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Messi is the all-time La Liga top scorer, as well as having the most assists in the competition's history – with Ronaldo in second for goals scored and in fourth for assists provided – while Ronaldo is the UEFA Champions League all-time top appearance maker, goalscorer and the second-highest in assists after Ryan Giggs, according to Opta ...
Cristiano Ronaldo is the UEFA Champions league all-time top goalscorer with 140 goals while Messi is second with 129 to his name. [177] The pair had broken each other's record over the course of 2015, after Messi surpassed the previous recordholder, Raúl , in November 2014. [ 178 ]
Ronaldo also became the all-time top scorer in the Champions League with a hat-trick in the first group match against Shakhtar Donetsk, having finished the previous season level with Messi on 77 goals. [126] Two goals against Malmö FF in a 2–0 away win on 30 September saw him reach the milestone of 500 career goals for club and country. [127]
Lionel Messi rolled back the years with a vintage performance for Argentina on Tuesday, scoring three goals in his nation’s 6-0 thrashing of Bolivia in a 2026 World Cup qualifier.
With 140 goals, Cristiano Ronaldo is currently the all-time top scorer in the Champions League, with Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski being the only other players to have reached triple figures. Ronaldo has also finished as the top scorer for the most individual seasons in the competition's history, doing so seven times.
Ronaldo's four goals in a 7–1 home win over Celta de Vigo on 5 March 2016 took his total to 252 goals in La Liga, becoming the competition's second-highest scorer in history behind Messi. [180] He scored a hat-trick against VfL Wolfsburg to send his club into the Champions League semi-finals. [ 181 ]
Ronaldo ranks second among players with the most goals at the World Cup, scoring fifteen, including two in the 2002 final. Among players still active at international level, Lionel Messi has the most goals at FIFA World Cups, with thirteen goals to his name, including two in the 2022 final.
On 28 May, Messi scored in a 1–1 away draw against Strasbourg helping PSG clinch their record-breaking 11th Ligue 1 title and his second in a row; in the process Messi overtook Cristiano Ronaldo and became the player with the most goals in the history of Europe's top five leagues, with 496 goals.