- First player to score for two different teams in the same UCL season
- Fastest player to reach double-digit goals in UCL history
- The fastest and second-youngest player ever to score 11 UCL goals in just 7 matches; this is at least 2 more than any other player for a big-five European league club in all competitions
- A stunning hat-trick inside 23 minutes in his first appearance for Borussia Dortmund, before scoring another 2 more goals in his second game
- A total of 35 goals in 29 appearances this season so far
- An average of 1 goal every 50 minutes
- Clocking a time of 6.64 seconds for a 60-metre sprint during a first half counter attack. The 60m world record by US sprinter Christian Coleman is 6.34 seconds
- And the most staggering statistics of all – he’s 6ft 4in tall, powerfully-built, incredibly fast and only 19 years 212 days old!
Football’s latest phenomenon Erling Braut Haaland goes on record now as the European Champions League’s top scorer this season, along with fellow Bundesliga marksman Robert Lewandowski.
His mind-boggling haul of 10 goals is the same as that scored by Borussia Dortmund as a whole in the competition this season and one more than Atletico Madrid and Barcelona and he’s not even remotely fazed by any of it.
Haaland rattled off eight goals in rapid succession for Austrian club Salzburg in the group stage before making his switch to Germany, which means he is now the first ever player to score for two different clubs in the same Champions League campaign.
At only 19 years and 212 days of age, Haaland is the second-youngest player to score 11 goals in the Champions League behind Kylian Mbappe, who passed the milestone at just 18 years and 350 days.
Haaland also has the distinction of standing behind Kylian Mbappe (18 years, 113 days) and former Sevilla defender Deivid (19 years, 37 days) as the youngest players to have scored more than once in a single UCL knockout match.
Not surprisingly too, Haaland has also now earned a new reputation for himself as one of the first players to be given one of UEFA’s new official Man of the Match trophies (along with Atletico Madrid’s Lodi), as ordained by their panel of technical observers.
The young Norwegian wunderkind sent more records tumbling and even had the opportunity to display his quicksilver sprinting ability in the recent Champions League match-winning display against Paris Saint-Germain when the teen sensation was clocked sprinting for 60 metres on the pitch at a speed of 6.64 seconds, only 0.30 seconds off the 60 metres world record of 6.34 seconds set by Christian Coleman of the United States in the men’s final at the World Indoor Championships in 2018.
Fresh from his arrival at Borussia Dortmund from FC Red Salzburg in January 2020 for just €20m, Haaland most recently scored his 38th goal with a lunging, predatory tap-in and a subsequent 39th with a thunderous left-footed strike from outside the box at Signal Iduna Park on Tuesday evening, taking his total for his new club to 11 goals in just seven appearances when the 19-year-old Norwegian prodigy scored both goals for Borussia Dortmund in their 2-1 win in the first leg of their Champions League round-of-16 clash, thus sending yet more records tumbling with seemingly casual nonchalance.
This was enough to see him become the quickest player ever to reach the 10-goal mark in Champions League history, taking just seven appearances to do so with four fewer than anybody else.
It now waits to be seen how long Haaland can maintain this unprecedented acceleration up the scoring charts this season. To date, he has now scored in his Borussia Dortmund debuts in the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and the Champions Leagues, having also found the back of the net in his first ever game in the latter competition during his time at Salzburg.
His numbers are way off the charts with more records being crushed with each new game.
That’s why every top club in Europe can’t wait to get their hands on him.