Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is the UEFA Europa League's all-time top scorer, with 34 goals and counting. He took the record from Radamel Falcao during the 2023/24 season and has kept adding to it since, most recently back at Marseille after a season away in Saudi Arabia. Here is the full picture of who sits where on the competition's all-time scoring list, how the record has moved since the tournament was rebranded from the UEFA Cup in 2009, and which active players still have a shot at climbing it.

The current top five

This list covers the Europa League era specifically, meaning goals scored since UEFA renamed the UEFA Cup and introduced a group stage ahead of the 2009/10 season. It is the same starting point UEFA itself uses when it talks about the competition's "all-time" scorers, since the format, sponsorship and branding all changed at that point.

Rank	Player	Goals	Clubs
1	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	34	Borussia Dortmund, Arsenal, Barcelona, Marseille
2	Radamel Falcao	30	Porto, Atlético Madrid
3	Bruno Fernandes	27	Sporting CP, Manchester United
3	Romelu Lukaku	27	Anderlecht, Everton, Inter Milan, Roma
5	Aritz Aduriz	26	Athletic Club

Aubameyang's road to the record

Aubameyang built his total in pieces across four clubs. He scored eight Europa League goals during his time at Borussia Dortmund, then 14 more once he moved to Arsenal, where he became one of the Premier League's most reliable finishers for several seasons. A short, largely goalless stint at Barcelona added two more before his career took an unexpected turn toward Ligue 1.

It was at Marseille where he really made the record his own. He scored 10 goals during the 2023/24 season alone as Marseille ran to the Europa League semi-finals, a run good enough to win him the competition's Player of the Season award, including a hat-trick at home to Ajax. That season is when he pulled level with, then past, Falcao's long-standing mark of 30. After a brief and largely forgettable spell in Saudi Arabia with Al-Qadsiah, Aubameyang returned to Marseille for the 2025/26 season, meaning the record he now holds is very much still growing rather than a number he set and walked away from.

Falcao's record before Aubameyang, and the mark that still stands

Radamel Falcao held the Europa League scoring record for nearly a decade before Aubameyang caught him. He built his 30 goals at two clubs: Porto, where he first became one of Europe's most feared strikers, and Atlético Madrid, where he continued adding to his total after his transfer to Spain. Falcao actually won the competition itself as well, lifting the trophy with Atlético Madrid in 2011/12 as part of a period when the club treated the Europa League as a genuine priority rather than a consolation prize.

One record Falcao still holds outright, and one that looks unlikely to fall any time soon, is for goals in a single Europa League season. He scored 17 times for Porto during their 2010/11 campaign, a run that ended with the trophy and formed part of a historic treble alongside the league title and the Portuguese Cup under coach André Villas-Boas. No player since has come close to matching that single-season haul, which says as much about the demands of a modern club's fixture list as it does about Falcao's finishing that year.

The rest of the top five

Bruno Fernandes built the bulk of his 27 goals after joining Manchester United, adding to a smaller total from his time at Sporting CP, and he remains an active, regular Europa League and Champions League contributor for United depending on which competition the club qualifies for in a given season. Romelu Lukaku's 27 goals came in a more scattered fashion across four different clubs: Anderlecht, Everton, Inter Milan and Roma, a reflection of a career that has taken him through more leagues and more transfers than most players at his level.

Aritz Aduriz rounds out the top five with 26 goals, every single one of them scored for Athletic Club, the Basque club whose long-standing policy of fielding only Basque-born or Basque-raised players makes his total especially notable. Aduriz never played for another senior club, and his goal record in the competition stands as one of the clearest examples of a player building an entire European legacy at a single, unusually loyal institution.

An unusually mixed group of finishers

What stands out about this top five is how different the five players are as footballers. Aubameyang and Falcao are both out-and-out strikers built around pace and movement in behind a defense, the classic profile for a competition scoring chart. Lukaku is a different type entirely, a target man who bullies center-backs physically as much as he beats them for speed. Aduriz spent much of his career as a target man too, but a slower-burning one, someone who did not even establish himself as Athletic Club's first-choice striker until his late twenties and then kept scoring into his late thirties.

Bruno Fernandes is the outlier of the group, and arguably the most impressive name on the list for that reason. He is a central midfielder by trade, not a forward, and his 27 goals have come from a mix of penalties, deflections, long-range strikes and the kind of clever late runs into the box that box-to-box midfielders are supposed to make occasionally rather than routinely. Reaching third on an all-time scoring list from midfield, level with a recognized out-and-out finisher in Lukaku, is a genuinely unusual achievement.

Getting onto this list at all tends to require one of two career shapes: either years of loyalty to a single club that regularly plays in the Europa League, which is Aduriz's path, or a well-traveled career across several different clubs that happen to qualify for the competition in different seasons, which describes Aubameyang, Lukaku and, to a lesser extent, Falcao. Very few players manage to rack up Europa League minutes, let alone goals, by staying at one of Europe's genuine super-clubs, since those teams are usually busy playing Champions League football instead.

Who could still climb the list

Because Aubameyang is still playing regular European football at Marseille, his total is not fixed. Bruno Fernandes remains an active goal threat for Manchester United whenever they qualify for the competition, and both players could plausibly extend their leads or close the gap on each other over the next season or two. Beyond the established top five, a wider group of current Europa League regulars, strikers who have racked up goals for clubs like Roma, Fenerbahçe, Real Betis and Ludogorets in recent seasons, are the most likely candidates to eventually break into the list, even if none of them are within realistic touching distance yet.

How it compares to the Champions League's scoring record

The gap between the Europa League and Champions League all-time scoring charts says a lot about how much more football the biggest clubs play in Europe's top competition. Cristiano Ronaldo's Champions League record sits far above anything in the Europa League, built over more than a decade of Champions League football for two of the biggest clubs in the world. Aubameyang's 34 is a serious total for a competition that most of Europe's elite clubs treat as a stepping stone rather than a destination, and it is unlikely any current Champions League regular will ever seriously chase it, simply because the very best clubs rarely spend enough seasons in the Europa League to build a total like his.

More Europa League reading

For the full mechanics of how the competition works now, including the league phase, the knockout play-off round and how it compares to the Champions League and Conference League, read our Europa League format explained guide. For the club side of the competition's history rather than the individual scoring charts, see our Europa League all-time winners list. And for the Champions League's own scoring record, our Champions League all-time top scorers piece covers Ronaldo's total and who is chasing it. Catch every goal from this season on our Europa League highlights hub.

FAQ

Who is the Europa League's all-time top scorer?

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, with 34 goals scored across Borussia Dortmund, Arsenal, Barcelona and Marseille. He took the record from Radamel Falcao during the 2023/24 season and has continued adding to it since.

How many Europa League goals has Aubameyang scored?

34, built up as 8 for Borussia Dortmund, 14 for Arsenal, 2 for Barcelona and the rest for Marseille, including a 10-goal run to the semi-finals in 2023/24 that won him the competition's Player of the Season award.

Who held the Europa League scoring record before Aubameyang?

Radamel Falcao, with 30 goals scored for Porto and Atlético Madrid. He also won the trophy with both Porto in 2010/11 and Atlético Madrid in 2011/12.

What is the record for goals in a single Europa League season?

17, set by Radamel Falcao for Porto during their treble-winning 2010/11 campaign. It is a record that has stood for well over a decade.

Does the Europa League top scorers list include UEFA Cup goals from before 2009?

No. The competition was rebranded from the UEFA Cup to the Europa League ahead of the 2009/10 season, and the all-time scoring list generally covers only the Europa League era from that point on.

Could anyone catch Aubameyang's Europa League scoring record?

It is possible but not close. Aubameyang is still playing regular European football at Marseille, and Bruno Fernandes remains an active goal threat for Manchester United, but no player is within easy reach of 34 goals in the near future.