The ridiculous records of World Cup cheat code Kylian Mbappe

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Kylian Mbappe is the all-time record World Cup scorer and only player to win the Golden Boot twice. He’s been decent for Real Madrid too.

Kylian Mbappe is the all-time record World Cup scorer and only player to win the Golden Boot twice. He’s been decent for Real Madrid too.

Not included among these records are Mbappe being named Real Madrid’s Healthiest Player of the 2024/25 season by Sanitas Dental.

Here are the Frenchman’s most ridiculous career statistics so far, as of September 25, 2026.

- Kylian Mbappe has scored 442 and assisted 179 goals in 585 career appearances for club and country, winning 18 trophies.

- Mbappe at 26 years and 328 days was the youngest player to reach 400 career goals since Pele (23 years and 228 days).

- Mbappe has scored 25 career hat-tricks across eight different competitions (Coupe de la Ligue, Ligue Un, La Liga, Champions League, Coupe de France, World Cup qualifying, World Cup and Euros qualifying) against Rennes, FC Metz (x2), Lyon (x2, one was four goals), Guingamp, Monaco, Club Brugge, Barcelona (x2), Clermont Foot, Vannes, Lille, US Pays de Cassel (five goals), Stade Reims, US Revel, Montpellier, Real Valladolid, Manchester City, Kairat, Olympiacos (four goals), Real Sociedad, Kazakhstan (four goals), Argentina and Gibraltar.

- Mbappe has scored the most goals of any Real Madrid player in their debut season, netting 43 in 2024/25 to beat the previous mark set by Ivan Zamorano (37 in 1992/93).

- Mbappe equalled Cristiano Ronaldo’s 2013 record of most goals in a calendar year for Real Madrid with 59 in 2025.

- Mbappe has scored the most goals of any French player in a top-flight league season in England, Spain, Germany or Italy, with his 31 goals for Real Madrid in 2024/25 beating Thierry Henry’s 30 for Arsenal in 2003/04.

- Mbappe ranks 7th for all-time French top-flight goals (191) but is a distant first for Ligue Un goals scored in the 21st century.

- Mbappe was Ligue Un top scorer in a record six consecutive seasons, a record for the competition.

- By winning the Pichichi Trophy in his first Real Madrid campaign, Mbappe became the first player in history to finish as top scorer in one of Europe’s top five leagues in seven successive seasons.

- By winning the Pichichi Trophy in his second Real Madrid campaign, Mbappe became the first player in history to finish as top scorer in one of Europe’s top five leagues in eight successive seasons.

- Mbappe also won the European Golden Shoe in his first Real Madrid campaign.

- Mbappe was the first player to finish as top scorer and assist provider in the same Ligue Un season (2021/22).

- Mbappe is the only player to win the Ligue Un Player of the Year award in five consecutive seasons. He was also the first player to win it in three and four consecutive seasons. No other player has won it more than three times overall.

- Only four players in Champions League and European Cup history have scored more goals in the competition than Mbappe (71).

- Mbappe has scored more Champions League or European Cup goals than Ruud van Nistelrooy, Thierry Henry, Alfredo Di Stefano, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Eusebio, Mo Salah, Didier Drogba, Neymar, Alessandro Del Piero, Sergio Aguero, Ferenc Puskas, Gerd Muller, Samuel Eto’o, Wayne Rooney, David Trezeguet, Ryan Giggs, Luis Suarez and Romario, among many others. He has as many as Raul.

- Mbappe was once the youngest player to score 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 Champions League goals, most of which have since been beaten by the equally ridiculous Erling Haaland.

- Mbappe is the third youngest player to score 50 Champions League goals, behind only Lionel Messi and Erling Haaland.

- Mbappe is the second youngest player to score 60 Champions League goals, behind only Lionel Messi.

- Mbappe is the youngest player to score 70 Champions League goals.

- Only Erling Haaland (49 games), Ruud van Nistelrooy (62 games), Lionel Messi (66) and Robert Lewandowski (77) scored their first 50 Champions League goals in fewer games than Mbappe (79).

- Mbappe is one of only three players to score a Champions League hat-trick against Barcelona, and the first to score four goals against the Catalans in a single Champions League campaign.

- Mbappe has scored more hat-tricks away from home than any other player in Champions League history (4).

- Mbappe is the only player to score ten away goals in a single European Cup/Champions League campaign.

- Only Lionel Messi (8), Cristiano Ronaldo (8) and Robert Lewandowski (6) have scored more than Mbappe’s four Champions League career hat-tricks.

- Mbappe is the only player to score in both legs of a Champions League knockout tie against Manchester City twice.

- Mbappe is Paris Saint-Germain’s record goalscorer in all competitions, despite leaving at 25 and spending only six years there. He scored 256 goals in 308 appearances.

- Only five players have ever scored more Champions League knockout stage goals than Mbappe (24), who has more than Andriy Shevchenko, Raul, Neymar, Wayne Rooney, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba and any Liverpool player.

- Mbappe is the youngest player in Champions League history to score in both legs of a quarter-final, and to score at all in a semi-final, with those goals coming for Monaco in 2017. His first six Champions League career goals were all in the knockout stages.

- Mbappe was once the youngest Champions League goalscorer for two clubs, which is ridiculous the more you think about it. Warren Zaire-Emery finally usurped him for PSG in 2023.

- Mbappe was the first teenager in history to score a Champions League goal for two different clubs.

- Mbappe is the highest-scoring teenager in Champions League history.

- Mbappe has already scored away at Camp Nou, the Bernabeu, Old Trafford, Anfield, the Etihad, the Allianz Arena, the Juventus Stadium, Signal Iduna Park and Celtic Park.

- Mbappe has failed to score against only four of the teams he has faced more than once: Paris Saint-Germain, Arsenal, CSKA Moscow and Napoli.

- Mbappe has played 20 games against English clubs, scoring 11 goals and assisting three against Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham, Newcastle and Arsenal.

- Mbappe has scored more goals (15) against Montpellier than any other club, in 15 games. In the Champions League he has scored most of his goals against Manchester City (seven), followed by Barcelona (six).

- Mbappe was the most expensive teenager in football history and remains the second-most expensive player ever after his £166m move to Paris Saint-Germain in 2018.

- Mbappe has scored most of his goals for Thomas Tuchel, bagging 83 goals in 98 games during the German’s reign at PSG.

- Mbappe is the all-time record scorer for France, and the youngest French player to score at a World Cup.

- Mbappe is the all-time record goalscorer at the World Cup with 22 goals at the age of 27, holding off Lionel Messi (21) after overtaking Miroslav Klose (16), Ronaldo (15), Gerd Muller (14), Just Fontaine (13) and Pele (12) at the 2026 tournament.

- Mbappe is the only player ever to win the World Cup Golden Boot twice.

- Mbappe is the third-highest scorer at a single World Cup, with his ten in 2026 trailing only Just Fontaine (13 in 1958) and Sandor Kocsis (11 in 1954).

- Mbappe has scored the most World Cup knock-out stage goals of any player ever with 12, surpassing Leonidas and Ronaldo (both eight).

- Mbappe was the first player to score eight, nine, 10, 11 and 12 World Cup goals before their 24th birthday.

- Mbappe was the second teenager to score twice in a World Cup game and the second teenager to score in a World Cup final; Pele was first to do both.

- Mbappe is only the second player to score a World Cup final hat-trick, after Geoff Hurst in 1966.

- Mbappe is only the second player to score in consecutive World Cup final matches, after Vava in 1958 and 1962.

- Only four players have been top scorer at a World Cup tournament at a younger age than Mbappe (8 goals) in 2022: James Rodriguez was 23 in 2014 (6), Thomas Muller was 20 in 2010 (5), Mario Kempes was 23 in 1978 (6) and Florian Albert was 20 in 1962 (4).

- Mbappe is the top scorer in World Cup final matches with four goals in 2018 and 2022.

- Mbappe was, for an absurd amount of time, the only player to score a competitive hat-trick for France in Mbappe’s lifetime. Before his four goals against Kazakhstan in a World Cup qualifier in November 2021, three against Argentina in the 2022 World Cup final and treble in a November 2023 shellacking of Gibraltar, the previous hat-trick for Les Bleus outside of friendlies was in 1985, by Dominique Rocheteau. Then Ousmane Dembele rocked up against Norway in the World Cup in June 2026.

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