Haaland vs Mbappé 2023/24 season stats

Haaland's 38: a second Golden Boot in a shorter season

Haaland, 23 when the season began, was named UEFA Men's Player of the Year in August and finished runner-up to Lionel Messi in the October Ballon d'Or. He scored twice on the opening night at Burnley, a hat-trick in a 5-1 win over Fulham on 2 September, and had 14 league goals by early December when a stress injury in his foot took him out until the end of January, costing him the Club World Cup, which City won without him. He returned to score 5 in an FA Cup tie at Luton on 27 February, then 4 against Wolves on 4 May as City chased Arsenal down. His 27 in 31 games won the Golden Boot by five goals, and City's 3-1 win over West Ham on the final day made them the first English club to win four top-flight titles in a row. The 38 across all competitions is 14 fewer than the record season before, from eight fewer games.

Mbappé's 44: the best season of his PSG career, and the last

The season started with Mbappé, 24, left out of PSG's pre-season tour and training apart from the squad after telling the club he would not extend a contract expiring in June 2024. He was reintegrated in mid-August and then scored at a rate PSG had never had from him: 27 Ligue 1 goals in 29 games for a sixth straight Golden Boot and a fifth Player of the Year award, 8 in 6 Coupe de France games including a hat-trick against sixth-tier Revel and the second goal in the final against Lyon, and a goal in the Trophée des Champions. The 44 goals in 48 club games beat his previous best of 41. In February he told the club he would leave; Luis Enrique began taking him off early, and the 25 May cup final in Lille was his 308th and last PSG game, with his 256th goal. Real Madrid announced his signing on 3 June 2024.

Champions League: joint top scorer against a quarter-final exit

Mbappé's 8 goals in 12 games made him joint top scorer of the 2023-24 Champions League with Harry Kane. PSG came through a group with Dortmund, Milan and Newcastle in which he scored 3, two of them penalties, then 5 in the knockouts: one in the first leg and two in the second against Real Sociedad, then two in the 4-1 win at Barcelona that turned a quarter-final PSG had been losing. The semi-final against Dortmund, Haaland's old club, went 1-0 to the Germans in both legs, with PSG hitting the woodwork six times across the tie. Haaland's 6 in 9 were 5 in the group stage, four of them against Young Boys, and one in the round of 16 against Copenhagen. City went out to Real Madrid in the quarter-final on penalties after 3-3 in Madrid and 1-1 at the Etihad; Haaland, carrying a knock, had been substituted before the shoot-out.

The shooting numbers: Haaland under his xG, Mbappé well over it

This is the one Premier League season in which Haaland scored fewer goals than the chances were worth. His 27 came from 31.65 expected goals (-4.65), with 7 of 8 penalties scored and a big-chance conversion of 33.3% (12 of 36), down from 50% in the treble season. The chance supply was as good as ever, 0.26 xG per shot, but the finishing was not. Mbappé went the other way: 27 from 21.30 xG (+5.70), 6 of 8 penalties, and 8 of 16 big chances (50.0%). He also played 437 fewer league minutes, partly because of the early substitutions in the spring, so his 1.13 goals per 90 against Haaland's 0.94 is the clearest gap of the season.

International: a 14-0 and a broken nose

Mbappé scored 10 for France in 2023, including a hat-trick in the 14-0 win over Gibraltar on 18 November, France's biggest ever victory. Euro 2024 falls inside this season's window and was his most frustrating tournament: he broke his nose against Austria in the first game, played the rest in a mask and scored only a penalty against Poland before France lost the semi-final to Spain. Haaland's Norway did not qualify. He scored 6 in 2023, and his 11 in 2024 began with a hat-trick against Kosovo in a June friendly; most of the rest came in the Nations League in the autumn, which belongs to the next season.

No meeting, for the fourth season running

City and PSG were kept apart by the Champions League draw again, so 2023-24 was the last of four straight seasons without a Haaland v Mbappé match. The nearest they came was the quarter-final round in April 2024, when City lost to Real Madrid and PSG beat Barcelona on consecutive nights. They next met in February 2025, by which time Mbappé was a Real Madrid player. All meetings are on the head-to-head page; the international page has both careers year by year.