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MESSI WORLD RECORDS
- Only player in history to score 40+ club goals in 8 consecutive seasons
- Most FIFA Ballon d'Or awards: 5
- Most appearances in the FIFPro World XI: 9 times (2007-2015) (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- Most goals scored at the Club World Cup: 5 goals (shared with Luis Suarez, Delgado and Cristiano Ronaldo)
- Only player to score in 6 different club competitions twice: 2011 and 2015
- Most appearances in the top 3 candidates for the Ballon d'Or: 10 times(2007-2016)
- Guinness World Records title for the most official goals in a calendar year: 91 goals (2012)
- Most goals in a calendar year (including club friendlies): 96 goals (2012)
- Most international goals in a year (club and national team): 25 goals(2012) (shared with Vivian Woodward & Cristiano Ronaldo)
- Only player to have scored at three Club World Cups: 2009, 2011, 2015
- Most consecutive league matches scored in: 21 matches (33 goals)
- First footballer ever to score consecutively against all teams in a professional league
- Youngest player to win 3 Ballon d'Or awards: 24 years, 6 months and 17 days.
- Most FIFA Club World Cup Golden Balls: 2 (2009, 2011)
- Only footballer to score 60+ goals in all competitions in 2 consecutive seasons (2011/12 and 2012/13)
MESSI EUROPEAN RECORDS
- Most European Golden Shoe awards: 4 (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- Most goals scored against a single opponent in the Champions League 9 goals against Arsenal (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo (against Bayern Munich))
- Fastest player ever to reach 300 goals in Europe's top 5 leagues (334 games)
- Youngest player to reach 100 appearances in the Champions League
- Youngest player ever to score 400+ goals for a single European club (27 years and 300 days)
- Most league goals scored in a season: 50 goals
- Most goals scored in a season (club): 73 goals
- Most goals scored in a year (club): 79 goals
- Most penalties scored in Champions League history: 11 penalties(shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- Most hat-tricks in UEFA Champions League: 7 hat-tricks (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- Most hat-tricks in the group stage in a single Champions League season:2 hat-tricks (shared with Luiz Adriano and Cristiano Ronaldo)
- Highest scorer in a UEFA Champions League game: 5 goals (shared with Luiz Adriano)
- Only player to score in 23 different cities in the European Cup
- Most UEFA Best Player Awards: 2
MESSI SPANISH RECORDS
- First player in La Liga history to have scored at least 2 goals in 100 matches
- Most goals scored in La Liga El Clásico matches: 16 goals
- Most goals scored in El Clásico matches: 24 goals
- Only player in La Liga history to score 20+ goals in 8 consecutive seasons (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- Only player in La Liga history to score 20+ goals in 9 consecutive seasons
- First player to score 25+ goals in five consecutive La Liga seasons (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- First player to score 25+ goals in six consecutive La Liga seasons (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- First player to score 25+ goals in seven consecutive La Liga seasons (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- First player to score 25+ goals in eight consecutive La Liga seasons (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- Only player in La Liga history to score 2+ hat-tricks in 7 consecutive seasons (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- Most trophies won in Spanish football: 30 trophies (shared with Iniesta)
- Only player to score in 6 Spanish Super Cup editions: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016
- Only player to score in 4 consecutive Spanish Super Cup editions: 2009-2012
- Most goals in Spanish Super Cup Games: 17 goals
- Most away goals scored in La Liga history
- Leading goalscorer over a season in home games: 46 goals (in 2011/12)
- Leading goalscorer over a season in home league games: 35 goals (in 2011/12)
- Leading goalscorer over a season in away league games: 24 goals (in 2012/13)
- Leading goalscorer in the second half of a league season: 28 goals (in 2011/12)
- Most opponents scored against in a single season: 19 (2012/13) (Shared with Cristiano Ronaldo and Ronaldo)
- Most goals scored in La Liga in a season: 50 goals in 2011/12
- Most goals scored in La Liga in a calendar year: 59 goals in 2012
- Most La Liga hat-tricks in a season: 8 hat-tricks (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- Most league matches scored in in a single season: 27 games (2012/13) (Shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- Most home league matches scored in in a single season: 16 games (in 2011/12)
- Most away league matches scored in in a single season: 15 games (in 2012/13)
- Youngest player to score 200 La Liga goals: 25 years
- Most consecutive La Liga matches scored in: 21 matches, 33 goals(2012/13)
- Most consecutive away league matches scored in: 13 matches, 20 goals(2012/13)
- Most hat-tricks in El Clásico matches: 2 hat-tricks
- Most assists in La Liga: 135 assists
- All time highest goalscorer in La Liga: 354 goals
- Youngest player to reach 250 league goals
- First player to score 40+ goals in 3 La Liga seasons (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- Best goalscoring ratio in a La Liga season (at least 20 games played):1.44 (46 goals in 32 games in 2012/13)
MESSI BARCELONA RECORDS
- Most free kicks scored for Barcelona: 27 free kick goals
- All time Barcelona top scorer in all games: 545 goals
- All time Barcelona top scorer in official competitions: 515 goals
- Barcelona top scorer in La Liga: 354 goals
- Barcelona top scorer in European competitions: 99 goals
- Barcelona top scorer in international competitions: 101 goals
- Most hat-tricks in official competitions for Barcelona: 38 hat-tricks
- Most hat-tricks in La Liga for Barcelona: 27 hat-tricks
- Most hat-tricks scored for Barcelona in a single La Liga season: 8 hat-tricks
- Most goals scored in a single Champions League season: 14 goals(2011/12)
- Most goals scored in Derbi Barceloní (Catalan derby): 12 goals
- First Barcelona player to be La Liga top scorer 3 times
- First Barcelona player to be La Liga top scorer 4 times
- Most Champions League trophies: 4 (shared with Xavi & Iniesta)
- One of 2 players to have scored in 6 different official competitions in one season (Copa del Rey, La Liga, UEFA Champions League, Spanish Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup and FIFA World Club Cup, completed on 4 January 2012) (shared with Pedro)
- Only player to have scored and assisted in 6 different official competitions in one season (Copa del Rey, La Liga, UEFA Champions League, Spanish Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup and FIFA World Club Cup, completed on 12 January 2012)
- The first Barcelona player to surpass 30 league goals in 2 [consecutive] La Liga seasons
- The first Barcelona player to surpass 30 league goals in 3 [consecutive] La Liga seasons
- The first Barcelona player to surpass 30 league goals in 4 [consecutive] La Liga seasons
- The first Barcelona player to win 2 European Golden Shoes
- The first Barcelona player to win 3 European Golden Shoes
- The first Barcelona player to win 4 European Golden Shoes
- The first Barcelona player to surpass 50 goals in a season
- The first Barcelona player to surpass 50 goals in 2 seasons (did it consecutively)
- The first Barcelona player to surpass 50 goals in 3 seasons (did it consecutively)
- The first Barcelona player to surpass 50 goals in 4 seasons
- The first Barcelona player to surpass 50 goals in 5 seasons
MESSI ARGENTINA RECORDS
- First Argentina player to score against the other 9 CONEMBOL countries
- Most goals scored in friendlies: 27 goals
- Most goals scored in one FIFA World Cup qualification: 10 goals
- Most goals scored in a year (national team): 12 goals (2012) (shared with Gabriel Batistuta)
- Youngest Argentina player to have scored at the FIFA World Cup Finals):18 years and 357 days old in 2006 against Serbia and Montenegro
- Youngest player to have reached 100 caps in CONMEBOL history (27 years, 361 days old)
RONALDO WORLD RECORDS
- Most appearances in the FIFPro World XI: 9 times (2007-2015) (shared with Lionel Messi)
- Largest time gap between first and last Ballon d'Or awards: 8 years (2008, 2016)
- Most international goals in a year (club and national team): 25 goals(shared with Vivian Woodward & Lionel Messi)
- Most goals scored at the Club World Cup: 5 goals (shared with Luis Suarez, Delgado and Lionel Messi)
- Only player to have won the Club World Cup with two different clubs:Manchester United in 2008 and Madrid in 2014 & 2016
- First player to reach 40 goals in a professional league in two consecutive seasons
- First player to score in every minute of a game
- Only player to have won the following trophies at 2 different clubs: League Title, UEFA CL, League Supercup, League Cup, League MVP, Golden Boot, Ballon d'Or, and FIFA CWC (Completed on December 20th, 2014)
- Only player in history to have scored 60 or more goals in a calendar year four times (consecutively from 2011 to 2014)
- First and only player to appear in the FIFPro World XI for two different clubs
- First player to score more than 50 goals in four consecutive seasons
- Only player to score more than 50 goals in five consecutive seasons
- Only player to score more than 50 goals in six different seasons (did it consecutively)
RONALDO EUROPEAN RECORDS
- Most Champions League top scorer awards: 6
- Only player to finish Champions League top scorer in 5 consecutive seasons (2012/13 - 2016/17)
- Most league goals in history across Europe's top 5 leagues: 372 league goals
- Only player in history to score 10+ goals in 6 UEFA Champions League seasons
- Most goals scored against a single opponent in the Champions League 9 goals against Bayern Munich (shared with Lionel Messi (against Arsenal))
- Only player to score back-to-back hat-tricks in the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League (Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid in 2017)
- First player to score 50+ goals in the UEFA Champions League knockout stage
- First player to score 40+ goals in the UEFA Champions League knockout stage
- First player to score 100 goals in the UEFA Champions League
- First player to score 100 goals in European competition (97 UCL goals, 1 UCL qualifier goal, 2 UEFA Super Cup goals when record was achieved)
- Most quarter-final goals in the UEFA Champions League: 20 goals
- The first player in history to surpass 30+ league goals in six consecutive seasons in a major European league
- Most different matches scored in, in the UEFA Champions League: 66 matches
- Most hat-tricks in UEFA Champions League: 7 hat-tricks (shared with Lionel Messi)
- Most hat-tricks in a single Champions League season: 3 hat-tricks in 2015/16
- Most free kicks scored in UEFA Champions League: 12 free kick goals
- Fastest player to score 350 goals for a single club in Europe's top 5 leagues (335 games)
- Most UEFA Team of the Year appearances: 11 times
- Most consecutive appearances in the UEFA Team of the Year: 10 consecutive times (2007-2016)
- Most goals scored in the UEFA Champions League group stage in a single season: 11 goals
- Most UEFA Champions League goals scored in a calendar year: 16 goals in 2015
- First player to ever score at least 10 goals in five Champions League seasons (did it consecutively)
- First player to ever score at least 10 goals in six Champions League seasons (did it consecutively)
- Most hat-tricks in the group stage in a single Champions League season:2 hat-tricks (shared with Luiz Adriano and Lionel Messi)
- Most braces in Champions League history: 24 braces
- Most goals scored in Champions League history: 105 goals
- Most penalties scored in Champions League history: 11 penalties(shared with Lionel Messi)
- Most European Golden Shoe awards: 4 (shared with Lionel Messi)
- Most goals scored in a European Cup season: 17 goals (2013/14)
- Most consecutive UEFA Champions League matches scored in: 8 matches
- First and only player to have won the European Golden Shoe in 2 different leagues (EPL with Man Utd and La Liga with Real Madrid)
- First footballer in the history of the European Cup to score for two different winning teams
- Most goals scored in UEFA Champions League knockout phase: 54 goals
- Most home goals scored in the UEFA Champions League: 54
- Most away goals scored in the UEFA Champions League: 47
- Most headed goals scored in the UEFA Champions League: 18 goals
- Most consecutive wins in the UEFA Champions League: 14 wins
- Most goals scored in the Uefa European Championships for Portugal: 29 goals
- Most consecutive UEFA Champions League away matches scored in: 12
- Only player to be among the finalists for all the editions of the UEFA Best Player in Europe (2010-2016)
- All time top scorer in European competitions (including Uefa Super Cup and Champions League qualifiers): 108 goals
- The first player in history to surpass 30 goals in five consecutive seasons in a major European league
- Fastest player to score 200 goals in one of Europe's top 5 leagues (La Liga)
- Fastest player to score 250 goals in one of Europe's top 5 leagues (La Liga)
- Most goals scored in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals: 13 goals
RONALDO SPANISH RECORDS
- Most penalties scored in La Liga history: 58 penalties
- Most penalties missed in La Liga history: 10 penalties
- First player to score 25+ goals in five consecutive La Liga seasons (shared with Lionel Messi)
- First player to score 25+ goals in six consecutive La Liga seasons (shared with Lionel Messi)
- First player to score 25+ goals in seven consecutive La Liga seasons (shared with Lionel Messi)
- First player to score 25+ goals in eight consecutive La Liga seasons (shared with Lionel Messi)
- Only player in La Liga history to score 20+ goals in 8 consecutive seasons (shared with Lionel Messi)
- Most hat-tricks in Spanish football: 35 hat-tricks
- Only player in La Liga history to score 2+ hat-tricks in 7 consecutive seasons (shared with Lionel Messi)
- The first player to score against every team in La Liga in a single season
- The first player ever to score in six consecutive Clásicos
- The first player to score 20 away goals in a single season in La Liga
- Most league matches scored in in a single season: 27 games (2011/12) (Shared with Lionel Messi)
- Most goals scored in three consecutive La Liga matches: 9 goals(shared with László Kubala, Mundo and Campanal)
- Most opponents scored against in a single season: 19 (2011/12) (Shared with Lionel Messi and Ronaldo)
- First player to score more than 50 goals in four [consecutive] seasons in Spanish football
- Most hat-tricks in La Liga: 32 hat-tricks
- Most goals scored in La Liga after the first 8 games: 15 goals (and he didn't play in 1 of those games)
- Most goals scored in La Liga after the first 10 games: 17 goals (and he didn't play in 1 of those games)
- Most goals scored in La Liga after the first 12 games: 20 goals (and he didn't play in 1 of those games)
- Most goals scored in La Liga after the first 15 games: 25 goals (and he didn't play in 1 of those games) (shared with Pruden and Bata)
- Most consecutive home matches scored in in La Liga (in which he played): 17 consecutive home games
- Only player to win 3 LFP awards in one season (2013/14): Best player, Best forward and Best goal
- Fastest La Liga player to score 150 league goals (140 games)
- Fastest La Liga player to score 200 league goals (178 games)
- Fastest player to score 300 official club goals
- Best La Liga penalty conversion rate (of at least 30 PK's): 93%
- The best goal ratio ever in La Liga (over 100 games): 1.08
- First player to score 40+ goals in 3 La Liga seasons (shared with Lionel Messi)
- Most La Liga hat-tricks in a season: 8 hat-tricks (shared with Lionel Messi)
RONALDO ENGLISH RECORDS
- The highest number of goals scored to win the Premier League Golden Boot for a 38-game season: 31 goals (shared with Alan Shearer & Luis Suarez)
- First player to win all four main PFA and FWA awards
RONALDO REAL MADRID RECORDS
- Most goals scored in the Madrid derby: 21 goals
- Only Real Madrid player to score a hat-trick in a Champions League knockout phase match (Shared with Ronaldo Nazario)
- Fastest hat-trick in the UEFA Champions League for Real Madrid: 11 minutes
- Real Madrid's all time leading goalscorer 407 goals
- Real Madrid's all time top goalscorer in the Champions League 90 goals
- Real Madrid's all time top goalscorer in La Liga: 285 goals
- Most goals scored in a season in all competitions for Real Madrid: 61 goals
- Most goals scored in a single La Liga season for Real Madrid: 48 goals
- Most hat-tricks in a single season for Real Madrid: 8 hat-tricks
- Fastest Real Madrid player to reach 50 league goals
- Fastest Real Madrid player to reach 100 league goals
- Fastest Real Madrid player to reach 200 official goals
- Fastest Real Madrid player to reach 250 official goals
- The first Real Madrid player to score in the first four league matches of a season
- The first Real Madrid player to surpass 30 league goals in two [consecutive] La Liga seasons
- The first Real Madrid player to surpass 30 league goals in three [consecutive] La Liga seasons
- The first Real Madrid player to surpass 30 league goals in four [consecutive] La Liga seasons
- The first Real Madrid player to surpass 30 league goals in five [consecutive] La Liga seasons
- Most goals scored in 5 consecutive league matches: 14 goals
- Most goals scored in 7 consecutive league matches: 15 goals
- Most consecutive league game weeks scored in for Real Madrid: 10 games
- Most consecutive league games scored in for Real Madrid: 11 games
- First Real Madrid player to score on every day of the week
- Most goals ever scored in away league matches for Real Madrid
- Most goals scored in UEFA Super Cup matches: 2 goals
- Most hat-tricks in La Liga: 32 hat-tricks
- Most hat-tricks in official competitions for Real Madrid: 31 hat-tricks
- The first Real Madrid player to win 2 European Golden Shoes
- The first Real Madrid player to win 3 European Golden Shoes
- The first Real Madrid player to win 4 European Golden Shoes
- First player to score more than 50 goals in a season
- First player to score more than 50 goals in 2 seasons (did it consecutively)
- First player to score more than 50 goals in 3 seasons (did it consecutively)
- First player to score more than 50 goals in 4 seasons (did it consecutively)
- First player to score more than 50 goals in 5 seasons (did it consecutively)
- First player to score more than 50 goals in 6 seasons (did it consecutively)
RONALDO MANCHESTER UNITED RECORDS
- Most goals in a (38-game) league season for Manchester United: 31 goals
- Record sale of a Manchester United player: £80 million
- First and only Manchester United player to win the European Golden Shoe
- First and only Manchester United player to win the Fifa World Player of the Year
- First and only Manchester United player to win the Fifa Puskas Award
RONALDO PORTUGAL RECORDS
- Most goals scored in European World Cup Qualifiers: 29 goals
- Most goals scored in a single European World Cup Qualifying campaign:14 goals (2018) (shared with Predrag Mijatović (1998))
- Portugal all-time top scorer: 78 goals
- Portugal all-time top scorer in UEFA Euro matches: 9 goals
- Most matches played in UEFA European Championship finals: 19 matches
- Most matches played in World Cup finals: 13 matches
- Youngest player to reach 100 caps: 27 years, 8 months and 11 days
- Only player to score for Portugal in 3 different World Cups
