The 2025/26 La Liga season is in the books, and at the sharp end of the pitch, one player dominated both the shooting and scoring charts. Kylian Mbappe wasn’t just the Pichichi winner – he was the most shot-happy player in all of Spanish football.
Mbappe took 146 shots across 31 appearances for Real Madrid – that’s 4.7 shots per game. To put that in context, the next closest was Lamine Yamal at Barcelona with 117 from 28 games (4.2 per game). Nobody else in the league was getting off more than three shots per game.
The volume paid off. Mbappe’s 25 goals made him the league’s top scorer, converting at roughly one goal every 104 minutes. After a tricky first few months adjusting to life in Madrid, his second season was the statement campaign everyone expected when he joined.
The runner-up in the scoring charts was a name that might surprise casual watchers. Vedat Muriqi of Mallorca scored 23 goals from 37 appearances and took 115 shots across the season. That’s a conversion rate of 20% – better than Mbappe’s 17.1%.
For a striker at a mid-table club, those are elite numbers. Muriqi averaged 3.1 shots per game and scored consistently all season. He was one of only two players in the league to break the 20-goal mark.
Lamine Yamal’s numbers tell the story of a teenager playing like a prime attacker. From 28 La Liga appearances, he scored 16 goals, provided a league-high 11 assists, and took 117 shots. He averaged 4.2 shots per game – a volume usually reserved for out-and-out strikers, not wide forwards.
His 11 assists also topped the division, ahead of Getafe’s Luis Milla (10) and a cluster of Barcelona and Real Madrid players on 8-9. Yamal was Barcelona’s most important player at 18 years old. Those numbers from less than 2,300 minutes are genuinely scary.
Here’s how the top 10 scorers finished in 2025/26:
Yamal topped the assist chart with 11, but the creative depth across the league was impressive. Pedri provided 9 assists from 29 games, while Arda Guler at Real Madrid matched that with 9 from 33 appearances. Fermin Lopez added another 9 for Barcelona.
Marcus Rashford, in his first full season at Barcelona after the January 2025 move, contributed 8 assists and settled into the system nicely. Federico Valverde also posted 8 assists from midfield for Real Madrid – a reminder of just how much more he offers than box-to-box running.
La Liga in 2025/26 was defined by high-volume, high-quality attacking. Mbappe finally looked like the player Madrid signed, Yamal confirmed himself as one of the best young players on the planet, and underrated strikers like Muriqi and Budimir proved you don’t need to be at a superclub to top the scoring charts.
The data paints a clear picture: the players who shot the most, scored the most. Mbappe’s 146 attempts dwarf anything else in the division, and his 25-goal return was the natural consequence of that relentless approach.