robert Lewandowski with 107 goals, Frenchman Karim Benzema with 90 goals, then Raul (71), Kylian Mbappe (67), Thomas Muller (57), followed by Ruud van Nistelrooy and Erling. Haaland (56), then Thierry Henry with 50 goals.
Thus, Mohamed Salah is only one goal away from Thierry Henry, who is in tenth place with 50 goals, and if Salah scores a goal with Liverpool in the round of 16, he will become the tenth all-time top scorer in the Champions League.
Mohamed Salah writes history in the Champions League
Salah’s achievement did not stop there, as he also succeeded in surpassing Ivorian Didier Drogba in the number of goals scored in the Champions League without counting penalty kicks, as he raised his score to 43 goals compared to 42 goals for Drogba, becoming the most African player to score in the tournament without penalty kicks.
