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Find dated answers about Messi and Ronaldo’s goals, assists, appearances and scoring records, with sources and counting rules.
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Goals: Messi 930; Ronaldo 979.
Goals within the selected scope. Penalty-shootout kicks and club friendlies are excluded. Senior competitive club games and senior internationals, including A-international friendlies. Club friendlies, youth games and shootouts excluded.
Assists: Messi 424; Ronaldo 261.
Conventional assists as published by the named source. Secondary, fantasy and penalty-won assists are not added. Providers may classify incidents differently. Senior competitive club games and senior internationals, including A-international friendlies. Club friendlies, youth games and shootouts excluded.
Appearances: Messi 1176; Ronaldo 1337.
Matches in which the player appeared; a substitute appearance counts as one game. Senior competitive club games and senior internationals, including A-international friendlies. Club friendlies, youth games and shootouts excluded.
Direct free-kick goals: Messi 75; Ronaldo 65.
Goals scored directly from a free kick, as classified by the source. Senior competitive club games and senior internationals, including A-international friendlies. Club friendlies, youth games and shootouts excluded.
Penalty goals: Messi 114; Ronaldo 184.
Successful penalties during the match or extra time. Shootouts excluded. Senior competitive club games and senior internationals, including A-international friendlies. Club friendlies, youth games and shootouts excluded.
Hat-tricks: Messi 62; Ronaldo 66.
Matches with at least three goals; a four- or five-goal match counts once. Senior competitive club games and senior internationals, including A-international friendlies. Club friendlies, youth games and shootouts excluded.
Goals: Messi 125; Ronaldo 146.
Goals within the selected scope. Penalty-shootout kicks and club friendlies are excluded. Senior Argentina and Portugal games, including recognized A-international friendlies. Youth and Olympic teams excluded.
Goals: Messi 21; Ronaldo 11.
Goals within the selected scope. Penalty-shootout kicks and club friendlies are excluded. FIFA World Cup final tournaments through 2026. Qualifiers and shootouts excluded.
Goals: Messi 129; Ronaldo 140.
Goals within the selected scope. Penalty-shootout kicks and club friendlies are excluded. UEFA Champions League main competition only. Assists follow UEFA: 40 Messi, 42 Ronaldo. Minutes and goal types follow the secondary statistical reference.
Goals: Messi 474; Ronaldo 311.
Goals within the selected scope. Penalty-shootout kicks and club friendlies are excluded. Complete Spanish top-flight league careers; not just the seasons both players spent in Spain.
