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The Messi–Ronaldo rivalry, or Ronaldo–Messi rivalry, is a sporting rivalry in football propelled by the media and fans that involves Argentine footballer Lionel Messi and Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, mainly for being contemporaries and due to their similar records and sporting successes. [1]
Collectively, Ronaldo has won 33 senior trophies in his career. He has also attained one title from youth and at least five titles from friendly competitions. All in all he had won over 300 trophies and medals by January 2021, with some of them dating back to his childhood. [1]
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 ]
Messi does not have 32 trophies as Wkipedia claim on this page, he has 31. He was not awarded the 2005 Supercopa, and the list should therefore not show it as a honour. The same with Ronaldo. It says that he has won 26 trophies in total, but he has only been awarded with 24. He was not awarded the 2008 Community Shield, nor the 2016 UEFA Super Cup.
Otherwise, Messi and Ronaldo have combined to win every Ballon d'Or since 2008. Ronaldo won five, with his last in 2017. Messi has won eight, claiming his most recent last year after leading ...
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.
After Messi led Argentina to victory in the 2022 FIFA World Cup, a number of football critics, commentators and players have opined that Messi settled the debate between the two players. [319] [320] [321] In September 2023, Ronaldo declared that his rivalry with Messi was over and "gone", after 36 official fixtures and 15 years of "sharing the ...
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.