Real Madrid top scorers 2024/25: Vini Jr hattrick overshadowed by injury fears

Carlo Garganese

• Updated: 9 Nov 2024 15:12 GMT
• 10 min read

The race to be named Real Madrid top scorer for the 2024/25 season features some of the leading players in world football.

Carlo Ancelotti’s team won La Liga and the Champions League last year and have now added to that successful squad with some eye-catching transfer signings.

France star Kylian Mbappe has signed from Paris Saint-Germain and he will hope to embark on a goal-laden career at Santiago Bernabeu.

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Brazil teenage sensation Endrick has arrived from Palmeiras and will also be desperate to make a great start in Real Madrid colours.

Those new arrivals are competing to score the most goals for Real Madrid in the 2024/25 season with a star-studded existing squad that includes other contenders like Jude Bellingham, Vinicius Junior, Rodrygo, Brahim Diaz and Federico Valverde.

England talisman Bellingham topped the league scoring charts for Real Madrid last season, superbly scoring 19 times despite it being his first season in the Spanish top flight.

Bellingham’s success came after Karim Benzema had come out on top for Madrid in the five previous La Liga seasons. That run ended with his move to Al-Ittihad in Saudi Arabia.

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It was forward Vinicius who topped the club’s goal rankings across all competitions last year with 24 strikes, including one in the Champions League final win over Borussia Dortmund.

Some star signings joining the club’s already brilliant attacking options sets up an enthralling battle to be named the leading Real Madrid goalscorer this season, with Mbappe the favourite due to his stunning career record at both club and international level.

Mbappe got off to a fine start with a debut goal in his new side's UEFA Super Cup victory and now we will see if Madrid can add even more silverware to their bulging trophy cabinet as Ancelotti continues the fourth season of his second spell in charge.

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Whatever happens, though, the club’s fans will be confident of enjoying a flurry of goals, despite former top scorers like Cristiano Ronaldo and Benzema no longer being at the club.

This page will be updated with Real Madrid's top scorers in the La Liga and all competitions after every matchday this season.

Real Madrid: La Liga top scorers 2024/25

Real Madrid have scored 25 goals in their 12 La Liga matches so far in the 2024/25 season.

Those goals have been spread around the team, with ten different players already finding the target.

But Vinicius Jr is top of the scoring standings by a healthy margin after scoring a hattrick against Osasuna on 9 November.

In their league opener, Madrid took the lead through Rodrygo, but had to settle for a 1-1 away draw versus Mallorca.

On MD2, Federico Valverde and Brahim Diaz scored against Real Valladolid, but the highlight of the day was a debut goal for Endrick, who struck swiftly after coming on as a substitute to seal a 3-0 home win.

Vinicius Junior scored his first goal of the season with a penalty away to Las Palmas on MD3. That helped Madrid to come from behind but, like in their opening match of the campaign, they were forced to settle for a 1-1 draw on the road. That was despite a dominant performance that saw them rack up 25 shots.

Kylian Mbappe was still waiting to score his first league goal of the season after those first three matches, and it looked like there would be frustration again at home to Real Betis in MD4.

The match was goalless deep into the second half, but Mbappe then got the breakthrough goal and soon added a second from the penalty spot, giving him a massive boost going into the first international break of the season.

And he returned from that break with another key strike. Both Mbappe and Vinicius scored second-half penalties as Madrid battled to a 2-0 away win over Real Sociedad on September 14.

Mbappe netted his third consecutive La Liga penalty to cap an emphatic Real Madrid comeback in their sixth top-flight match of the season. Los Blancos fell behind to Espanyol in the second half but goals from Dani Carvajal, Rodrygo and Vinicius rapidly secured the points before the France striker's spot-kick made it 4-1.

There was a goal from open play for Mbappe as his scoring streak continued against Deportivo Alaves. Madrid raced into a three-goal lead at home, with Rodrygo and Lucas Vazquez also scoring, although there was a nervous finish before Los Blancos held on to win 3-2.

With Mbappe out through injury, Los Blancos drew 1-1 away to city rivals Atletico Madrid on MD8. Their goal was scored by defender Eder Militao, his first goal of the season.

Mbappe was involved on MD9 but it was Valverde and Vinicius who got the goals in a 2-0 home win over Villarreal. The stunning second-half goal from Vinicius found the top corner and was much needed as it was his first strike in four Madrid matches.

After an October international break packed with controversy, Mbappe returned in spectacular style to score the opener against Celta Vigo, and though the home side hit back, Vini Jr got the winner.

El Clasico was forgettable for both. The Frenchman was regularly caught offside as Los Blancos were picked apart in a 4-0 loss.

The problems did not subside with Real Madrid's clash with Valencia postponed due to deadly flooding in the area.

Los Blancos returned to LaLiga action on 9 November against Osasuna. A comfortable 4-0 win thanks to a Vinicius Jr hattrick and Jude Bellingham's first goal of the season, the game was overshadowed by injuries to Eder Militao, Rodrygo and Lucas Vasquez.

Real Madrid top scorers in all competitions 2024/25

As well as La Liga, a busy season for Real Madrid will include them playing in the Champions League, Copa del Rey, Supercopa de Espana, FIFA Club World Cup, Intercontinental Cup and UEFA Super Cup.

Madrid have played four matches outside of La Liga so far, scoring 10 goals in those games. That means they have netted a total of 34 goals from 16 matches in all competitions.

Vinicius Junior leads the scoring standings with 12 goals so far this season, ahead of Kylian Mbappe (eight).

Vini Jr has scored eight La Liga goals, while he netted a hat-trick during their 5-2 Champions League win over Borussia Dortmund and a penalty in a 2-1 loss to AC Milan.

Intriguingly, Jude Bellingham has only scored once for Real Madrid this season.

Federico Valverde scored the opening goal of the 2024/25 season for Real Madrid after being set up by Vinicius Junior against Atalanta in the UEFA Super Cup.

The big moment of the night, though, saw Kylian Mbappe score his first goal for the club, finding the top corner having been found by Jude Bellingham as Madrid won 2-0 in Poland to seal some early silverware.

Mbappe was also on target as Real Madrid started their Champions League defence on a high with a 3-1 home victory over Stuttgart on September 17.

In a match that was goalless at half-time, Mbappe set Los Blancos on course for victory with a strike just 20 seconds into the second half. The goal was part of a five-game streak of netting in consecutive matches, having previously struck in the wins over Real Betis and Real Sociedad in La Liga and going on to score in later games against Espanyol and Alaves.

Stuttgart equalised with 22 minutes left, but Ancelotti's men were not to be denied. Antonio Rudiger headed in his first goal of the season with seven minutes left and then substitute Endrick sealed the victory in stoppage-time, scoring his first Champions League goal to cap a Madrid counter-attack.

Having scored in each of their first 10 matches across all competitions this season, Real Madrid failed to net for the first time on October 2, when they suffered a surprise 1-0 away defeat to Lille in the Champions League.

Vinicius Jr (x3), Antonio Rudiger and Lucas Vazquez scored in a 5-2 comeback win over Dortmund, before Vini netted their only goal during a 2-1 defeat to Milan on November 5.

Real Madrid next fixtures

Real Madrid's next fixture in 2024/25 is a La Liga clash against Leganes on 24 November.

The 19 goals scored by Jude Bellingham to finish top of the Real Madrid league goalscoring charts in 2023/24 meant it was two seasons in a row without the club's highest scorer reaching 20 in the Spanish top flight.

Karim Benzema had also topped the scoring standings with 19 the year before. That gave him a fifth straight success, and he had topped the 20-goal mark in all four of the other campaigns when he came out on top, performing best with 27 La Liga strikes in the 2021/22 season.

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Cristiano Ronaldo was top La Liga goalscorer for Real Madrid in an astonishing eight successive seasons between 2010/11 and his last season at the club in 2017/18.

He was at Santiago Bernabeu for nine seasons, only narrowly missing out on the crown once, when Gonzalo Higuain pipped the Portugal star by one goal in his first campaign in Spain after signing from Manchester United.

The 48 La Liga goals Ronaldo scored in 2014/15 remain a club record. He also won the European Golden Shoe that year and racked up a total of 61 strikes across all competitions, which is also the best-ever tally recorded by a Los Blancos player in a single season.

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The other players to top the Real Madrid league scoring standings on multiple occasions since 1995 are Raul Gonzalez (five times), Ronaldo Nazario (four times), Fernando Morientes (twice) and Higuain (twice).

Ruud van Nistelrooy and Davor Suker finished as the top Madrid league scorer once each during that timeframe.

Which Real Madrid players have won the Pichichi Trophy?

A Real Madrid player has won the Pichichi Trophy on 28 separate occasions. The feat has been achieved by 14 different players for the club, meaning many of them were multiple time winners.

Both Madrid's overall tally of winners (28) and number of players to triumph (14) in the Pichichi Trophy are records in Spanish football.

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While Barcelona great Lionel Messi holds the individual record with eight Pichichi wins, there are many Real Madrid players who have produced spectacular performances.

Alfredo Di Stefano won the scoring title five times while representing Real Madrid, with four of those coming in consecutive seasons.

Hugo Sanchez is another Real Madrid great who was a five-time Pichichi winner, although one of his crowns came while playing for city rivals Atletico Madrid.

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Ferenc Puskas was a four-time winner, while Cristiano Ronaldo came out on top three times, a total which almost certainly would have been higher had he not been coming up against a relentless Messi.

However, Real Madrid have struggled to make an impact in this award since Ronaldo left La Liga. A Los Blancos player has triumphed in just once in the last nine seasons, with Karim Benzema claiming the honour with 27 goals in 2021/22.

Cristiano Ronaldo is the all-time Real Madrid top scorer with 450 goals. He netted 311 times in La Liga and on 139 occasions across other competitions.

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What is most incredible is that Ronaldo hit that total in only 438 games, averaging more than a goal per game and producing the kind of scoring statistics that had not been seen since the era of Alfredo Di Stefano, who places fourth overall.

Karim Benzema (354 goals) is second in the Real Madrid scoring standings. Ronaldo and Benzema overtook iconic striker and former record holder Raul, who they both briefly played with for a season after signing for the club in 2009/10.