Aubameyang: Europa League top scorer
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Marseille currently holds the top scorer position in the 2023/24 UEFA Europa League, leading ahead of Romelu Lukaku from Roma and João Pedro from Brighton.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, representing Marseille, increased his goal tally to nine in eight appearances by scoring a double in the round of 16 first leg against Villarreal. This performance solidified his position at the top of the Europa League scoring charts with a two-goal lead. Additionally, Aubameyang extended his all-time Europa League goals record to 33, surpassing the previous record of 30 held by Radamel Falcao during the knockout round play-offs.
In second place is Romelu Lukaku from Roma, who has found the back of the net in seven out of nine matches played. Following closely behind is João Pedro from Brighton, concluding the group stage as the leading scorer with six goals.
Goa - Player Name
9 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Marseille)
7 Romelu Lukaku (Roma)
6 João Pedro (Brighton)
5 Michael Gregoritsch (Freiburg)
5 Viktor Gyökeres (Sporting CP)
5 Fotis Ioannidis (Panathinaikos)
4 Victor Boniface (Leverkusen)
4 Mojmír Chytil (Slavia Praha)
4 Thijs Dallinga (Toulouse)
4 Kristian Eriksen (Molde)
4 Vincenzo Grifo (Freiburg)
4 Juninho (Qarabağ)
4 Luis Muriel (Atalanta)
4 Darwin Núñez (Liverpool)
4 Roland Sallai (Freiburg)
Most assists in this season's Europa League Kostas Fortounis registered a rare hat-trick of assists on Matchday 6 for Olympiacos to surge to the front of the assists rankings, though he has been overhauled at the summit by Marseille pair Jonathan Clauss and Amine Harit since the knockout stages began.
Assists records
6 Jonathan Clauss (Marseille)
6 Amine Harit (Marseille)
5 Kostas Fortounis (Olympiacos)
5 Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma)
4 James Ward-Prowse (West Ham)
4 Florian Wirtz (Leverkusen)
Hat tricks Scored so far
There have been four hat-tricks in the current Europa League season. Vincenzo Grifo from Freiburg scored the first one against TSC on Matchday 3, followed by Michael Gregoritsch, also from Freiburg, who netted the second hat-trick within the first 37 minutes of a 5-0 home victory over Olympiacos on Matchday 5. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang secured the third hat-trick for Marseille against Ajax on the same night. The most recent hat-trick was by Benjamin Bourigeaud in Rennes' 3-2 win over Milan on 22nd February 2024.
For context, before this season, there had been a total of 77 hat-tricks in the history of the Europa League, averaging about five per season. The highest number of hat-tricks in a single season was 12, achieved in the 2014/15 campaign. Notably, there have been seasons with as few as three hat-tricks (2009/10, 2011/12, 2022/23), and in the 2010/11 season, Radamel Falcao alone recorded three hat-tricks, a remarkable achievement unmatched by any other player in a single campaign.
