Top 5 footballers with most goals in UEFA Champions League Finals; check out

Most UCL Final goals: After yet another bustling and engaging season, the UEFA Champions League brought an end to the European football calendar.

Real Madrid lifted their 14^th UEFA Champions League title after beating Liverpool 1-0 through Vinicius Junior’s second half strike.

This must have been a dream fulfilled for the Brazilian as he scored in the ultimate competition’s final to help his team seal a memorable victory.

Just like him, there have been some of the greats gone by who’ve scored in the Champions League final and find their place in the history books.

Scoring in the main event comes with due pressure and to deliver when needed gives a player the highest of highs.

Without further ado, we look at the top 5 players with most UCL Final goals in the history of the competition.

Lionel Messi

The Argentine has scored twice in the UCL finals in his career and both were during the title wins in 2009 and 2011.

In the 2009 final, he scored the 2^nd goal of Barcelona’s 2-0 win over Manchester United via a leaping header which beat Van der Sar comfortably.

The second came in 2011 against the same opponents in Wembley as Barcelona won 3-1 courtesy strikes from Pedro, Villa and Messi.

Lionel Messi Produced the GREATEST UCL final perfomance of the 21st century in 2011 🐐 pic.twitter.com/W6NKUIr5oF

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Messi owned the occasion on that night to ensure Barcelona weren’t caught by the English side as he put on one of football’s greatest spectacles.

Filippo Inzaghi

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The stage was set in 2007 as Milan faced Liverpool in the Champions League final at the Olympic Stadium in Athens.

Inzaghi scored twice in the match to help the Italian side beat Liverpool 2-1 and win his 2^nd UEFA Champions League title.

Over the course of the season, Inzaghi was looking a little rusty but a Man of the match performance in the final ensured he finished the season on Cloud 9.

Samuel Eto’o

Eto’o won 4 UCL titles during his career; 2 of which he managed with Barcelona in 2006 and 2009.

Eto’o scored in both those finals as Barcelona beat Arsenal and Manchester United to the Championship.

In the 2006 final, he scored the equalizer in the 76^th minute to cancel out Campbell’s effort.

He also found the back of the net against Manchester United in Rome as the Spanish side won 2-0 in 2009.

Gareth Bale

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The Welshman has scored 3 UCL Finals goals for Real Madrid in the competition and makes it to 2^nd in this list.

In the 2014 final in Lisbon, Gareth Bale scored the second of Real Madrid’s three via a header.

It took him 4 more years to increase that tally as he found the net twice in 2018 as Real Madrid beat Liverpool 3-1 and win their 13^th UEFA Champions League crown. One of which was a awe-inspiring bicycle kick as seen above.

Cristiano Ronaldo

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Finals, Goals, Records and Ronaldo; it’s all destined to happen, isn’t it?

Cristiano Ronaldo holds the record for most UCL Final goals in his career (4). Ronaldo scored in his first ever UCL Final in 2008 via a leaper header to give United the lead against Chelsea.

In the 2014 final, Ronaldo scored a penalty in the 120^th minute to ensure a 4-1 win for Los Blancos.

Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 4 ucl finals goals, most in history. 🤯🐐 pic.twitter.com/xRy20UMzQE

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The Portuguese scored twice in the 4-1 win over Juventus in 2017 as well. This was also the 3^rd instance when Ronaldo finished the UCL as the leading goal-scorer making the victory even sweeter.