The 12 players who've finished as the European Cup's top scorer in more than one season

Robert Lewandowski is the top scorer in the Champions League this season.

After his hat-trick in the 7-1 mauling of Red Bull Salzburg that booked Bayern Munich‘s place in the quarter-finals, the Polish striker has 12 goals to his name.

It’s now going to take something special from either Mohamed Salah or Karim Benzema to knock him off of top spot.

If Lewandowski finishes as the Champions League’s leading scorer in 2021/22, he’ll join an exclusive club of players to achieve the feat twice.

Bayern’s talisman netted an astonishing 15 goals in the 2019/20 edition of the competition, which the German outfit won by beating Paris Saint-Germain in the final.

So who’re the other players who’ve won the Golden Boot in either the European Cup or Champions League on multiple occasions?

Let’s take a look…

The Swedish striker was the European Cup’s top scorer in two consecutive seasons between 1984 and 1986 at IFK Göteborg. His best campaign was 1984/85, where he found the back of the net seven times.

A bona fide Real Madrid legend. Di Stefano led the way for goals in 1957/58 and 1961/62, the Argentine icon scoring a whopping 10 times in the former. He also won five (yes, FIVE) European Cups during his memorable spell at Los Blancos.

Both of Romario’s Golden Boot winning seasons came at PSV Eindhoven. The Brazilian maestro scored seven times for the Dutch outfit in both 1989/90 and 1992/93, before joining Johan Cruyff’s Barcelona ‘Dream Team’.

Raul really was unplayable in his prime at Real Madrid. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, defenders just couldn’t lay a glove on him and he finished as the Champions League’s top scorer in the 1999/00 and 2000/01 editions of the competition.

A Ballon d’Or winner and one of the greatest strikers