- The European football season is underway with all of its major domestic leagues and international competitions having kicked off.
- Forwards around the continent have already been giving their best efforts to fire their sides into an early lead in the race for silverware.
- Business Insider has listed the 16 most prolific so far below.
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The European football season is in full swing with all seven of its major domestic leagues, as well as the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa Leagues, having kicked off.
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Amongst the continent’s top performers so far this season are these forwards, all of whom have been doing their best to score the goals that will help fire their respective sides to domestic, and European, glory.
Business Insider has listed the 16 most prolific from Europe’s top seven leagues – those being England, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Holland – below.
Luis Muriel — Atalanta BC (8 goals)
Serie A side Atalanta has plenty of firepower at its disposal this year. Leading that line is Colombian marksman Luis Muriel, who has scored eight already, while he is closely followed by countryman Duvan Zapata, who has seven, and Argentine Alejandro Gomez, who has four.
Kylian Mbappe — Paris Saint Germain (8 goals)
Mbappe spent just over a month sidelined with injury between August and the end of September. However, he's hit the ground running since returning, scoring six in his last three games, including a Champions League hat-trick versus Club Brugge.
Luis Suarez — FC Barcelona (8 goals)
Twenty-one goals last term was Luis Suarez's worst-ever return in a Barcelona shirt. The arrival of Antoine Griezmann over the summer, however, seems to have kicked the Uruguayan back into gear, as he's now managed nearly half that total, 8, already this season.
Timo Werner — RB Leipzig (8 goals)
Timo Werner hit five in his first four games this season, including a hat-trick against Borussia Monchengladbach at the end of August. However, he's found the net just twice since, with both goals coming in the Champions League in a 2-1 victory over Benfica.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang — Arsenal FC (8 goals)
Barely a game goes past where you won't see Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's name on the score sheet for Arsenal. His eight goals this season take his total for the Gunners to 49 in just 74 games since his transfer from Borussia Dortmund in January 2018.
Victor Osimhen — LOSC Lille (8 goals)
Ligue 1's current top scorer with eight goals, Victor Oshimen is enjoying a fine debut season with Lille after his $13.2 million move from RSC Charleroi in the summer. The 20-year-old has also managed one goal in the Champions League, which came in a 2-1 defeat to Chelsea.
Pizzi — SL Benfica (9 goals)
"Pizzi" is already well on his way to surpassing his best single-season total in a Benfica shirt, which came last year when he scored 15 goals. The 30-year-old has got nine this term, two of which came in a 5-0 demolition of Sporting Lisbon in the Portuguese Super Cup final.
Jamie Vardy — Leicester City (9 goals)
Leicester City recorded the joint biggest ever Premier League win last week when they beat Southampton 9-0 at St Mary's. Jamie Vardy got a hat-trick on the day to take his total for the season to nine and his all-time tally in a blue shirt to 116.
Wissam Ben Yedder — AS Monaco (9 goals)
For seven-and-a-bit seasons with Toulouse, Sevilla, and now Monaco, Wissam Ben Yedder has scored 146 goals in 305 appearances, but has only been called up to the France national team five times. Perhaps this could finally be the year he makes a sustained run for Les Bleus.
Tammy Abraham — Chelsea FC (9 goals)
Chelsea boss Frank Lampard took a gamble on letting Tammy Abraham lead the line for his new-look side this season - but boy has it paid off. The 22-year-old has scored nine times already this term and has earned a recall to the England national team alongside teammates Mason Mount and Fikayo Tomori.
Harry Kane — Tottenham Hotspur (10 goals)
The form of Harry Kane has been the only silver lining in what has been an otherwise dismal start to the new campaign for Mauricio Pochettino's Tottenham Hotspur. The Englishman has scored 10 goals already, including four in the Champions League.
Ciro Immobile — SS Lazio (11 goals)
Once a bench-warmer at Juventus and Borussia Dortmund, Immobile is now one of Europe's elite goal-getters. Since moving to Lazio in 2016, he's managed 97 goals in 145 games - 11 of which have come in a blistering start to the new season.
Sergio Aguero — Manchester City (12 goals)
If Manchester City is to turn around its six-point deficit behind Liverpool in the Premier League, it will have to rely heavily on the goals of Sergio Aguero. To date, the Argentine has already scored 12 in all competitions.
Raheem Sterling — Manchester City (13 goals)
Former Manchester City star Trevor Sinclair recently said he believes Raheem Sterling is already as good as both Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Given that the 24-year-old has scored more than both put together this season (although Messi has been injured), he may not be far wrong.
Donyell Malen — PSV Eindhoven (14 goals)
Arsenal will be kicking itself for letting Donyell Malen leave for PSV in 2017 after the start the 20-year-old has had to the new campaign. The Dutchman has scored 10 in the Eredivisie, including five in one game against SBV Vitesse last month, and four in European competitions.
Robert Lewandowski — FC Bayern Munich (20 goals)
Lewandowski is Europe's top goalscorer by some distance. The 31-year-old has already hit 13 goals in the Bundesliga, two in the DFB Pokal, and five in the Champions League - including a brace in Bayern's 7-2 demolition of Tottenham Hotspur. Extraordinary.