Salah breaks Liverpool’s goal record – Lewandowski’s streak unreachable?

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Bayern 5 times in top 15 

The Reds have a new record man when it comes to goal streaks. In 2014, Daniel Sturridge broke the record set by Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard; now Mohamed Salah has bested that record. Among all teams in Europe’s top leagues, there have been only seven players since 2000 with longer goal streaks—including several Bayern Munich players. 

Liverpool head coach Jürgen Klopp called his forward “the best player in the world.” Salah has paid back that praise in the Champions League. The 29-year-old scored his 11th and 12 goal of the season against Atlético (3-2) and has now scored in nine competitive games in a row—the most in LFC history. Michael Owen managed five games in a row in 2003 and Gerrard seven in 2007 before Sturridge broke that record by scoring eight goals in a row. As of this week, Salah belongs to a European elite group of 14 players, who have managed to score in at least 14 competitive games in a row. Some players in that group, including Robert Lewandowski, have managed a nine-game goal streak more than once. 

Salah scores 9 games in a row: The longest goalscoring streaks since 2000

21 Ciro Immobile | SS Lazio | Games scored in a row: 9

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10 goals from 20.10. and 08.12.2020

21 Fabio Quagliarella | UC Sampdoria | Games scored in a row: 9

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10 goals between 28.10. and 29.12.2018

20 Mohamed Salah | Liverpool | Games scored in a row: 9

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11 goals between 28.08. and 19.10.2021

17 Emmanuel Adebayor | Arsenal | Games scored in a row: 9

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12 goals between 29.12.2007 and 11.02.2008

17 Lionel Messi | Barcelona | Games scored in a row: 9

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12 goals between 16.12.2018 and 02.02.2019

17 Adriano | Inter Milan | Games scored in a row: 9

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12 goals between 02.05. and 22.09.2004

14 Cristiano Ronaldo | Juventus | Games scored in a row: 9

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13 goals between 06.01. and 22.02.2020

14 Alexandre Lacazette | Olympique Lyon | Games scored in a row: 9

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13 goals scored between 07.12.2014 and 25.01.2015

14 Diego Forlán | Atlético Madrid | Games scored in a row: 9

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13 goals scored between 18.04. and 19.08.2009

13 Lionel Messi | Barcelona | Games scored in a row: 9

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15 Tore zwischen dem 20.10. und 24.11.2010

12 Carsten Jancker | Bayern Munich | Games scored in a row: 10

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11 goals scored between 30.07. and 19.09.2000

11 Cristiano Ronaldo | Real Madrid | Games scored in a row: 10

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13 goals scored between 11.02. and 02.04.2014

9 Ruud van Nistelrooy | Man United | Games scored in a row: 10

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14 goals scored between 05.12.2001 and 19.01.2002

9 Robert Lewandowski | Bayern | Games scored in a row: 10

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14 goals scored between 30.05. and 19.08.2020

8 Ruud van Nistelrooy | Man United | Games scored in a row: 10

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15 goals scored between 22.03. and 11.05.2003

7 Lionel Messi | Barcelona | Games scored in a row: 10

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16 goals scored between 09.12.2012 and 27.01.2013

6 Duván Zapata | Atalanta BC | Games scored in a row: 10

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17 goals scored between 03.12.2018 and 30.01.2019

5 Roy Makaay | Bayern Munich | Games scored in a row: 11

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19 goals scored between 20.04. and 27.08.2005

4 Cristiano Ronaldo | Real Madrid | Games scored in a row: 12

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20 goals scored between 25.08. and 01.11.2014

3 Cristiano Ronaldo | Real Madrid | Games scored in a row: 12

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22 goals scored between 10.02. and 18.04.2018

2 Robert Lewandowski | Bayern Munich | Games scored in a row: 13

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19 goals scored between 12.08. and 26.10.2019

1 Robert Lewandowski | FC Bayern | Games scored in a rown: 19

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30 goals scored between 15.02. and 18.09.2021

While a new record has been set at Liverpool, a look around other clubs in the statistics shows some well-known—and none surprising—record holders. Lewandowski set a new record this year by breaking a previous record he also held. This season his record streak was finally stopped by promoted Bundesliga side Greuther Fürth. The Polish striker has scored 19 games in row between mid-February and mid-September 2021. Lewandowski scored 30 goals in those 19 games. Lewandowski also holds the second place—the striker scored 13 times in a row in 2018. In Roy Makaay (11 games in a row in 2005) and Carsten Jancker (ten games in 2000), two other Bayern forwards are also listed among the players with the longest goalscoring streaks since 2000. 

Ronaldo & van Nistelrooy among the top strikers – Salah could break into top 8

Third is Cristiano Ronaldo, who playing for Real Madrid, managed to score 12 games in a row in 2014 and 2018, in which he scored 20 and 22 goals, respectively. At Ronaldo’s current club Manchester United, Ruud van Nistelrooy is at the very top with ten games scored in a row in 2001 and 2003. Lionel Messi (now PSG) managed ten games in a row for Barcelona in 2012/13, the same amount that Duván Zapata managed for Atalanta. The second-best player coming from Germany is Stefan Kießling, who scored eight games in a row in 2013. The most from the Bundesliga outside Bayern Munich. Kießling shares that ranking with another former Bundesliga player in Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who managed eight games in a row for Borussia Dortmund in 2017. 

Salah’s record of nine games was also achieved by Emmanuel Adebayor (for Arsenal in 2007/08), Adriano (for Inter Milan in 2004), and Diego Forlán (for Atlético in 2009). Salah could move ahead of that group with one goal in the Premier League against Manchester United on Sunday. In that case, the Premier League champion, Champions League winner, and two times golden boot winner would move among the group of players that managed a double-digit goalscoring streak. “He is top,” Klopp said about his forward last week. “We all see it. Who is better than him? We don’t have to talk about what Messi and Ronaldo have done for world football and their dominance. But right now, he is the best.”



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