Haaland vs Mbappe: who has scored more goals?

Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappe are two of the greatest prodigies in world football today. The Norwegian, two years younger, took longer to rise to prominence and has had as a reference the extraordinary records of the Frenchman, whose football has come close to that of giants such as Leo Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo in their early days and has even surpassed them.

In BeSoccer Pro we will try to discern which of these two players is more effective and decisive in front of goal based on their updated and detailed data.

Club goals

Despite the fact that these two talents started their careers very early, there is still an obvious difference in the number of games played, with Kylian Mbappe's breakthrough coming a couple of years before that of Erling Haaland. The Frenchman has played a total of 373 games for his clubs, split into 308 for PSG, 60 for Monaco and 5 for Real Madrid. His tally in these club matches amounts to 286 goals, 256 of which he has scored with the Parisian team, 27 with Monaco and 3 as a ‘Merengue’.

Meanwhile, Erling Haaland has so far made 268 appearances for the four clubs he has represented professionally. He started his career with Molde, for whom he made 50 appearances before moving to Salzburg, for whom he made 27 appearances. He eventually left Borussia Dortmund for Manchester City with 89 appearances to his name. He has now played 102 games for the Cityzens. In that time, the Norwegian cyborg has scored a total of 226 goals, broken down as follows: 20 at Molde, 29 at Salzburg, 86 at Borussia Dortmund and 97 at Manchester City.

Taking all these figures into account, Kylian Mbappe's club scoring average is 0.77 goals per game, which is lower than his average at PSG (0.84) and higher than his average when he started out at Monaco (0.45). As a player at Real Madrid, he is currently averaging 0.6 goals. Haaland's overall average is 0.85 goals per game, which breaks down to 0.97 goals per game at Borussia, 1.07 goals per game at Salzburg and 0.4 goals per game at Molde. So far, he has secured 0.95 goals per game at Manchester City.

National team goals

It is difficult to compare the two in an international context, as Norway is a much smaller team than France. However, Haaland's leadership with his country is much more evident than Mbappe's with France, where there are more stars and the responsibility does not tend to fall on one player, even though Kylian is the main reference point.

The French player has made 86 appearances so far for France and has scored 48 goals at an average of 0.56 goals per game played. Haaland has already made 35 appearances for Norway and has scored 32 goals, giving him an average of 0.91 goals per game.

In total, who has scored more goals, Haaland or Mbappe?

Having established the goalscoring record of both players for club and country, it's time to look at the overall record. Kylian Mbappe has 459 official appearances to his name, scoring 334 goals at an average of 0.73 goals (scoring almost 3 goals in every 4 games) per game in his career combined.

Erling Haaland has stopped the counter in 303 official matches in which he has managed to score on 264 occasions. His scoring average, therefore, is 0.87 goals per game so far.

The averages therefore smile on the Scandinavian prodigy against a Kylian Mbappe who has improved and diversified a lot in his combination play in recent seasons, perhaps becoming a less lethal but much more complete player.