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At the end of January, the players scored hat-tricks on the same day for the third time; Ronaldo scored three against Getafe as Real Madrid won 4–0 before Messi went one better by scoring four goals against Osasuna as Barcelona won 5–1. [77] [78] It was Ronaldo's 20th hat-trick and Messi's 200th career league goal. [79]
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) Points 36 14 3 2014–15 [112] Lionel Messi : Luis Suárez : Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) Points 49 3 2 2016–17: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) Lionel Messi : Gianluigi Buffon : Points 482 141 109 2018–19 [113] Virgil van Dijk : Lionel Messi : Cristiano Ronaldo : Points 305
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.
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.
On 18 March, he reached his 50th career hat-trick, scoring four goals in a 6–3 win against Girona. [205] On 3 April, Ronaldo scored the first two goals in a 3–0 away win against Juventus in the quarter-finals of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, with his second goal being an acrobatic bicycle kick.
Per TalkSport, Ronaldo's 923 total career goals in 1,254 games are the most in the sport's history. That includes his 135 goals in 217 career international games for Portugal that are also the ...
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]
Cristiano Ronaldo (left) has won the most awards while Lionel Messi (right) set the record for most calendar year goals.. The IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer is a football award given annually since 2020, [1] and retroactively for the years 2011 to 2019, [2] to the world's top goalscorer in the calendar year.