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Top 10 Real Madrid All-Time Leading Goalscorers (2026): picked and ranked by our editors, and open to your votes. How we ranked this: Players were ranked by total goals scored in all competitive matches for Real Madrid, using figures from…
Wikipedia's List of Real Madrid CF records and statistics (as of 4 June 2023) and Transfermarkt's all-time top goalscorers page. Appearances and ratios are from the same sources. Dimension scores are relative within this list: the highest value on a dimension scores 10 and the lowest scores 1, with intermediate values scaled proportionally. Primary ranking metric is total goals (weight 0.5). Top10Grid checked every figure and name against the pages cited for each entry and removed anything those pages did not support. Sources: en.wikipedia.org, transfermarkt.com. — Top10Grid Sports Fan Club · Reviewed by Max Rankin
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| Item | goals | appearances | Years at club | Goals per game |
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| #1Cristiano Ronaldo | 450 | 438 | 9 | 1.03 |
| #2Karim Benzema | 354 | 648 | 14 | 0.55 |
Portuguese forward who scored 450 goals in 438 appearances for Real Madrid between 2009 and 2018.
Cristiano Ronaldo joined Real Madrid in 2009 and left in 2018. According to Wikipedia, he scored 450 goals in 438 competitive appearances, for a ratio of 1.03. His league total was 311 goals in 292 appearances. Data as of the cited pages.
French forward who scored 354 goals in 648 appearances for Real Madrid from 2009 to 2023.
Karim Benzema spent 14 seasons at Real Madrid. Wikipedia records 354 goals in 648 appearances (ratio 0.55). His league goals were 238 in 439 games. He is second on the all-time list and overtook Raúl in 2022.
Spanish forward who scored 323 goals in 741 appearances for Real Madrid between 1994 and 2010.
His league total was 228 goals in 550 appearances. Data from the official statistical compilations cited. Raúl is the most-capped player in Real Madrid's history.
Argentine-Spanish forward who scored 308 goals in 396 appearances for Real Madrid from 1953 to 1964.
League goals were 216 in 282 games. Totals taken from the cited record pages.
Spanish forward who scored 290 goals in 645 appearances for Real Madrid from 1971 to 1988.
League total was 186 in 461 games. He is fifth on the historical list.
Hungarian forward who scored 242 goals in 262 appearances for Real Madrid from 1958 to 1966.
His league total was 156 in 180 games. He is sixth on the all-time list and noted for a high scoring rate in a shorter spell. Data from the cited pages.
Mexican forward who scored 208 goals in 282 appearances for Real Madrid from 1985 to 1992.
League goals were 164 in 207 games. He ranks seventh all-time. Totals taken directly from the statistical records. Hugo Sánchez scored 38 bicycle kick goals throughout his career.
League total was 127 in 427 games. He ranks eighth. He won six European Cups. He won 23 titles with the club. He died at the age of 88. He was an honorary president of Real Madrid.
José Martínez Sánchez, known as Pirri, scored 171 goals in 561 appearances (ratio 0.3) per Wikipedia. League total was 123 in 417 games.
Spanish forward who scored 170 goals in 463 appearances for Real Madrid from 1983 to 1995.
League goals were 123 in 341 games. He ranks tenth on the all-time list. Totals from the statistical pages cited.
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| #3Raúl |
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| 323 |
| 741 |
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| 0.44 |
| #4Alfredo Di Stéfano | 308 | 396 | 11 | 0.78 |
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| #5Santillana | 290 | 645 | 17 | 0.45 |
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| #6Ferenc Puskás | 242 | 262 | 8 | 0.92 |
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| #7Hugo Sánchez | 208 | 282 | 7 | 0.74 |
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| #8Paco Gento | 183 | 600 | 18 | 0.31 |
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| #9Pirri | 171 | 561 | 16 | 0.30 |
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| #10Emilio Butragueño | 170 | 463 | 12 | 0.37 |
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