With 364 goals scored in the 120 matches since the group stage started, the average of more than three a game would be unprecedented if maintained after the final on 3 June. For that to happen, 11 more goals are needed in the five remaining fixtures.
Meanwhile, five more goals in those matches would take the tally to 369, one more than 2012/13, when 368 were registered for the current record average of 2.94 per game. The highest actual goal haul was 449 in 2000/01, when the second group stage meant that 157 fixtures were played rather than the current 125, with an average of 2.86. The last occurrence of an average of more than three was in the last all-knockout European Champion Clubs' Cup season of 1990/91, when 190 goals were scored in 59 matches.
It will be tougher for other records to go. No player remaining in the competition is within ten strikes of Cristiano Ronaldo's 17 goals from 2012/13 (in fact, Ronaldo is the closest on seven) while the highest-scoring team still in the competition, Real Madrid, have 28, fully 17 goals behind Barcelona's record and 13 short of their own high-water mark for a 13-game campaign.
Here are the key goalscoring numbers – for more consult the UEFA Champions League stats handbook.
UEFA Champions League goal records set this season
- Highest-scoring game: 12 goals, Borussia Dortmund 8-4 Legia Warszawa
- Joint most goals in a single game by one team and most goals scored by a losing team: Borussia Dortmund 8-4 Legia Warszawa
- Group with most goals: 51, Group F (first to have more than 50)
- Most goals scored by a club in the group stage: Borussia Dortmund 21
- Most goals involving one team in the group stage: Legia Warszawa 33 (9-24)
- First player to 100 career UEFA Champions League goals: Cristiano Ronaldo
- Joint most goals in a first half: 7 (5-2), Borussia Dortmund 8-4 Legia Warszawa
UEFA Champions League goals records at a glance (group stage to final only)
- Current season: 364 goals in 120 games, average 3.03
- Highest previous average: 2012/13 – 368 goals in 125 games, average 2.94
- Highest tally: 2000/01 – 449 goals in 157 games
- Most goals by one player in a season: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 17 in 2012/13
- Most goals by one club in a season: Barcelona 45 (16 games) in 1999/2000
- Most goals in current format by a club: Real Madrid 41 (13 games) in 2013/14
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