List of career achievements by Lionel Messi

Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi, regarded by many as one of the greatest players 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 (456), the Supercopa de España (14), the UEFA Super Cup (3) and is the player with the most official recorded assists in football history (303).[5][6] He has scored 748 goals for club and country throughout his professional career and is also the first player in history to win five and six European Golden Shoes.

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

Collective awards

Season / year Competition Club / national team Ref.
2004–05 La Liga Barcelona [7]
2005 South American U-20 Championship Third place Argentina U20 [8]
2005 FIFA U-20 World Cup
2005–06 La Liga Barcelona [7]
2005–06 UEFA Champions League
2006 Supercopa de España
2006 UEFA Super Cup Runner-up
2007 Copa América Runner-up Argentina
2008 Summer Olympics Argentina Olympic
2008–09 La Liga Barcelona [7]
2008–09 Copa del Rey
2008–09 UEFA Champions League
2009 Supercopa de España
2009 UEFA Super Cup
2009 FIFA Club World Cup
2009–10 La Liga
2010 Supercopa de España
2010–11 La Liga
2010–11 Copa del Rey Runner-up
2010–11 UEFA Champions League
2011 Supercopa de España
2011 UEFA Super Cup
2011 FIFA Club World Cup
2011–12 Copa del Rey
2012 Supercopa de España Runner-up
2012–13 La Liga
2013 Supercopa de España
2013–14 Copa del Rey Runner-up
2014 FIFA World Cup Runner-up Argentina
2014–15 La Liga Barcelona [9]
2014–15 Copa del Rey [10]
2014–15 UEFA Champions League [11]
2015 Supercopa de España Runner-up [12]
2015 Copa América Runner-up Argentina
2015 UEFA Super Cup Barcelona [7]
2015 FIFA Club World Cup
2015–16 La Liga
2015–16 Copa del Rey
2016 Supercopa de España
2016 Copa América Runner-up Argentina
2016–17 Copa del Rey Barcelona [7]
2017 Supercopa de España Runner-up
2017–18 La Liga
2017–18 Copa del Rey
2018 Supercopa de España
2018–19 La Liga
2018–19 Copa del Rey Runner-up
2019 Copa América Third place Argentina
2020–21 Supercopa de España Runner-up Barcelona [7]

Friendlies titles

Friendly competitions

Individual honours

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.

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Europe

Spain

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.[88][89][90]

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 Barcelona 9
2009–10 Lionel Messi Barcelona 8
2010–11 Lionel Messi Barcelona 12
2011–12 Lionel Messi Barcelona 14
2014–15 Neymar Barcelona 10
Cristiano Ronaldo Real Madrid
Lionel Messi Barcelona
2018–19 Lionel Messi Barcelona 12

Source: Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation,[91] UEFA,[92] worldfootball.net[93]

All-time

Cristiano Ronaldo is the UEFA Champions league all-time top goalscorer with 134 goals while Lionel Messi is second with 118 to his name.[94] The pair had broken each other's record over the course of 2015, after Messi surpassed the previous recordholder, Raúl, in November 2014.[95] 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.[96]

As of 9 December 2020
Rank Player Goals Apps Ratio Years Club(s)
1 Cristiano Ronaldo 134[lower-alpha 1] 174 0.77 2003–present Manchester United
Real Madrid
Juventus
2 Lionel Messi 118 147 0.8 2005–present Barcelona
3 Robert Lewandowski 71 94 0.76 2011–present Borussia Dortmund
Bayern Munich
Raúl 142 0.5 1995–2011 Real Madrid
Schalke 04
5 Karim Benzema 69 125 0.55 2006–present Lyon
Real Madrid

Source: worldfootball.net[94]

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 31 January 2021
Rank Name Goals Apps Ratio Years Club(s)
1 Lionel Messi 4565030.9072004–presentBarcelona
2 Cristiano Ronaldo 3112921.0652009–2018Real Madrid
3 Telmo Zarra 2512770.9061940–1955Athletic Bilbao
4 Hugo Sánchez 2343470.6741981–1994Real Madrid
Rayo Vallecano
Atlético Madrid
5 Raúl 2285500.4151994–2010Real Madrid

Source: worldfootball.net[98]

Hat-tricks

Messi scored his first international hat-trick against Switzerland in February 2012.
# For Against Result Competition Date
1 Barcelona Real Madrid3–3 (H)2006–07 La Liga10 March 2007
2 Atlético Madrid3–1 (A)2008–09 Copa del Rey6 January 2009
3 Tenerife5–0 (A)2009–10 La Liga10 January 2010
4 Valencia3–0 (H)2009–10 La Liga14 March 2010
5 Zaragoza4–2 (A)2009–10 La Liga21 March 2010
6 Arsenal44–1 (H)2009–10 UEFA Champions League6 April 2010
7 Sevilla4–0 (H)2010 Supercopa de España21 August 2010
8 Almería8–0 (A)2010–11 La Liga20 November 2010
9 Real Betis5–0 (H)2010–11 Copa del Rey12 January 2011
10 Atlético Madrid3–0 (H)2010–11 La Liga5 February 2011
11 Osasuna8–0 (H)2011–12 La Liga17 September 2011
12 Atlético Madrid5–0 (H)2011–12 La Liga24 September 2011
13 Mallorca5–0 (H)2011–12 La Liga29 October 2011
14 Viktoria Plzeň4–0 (A)2011–12 UEFA Champions League1 November 2011
15 Málaga4–1 (A)2011–12 La Liga22 January 2012
16 Valencia45–1 (H)2011–12 La Liga19 February 2012
17 Argentina Switzerland3–1 (A)Friendly29 February 2012
18 Barcelona Bayer Leverkusen57–1 (H)2011–12 UEFA Champions League7 March 2012
19 Espanyol44–0 (H)2011–12 La Liga20 March 2012
20 Granada5–3 (H)2011–12 La Liga2 May 2012
21 Málaga4–1 (H)2011–12 La Liga5 May 2012
22 Argentina Brazil4–3 (N)Friendly9 June 2012
23 Barcelona Deportivo La Coruña5–4 (A)2012–13 La Liga20 October 2012
24 Osasuna45–1 (H)2012–13 La Liga27 January 2013
25 Argentina Guatemala4–0 (A)Friendly14 June 2013
26 Barcelona Valencia3–2 (A)2013–14 La Liga1 September 2013
27 Ajax4–0 (H)2013–14 UEFA Champions League18 September 2013
28 Osasuna7–0 (H)2013–14 La Liga16 March 2014
29 Real Madrid4–3 (A)2013–14 La Liga23 March 2014
30 Sevilla5–1 (H)2014–15 La Liga22 November 2014
31 APOEL4–0 (A)2014–15 UEFA Champions League25 November 2014
32 Espanyol5–1 (H)2014–15 La Liga7 December 2014
33 Deportivo La Coruña4–0 (A)2014–15 La Liga18 January 2015
34 Levante5–0 (H)2014–15 La Liga15 February 2015
35 Rayo Vallecano6–1 (H)2014–15 La Liga15 March 2015
36 Granada4–0 (H)2015–16 La Liga9 January 2016
37 Valencia7–0 (H)2015–16 Copa del Rey3 February 2016
38 Rayo Vallecano5–1 (A)2015–16 La Liga3 March 2016
39 Argentina Panama5–0 (N)Copa América Centenario10 June 2016
40 Barcelona Celtic7–0 (H)2016–17 UEFA Champions League13 September 2016
41 Manchester City4–0 (H)2016–17 UEFA Champions League19 October 2016
42 Espanyol5–0 (H)2017–18 La Liga9 September 2017
43 Eibar46–1 (H)2017–18 La Liga19 September 2017
44 Argentina Ecuador3–1 (A)2018 FIFA World Cup qualification10 October 2017
45 Barcelona Leganés3–1 (H)2017–18 La Liga7 April 2018
46 Deportivo La Coruña4–2 (A)2017–18 La Liga29 April 2018
47 Argentina Haiti4–0 (H)Friendly29 May 2018
48 Barcelona PSV Eindhoven4–0 (H)2018–19 UEFA Champions League18 September 2018
49 Levante5–0 (A)2018–19 La Liga16 December 2018
50 Sevilla4–2 (A)2018–19 La Liga23 February 2019
51 Real Betis4–1 (A)2018–19 La Liga17 March 2019
52 Celta Vigo4–1 (H)2019–20 La Liga9 November 2019
53 Mallorca5–2 (H)2019–20 La Liga7 December 2019
54 Eibar45–0 (H)2019–20 La Liga22 February 2020

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Other performances

Some of these accolades are shared with other players.

Top assist provider

International

Awarded by international football federations
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