When the European Football 2007/08 season is almost finishing, different things can be analysed to check how the season has developed and which have been the most relevant facts during the nine months of competition.One of the most important facts are the goals scored, both in the domestic leagues and in the Champions League. In this aspect there is a name leading both tables: Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United with a total of 37 goals scored followed by Fernando Torres from Liverpool with 29 goals scored. But let’s go to the tables to see all details of the goals scored:                                                                                                 (1)    (2)      (3)      (4)     (5)      (6)    (7)      National LeaguesCristiano Ronaldo - Manchester United     30      3       88      38      33     20       3Daniel Güiza - Mallorca                                 24       0      115      38      34     18        1Emmanuel Adebayor - Arsenal                    24       3      118      32      35      17        1Luis Fabiano - Sevilla                                     23       2       93      33      28      16       4Fernando Torres – Liverpool                        23      0      106     35       32      17       4Luca Toni – Bayern Munich                          21      0      117      34       29      15       3

Marco Borriello – Genoa                                19      5       146     43       33     14       4

David Trezeguet – Juventus                          19      1       152      27       34     14       2

Mario Gomez – Stuttgart                                18     0      100      32       23     13       2

Alessandro del Piero – Juventus                   18     2       143      26       35     13       3

Kevin Kuranyi – Schalke 04                           15     0       171       28       30    10       1 Champions League    Cristiano Ronaldo – Manchester United       7     1       128       36       10       6      3Steven Gerrard – Liverpool                               6    2       182       20       12       6      0Didier Drogba – Chelsea                                    6    0       151        31        10      4      2

Fernando Torres – Liverpool                            6     0       145       20       10      5      1

Lionel Messi – FC Barcelona                                 6     1        121       33         9      5      1

(1)   Goals Scored

(2)  Penalties

(3) Minutes per Goal

(4)  % of Team Goals

(5)  Appearances

(6)  Games Scored

Crucial Goals   

This tournament was inaugurated in 1955 at the suggestion of the French sports journalist and editor of L’Equipe Gabriel Hanot as a continental competition for winners of the European national football leagues, as the European Champion Club’s Cup,  abbreviated to European Cup.

The competition began in 1955/56 using a two-leg knockout format where the teams would play two matches, one at home and one away, and the team with the highest overall score qualifying for the next round of the competition. Entry was restricted to the teams that won their national league championships, plus the current European Cup holder. This qualification system continued until 1992. In the 1992/93 season, the tournament was renamed to UEFA Champions League and in 1997/98, eligibility was expanded to include not just domestic champions but also the best performing runners up according to UEFA’s coefficient ranking list. In UEFA’s coefficient system, a team finishing second in the Spanish La Liga would be more deserving of an automatic place in the Champions League than a team finishing first in, for example, Polish Orange Ekstraklasa. As a result, the system was restructured to force “weaker” national champions to qualify for the group stages, while other, “stronger” national runners-up would automatically get places.According list below, since 1955  52 clubs and 10 countries have written his name in the European Football winners. Clubs: Real Madrid (9 wins), Milan (7), Liverpool (5), Ajax and Bayern Munich (4), Barcelona, Benfica, Inter, Juventus, Manchester United, Nottingham Forest and Porto (2) and Aston Villa, Borussia Dortmund, Celtic Glasgow, Feyenoord, Hamburg, Olympique Marseille, PSV Eindhoven, Steaua Bucarest and Red Star Belgrade (1).  

Countries: Italy and Spain (11 times), England (10), Germany and Holland (6), Portugal (4) and France, Rumania, Scotland and Serbia (1).