Haaland vs Mbappé 2024/25 season stats

Mbappé's 44: a record first season in Madrid

Mbappé, 25 when he arrived on a free transfer, scored on his debut in the UEFA Super Cup against Atalanta on 14 August 2024 and then spent the autumn being asked whether he was worth it: he was played as a central striker to keep Vinícius Júnior on the left, missed penalties against Liverpool and Athletic Club in the same week of early December, and had fewer than half of his eventual league total by Christmas. From January he was the player Madrid had bought. A hat-trick at Valladolid on 25 January, three against City at the Bernabéu in February, and three more in a 4-3 defeat at Barcelona in May that all but decided the title carried him to 31 La Liga goals in 34 games, the Pichichi by four from Robert Lewandowski and the European Golden Shoe ahead of Viktor Gyökeres and Mohamed Salah. His 44 in all competitions beat Iván Zamorano's 37 as the most by a Real Madrid player in a debut season, and matched his best PSG total, in the most games he has ever played in a season. The team, though, lost the Supercopa final 5-2 and the Copa del Rey final 3-2 to Barcelona, finished four points behind them in the league, and Carlo Ancelotti left before the Club World Cup, where Mbappé missed the group stage with gastroenteritis and scored once, an overhead kick against Dortmund.

Haaland's 34: ten in five, then a season that got away

Haaland, 24 in August, began with the fastest start in Premier League history: a goal at Chelsea, hat-tricks against Ipswich and West Ham on consecutive Saturdays, two at Brentford and one against Arsenal, ten goals in five games. Then Rodri tore his cruciate ligament, City won one of thirteen matches between late October and Boxing Day, and Haaland's scoring slowed with the team's. He signed a new contract to 2034 in January, finished with 22 league goals in 31 games, third behind Salah and Alexander Isak, and was then injured. An ankle injury in the FA Cup quarter-final at Bournemouth on 30 March kept him out for seven weeks; he returned for the run-in and the final, where he handed the penalty to Omar Marmoush, who missed, and City lost 1-0 to Crystal Palace. His 34 across all competitions include 3 at the Club World Cup in June, where City went out to Al Hilal in the round of 16. It was his first season without a major trophy since 2021-22; the Community Shield won on penalties in August is the only honour in this table.

Head-to-head: the play-off that went Madrid's way

The new league-phase format put both clubs in the knockout play-off round, City 22nd and Madrid 11th, and the draw paired them. In the first leg at the Etihad on 11 February 2025, Haaland scored his first goals against Real Madrid, a volley from Jack Grealish's cross and a late penalty, and twice put City ahead; Mbappé's mis-hit equaliser off his shin, Brahim Díaz and Jude Bellingham in the 92nd minute won it 3-2 for Madrid. Haaland jarred his knee against Newcastle four days later and was an unused substitute for the second leg, so the 19 February match is not in the players' head-to-head record, but it belonged to Mbappé: a lob over Ederson in the fourth minute, a second after dropping Joško Gvardiol, and a third with his left foot after a stepover past Phil Foden, a 3-1 win and a 6-3 aggregate. It was his first Champions League hat-trick for Madrid and the first time either player had scored three against the other's club. Madrid then beat Atlético on penalties and lost 5-1 on aggregate to Arsenal in the quarter-final.

Champions League: more goals from the loser

Haaland scored 8 in 9 Champions League games, 6 in the league phase including two in the 3-3 draw with Feyenoord and one in the 4-2 collapse at Paris Saint-Germain, and 2 in the play-off first leg, so his per-game rate was the better of the two despite City's exit before the round of 16. Mbappé's 7 in 14 were 3 in the league phase, against Stuttgart, Atalanta and Salzburg, and 4 in the knockouts, all of them against City. He did not score in the four games against Atlético and Arsenal.

The shooting numbers: Mbappé's volume, Haaland's quiet year

Haaland's league season was his least productive at City: 22 goals from 23.95 expected goals (-1.95) on 3.60 shots per 90, the lowest of his career, as the team that had fed him stopped creating. He still converted 13 of 28 big chances (46.4%), a better rate than the season before, and scored 3 of 4 penalties. Mbappé took 4.90 shots per 90 and scored 31 from 30.14 xG (+0.86), with 7 of 9 penalties and 14 of 35 big chances (40.0%). His 0.95 goals per 90 against Haaland's 0.72 is the widest gap between them in any season on this site, and it ran the other way from 2022-23.

International: Haaland's Nations League, Mbappé's absence

Haaland scored 11 for Norway in 2024, most of them in a Nations League group Norway won to earn promotion to League A, including a hat-trick against Kazakhstan in November; his 17 in 2025 began with doubles against Moldova and Israel in the World Cup qualifiers in March. Mbappé scored 2 for France in 2024, both at or around Euro 2024, and was left out of the autumn squads by agreement with Didier Deschamps while he settled in Madrid. He returned in March 2025 and scored 7 in 2025, including a penalty in the 5-4 Nations League semi-final defeat to Spain. Both players' later 2025 totals fall in the next season. The international page has both careers year by year; all meetings between the two are on the head-to-head page.