ALL TIME NEW RECORD FOR LIONEL MESSI

• Apr 25, 2023
• History Statistics

Picture : after receiving his 3 IFFHS 2022 Awards, Lionel Messi broke a new All Time Record !

Messi: new record for most scoring games in big 5 leagues

In April, Lionel Messi took another all-time record. After scoring for PSG in two Ligue 1 games, he brought the number of league matches in which he scored goals to 319. This number is made up of 300 productive appearances for Barcelona and 19 for his current club.
Thus, Messi became the new record holder for the number of scoring games in the big 5 European leagues. He overtook Cristiano Ronaldo, who has 317 such games.
Here we publish the all-time ranking of the players amassing the highest number of big 5 leagues' scoring games, with a breakdown by leagues.

	PLAYERS WITH	MOST	SCORING	GAMES
	IN   BIG   FIVE		EUROPEAN	LEAGUES
	Player	Goals	Nationality	Years	Eng	Fra	Ger	Ita	Spa
1	Lionel Messi	319	Argentina	2004-		19			300
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	317	Portugal	2003-2022	74			60	183
3	Jimmy Greaves	251	England	1957-1971	245			6
4	Gerd Müller	228	Germany	1964-1979			228
5	Robert Lewandowski	225	Poland	2010-			213		12
6	Zlatan Ibrahimović	224	Sweden	2004-	14	72		123	15
7	Delio Onnis	221	Argentina	1971-1986		221
	Steve Bloomer	221	England	1892-1914	221
9	Karim Benzema	214	France	2005-	178	36
10	"Dixie" Dean	211	England	1924-1938	211
	Alan Shearer	211	England	1987-2006	211