Antoine Griezmann Atlético Madrid profile, career and honours

The club’s all-time leading scorer

Antoine Griezmann is Atlético Madrid’s record goalscorer. A club founded in 1903, with eleven league championships and a scoring list running through Adrián Escudero, Luis Aragonés and José Eulogio Gárate, has its all-time leading scorer from the side that finished in 2026.

212 goals in 501 appearances, across two spells separated by two seasons elsewhere. He left the club on 30 June 2026, joining Orlando City on a free transfer.

2014: arriving into a title-winning side

Griezmann joined in 2014, immediately after the season in which Atlético won La Liga at the Camp Nou and lost a Champions League final in Lisbon. He walked into a squad at its peak rather than one he had to lift, which is the opposite of the situation Fernando Torres faced a decade earlier.

What followed was the most sustained scoring run in the club’s modern history. He was the primary attacking outlet through a period that produced a second Champions League final in 2016, two league runner-up finishes, and the 2017–18 Europa League.

Milan and Lyon

The 2016 final in Milan finished 1–1 and went to penalties, which Real Madrid won. It was the second final against the same opponent in three seasons and it left Griezmann, like the club, with the specific problem of having been a penalty kick away from Europe’s principal trophy.

The compensation came two years later. Atlético beat Marseille 3–0 in Lyon to win the Europa League, and beat Real Madrid 4–2 after extra time in Tallinn for the Super Cup, the only European final Atlético have won against their neighbours, and the closest thing to an answer the two Champions League defeats have.

The first goal at the Metropolitano

On 16 September 2017 the club opened its new ground with a league match against Málaga. Atlético won 1–0 and Griezmann scored, in front of King Felipe VI.

It is a small statistic and a permanent one. The Metropolitano will be standing long after everyone involved has finished playing, and the first goal scored there has one name attached to it.

Leaving and coming back

He left in 2019 and returned in 2021. Two seasons away, then back into the same club, and the goals resumed until the record, held for decades by players from eras nobody watching now remembers, belonged to him.

Returning players rarely improve their standing. Torres did, on one afternoon. Griezmann did it over four more seasons, which is the harder route and produced the bigger number.

The record in context

501 appearances put him behind only Koke, Jan Oblak and Adelardo among the club’s most-used players. 212 goals put him first, ahead of everyone.

The records page holds the full lists, and the legends gallery sets his span against the seventeen others.

The number that will be hard to move

212 goals is a total set over eleven seasons at a club whose recent history is a sequence of first-choice forwards sold at their peak: Fernando Torres in 2007, Sergio Agüero in 2011, Radamel Falcao in 2013.

Griezmann is the exception that produced the record: sold once, in 2019, and back two years later to resume it. Had he stayed away, the all-time list would still read Luis Aragonés on 173 at the top, a figure that had stood since the 1970s.

For any future player to pass 212 would require both a comparable rate and the same unusual willingness on the club’s part not to sell. The records page keeps the standings; the legends gallery shows how few spans even approach the length of his.

Eleven seasons, one trophy count

Two major honours from eleven seasons looks thin next to 212 goals, and the explanation is not personal. Atlético won one league title and one European trophy in that span, and Griezmann was present for both the Europa League and the Super Cup of 2018 but away from the club during the 2020–21 championship.

That is the specific cost of the two-year absence. A player who never left would hold the scoring record and a league medal; the one who left and returned holds the record alone. The era pages set out what he was there for and what he missed.

How the second spell ended

Griezmann left Atlético Madrid on 30 June 2026, joining Orlando City on a free transfer at the age of thirty-five.

The departure closes the record rather than pausing it. He finishes as the club’s all-time leading scorer on 212, a mark set across eleven seasons and two spells, and as the third most-used player in its history behind Koke and Jan Oblak, both of whom remain in the current squad.

Whether 212 is eventually passed is a question for a club that has spent most of its modern history selling its leading forwards at their peak. The records page keeps the standings.

Is Antoine Griezmann Atletico Madrid's all-time top scorer?

Yes, with 212 goals in 501 appearances across two spells, 2014 to 2019 and 2021 to 2026. He left for Orlando City on a free transfer on 30 June 2026.

What has Griezmann won with Atletico Madrid?

The 2017–18 Europa League and the 2018 UEFA Super Cup, in which Real Madrid were beaten 4–2 after extra time in Tallinn. He also played in the 2016 Champions League final, lost on penalties.

Who scored the first goal at the Metropolitano?

Griezmann, on 16 September 2017, in a 1–0 win over Málaga that opened the rebuilt ground.

When did Griezmann return to Atletico?

In 2021, after two seasons away. He had left in 2019 following five seasons in his first spell.