Haaland vs Mbappé Goal Contributions: Goals + Assists Compared

Goals settle most Haaland vs Mbappé arguments in Haaland's favour on rate and Mbappé's on volume. Add assists and the picture changes, because the two players do very different jobs. Haaland finishes; Mbappé finishes and creates. This article compares goal contributions (goals plus assists) for club and country, per game, club by club and season by season. Every figure is read from the same dataset as the Haaland vs Mbappé career stats page and updates automatically (data as of 2026-10-15).

Career goal contributions

Mbappé has more than twice as many career assists as Haaland: 156 to 69. That gap is the single biggest statistical difference between the two players, bigger than the gap in goals, hat-tricks or trophies. Combined with his higher goal total, it takes Mbappé past 600 career goal contributions while Haaland is in the mid-400s.

The age and appearance gap explains part of it: Mbappé has played about 140 more senior matches. It does not explain all of it, because the difference survives when you divide by games played.

Contributions per game: the one metric Mbappé leads

Goals per game belongs to Haaland, as the goals per game comparison shows. Goal contributions per game is closer, and in the current data it tilts the other way.

• Mbappé: roughly 1.02 goal contributions per game across his senior career, a goal or an assist in every match he plays, on average.
• Haaland: roughly 0.99 per game, almost the same output but made up almost entirely of goals.

Read those two numbers together and the profile of each player is obvious. About 15% of Haaland's contributions are assists; for Mbappé it is closer to 26%. Haaland converts chances at a rate nobody else can match. Mbappé delivers the same total impact on the scoreline while also being the player who makes the chances.

Club by club

Two clubs define the comparison. Borussia Dortmund is where Haaland was at his most rounded: 23 assists in 89 games alongside 86 goals, better than an assist every four matches. At Manchester City his assist rate has dropped even as his goals have risen, because Pep Guardiola uses him as the fixed point every other attacker plays off.

Paris Saint-Germain is Mbappé's creative peak: 95 assists in 308 games, playing off the left with Neymar, Di María and later Messi. Since moving to Real Madrid he has been pushed into a more central, goal-first role, and the numbers show it: 95 goals but only 13 assists in 113 games. His current profile is closer to Haaland's than at any point in his career.

Season by season: Mbappé's assists

Mbappé's per-season assist record is complete in the dataset; Haaland's season-level assists are only fully verified from 2025/26, so his are shown where confirmed.

Mbappé's 2021/22 season is the creative high point of either career: 21 assists to go with 39 goals, 60 contributions in 46 games. He reached double figures for assists in seven consecutive seasons from 2017/18 to 2023/24. Since joining Real Madrid the assists have fallen to single figures while the goals have stayed above 40, which is the clearest evidence that his role, not his ability, drives the number.

Haaland's 9 assists in 2025/26 were a career high at City and came with 38 goals. Even so, that is a season Mbappé would have matched for assists in almost any year at PSG.

International contributions

For Norway, Haaland is the finisher and Martin Ødegaard is the creator, and the split is extreme: 65 goals to 7 assists. For France, Mbappé has been both. His 38 international assists on top of 67 goals put him past 100 contributions for his country, a total that includes a World Cup win, a World Cup final hat-trick and two Golden Boots. Per cap, Haaland's combined output is higher; in absolute terms and in tournament football, Mbappé's is unmatched among active players. The international stats page has the year-by-year breakdown.

How assists are counted, and why totals differ between sites

Goals are unambiguous. Assists are not: different data providers credit them differently, and career assist totals for both players vary by 10 to 20 depending on the source. Our figures follow a conservative, per-competition method (Opta/ESPN-style for most competitions, with a small number of cup seasons estimated), which is why Mbappé's club assist total here is lower than the Transfermarkt-style numbers quoted in some articles. Haaland's early-career assists in Norway are incomplete, and his career total should be read as approximate. The full counting rules are on the Sources and Methodology page.

None of that changes the conclusion. Whichever provider you use, Mbappé has roughly double Haaland's assists, and both players sit at about one goal contribution per game.

Verdict

• Goals: Haaland by rate, Mbappé by total.
• Assists: Mbappé, by a wide margin, in every phase of his career.
• Goal contributions per game: effectively level, with Mbappé fractionally ahead at about 1.02 to Haaland's 0.99.

The honest summary is that the two produce the same amount of end product per match, and the argument is about how you value it. If you want a striker who turns chances into goals more reliably than anyone alive, that is Haaland. If you want a forward whose contributions include the passes that make the goals as well as the goals themselves, that is Mbappé. For the goals-only view, see goals per game; for the full picture, the career stats comparison.