A record year for Kylian Mbappé. For his first full calendar year in the colors of Real Madrid, which he joined in the summer of 2024, the French striker equaled Cristiano Ronaldo in the ranking of top Merengue scorers over 12 months.
He had to wait until the final match of 2025 to reach the 59-goal mark thanks to a penalty at the end of the match on Saturday evening against Sevilla FC (2-0).
Only Cristiano Ronaldo has scored as many goals in one year with the Madrid club, it was in 2013. Apart from Mbappé now tied for the lead, the Portuguese is also the only other Real Madrid player present in the top 5 of the club’s best scorers in a calendar year: before his departure in 2018, he had scored 58 goals in 2012, 56 in 2014 and finally 54 the following year.
But if the captain of the France team reached the wire with his idol, he was less effective and had to play more matches to achieve this. In 2013, Cristiano Ronaldo needed 50 games to reach 59 goals (1.18 goals per game), while Mbappé needed 59 (1 goal per game).
The breakdown of Mbappé’s 59 goals
Despite the absence of major titles (a second place in the league and an elimination in the quarterfinals of the C1), the superstar of the Madrid attack greatly participated in the offensive success of his team in 2025 since he scored 59 of Real Madrid’s 142 goals in 2025, or 41.5% of the club’s total achievements. Enough to fuel the “Mbappé-dependence” trial often made to the Merengues in recent weeks.
The vast majority of the Frenchman’s goals in 2025 have of course been scored in La Liga (39 goals): after 21 goals in the second part of the 2024/2025 season, he has already scored 18 since the start of the championship last August. Still in national competition, he also scored four in the Copa del Rey, including one in the final lost against FC Barcelona (3-2, ap), and one in the final of the Spanish Super Cup, also lost against Barça (2-5) at the very start of 2025.
Fourteen other of Kylian Mbappé’s goals were scored in the Champions League, including nine in the current edition, notably against OM, and one in the quarter-final of the Club World Cup against Borussia Dortmund (3-2) last summer.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s shy reaction
This record and this symbolic figure achieved earned him the congratulations of his Portuguese idol… if we can even speak of congratulations. Under the Instagram post of number 10 merengue, CR7 simply reacted with two emojis (bravo and flame).
The Spanish press was slightly more enthusiastic this Sunday morning, without getting excited as usual. Marca particularly praised the performance of Mbappé, who “continues to write his own page in the history of Real Madrid”.
