Inter Miami played their last match of the Major League Soccer (MLS) regular season in the United States two days ago. Lionel Messi was handed the Golden Boot that day, although he did not score in the match.
The 39-year-old Argentine great scored a league-high 26 goals in 31 matches in the 2026 MLS season, becoming the first player to win the Golden Boot two years in a row. Seeing Messi lift yet another top scorer’s trophy at this age raises an obvious question: in how many competitions has the Argentine forward finished as top scorer over his career?
Answering that is no small task, given how long his career has been. He retired from the Argentina side last month after 21 years with the national team, and where his 22-year professional career will end is not yet known. Over that span he has played in a great many competitions. Argentine outlet El Gráfico has drawn up a list of those in which he finished as the leading scorer.
By its count, Messi has been top scorer in 33 competitions so far. He led the scoring in Spain’s La Liga in eight seasons, in the Champions League six times, and in the Copa del Rey and the Spanish Super Cup five times each. He was top scorer twice each in the UEFA Super Cup and MLS, and once each in the Club World Cup, the Copa América, the Leagues Cup, the Champions Cup and South American World Cup qualifying.
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