Haaland and Gyökeres top the Nations League scoring charts

Norway’s Erling Haaland leads the Nations League’s all-time scoring chart with 22 goals, while Serbia’s Aleksandar Mitrović and Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo are joint second with 15 goals each. The report says the competition is set to resume with the fifth and sixth rounds of its fifth edition, starting next Thursday, as teams seek to secure qualification for the knockout rounds in League A and settle promotion and relegation matters.

According to the figures cited, Sweden’s Viktor Gyökeres, Belgium’s Romelu Lukaku and Vedat Muriqi have scored 14 goals each, while England’s Harry Kane has 12, and France’s Kylian Mbappé and Luxembourg’s Daniel Sinani have 10 each. In addition, 19 players have scored a hat-trick or four goals in a single match since the competition began. Poland’s Robert Lewandowski was the latest to join the list, scoring a hat-trick against Romania last October.

Haaland holds the record as the youngest player to score a hat-trick in the competition, at 20 years and 82 days, and is the only player to have scored two hat-tricks in it, according to the source. Sweden’s Yura Movsisyan scored four goals against Gibraltar in 2018, and Gyökeres matched him by scoring four against Azerbaijan in November this year.

The report says Gyökeres became the first player to score in seven consecutive Nations League matches, in a run that began against Estonia and included Slovakia, Azerbaijan, Poland, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mitrović and Harry Kane scored in five consecutive matches, while Haaland, João Félix, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Răzvan Marin scored in four consecutive matches. The report looks ahead to what changes the coming rounds may bring to the scoring rankings.