Haaland vs Mbappé goals

Total goals: Mbappé leads, and the age gap is most of the reason

Mbappé has 445 senior goals to Haaland's 372. He was born in December 1998, Haaland in July 2000, and he made his professional debut two seasons earlier, so he has played 140 more matches. Divide the goals by the games and the order flips: Haaland scores 0.83 per game, Mbappé 0.76. The same-age comparison shows that through their age-25 seasons Haaland had actually scored more club goals (297 to 283).

The pace race

Because Haaland's per-game rate is higher by 0.07 goals, he gains about 3.7 goals on Mbappé for every 50 matches they both play. At that rate the current gap of 73 would take roughly 20 seasons to close, which is another way of saying Haaland will only overtake Mbappé on total goals if Mbappé's output falls away first. Since moving to Real Madrid, it has done the opposite: 95 goals in 113 games. The games per goal and goals per 90 pages look at the rate side of this in detail.

Where the goals come from

Both score the bulk of their club goals in the league: 69% of Haaland's club goals and 67% of Mbappé's. The clearest difference is Europe. Haaland has 65 continental goals in 66 matches, effectively a goal a game; Mbappé has 72 in 101. Mbappé's answer is the World Cup: 22 goals in 22 finals matches, the most in the tournament's history, against Haaland's 7 from one tournament. International goals make up 17% of Haaland's career total and 15% of Mbappé's.

Seasons and peaks

In the 7 full seasons both have played in Europe's top leagues (20 or more appearances each), Haaland out-scored Mbappé 2 times and Mbappé out-scored Haaland 5 times. Haaland owns the single highest peak, 52 goals in 2022/23 for Manchester City, and has 3 completed seasons of 40 or more. Mbappé's peak is 44 in 2023/24, and his edge is the floor: 10 completed seasons of 20 or more goals, 8 of them 30 or more, without a dip since he was 18. Haaland has 7 and 6 respectively from a shorter career. The season by season page has every campaign, and the club stats page splits each one by competition.

Hat-tricks and big hauls

Haaland has 28 senior hat-tricks (22 for his clubs, 6 for Norway), Mbappé 25 (22 club, 3 for France). Haaland's include two five-goal games, against RB Leipzig in the Champions League and Luton in the FA Cup, and five in one World Cup qualifier against Moldova. Mbappé's include a hat-trick in the 2022 World Cup final, the only one in a final since 1966. The records and milestones page lists the individual feats.