Superstars from PSG, Liverpool, Real Madrid and Manchester City make up Europe's most lethal players – in terms of both finishing and creating chances and these teams feature five players with the most goals and assists in 2022-23.

These players are Europe's elite as they are master of scoring and play making at the highest level in their respective leagues and Europe.

The players to have registered the most goals and assists in European football this season features some familiar names – from the old guard to the new generation set to dominate for years to come.

Here are the top five players with the goals and assists in 2022-23 in all competitions:

5. Lionel Messi – 41 (21 goals, 20 assists)

PSG have endured an underwhelming campaign, but they will retain their Ligue 1 crown in large part to Messi looking back to his best.

The Argentinian icon's debut season in Paris was mediocre by his own lofty standards, but he's looked inspired in 2022-23. Sandwiching his heroics out in Qatar, the 35-year-old has notched 15 goals and 16 assists in the French top flight.

Messi is also the only player to register 20 goals and 20 assists in all competitions this season.

But Messi's historic reign in Europe has finally come to an end as Lionel Messi has moved to Inter Miami in the MLS.

4. Vinicius Junior – 44 (23 goals, 21 assists)

The Brazilian forward's rapid ascent continues unabated.

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After scoring the match-winner in last season's Champions League final, Vinicius just gets better and better. The 22-year-old has already registered his career-best numbers with 44 goal contributions in all competitions for Real Madrid this season.

"It is not fair that a poor young man who succeeded in life and who is becoming one of the best footballers ," Brazil president Lula said after the latest disgusting episode of racism aimed at Vinicius. Those aren't empty words – they're backed up by his outstanding numbers.

"We cannot allow fascism and racism to take over football stadiums," Lula added. Hear, hear.

3. Mohamed Salah – 46 (30 goals, 16 assists)

Liverpool's 2022-23 season has not quite gone to plan.

After ending up only a couple of wins away from a historic quadruple last term, Jurgen Klopp's Reds have ended the 2022-23 without any silverware and their hope of qualifying for the Champions League is hanging by a thread.

Some diagnosed Salah's drop-off in form as part of the problem, suggesting Liverpool's Egyptian King hasn't quite been the same since last year's Africa Cup Of Nations. The 30-year-old has emphatically proven the doubters wrong since then, registering extraordinary numbers (30 goals, 15 assists) – which is arguably even more impressive they've come for an otherwise underperforming team.

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2. Kylian Mbappe – 51 (41 goals, 10 assists)

Messi isn't the only footballing genius to have added some gloss to an otherwise disappointing season for PSG, with Mbappe delivering big time.

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The forward has scored 28 goals in Ligue 1 for the Parisiens, a tally bettered only by Haaland and Harry Kane in Europe's major leagues.

Mbappe has scored 51 goals in all competitions for club and country this season. That's just two off the all-time record set by Les Bleus legend Just Fontaine in 1957-58. With two games left to play, you wouldn't back against him doing it.

1. Erling Haaland – 61 (52 goals, 9 assists)

For well over a decade, Messi and Ronaldo dominated the top-end of this list. Mbappe and Haaland have been talked up as their generation's answer to the era-defining duo – and it would be no surprise to see these two players top these charts for many more years to come.

In truth, the Norwegian striker has blown Mbappe – and everyone else in Europe – out of the water with his starring role in Manchester City's treble-chasing campaign. His record-breaking 36 Premier League goals means that a first European Golden Shoe is already in the bag, while his 12 Champions League goals have all but confirmed his place as that competition's top scorer too. Making him the top player among the 5 players with the most and assists in 2022-23.

He has also won the PFA and FWA player of the year for this season.

Haaland has already enjoyed one of the all-time great individual campaigns for Manchester City, and his place in the annals of football history is secured with a treble this season (FA Cup, Premier League and UEFA Champions League).

Although fans have some time to wait before the Premier League 2025/26 season, the preparation for the teams is definitely under way. Manchester City follow Everton, Leeds United and West Ham United are the latest clubs to unveil their Premier League jerseys. While each kit will keep the team colours, there are always new ways to play with the look for both home and away.

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2025-26 Premier League jerseys for Each Club

Arsenal

Arsenal’s new kit for their men’s and women’s teams lean into nostalgia with the red shirt, trimmed with white shoulders and red detailing, featuring the letter 'A' on the badge at the forefront, in a reference to the 1990-91 title-winning season.

Aston Villa

The design includes nods to the home city of Birmingham, with design details inspired by the iconic Bullring, where the team has a new fan store.

AFC Bournemouth

The red and black stripes are a little broader than usual and the metallic gold trim adds a sprinkling of glitz. It's unlikely to make much of an impact outside of the immediate vicinity of the Vitality Stadium.

Brentford

Brentford's latest home shirt celebrates the 100th anniversary of the team adopting red and white stripes as their official club colours. Naturally, the design is just that, with the heritage faux lace-up collar being the only real retro appointment of note, a nod to the first batch of home jerseys worn by the Bees in 1925.

Brighton & Hove Albion

Rather than the standard yellow trim, this season's familiar blue-and-white stripes are accompanied by accents of minty turquoise like the rails that run along the city's seafront.

Burnley

The new kit has been designed to visually encapsulate the rugged landscape that surround Burnley and celebrate the beauty of Lancashire.

Chelsea

Chelsea have revealed their sleek away kit, with a largely white look, accented with red and green.

Crystal Palace

After a few years of more experimental and off-piste designs, the Eagles' new home jersey features clean red and blue stripes with all the extra detailing picked out in white.

Everton

This one comes in a beautiful shade of creamy yellow and includes subtle references to the industrial heritage of the Bramley-Moore docklands, the site of the club's new stadium. The pattern on the sleeves references the old railway lines that ran in and out of the area and have since been reinstalled as a heritage attraction. 

Leeds United

The blocky, tessellating pattern found on the collar and cuff is actually a replication of the yellow and blue tile pattern found in the Lowfields Tunnel near Elland Road.

Manchester City

Keeping the typical sky blue colour, Man City have adopted a new look, with a white slash across the front and minimalistic emphasis on its sponsors.

Manchester United

This design is fairly traditional, with a solid red base and sparse black-and-white trim. However, the material does contain a subtle reference to Old Trafford via a smattering of dots and stripes.

Newcastle United

Newcastle United’s 2025/26 kit doesn’t just look good, but also does good, with £5 per shirt sold going to the Newcastle United Foundation.

Nottingham Forest

With a folding collar and immaculate white pinstriping inspired by the revered home shirt of 1992-1994.

Sunderland

A lovely bit of retro-infused handiwork from Danish brand Hummel here, who have used Sunderland's cult classic 1989-91 away kit as inspiration for a demure maritime-themed jersey that is covered in a pattern made up of local coastal landmarks, including the Roker Beach lighthouse.

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Tottenham Hotspur

Released with the dramatic tagline "In darkness, we dare," the blackout design has a dark-grey grid pattern overlaid to add some texture. 

West Ham United

The new away kit is the particular shade of creamy off-white that only seems to exist in British football kits of the mid-to-late-1990s. 

Wolverhampton Wanderers

A sharp kit that also features a mini history lesson in the form of the pattern that is debossed into the fabric of the jersey. 

Real Madrid and England star midfielder Jude Bellingham has finally decided to undergo the shoulder surgery, which he injured in 2023. Jude had suffered the injury during his first season for the Los Blancos against Rayo Vallecano on November 5, 2023.

The  21-year-old star will go for surgery today and is all set to miss twelve weeks after shoulder surgery in London. He will return to action in mid-October, following the completion of his rehabilitation process.

Jude has been suffering from the pain for 2 years now. After dislocating the shoulder against Rayo Vallecano, Jude did not want to go for the surgery right away and decided to play with the pain. He started wearing a shoulder brace, which gave the shoulder a bit of solidity. Jude then went on to have a great 2023-24 season in which he won the  La Liga, the Champions League, and the Spanish Super Cup with Real Madrid.

With time, although Jude's pain became a bit less, the shoulder brace started to frustrate him a bit. Due to wearing the shoulder brace for a long time, he was "losing a lot of weight from sweating so much". Not only that, he also mentioned that his "patience is running out" with all the limitations the brace was forcing on him.

So, eventually, after two years, Jude decided to let go of the problem and do the surgery. 

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An arthroscopic shoulder surgery will be done on Bellingham, and the full process of recovery can take more than three months. However, Fernando Ramos of the Spanish Association of Physiotherapists feels that players with similar injuries generally require four months to return to training, with competitive play resuming potentially five to six months post-surgery.

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During his rehabilitation process, Jude will miss eight LaLiga matches and the beginning of the Champions League group stage for Real Madrid under new manager Xabi Alonso. Not only that, he will also miss England's World Cup qualifying fixtures against Andorra and Serbia in September 2025.

UEFA Women's Champions League winners Arsenal are set to break all the past transfer fee records for 20-year-old Canadian forward from Liverpool, Olivia Smith. Smith is now on the verge of becoming the world's first women's player to break the £1m transfer fee record. 

If the deal gets completed, Olivia Smith will break the record for the most expensive transfer fee in women's football history, beating the record of Naomi Girma, who was bought by Chelsea FC Women for £900,000.

Who is Olivia Smith?

Olivia Smith is a 20-year-old centre forward from Canada, born on August 5, 2004. Olivia started her football career in Ontario, Canada, playing youth soccer before joining college football in the United States at Penn State University.

Club career so far

To pursue her career in football, Smith left college early and joined Sporting CP in Portugal in 2023, where she played the first professional season of her career. After a sensational season with Sporting, where she netted 13 goals and produced nine assists in 18 league games.

Smith went on to win the Best Young Player and Revelation Player as Sporting finished second in the league, behind Benfica. 

Her extraordinary skill as a teenager caught the eyes of Liverpool, and she was signed by the Reds in July 2024. In her first season in the Women's Super League, Smith scored 7 goals in 20 appearances. In the whole season for the Reds, she scored 9 times and provided an assist in 25 games. 

Smith was even nominated for the WSL Player of the Year 2025 award. She was named the LFC Women's Player of the Season 2024/25.

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International career

Smith debuted for Canada at just 15 years and 94 days old, becoming her country's youngest player ever in 2019. She also played in the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023. 

Till now, she has appeared 18 times for Canada, scoring 3 goals. 

Why are Arsenal willing to pay the most expensive transfer fee for Olivia Smith?

Well, the truth is that Olivia Smith might find it hard to find a place in the playing XI for Arsenal FC Women. The UEFA Women's Champions League winners have Mariona Caldentey, Beth Mead, Alessia Russo and Chloe Kelly in the team, and this will make it very hard for Olivia to start in every game.

So, why are they willing to pay such a high amount for her?

Just like all the men's football teams in the world are thinking, the women's teams are also thinking the same. With Olivia Smith, Arsenal are thinking long-term goals, and that is why they are willing to pay big bucks for the Canadian. 

"I don't necessarily know how easily she walks into that Arsenal team, obviously they won the Champions League last season, which makes them extremely lucrative, but they've got a great attacking threat already," Rachel Corsie, former Scotland captain, told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"It will be a challenge for her, but probably an addition for Arsenal that they'll expect is maybe one of those signings who could be at the club for a number of years," she added.

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Most expensive transfers in women's football history

What does it truly mean to be a world champion club? The FIFA Club World Cup provides the answer, pitting the best against one another in a quest for global dominance.

As the 21st edition of Club World Cup concluded with Chelsea lifting the title after a dominating 3-0 victory over PSG, it is time to look back at the history of this tournament.

This article will explore all the past winners, top scorers, most successful teams, all at once.

FIFA Club World Cup: Past Winners

The FIFA Club World Cup, a tournament designed to crown the world's best club team, first took place in 2000. It then paused for several years, from 2001 through 2004, before returning as an annual event.

Now, 2025 marked the beginning of an entirely new era for the Club World Cup, featuring an expanded format and a fresh vision for global club football. Chelsea FC, with an incredibly successful campaign, stood victorious in this format.

Check out the past winners list below:

FIFA Club World Cup: Top Scorers

Here comes the elite list where individual dominance shines:

FIFA Club World Cup: Most Successful Teams

Real Madrid holds the tag of most successful team in FIFA Club World Cup history with 5 titles. Check out the other clubs that follow:

• Real Madrid: 5 wins
• Barcelona: 3 wins
• Bayern Munich: 2 wins
• Corinthians: 2 wins
• Chelsea: 2 wins

Hello and welcome, everyone, to our final LIVE coverage of the 2024-25 football season. Tonight we have the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 final between English club Chelsea FC and French Champion, PSG. 

Chelsea, the Premier League giants, reached the final after beating two Brazilian sides, Fluminense and Palmeiras, in the knockouts.

Meanwhile, the current Champions League winners, PSG, reached the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 final by smashing European giants like Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.

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Chelsea are looking for their second trophy of the season after winning the UEFA Conference League. Meantime, PSG are looking for their fourth major trophy of the season, including the UEFA Champions League and Ligue 1 titles. 

So, sit back and relax as I, Koushik Biswas, bring you all the LIVE updates of the Chelsea vs PSG, FIFA Club World Cup 2025 Final, LIVE from Sportz Point's Web Desk.