European Championship top scorers: All-time and every tournament

Scoring goals at international tournaments is a feat even some of the best strikers have struggled to achieve. It takes a certain level of ruthlessness and an ability to stay at the top level across your entire career.

The FIFA World Cup may still be the pinnacle of international football and the stage that all strikers want to impress on the most, but scoring goals at the European Championship is also incredibly impressive and special.

Here are the players who have managed more goals than than anyone else, as well as the top scorers for each edition of the tournament since it began in 1960.

It may not be a huge surprise to hear that it is Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo that has bagged the most goals at European Championships ever. He has also got a pretty healthy margin over his closest challenger, too.

Ronaldo has played in five different editions of the tournament having first started scoring goals during the 2004 instalment. He has taken the field every four years since and could well do so again in 2024 given he grabbed a few goals in the most recent international break for Portugal.

The table below shows which players have managed to get the most goals at Euros finals over the years so far.

International breaks take place throughout each season and, depending on which international tournaments have just been played, countries are often in action in qualifiers for either the World Cup of European Championship.

Ronaldo has wracked up 35 goals in Euro qualifying and leads a prestigious list of scorers including Ireland’s Robbie Keane, Sweden’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Poland’s Robert Lewandowski, all of whom have struggled due to their side’s fledgling international status.

While Ronaldo may be sitting pretty at the top of the all-time scorers chart, how many individual tournaments has he been the top scorer in?

Despite scoring 14 goals across five different…