Mbappé wins Pichichi with 25 goals

Kylian Mbappé ended the 2025-26 La Liga season as the Pichichi winner after scoring 25 goals in 31 league matches, according to Real Madrid’s May 23 announcement. He finished ahead of Mallorca striker Vedat Muriqi on 23 and Osasuna’s Ante Budimir on 17, giving him a second straight top-scorer finish in Spain. (realmadrid.com) That makes this less about a single club release than about where Mbappé now sits in the league’s scoring hierarchy. Real Madrid said the award is his second consecutive Pichichi, which means he has now followed last season’s scoring title with another one despite a lower winning total this year than in 2024-25. The official La Liga scorers table also lists him at the top at season’s end. (realmadrid.com) A few numbers frame the season clearly: - 25 goals in 31 matches for Mbappé. (realmadrid.com) - 23 goals for Muriqi, his closest challenger. - 17 goals for Budimir in third. The scoring race also appears to have stayed open relatively late. With only a two-goal margin over Muriqi, Mbappé’s lead was narrower than many recent top-scorer campaigns in Europe, where the winner often clears the field by a wider gap. That is an inference from the final standings rather than a claim made by the club. (realmadrid.com) The context around the award matters too. Real Madrid’s announcement came on May 23, the evening of the final league round, and outside reporting said Mbappé also scored in Madrid’s 4-2 win over Athletic Club in the team’s last match of the season. That meant he closed the campaign by both adding to his total and locking in the scoring title. (realmadrid.com) There is one caution in the available data: some live stat pages captured earlier snapshots of the season and still showed lower totals before the final update. ESPN’s season stats page, for example, displayed Mbappé on 24 and Muriqi on 21 in a crawl taken today, while Real Madrid and other updated stat aggregators showed the final table at 25, 23 and 17. The club release and the end-of-season scoring tables align on the final numbers. (realmadrid.com) The broader takeaway is straightforward. Mbappé has now put together back-to-back seasons as La Liga’s top scorer, and he did it in 2025-26 with a final total that held off Muriqi rather than running away from the field. The next formal marker will be the publication and archiving of the season’s final league statistics and award records by La Liga and Spanish sports media that track the Pichichi standings. (realmadrid.com)