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List of career achievements by Lionel Messi

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Messi accepting the Golden Ball award, alongside his future and former teammate Neymar after the 2011 FIFA Club World Cup Final
Messi (centre) and his teammates celebrate winning the FIFA Club World Cup in December 2011

Over the course of his career, Argentine footballer Lionel Messi, regarded by many as the greatest player of all-time[1][2][3][4], has received six Ballon d'Or awards, the most for any football player, as well as the 2009 FIFA World Player of the Year and 2019 The Best FIFA Men's Player. Messi holds the record for most goals in La Liga (445), the Supercopa de España (14), the UEFA Super Cup (3) and the player with the most official recorded assists in football history (298[5]). He has scored 706 senior career goals for club and country and he is also the first player in history to win five and six European Golden Shoes.

Collective awards

Individual honours

Selections for the best player or forward

World

Awards ceremonies to crown the best player of the world have been organized annually since 1955, when the inaugural Ballon d'Or awarding took place. The Ballon d'Or was presented to the player who had been voted to have performed the best over the previous year, and was established by French journalist Gabriel Hanot. Originally, votes could only be awarded to European players before a 1995 rule change.

The FIFA World Player of the Year was established in 1991.

Europe

Spain

Goalscoring

European Golden Shoe

The European Golden Shoe is awarded to the top goalscorer in Europe. It is awarded based on a weighted points system that allows players in tougher leagues to win even if they score fewer goals than a player in a weaker league. Goals scored in the top five leagues according to the UEFA coefficients rankings are multiplied by a factor of two, and goals scored in the leagues ranked six to 21 are multiplied by 1.5.

Since the points system was established in 1996, Messi is the only player to win the award a record six times and also the only one to win it with a record 100 points (season 2011–12). Messi was also the first player to win the award five times.[78][79][80]

Season Goals Points
2009–10 34 68
2011–12 50 100
2012–13 46 92
2016–17 37 74
2017–18 34 68
2018–19 36 72

UEFA Champions League top scorer

Season Player(s) Nationality Club(s) Goals
2008–09 Lionel Messi Argentina Barcelona 7
2009–10 Lionel Messi Argentina Barcelona 8
2010–11 Lionel Messi Argentina Barcelona 12
2011–12 Lionel Messi Argentina Barcelona 14
2014–15 Neymar Brazil Barcelona 10
Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal Real Madrid
Lionel Messi Argentina Barcelona
2018–19 Lionel Messi Argentina Barcelona 12

Source: Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation,[81] UEFA,[82] worldfootball.net[83]

All-time

Cristiano Ronaldo is the UEFA Champions league all-time top goalscorer with 130 goals while Lionel Messi is second with 117 to his name.[84] The pair had broken each other's record over the course of 2015, after Messi surpassed the previous recordholder, Raúl, in November 2014.[85] Ronaldo opened a gap in the 2015–16 season when he became the first player to score double figures in the group stage of the Champions League, setting the record at 11 goals.[86]

As of 28 October 2020
Rank Player Goals Apps Ratio Years Club(s)
1 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo 130[a] 170 0.765 2003–present Manchester United
Real Madrid
Juventus
2 Argentina Lionel Messi 117 145 0.807 2005–present Barcelona
3 Spain Raúl 71 142 0.5 1995–2011 Real Madrid
Schalke 04
4 Poland Robert Lewandowski 68 92 0.739 2011–present Borussia Dortmund
Bayern Munich
5 France Karim Benzema 66 122 0.541 2006–present Lyon
Real Madrid

Source: worldfootball.net[84]

La Liga top scorer

Season Goals Matches Ratio
2009–10 34 35 0.971
2011–12 50 37 1.351
2012–13 46 32 1.438
2016–17 37 34 1.088
2017–18 34 36 0.944
2018–19 36 34 1.059
2019–20 25 33 0.758
All-time
As of 24 October 2020
Rank Name Goals Apps Ratio Years Club(s)
1 Argentina Lionel Messi 445 490 0.908 2004–present Barcelona
2 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo 311 292 1.065 2009–2018 Real Madrid
3 Spain Telmo Zarra 251 277 0.906 1940–1955 Athletic Bilbao
4 Mexico Hugo Sánchez 234 347 0.674 1981–1994 Real Madrid
Rayo Vallecano
Atlético Madrid
5 Spain Raúl 228 550 0.415 1994–2010 Real Madrid

Source: worldfootball.net[88]

Hat-tricks

Messi scored his first international hat-trick against Switzerland in February 2012.
# For Against Result Competition Date
1 Barcelona Real Madrid 3–3 (H) 2006–07 La Liga 10 March 2007
2 Atlético Madrid 3–1 (A) 2008–09 Copa del Rey 6 January 2009
3 Tenerife 5–0 (A) 2009–10 La Liga 10 January 2010
4 Valencia 3–0 (H) 2009–10 La Liga 14 March 2010
5 Zaragoza 4–2 (A) 2009–10 La Liga 21 March 2010
6 Arsenal4 4–1 (H) 2009–10 UEFA Champions League 6 April 2010
7 Sevilla 4–0 (H) 2010 Supercopa de España 21 August 2010
8 Almería 8–0 (A) 2010–11 La Liga 20 November 2010
9 Real Betis 5–0 (H) 2010–11 Copa del Rey 12 January 2011
10 Atlético Madrid 3–0 (H) 2010–11 La Liga 5 February 2011
11 Osasuna 8–0 (H) 2011–12 La Liga 17 September 2011
12 Atlético Madrid 5–0 (H) 2011–12 La Liga 24 September 2011
13 Mallorca 5–0 (H) 2011–12 La Liga 29 October 2011
14 Viktoria Plzeň 4–0 (A) 2011–12 UEFA Champions League 1 November 2011
15 Málaga 4–1 (A) 2011–12 La Liga 22 January 2012
16 Valencia4 5–1 (H) 2011–12 La Liga 19 February 2012
17 Argentina Switzerland 3–1 (A) Friendly 29 February 2012
18 Barcelona Bayer Leverkusen5 7–1 (H) 2011–12 UEFA Champions League 7 March 2012
19 Espanyol4 4–0 (H) 2011–12 La Liga 20 March 2012
20 Granada 5–3 (H) 2011–12 La Liga 2 May 2012
21 Málaga 4–1 (H) 2011–12 La Liga 5 May 2012
22 Argentina Brazil 4–3 (N) Friendly 9 June 2012
23 Barcelona Deportivo La Coruña 5–4 (A) 2012–13 La Liga 20 October 2012
24 Osasuna4 5–1 (H) 2012–13 La Liga 27 January 2013
25 Argentina Guatemala 4–0 (A) Friendly 14 June 2013
26 Barcelona Valencia 3–2 (A) 2013–14 La Liga 1 September 2013
27 Ajax 4–0 (H) 2013–14 UEFA Champions League 18 September 2013
28 Osasuna 7–0 (H) 2013–14 La Liga 16 March 2014
29 Real Madrid 4–3 (A) 2013–14 La Liga 23 March 2014
30 Sevilla 5–1 (H) 2014–15 La Liga 22 November 2014
31 APOEL 4–0 (A) 2014–15 UEFA Champions League 25 November 2014
32 Espanyol 5–1 (H) 2014–15 La Liga 7 December 2014
33 Deportivo La Coruña 4–0 (A) 2014–15 La Liga 18 January 2015
34 Levante 5–0 (H) 2014–15 La Liga 15 February 2015
35 Rayo Vallecano 6–1 (H) 2014–15 La Liga 15 March 2015
36 Granada 4–0 (H) 2015–16 La Liga 9 January 2016
37 Valencia 7–0 (H) 2015–16 Copa del Rey 3 February 2016
38 Rayo Vallecano 5–1 (A) 2015–16 La Liga 3 March 2016
39 Argentina Panama 5–0 (N) Copa América Centenario 10 June 2016
40 Barcelona Celtic 7–0 (H) 2016–17 UEFA Champions League 13 September 2016
41 Manchester City 4–0 (H) 2016–17 UEFA Champions League 19 October 2016
42 Espanyol 5–0 (H) 2017–18 La Liga 9 September 2017
43 Eibar4 6–1 (H) 2017–18 La Liga 19 September 2017
44 Argentina Ecuador 3–1 (A) 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification 10 October 2017
45 Barcelona Leganés 3–1 (H) 2017–18 La Liga 7 April 2018
46 Deportivo La Coruña 4–2 (A) 2017–18 La Liga 29 April 2018
47 Argentina Haiti 4–0 (H) Friendly 29 May 2018
48 Barcelona PSV Eindhoven 4–0 (H) 2018–19 UEFA Champions League 18 September 2018
49 Levante 5–0 (A) 2018–19 La Liga 16 December 2018
50 Sevilla 4–2 (A) 2018–19 La Liga 23 February 2019
51 Real Betis 4–1 (A) 2018–19 La Liga 17 March 2019
52 Celta Vigo 4–1 (H) 2019–20 La Liga 9 November 2019
53 Mallorca 5–2 (H) 2019–20 La Liga 7 December 2019
54 Eibar4 5–0 (H) 2019–20 La Liga 22 February 2020

4 Scored 4 goals
5 Scored 5 goals

Other performances

Some of these accolades are shared with other players.

Top assist provider

Inclusions for team of the season or tournament

International

Awarded by international football federations