Messi vs Ronaldo · every official match since 2004Who is the GOAT?
Ten parts of the game 0 to 100, best of the two = 100
Pillar by pillar
In the matches you picked
How sure is it? 10,000 random weightings
Tale of the tape whole careers
Penalties, free kicks and headers come from the goal-by-goal records, which don't cover Ronaldo's 6 Arab Club Champions Cup goals. Ronaldo retired from international football on 30 September 2026.
Club output by age
Head to head
Every match where both of them were on the pitch: Clásicos in the league, cups and Super Cups, the Champions League, and the two Argentina against Portugal friendlies. The January 2023 exhibition between PSG and a Riyadh all-star side is left out, because it isn't in either player's official match record (Messi's side won it 5-4, both scored).
By competition
Goals in the rivalry, match by match running total
Every match
Ball = goal, diamond = assist. Source: Transfermarkt match data, both players' logs matched on the same game.
Every season, against everyone
Each league, Champions League and tournament season of both careers, ranked against every player in that competition that season. WhoScored from 2009-10, Transfermarkt scorer lists before that.
Top 5
Form line, every league season WhoScored, 2009-10 on
Hover a point for the season. Split seasons (Ronaldo 2021-22, 2022-23) show both leagues.
Rank for goals + assists in his league
1 = most in the whole league that season. Ranks above 40 are drawn at 40.
Every calendar year all competitions
Season by season, both careers
Big games
Knockouts, finals, and every match against a side that finished in the top five of its league, whatever the competition: a Premier League top-five side met in the Champions League counts as much as one met in the league.
Against each league's top five, in every competition
Top five = where the opponent finished in its own league that season (final tables rebuilt from every result). Goals · assists in matches · W-D-L.
Opponent by opponent
Knockouts
Knockout goals by competition
Knockout goals by year
Every final
Europe's giants
Against the world's top 10 Elo rank on the day
Creator
Assists from every match, and the chance-creation numbers behind them: Understat for every league game from 2014-15 to 2022-23, WhoScored per-game numbers for every season since 2009-10.
Assists
Expected numbers per 90 Understat, league games
Season by season
Club assists by age
Shots and xG
Every shot both of them took in La Liga, the Premier League, Serie A and Ligue 1 over nine seasons, with its position and expected-goal value (Understat). Filled = goal, size = xG.
How they score
Season by season
MVP and awards
Player of the match, player of the season, player of the tournament and player of the year, every year.
Ballon d'Or and FIFA, every year
Man of the match, every season WhoScored, 2009-10 on
League, Champions League and tournaments added together, by the year the season started. MLS is shown here, but the totals above count Europe only, because WhoScored has no ratings for the Saudi league.
Every tournament they played WhoScored
Awards scoreboard
World Cup Player of the Match, every award
Trophies
Every senior trophy, grouped by how much it is worth.
Impact
Each match replayed without their goals: how many points their goals won, how much of their team's attack ran through them, and how their teams did with them.
Results they changed
Share of team goals scored or set up, every club season
Explorer
All 1,900+ goals and 2,500+ matches. The filters in the bar at the top apply here too.
Record against every opponent
Every match
Money and fame
Market value, transfer fees, earnings, and, just for fun, the internet.
Market value, every update Transfermarkt
Transfers
Forbes earnings, US$ millions
The social league
Followers by platform, millions
Most-liked posts
Did you know
How the score works
On each measure the better of the two gets 100 and the other a share of it. With diminishing returns on, values go through a square root first, so 10 goals against 8 is 100 against 89. A measure missing for either player, or zero for both under the filters, is dropped for both. Pillars average their measures and the weights below decide how much each pillar counts.
Weights
Settings
Every measure value, then score out of 100
Same weights, different samples
The StatsBomb event data covers selected matches only (all of Messi's La Liga seasons at Barcelona, the 2015-16 La Liga season for both, World Cups, Euros, Copa América 2024 and Champions League finals), so it sits next to the whole-career numbers rather than replacing them.