Messi & Ronaldo: The best goal-per-game ratio at the 20 most valuable clubs

Goals-per-game is a great metric for analysing how good an attack-minded footballer is.

Averaging around 0.50 goals-per-game at the very highest level is mighty impressive, while those who surpass the 0.75 mark can only be described as world-class – and even then that is something of an understatement.

Unsurprisingly, both Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are two footballers to boast a better ratio than 0.75 goals-per-game at one of Europe’s biggest clubs.

But are there any others? Well, we decided to try and find out the answers to that question.

Below, we’ve worked out the player with the best goals-per-game ratio at each of the world’s 20 most valuable clubs, as listed on Transfermarkt.

To make things easier and more relevant to the modern era, only goals scored from the 1999/2000 season onwards have been taken into account.

Check out our findings in full…

Sergio Aguero | 260 goals | 0.67 goals-per-game

Zlatan Ibrahimovic | 156 goals | 0.87 goals-per-game

Mohamed Salah | 155 goals | 0.62 goals-per-game

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink | 87 goals | 0.49 goals-per-game

Robert Lewandowski | 344 goals | 0.92 goals-per-game

Cristiano Ronaldo | 450 goals | 1.03 goals-per-game

Ruud van Nistelrooy | 150 goals | 0.69 goals-per-game

Lionel Messi | 672 goals | 0.86 goals-per-game

Radamel Falcao | 70 goals | 0.77 goals-per-game

Harry Kane | 247 goals | 0.64 goals-per-game

Erling Braut Haaland | 86 goals | 0.97 goals-per-game

Cristiano Ronaldo | 101 goals | 0.75 goals-per-game

Romelu Lukaku | 64 goals | 0.67 goals-per-game

Thierry Henry | 228 goals | 0.61 goals-per-game

Jamie Vardy | 163 goals | 0.43 goals-per-game

Edinson Cavani | 104 goals | 0.75 goals-per-game

Zlatan Ibrahimovic | 92 goals | 0.58 goals-per-game

Timo Werner | 95 goals