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| Mohamed Salah and Harry Kane |
Scoring goals in European competition has long been a hallmark of elite footballers. Doing so across all three of UEFA’s current major club tournaments — the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League — is rarer still. It demands longevity, adaptability and the willingness (or necessity) of playing for clubs at different levels of the continental hierarchy.
Mohamed Salah became the latest high-profile member of that group in mid-October 2026. Playing for Trabzonspor, the Egyptian delivered a goal and an assist in a 4-2 away win over Finnish side KuPS in the opening match of the UEFA Conference League league phase. The strike was his first European goal for the Turkish club and completed a personal set that already included prolific tallies in the Champions League (50 goals for Liverpool and earlier clubs) and Europa League.
According to Opta data highlighted in multiple reports, Salah also joined an even more exclusive statistical club: players who have both scored and assisted in matches across all three competitions.
Only Cody Gakpo and Mario Götze had previously managed that particular combination. Salah’s performance on artificial turf in Tampere — a surface he had previously expressed caution about — underscored both his enduring quality at 34 and the unusual career path that has taken him from Liverpool’s European campaigns to the Turkish Super Lig and the Conference League.
The Conference League itself only launched in the 2021-22 season, which is why this particular “complete set” remains relatively new. Before then, players could at most span the Champions League and Europa League (or their historical predecessors). The third competition’s introduction created a new milestone, one that rewards players who move between the absolute elite and the next tier of European clubs, or whose teams drop down via the secondary path from the Champions League or Europa League.
Here is a closer look at some of the most notable names to have scored in all three, drawing on career arcs that illustrate different routes to the same achievement.
Harry Kane
The England captain’s path is among the cleanest illustrations of gradual progression. At Tottenham Hotspur he scored in the Europa League as early as the 2011-12 season, then regularly in the Champions League once Spurs became established there (his first group-stage goals arriving in 2016-17). In the inaugural Conference League campaign of 2021-22 he scored four times in the group stage for Tottenham, even though the club exited early.
Kane’s subsequent move to Bayern Munich has added further Champions League goals at a remarkable rate. By October 2026 he sat among the competition’s leading English scorers of all time and continued producing at the highest level well into his thirties. His consistency across competitions reflects a player whose finishing has translated regardless of league or opponent quality.
Cody Gakpo
The Netherlands international completed the set during his time at PSV Eindhoven, scoring in both the Europa League and Conference League before his January 2023 transfer to Liverpool. At Anfield he then found the net in the Champions League, including multiple goals in the 2024-25 league phase.
Gakpo’s route is typical of a modern talent who develops at a strong domestic club capable of regular European football, then steps up. His dual goal-and-assist record across the three competitions places him in the same narrow statistical company as Salah and Götze.
Pedro
The Spanish winger’s European résumé is decorated with major trophies. He scored 16 Champions League goals primarily with Barcelona before moving to Chelsea, where he played a significant role in the 2018-19 Europa League triumph (five goals, including one in the final against Arsenal). Later, with Lazio, he completed the set by scoring in the Conference League.
Pedro’s career shows how a player can accumulate the milestone while winning silverware at different clubs rather than simply appearing in the competitions.
Mario Götze
Best remembered for his extra-time winner in the 2014 World Cup final, Götze had already scored in the Champions League and Europa League before the Conference League existed. He finished the set with PSV Eindhoven in 2021-22 after the Dutch side dropped into the new competition, scoring in the round of 16.
Like Salah and Gakpo, he belongs to the smaller group that has both scored and assisted across all three.
Tammy Abraham
Abraham stands out for another reason: he is among the few players to have won all three current UEFA club competitions. He scored during Chelsea’s 2020-21 Champions League-winning campaign, then netted nine times as Roma claimed the inaugural Conference League title in 2021-22. He later scored in the Europa League with Roma (runners-up in 2022-23) and was part of Aston Villa’s 2025-26 Europa League success.
His trajectory — from Chelsea prospect to Serie A and back to the Premier League — shows how movement between leagues can open different European pathways.
Isco, Ollie Watkins, Edin Džeko, Jadon Sancho and João Félix
Other names on the list reflect varied careers. Isco scored in the Champions League with Málaga and Real Madrid, later adding Europa League and Conference League goals with Real Betis. Ollie Watkins, who arrived at Aston Villa without prior European experience, scored heavily in the 2023-24 Conference League, then registered in the Champions League and Europa League as Villa climbed the continental ladder under Unai Emery.
Edin Džeko’s longevity is striking: the Bosnian had already scored in the Champions League and Europa League across multiple clubs before completing the set with Fenerbahçe in the 2023-24 Conference League and adding further goals with Fiorentina. Jadon Sancho scored in the Champions League with Borussia Dortmund, the Europa League with Manchester United, and the Conference League (including the 2024-25 final) during a loan at Chelsea. João Félix progressed from Europa League goals at Benfica to Champions League strikes with Atlético Madrid and Conference League contributions at Chelsea.
Why the feat matters
The achievement is less about raw goal tallies than about career breadth. Players who remain at one dominant club for their entire peak often never enter the Conference League. Those who drop down, move mid-career, or develop at clubs that oscillate between competitions are more likely to complete the set. Salah’s late-career move to Trabzonspor after nine prolific seasons at Liverpool is a recent example of that pattern.
It also highlights the Conference League’s rapid integration into the European calendar. What began as a third-tier competition has already produced enough competitive football for a recognisable “club” of goalscorers who have appeared in all three.
Salah’s latest milestone arrives while he continues to produce at a high level in a new environment. Whether more established stars follow him into the Conference League in the coming seasons will determine how exclusive the list remains. For now, the names from Kane and Gakpo to Džeko and Pedro form a snapshot of modern European football’s mobility, longevity and occasional unpredictability.
Samuel O. Sulaimon is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Naijapiz. He covers News, Sports, Finance, Faiths, Education, Politics and Technology.
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