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Zlatan Ibrahimović's European stats
UEFA Champions League appearances: 119 (11th in overall standings, level with Lionel Messi)
UEFA Champions League goals: 48 (7th in overall standings, level with Andriy Shevchenko)
UEFA club competition appearances: 139 (21st in overall standings, level with Andrea Pirlo)
UEFA club competition goals: 56 (10th in overall standings, level with Eusébio)
Best goals tally for single European season: 10 (Paris Saint-Germain, 2013/14)

Having turned 36 in October, Ibrahimović looks a long shot to steal first place in the all-time appearances and goals charts – not least because Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are both younger and substantially higher than him in the rankings. However, another successful campaign with United could still go a long way to raising him towards the upper slopes of football's Mount Olympus.
Watch all of Zlatan Ibrahimović’s EURO goals
Should he play seven more UEFA Champions League games in helping United make it to the UEFA Champions League final, he would go into outright sixth place in the competition's appearance rankings, overtaking the likes of Andrés Iniesta, Roberto Carlos and former Old Trafford favourite Paul Scholes.

Two more UEFA Champions League goals, meanwhile, would make him only the seventh player to score 50 in UEFA's top club competition, after Ronaldo, Messi, Raúl González, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Karim Benzema and Thierry Henry.

Moreover, he would extend his own record of having scored for the most teams in Europe's top club competition (currently Ajax, Juventus, Internazionale Milano, Barcelona, AC Milan and Paris) to seven.

Three more and Ibrahimović would overtake another Old Trafford alumnus, Henrik Larsson, to become the top-scoring Swede in UEFA club competitions: the former Celtic and Barcelona man hit 59 in total.

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