A constant between the two is the eternal comparison. Who is better, Cristiano or Messi? Who has more goals? BeSoccer Pro  comes to the rescue of the questions with its updated and detailed data. 

Messi vs Cristiano

After the last disputed, there are already 1,020 games  that Leo Messi has played at a professional level. In them, the soccer player from Rosario has managed to score  804 goals. In addition, he has distributed a total of  336 assists. In other words: 1,140  goals have been born directly from his boots  .

As for Cristiano Ronaldo, his numbers are better from an absolute point of view. In the 1,159 games on his card, 835 goals have already been scored , which have made him the top scorer of all time . A stratospheric achievement, although it cannot be ruled out that Messi, now 35 , will take it away from him. In the assist statistics he comes off worse off, since he is at 194 , which is why the absolute contribution of the Portuguese is less: he has generated 1,029 goals. 

Looking at the averages, Leo Messi’s remains at 0.79 goals and 0.33 assists . Cristiano Ronaldo’s is 0.72 and 0.17 , respectively. And their penalty goals are included . 

Goals of Messi vs Cristiano clubs

Looking exclusively at club matches, the differences narrow much more. The man from Rosario has managed to score 702 goals and distribute 293 assists . In other words, 995  are those that he has directly promoted. All this in a total of 846 duels .

How many does Cristiano have left? Well, the Portuguese, after a total of 961 games spread between Sporting, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Juventus and Al-Sadd, has scored  712 goals and has given 180 passes  that ended in target. In short,  892 goals generated .

Therefore, it remains that Messi, despite having fewer games, has participated in more than  100 more goals than the Portuguese.

Goals from Messi vs Cristiano during his time at Real Madrid

During the period of 2009 and 2018, Cristiano Ronaldo added some spectacular data. His time in all competitions defending the Real Madrid shirt left him with an  average of 1.03 , since he managed to achieve 450 goals in 438 games.

For his part, Leo Messi’s at the Camp Nou during that same time remained at 0.99 after he scored 22 more goals than the Portuguese, a total of 472, in 476 games. 

And it is that the Argentine, despite having scored  more times in this entire stage, also played 38 more duels than the Portuguese. Therefore, the average in this case favors the current  Al-Nassr striker .

Goals of Messi vs Cristiano with PSG and Al-Nassr

Cristiano Ronaldo became a legend at Real Madrid and after the 2017-18 season he asked to leave to start a new stage at Juventus . Something that seemed that it would never happen with Lionel Messi, but that ended up precipitating in the summer of 2021 before the delicate economic situation of FC Barcelona. A traumatic goodbye that ended with the ’10’ Barcelona at Paris Saint-Germain . Days later, the departure of the Portuguese to Manchester United, where he matured as a footballer, was also confirmed.

Aboard Juventus, Cristiano accumulated a total of 133 games in which he scored 101 goals. Then at Old Trafford he had 27 after 54 games in his second spell. In the first he signed 119 in 292 games. In total, 146 in 346 . He remains to see how many goals he scores in his new team, Al-Nassr, where he has  11 in 11 games .

For his part, Messi scored  11 goals in his first year with Paris Saint-Germain , 5 of them in the Champions League, where the club disappointed after being eliminated in the round of 16. That was the first time for the Argentine out of Spanish football, in which he played 778 games dressed as a Barça player. So far in the 2022-23 season, the ’10’ has already played 33 games with PSG and has scored 18 goals for a total of 29 goals in 66 games for the Parisian team.

Goals of Messi vs Cristiano with their selections

Regarding the last section, that of the national teams, Cristiano manages better figures, although these continue to reveal the equality in the statistics that exists between both attackers.

The Portuguese, with 198 games played and 123 goals (0.62 goals per game), accumulates  25 more appearances with Portugal. In that time he has scored 24 goals more than the former Barça player.

Regarding the captain of the Argentine National Team, he has  made 174 appearances and 102 goals , which leaves him with an average of 0.59 goals per game. Although at least the ‘Flea’ compensates thanks to the assists, since he has given a total of 42  (0.24 on average) for the 15 of the Portuguese (0.08).