Women's Champions League all-time top scorers

The Women's Champions League is the showcase for the finest players in European football and beyond.

The competition first kicked off in 2001, and over the past two decades, some of the game's greatest goal-getters have graced the competition. The question is, who are the ones to have shined brightest and found the back of the net most often?

Without further ado, 90min spins you through the players who top the all-time Women's Champions League goalscoring charts.

10. Hanna Ljungberg (Umea) - 39

Former Sweden international Hanna Ljungberg was an integral part of the Umea side that reached five European finals in seven years - being crowned champions of the continent on two occasions.

She topped the goalscoring charts during Umea's 2002/03 triumph, when the tournament was still known as the UEFA Women's Cup, and was the competition's all-time top scorer for a decade despite her career constantly being disrupted and ultimately ended by injury. A ruptured ACL forced her to call it quits at the age of 30.

9. Nina Burger (Neulengbach) - 40

Austrian forward Nina Burger became the first player to net 40 Champions League goals with a single club, reaching the tally across two spells with Austrian outfit Neulengbach.

She boasted a mean strike partnership with compatriot Maria Gstottner, and the forward reached her 40-goal haul despite Neulengbach only progressing further than the last 16 on one occasion.

8. Lotta Schelin (Lyon, Rosengard) - 42

Sweden's all-time top scorer Lotta Schelin rejected offers from the United States to join Lyon in 2008, and she would go on to score 41 European goals and win a hat-trick of Champions League titles with the French side.

After scoring a staggering 225 goals in as many appearances for Lyon, Schelin returned to her native Sweden for the final two years of her career. She signed for Rosengard and netted one final Champions League goal in the 2016/17 competition.

7. Kim Little (Hibernian, Arsenal) - 42

Kim Little's senior debut came in the Champions League, as she turned out for Hibernian against Espanyol aged just 16.

The remarkably consistent midfielder is a two-time Champions League semi-finalist and has hit 42 European goals across two spells at Arsenal, having departed the club for adventures abroad in 2014, before returning in 2017.

6. Camille Abily (Montpellier, Lyon) - 43

Despite spending much of her career in midfield, Camille Abily still netted 43 Champions League goals during her time with Montpellier and across two spells with Lyon. She was the joint-top scorer in the 2011/12 competition alongside teammate Eugenie Le Sommer with nine goals.

The former France international netted her 43rd goal in the competition after coming off the bench in the 2017/18 final victory over Wolfsburg to seal her fifth Champions League title.

5. Marta (Umea, Tyreso, Rosengard) - 46

Brazilian icon Marta burst onto the Champions scene as an 18-year-old at Umea, netting in both legs of the 2003/04 semi-final, and another three across the two-legged final victory over Frankfurt.

This would be the first and only time that Marta would lift the famous trophy. She was a beaten finalist in 2007 and 2008 with Umea, and then again in 2014 with fellow Swedish outfit Tyreso. The forward's 46 Champions League goals have come despite her playing over half of her career outside of Europe.

4. Conny Pohlers (Turbine Potsdam, FFC Frankfurt, Wolfsburg) - 48

World Cup winner Conny Pohlers' tally of 14 goals in the 2004/05 season en route to Turbine Potsdam winning the competition stood as a Women's Champions League record goalscoring haul in a single campaign for 13 years.

The German forward is a four-time Champions League winner, netting three goals in the 2008 final for Frankfurt and collecting successive winners medals with Wolfsburg in the final two seasons of her career in 2013 and 2014. She reached her tally of 48 goals in just 45 appearances.

3. Eugenie Le Sommer (Lyon) - 48

Lyon have royally dominated European football for the last decade, winning the Champions League eight times in 12 years.

Eugenie Le Sommer has been present for each triumph, having joined the club from Stade Briochin in 2010. The versatile French attacking midfielder has scored in three finals.

Still playing at the highest level, Le Sommer has a Champions League half-century in her sights.

2. Anja Mittag (Turbine Potsdam, Rosengard, PSG, Wolfsburg) - 51

World Cup winner Anja Mittag became the first player in Women's Champions League history to net half a century of goals in the competition when she found the net for Rosengard in 2018.

The German forward is a two-time Champions League winner with Turbine Potsdam, netting in the 2005 final, and hung up her boots at the end of the 2019/20 season to focus on her coaching career.

1. Ada Hegerberg (Stabaek, Turbine Potsdam, Lyon) - 60

This takes the mickey a little bit, doesn't it? The current Women's Champions League top scorer is not even 30, already has six Champions League winners medals and at the rate she's going could well set an unassailable goal haul in the competition.

Norway's Ada Hegerberg broke Mittag's record haul on just her 50th appearance in the competition. No player of either gender has ever reached half a century of European goals at the highest level faster than Hegerberg, who surpassed the high watermark set by former Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy.

The inaugural Ballon d'Or winner netted a treble in the 2019 final, a fitting conclusion to a staggering individual campaign. Hegerberg's tally of 15 that season remains a Women's Champions League record for goals in a single campaign.

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