Argentine footballer Lionel Messi, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, has received a total of eight Ballon d'Or awards and three The Best FIFA Men's Player awards, the most for any player.
He holds the record for the most goals in La Liga (474), the Supercopa de España (14), the UEFA Super Cup (3) and is the player with the most official recorded assists in football history (357). He has scored 826 goals for club and country throughout his professional career and is also the first and only player in history to win five and six European Golden Shoes. During his football career, he won 43 collective trophies.
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.
Year | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
---|---|---|---|
2010 | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona) | Xavi (Barcelona) |
Percentage | 22.65% | 17.36% | 16.48% |
2011 | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) | Xavi (Barcelona) |
Percentage | 47.88% | 21.61% | 9.23% |
2012 | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) | Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona) |
Percentage | 41.17% | 23.68% | 10.91% |
2013 | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Franck Ribéry (Bayern Munich) |
Percentage | 27.99% | 24.72% | 23.36% |
2014 | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich) |
Percentage | 37.66% | 15.76% | 15.73% |
2015 | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) | Neymar (Barcelona) |
Percentage | 41.33% | 27.76% | 7.86% |
Year | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
---|---|---|---|
2007 | Kaká (Milan) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) |
Points | 444 | 277 | 255 |
2008 | Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Fernando Torres (Liverpool) |
Points | 446 | 281 | 179 |
2009 | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United/Real Madrid) | Xavi (Barcelona) |
Points | 473 | 233 | 170 |
2016 | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Antoine Griezmann (Atlético Madrid) |
Points | 745 | 316 | 198 |
2017 | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Neymar (Barcelona/Paris Saint-Germain) |
Points | 946 | 670 | 361 |
2019 | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) |
Points | 686 | 679 | 476 |
2021 | Lionel Messi (Barcelona/Paris Saint-Germain) | Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich) | Jorginho (Chelsea) |
Points | 613 | 580 | 460 |
2023 | Lionel Messi (Paris Saint-Germain/Inter Miami) | Erling Haaland (Manchester City) | Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) |
Points | 462 | 357 | 270 |
Year | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
---|---|---|---|
2007 | Kaká (Milan) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) |
Points | 1047 | 504 | 426 |
2008 | Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Fernando Torres (Liverpool) |
Points | 935 | 678 | 203 |
2009 | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United/Real Madrid) | Xavi (Barcelona) |
Points | 1073 | 352 | 196 |
Year | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
---|---|---|---|
2016 | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Antoine Griezmann (Atlético Madrid) |
Percentage | 34.54% | 26.42% | 7.53% |
2017 | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Neymar (Barcelona/Paris Saint-Germain) |
Percentage | 43.16% | 19.25% | 6.97% |
2019 | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) |
Points | 46 | 38 | 36 |
2020 | Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) |
Points | 52 | 38 | 35 |
2021 | Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona/Paris Saint-Germain) | Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) |
Points | 48 | 44 | 39 |
2022 | Lionel Messi (Paris Saint-Germain) | Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) | Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) |
Points | 52 | 44 | 34 |
2023 | Lionel Messi (Paris Saint-Germain/Inter Miami) | Erling Haaland (Manchester City) | Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) |
Points | 48 | 48 | 35 |
Year | Golden Ball | Silver Ball | Bronze Ball | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Lionel Messi | Thomas Müller | Arjen Robben | |
2022 | Lionel Messi | Kylian Mbappé | Luka Modrić |
Year | Golden Ball | Silver Ball | Bronze Ball | Ref(s) |
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2009 | Lionel Messi | Juan Sebastián Verón | Xavi | |
2011 | Lionel Messi | Xavi | Neymar | |
2015 | Luis Suárez | Lionel Messi | Andrés Iniesta |
According to UEFA, the award "recognise[s] the best player, irrespective of his nationality, playing for a football club within the territory of a UEFA member association during the previous season." Players are judged by their performances in all competitions, domestic and international, and at club and national team levels throughout the season.
In the past, the award was solely decided by a panel of 53 leading sports journalists. In 2018, however, UEFA added 80 coaches, from the clubs that participated in the group stages of that year's UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, to its jury. The amount of journalists selected by the European Sports Media association was also increased to 55, representing each of UEFA's member associations.
Season | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
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2010–11 | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Xavi (Barcelona) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) |
Points | 39 | 11 | 3 |
2011–12 | Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona) | Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo (Barcelona and Real Madrid, respectively) | |
Points | 19 | 17 | |
2012–13 | Franck Ribéry (Bayern Munich) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) |
Points | 36 | 14 | 3 |
2014–15 | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Luis Suárez (Barcelona) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) |
Points | 49 | 3 | 2 |
2016–17 | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus) |
Points | 482 | 141 | 109 |
2018–19 | Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) |
Points | 305 | 207 | 74 |
2022–23 | Erling Haaland (Manchester City) | Lionel Messi (Paris Saint-Germain) | Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) |
Points | 352 | 227 | 225 |
Champions League positional awards were introduced in 2017 to "recognise the season's best player in each position in Europe's premier club competition".
Season | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
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2016–17 | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Paulo Dybala (Juventus) |
Points | 359 | 147 | 64 |
2017–18 | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) | Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) |
Points | 287 | 218 | 43 |
2018–19 | Lionel Messi (Barcelona) | Sadio Mané (Liverpool) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) |
Points | 285 | 109 | 91 |
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.
Season | Goals | Points |
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2009–10 | 34 | 68 |
2011–12 | 50 | 100 |
2012–13 | 46 | 92 |
2016–17 | 37 | 74 |
2017–18 | 34 | 68 |
2018–19 | 36 | 72 |
Season | Player(s) | Nationality | Club(s) | Goals |
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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, UEFA, WorldFootball.net
Cristiano Ronaldo is the UEFA Champions league all-time top goalscorer with 140 goals while Messi is second with 129 to his name. The pair had broken each other's record over the course of 2015, after Messi surpassed the previous recordholder, Raúl, in November 2014. 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.
Rank | Player | Goals | Apps | Ratio | Years | Club(s) |
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1 | Cristiano Ronaldo | 140 | 183 | 0.77 | 2003–2022 | Manchester United Real Madrid Juventus |
2 | Lionel Messi | 129 | 163 | 0.79 | 2005–2023 | Barcelona Paris Saint-Germain |
3 | Robert Lewandowski | 94 | 120 | 0.78 | 2011–present | Borussia Dortmund Bayern Munich Barcelona |
4 | Karim Benzema | 90 | 152 | 0.59 | 2005–2023 | Lyon Real Madrid |
5 | Raúl | 71 | 142 | 0.5 | 1995–2011 | Real Madrid Schalke 04 |
Source: WorldFootball.net
Season | Goals | Matches | Ratio |
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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 |
2020–21 | 30 | 35 | 0.857 |
Rank | Player | Goals | Apps | Ratio | Years | Club(s) |
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1 | Lionel Messi | 474 | 520 | 0.912 | 2004–2021 | Barcelona |
2 | Cristiano Ronaldo | 311 | 292 | 1.065 | 2009–2018 | Real Madrid |
3 | Telmo Zarra | 251 | 277 | 0.906 | 1940–1955 | Athletic Bilbao |
4 | Karim Benzema | 238 | 439 | 0.542 | 2009–2023 | Real Madrid |
5 | Hugo Sánchez | 234 | 347 | 0.674 | 1981–1994 | Real Madrid Rayo Vallecano Atlético Madrid |
Source: WorldFootball.net
No. | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date |
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1 | Barcelona | Real Madrid | 3–3 (H) | 2006–07 La Liga | 10 March 2007 |
2 | Atlético Madrid | 3–1 (A) | 2008–09 Copa del Rey | 6 January 2009 | |
3 | Tenerife | 5–0 (A) | 2009–10 La Liga | 10 January 2010 | |
4 | Valencia | 3–0 (H) | 2009–10 La Liga | 14 March 2010 | |
5 | Zaragoza | 4–2 (A) | 2009–10 La Liga | 21 March 2010 | |
6 | Arsenal4 | 4–1 (H) | 2009–10 UEFA Champions League | 6 April 2010 | |
7 | Sevilla | 4–0 (H) | 2010 Supercopa de España | 21 August 2010 | |
8 | Almería | 8–0 (A) | 2010–11 La Liga | 20 November 2010 | |
9 | Real Betis | 5–0 (H) | 2010–11 Copa del Rey | 12 January 2011 | |
10 | Atlético Madrid | 3–0 (H) | 2010–11 La Liga | 5 February 2011 | |
11 | Osasuna | 8–0 (H) | 2011–12 La Liga | 17 September 2011 | |
12 | Atlético Madrid | 5–0 (H) | 2011–12 La Liga | 24 September 2011 | |
13 | Mallorca | 5–0 (H) | 2011–12 La Liga | 29 October 2011 | |
14 | Viktoria Plzeň | 4–0 (A) | 2011–12 UEFA Champions League | 1 November 2011 | |
15 | Málaga | 4–1 (A) | 2011–12 La Liga | 22 January 2012 | |
16 | Valencia4 | 5–1 (H) | 2011–12 La Liga | 19 February 2012 | |
17 | Argentina | Switzerland | 3–1 (A) | Friendly | 29 February 2012 |
18 | Barcelona | Bayer Leverkusen5 | 7–1 (H) | 2011–12 UEFA Champions League | 7 March 2012 |
19 | Espanyol4 | 4–0 (H) | 2011–12 La Liga | 20 March 2012 | |
20 | Granada | 5–3 (H) | 2011–12 La Liga | 2 May 2012 | |
21 | Málaga | 4–1 (H) | 2011–12 La Liga | 5 May 2012 | |
22 | Argentina | Brazil | 4–3 (N) | Friendly | 9 June 2012 |
23 | Barcelona | Deportivo La Coruña | 5–4 (A) | 2012–13 La Liga | 20 October 2012 |
24 | Osasuna4 | 5–1 (H) | 2012–13 La Liga | 27 January 2013 | |
25 | Argentina | Guatemala | 4–0 (A) | Friendly | 14 June 2013 |
26 | Barcelona | Valencia | 3–2 (A) | 2013–14 La Liga | 1 September 2013 |
27 | Ajax | 4–0 (H) | 2013–14 UEFA Champions League | 18 September 2013 | |
28 | Osasuna | 7–0 (H) | 2013–14 La Liga | 16 March 2014 | |
29 | Real Madrid | 4–3 (A) | 2013–14 La Liga | 23 March 2014 | |
30 | Sevilla | 5–1 (H) | 2014–15 La Liga | 22 November 2014 | |
31 | APOEL | 4–0 (A) | 2014–15 UEFA Champions League | 25 November 2014 | |
32 | Espanyol | 5–1 (H) | 2014–15 La Liga | 7 December 2014 | |
33 | Deportivo La Coruña | 4–0 (A) | 2014–15 La Liga | 18 January 2015 | |
34 | Levante | 5–0 (H) | 2014–15 La Liga | 15 February 2015 | |
35 | Rayo Vallecano | 6–1 (H) | 2014–15 La Liga | 15 March 2015 | |
36 | Granada | 4–0 (H) | 2015–16 La Liga | 9 January 2016 | |
37 | Valencia | 7–0 (H) | 2015–16 Copa del Rey | 3 February 2016 | |
38 | Rayo Vallecano | 5–1 (A) | 2015–16 La Liga | 3 March 2016 | |
39 | Argentina | Panama | 5–0 (N) | Copa América Centenario | 10 June 2016 |
40 | Barcelona | Celtic | 7–0 (H) | 2016–17 UEFA Champions League | 13 September 2016 |
41 | Manchester City | 4–0 (H) | 2016–17 UEFA Champions League | 19 October 2016 | |
42 | Espanyol | 5–0 (H) | 2017–18 La Liga | 9 September 2017 | |
43 | Eibar4 | 6–1 (H) | 2017–18 La Liga | 19 September 2017 | |
44 | Argentina | Ecuador | 3–1 (A) | 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification | 10 October 2017 |
45 | Barcelona | Leganés | 3–1 (H) | 2017–18 La Liga | 7 April 2018 |
46 | Deportivo La Coruña | 4–2 (A) | 2017–18 La Liga | 29 April 2018 | |
47 | Argentina | Haiti | 4–0 (H) | Friendly | 29 May 2018 |
48 | Barcelona | PSV Eindhoven | 4–0 (H) | 2018–19 UEFA Champions League | 18 September 2018 |
49 | Levante | 5–0 (A) | 2018–19 La Liga | 16 December 2018 | |
50 | Sevilla | 4–2 (A) | 2018–19 La Liga | 23 February 2019 | |
51 | Real Betis | 4–1 (A) | 2018–19 La Liga | 17 March 2019 | |
52 | Celta Vigo | 4–1 (H) | 2019–20 La Liga | 9 November 2019 | |
53 | Mallorca | 5–2 (H) | 2019–20 La Liga | 7 December 2019 | |
54 | Eibar4 | 5–0 (H) | 2019–20 La Liga | 22 February 2020 | |
55 | Argentina | Bolivia | 3–0 (H) | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification | 9 September 2021 |
56 | Estonia5 | 5–0 (N) | Friendly | 5 June 2022 | |
57 | Curaçao | 7–0 (H) | Friendly | 28 March 2023 |
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Some of these accolades are shared with other players.
Season | Category | |||
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Goalkeeper | Defenders | Midfielders | Forwards | |
2014–15 | Claudio Bravo (Barcelona) | Dani Alves (Barcelona) Nicolás Otamendi (Valencia) Gerard Piqué (Barcelona) Jordi Alba (Barcelona) | Grzegorz Krychowiak (Sevilla) Ivan Rakitić (Barcelona) James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) Lionel Messi (Barcelona) Antoine Griezmann (Atlético Madrid) |
2015–16 | Jan Oblak (Atlético Madrid) | Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid) Diego Godín (Atlético Madrid) Gerard Piqué (Barcelona) Marcelo (Real Madrid) | Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona) Sergio Busquets (Barcelona) Luka Modrić (Real Madrid) | Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) Lionel Messi (Barcelona) Luis Suárez (Barcelona) |
The Laureus World Sports Awards is an annual award ceremony honouring remarkable individuals from the world of sports along with the greatest sporting achievements throughout the year. Messi is the athlete that received the most nominations overall (8—tied with Tiger Woods). In 2020, Messi became the first footballer to win the award, and in 2023 received it for the second time.
Edition | Player | Team | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|
2009 Rome | Lionel Messi | Barcelona | |
Xavi | Barcelona | ||
2011 London | Lionel Messi | Barcelona | |
Lionel Messi | Barcelona |
Edition | Player | Team | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|
2009 Monaco | Lionel Messi | Barcelona | |
2015 Tbilisi | Lionel Messi | Barcelona |
Edition | Name | Team | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|
2009 UAE | Lionel Messi | Barcelona | |
2011 Japan | Lionel Messi | Barcelona |
Rank | Player | Match | Awards |
---|---|---|---|
14 | Lionel Messi | Greece (GS) | 1 |
Rank | Player | Matches | Awards |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Lionel Messi | Bolivia (GS), Costa Rica (GS) | 2 |
Rank | Player | Matches | Awards |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Lionel Messi | Bosnia and Herzegovina (GS), Iran (GS), Nigeria (GS), Switzerland (R16) | 4 |
2 | Keylor Navas | England (GS), Greece (R16), Netherlands (QF) | 3 |
Arjen Robben | Australia (GS), Chile (GS), Brazil (TP) | ||
James Rodríguez | Greece (GS), Ivory Coast (GS), Uruguay (R16) |
Source: FIFA
Rank | Player | Matches | Awards |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Lionel Messi | Paraguay (GS), Uruguay (GS), Colombia (QF), Paraguay (SF) | 4 |
Rank | Player | Matches | Awards |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Lionel Messi | Panama (GS), Venezuela (QF), United States (SF) | 3 |
2 | David Ospina | Peru (QF), United States (TP) | 2 |
Eduardo Vargas | Panama (GS), Mexico (QF) | ||
Enner Valencia | Peru (GS), Haiti (GS) |
Rank | Player | Match | Awards |
---|---|---|---|
9 | Lionel Messi | Nigeria (GS) | 1 |
Rank | Player | Match | Awards |
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8 | Lionel Messi | Qatar (GS) | 1 |
Rank | Player | Matches | Awards |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Lionel Messi | Chile (GS), Uruguay (GS), Bolivia (GS), Ecuador (QF) | 4 |
Rank | Player | Match | Award |
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1 | Lionel Messi | Italy (F) | 1 |
Rank | Player | Match | Awards |
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1 | Lionel Messi | Mexico (GS), Australia (R16), Netherlands (QF), Croatia (SF), France (F) | 5 |
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