Robert Lewandowski broke the record in the Champions League! This is quite a surprise
The 2026/27 season is the first in 15 years in which Robert Lewandowski was absent from the Champions League. However, the Pole broke another record in the European elite.
Robert Lewandowski played in 144 Champions League matches in his career. The Pole did not get into the European club elite with a team from his homeland, but he quickly got on the right track – while already in Germany.
RL9 played in the Champions League for BVB, Bayern Munich and FC Barcelona. Total number of hits by a Pole? Lewandowski scored 109 goals in the Champions League.
Robert Lewandowski’s record! It’s hard to believe these numbers
Only Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were better than the captain of the Polish national team. However, it should be known that the Argentine and the Portuguese played more matches in the Champions League than Lewandowski. Messi scored 129 goals in 163 appearances. However, the leader of the goalscoring classification – CR7 – has 141 goals in 167 matches.
An interesting statistic was quoted by WhoScored on the X website. A place where you can read about various football-related statistics, on the occasion of the start of the new Champions League season, it was announced who achieved the record total rating for one campaign in the Champions League. It turned out that this man is neither Cristiano Ronaldo nor Lionel Messi.
And Robert Lewandowski, appreciated for what he did in the 2019/20 season. The Pole won his first and only trophy in the Champions League with Bayern Munich. In the final, played during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German team won against Paris Saint-Germain (1-0).
As for the record value of the rating resulting from the season played in the Champions League, the Pole scored 15 goals (the competition’s top scorer) and added 6 assists. The most important thing, however, was that Bayern won the Champions League.
In the summer of 2026, the Pole said goodbye to playing in Europe. Lewandowski moved to MLS, the American-Canadian league, where he defends the colors of Chicago Fire. Interestingly, Lionel Messi also plays in this competition. Of the top three all-time Champions League, only CR7 did not choose this direction. The Portuguese has been the face of the games in Saudi Arabia for several years.
