Haaland vs Mbappé penalties

Conversion: Haaland is the safer taker, but not by much

Haaland converts 84.8% of his league penalties, Mbappé 81.8%. The difference is 3.0 percentage points, or about one penalty in every 33. Both are above the long-run average for top-flight penalties, which sits around 76 to 78%, and the career-wide approximations (83.9% and 80.5%) tell the same story. Haaland's longest run without a miss is 13 penalties, from his second Dortmund season through the whole of the 52-goal 2022/23 campaign; Mbappé's is 10.

How they miss

The misses look different. Every one of Mbappé's 8 league misses was a save: goalkeepers have read him, most often when he goes to his natural side. Haaland's 5 misses split 3 saved and 2 against the woodwork, and both of his Dortmund misses came in his first full season there, when he was still establishing himself as the taker. Neither has missed a league penalty off target. Mbappé's most expensive misses have come outside the league and are not in these tables: the decisive kick in the Euro 2020 shoot-out against Switzerland and a quarter-final penalty against Morocco at the 2026 World Cup, a game France still won.

Volume: more in total for Mbappé, more often for Haaland

Mbappé has taken 44 league penalties to Haaland's 33, but he has also played 114 more league games. Per match it is Haaland who steps up more often: one penalty every 6.2 league games against one every 7.2. Haaland's number is high for a centre-forward and reflects both how often Manchester City are fouled in the box and the fact that he has been the taker from his first day there. Mbappé's is held down by history. At PSG Mbappé was behind Edinson Cavani and then shared duties with Neymar, and in 2016/17, 2017/18, 2019/20 he did not score a single league penalty. He became the undisputed taker only after Neymar's 2023 departure, and at Real Madrid he has taken 20 in just over two seasons (16 scored, 80.0%). Haaland took his first league penalty on 19 September 2020 and has been Manchester City's taker since arriving: 23 taken, 20 scored (87.0%).

What penalties do to the goal totals

Penalties are 15.6% of Haaland's league goals and 14.1% of Mbappé's, so neither total is inflated by them to any unusual degree; for comparison, several of the most prolific strikers of the past decade have been above 20%. Strip penalties out and the two are almost level on non-penalty goals per 90 in the league, which the non-penalty goals page covers in full. Career-wide, penalties are roughly 14.0% of Haaland's 372 goals and 14.8% of Mbappé's 445.

Internationally

The league data does not cover Norway or France. Published counts give Haaland about 10 penalties scored from 12 for Norway, and Mbappé's France record includes converted penalties in a World Cup final (2022) and a World Cup round of 16 (2026, against Paraguay) as well as the two misses above. The international stats page has their full records for country.