Top scorers lead their teams to league titles in European leagues

By Selcuk Bugra Gokalp

ANKARA (AA) - Top scorers in European football leagues led their teams to their title wins.

Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), Napoli and Manchester City were led to their respective league titles by their top scoring attackers.

Polish striker Robert Lewandowski netted 23 goals in 34 games for Barcelona and contributed to Barca's 2022-23 Spanish La Liga championship.

Lewandowski became the first player to be named top scorer in Europe's five major leagues for six consecutive seasons.

French star of Paris Saint-Germain, Kylian Mbappe, tallied 29 goals in 34 appearances for the Parisians and led them to the 2022-23 French La Liga title.

Mbappe extended his top scorer of the season series, which he started from the 2018-2019 season, to five seasons in-a-row.

Italian Serie A club Napoli won their first Scudetto in 33 years in the 2022-23 season and Italian forward Victor Osimhen's 26 goals in 32 games have no small parts in this historic success.

Norwegian star Erling Haaland, who won both the Player of the Season and Young Player of the Season awards in the English Premier League, scored an amazing 36 goals in his 35 games for Manchester City this season.

With this performance, Haaland owned the record for most goals scored in a Premier League season, which was previously shared by Andy Cole (1993-94) and Alan Shearer (1994-95) with 34 goals.

The Citizens clinched a "Famous Treble" – winning domestic title, domestic cup and European cup in the same season – by winning English Premier League, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League titles in the 2022-23 season.

In the German Bundesliga, where Bayern Munich won the championship of the 2022-23 season, Niclas Fullkrug from Werder Bremen and Christopher Nkunku from Leipzig became the top scorers with 16 goals each.