Messi's records and achievements against Ronaldo in world history:
That said, there is Lionel Messi which has been marked as Cristiano Ronaldo's biggest rival when it comes to making and breaking records. However, Ronaldo is definitely a once in a lifetime player and he can be authoritatively marked as the greatest as well as the the most consistent goalscorer in modern football, if not in football history.
Here are the statistics:
MESSI WORLD RECORDS:
- Only player in history to score Over 40 club goals in 7 consecutive seasons
- Plus FIFA Ballon d'Or Awards: 5
- Most appearances in the FIFPro World XI: 9 times (2007-2015) (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- Most goals scored in the Club World Cup: 5 goals (shared with Luis Suarez, Delgado and Cristiano Ronaldo)
- The only player to score twice in 6 different club competitions: 2011 and 2015
- Most appearances in the top 3 candidates for the Ballon d'Or: 9 times (2007-2015)
MESSI EUROPEAN RECORDS:
- The only player to have scored more than 10 goals in the UEFA Champions League group stage in one season (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- The only player to score consecutive hat-tricks in the UEFA Champions League (shared with Luiz Adriano)
- The only player to score more than 2 hat tricks in 2 different tournaments UEFA Champions League seasons
- Most braces marked in the UEFA Champions League: 25 doubles
- The youngest player to score 400+ goals for a single European club (27 years and 300 days)
- Most goals against the same club in the UEFA Champions League: 8 goals v Milan (shared with Luiz Adriano v BATE)
- Most league goals scored in one season in Top 5 European Leagues
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MESSI SPANISH RECORDS:
- Most penalties missed in La Liga history: 10 penalties (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- First player in La Liga history to score at least 2 goals in 100 games
- The first player to score more than 25 goals in five consecutive La Liga seasons (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- The first player to score 25+ goals in six consecutive La Liga seasons (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- The first player to score 25+ goals in seven consecutive seasons in La Liga (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- The first player to score 25+ goals in eight consecutive La Liga seasons (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- Most La Liga goals scored in a season: 50 goals in 2011/12
- Most goals scored in La Liga in a calendar year: 59 goals in 2012
- Most La Liga hat-tricks in one season: 8 hat tricks (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- Most league matches scored in a single season: 27 games (2012/13) (Shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
- Most home league matches scored in a single season: 16 games (in 2011/12)
MESSI BARCELONA RECORDS:
- Most free-kicks scored for Barcelona: 27 goals from a free kick
- Barcelona all-time top scorer in all games: 549 goals
- Barcelona's all-time top scorer in official competitions: 519 goals
- Barcelona's top scorer in La Liga: 358 goals
- Barcelona's top scorer in European competitions: 99 goals
- Barcelona's top scorer in international competitions: 101 goals
- Most hat-tricks in official competitions for Barcelona: 39 hat tricks
- Most La Liga hat-tricks for Barcelona: 28 hat tricks
- Most hat tricks scored for Barcelona in a single La Liga season: 8 hat tricks
- Most goals scored in a single Champions League season: 14 goals.
- Most goals scored in Derbi Barceloní (Catalan derby): 12 goals
- First Barcelona player to be La Liga top scorer 3 times
- First Barcelona player to be La Liga top scorer 4 times
- The first Barcelona player to overtake 50 goals in 4 seasons
- The first Barcelona player to overtake 50 goals in 5 seasons
MESSI ARGENTINA RECORDS:
- First Argentine player to score against the 9 other CONEMBOL countries
- Most goals scored in friendlies: 27 goals
- Most goals scored in a single FIFA World Cup qualification: 10 goals
- Most goals scored in one year (national team): 12 goals (2012) (shared with Gabriel Batistuta)
- Youngest Argentine player to score in the FIFA World Cup final): 18 years and 357 days in 2006 against Serbia and Montenegro
- Youngest player to reach 100 caps in CONMEBOL history (27 years, 361 days)
Extra coverage: How many goals have Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi scored in their careers?
RONALDO WORLD RECORDS:
- Most appearances in the FIFPro World XI: 10 times (2007-2016) (shared with Lionel Messi)
- Biggest time gap between first and last Ballon d'Or: 8 years (2008, 2016)
- Most international goals in a year (club and national team): 25 goals(shared with Vivian Woodward and Lionel Messi)
- Most goals scored in the Club World Cup: 5 goals (shared with Luis Suarez, Delgado and Lionel Messi)
- The only player to score a hat-trick in the Club World Cup final
- The only player to have won the Club World Cup with two different clubs: Manchester United in 2008 and Madrid in 2014 and 2016
- The first player to reach 40 goals in a professional league for two consecutive seasons
- The first player to score in every minute of a game
- The only player to have scored over 50 goals in six different seasons (did so consecutively)
RONALDO EUROPEAN RECORDS:
- Most UEFA Best Player awards: 3
- Most Champions League top scorer awards: 6
- The only player to finish top scorer in the Champions League in 5 consecutive seasons (2012/13 - 2016/17)
- Most league goals in the history of Europe's top 5 leagues: 372 league goals
- The first player to score 100 goals in European competition (97 UCL goals, 1 UCL qualifying goal, 2 UEFA Super Cup goals when the record was reached)
- Most hat-tricks in a single Champions League season: 3 hat-tricks in 2015/16
- Most free-kicks scored in the UEFA Champions League: 12 goals from a free kick
- Fastest player to score 350 goals for a single club in the top 5 European leagues (335 matches)
- Most doubles in Champions League history: 24 suspenders
- Most goals scored in Champions League history: 107 goals
- Most goals scored at UEFA European Championships for Portugal: 29 goals
- Most consecutive away matches in the UEFA Champions League scored in 12
- The only player to be among the finalists in all editions of the UEFA Best Player in Europe (2010-2016)
- All-time top scorer in European competitions (including UEFA Super Cup and Champions League qualifiers): 110 goals
RONALDO SPANISH RECORDS:
- Most penalties scored in La Liga history: 58 penalties
- Most missed penalties in La Liga history: 10 penalties (shared with Lionel Messi)
- Most league matches scored in a single season: 27 games (2011/12) (shared with Lionel Messi)
- Fastest La Liga player to score 150 league goals (140 games)
- Fastest La Liga player to score 200 league goals (178 games)
- Fastest player to score 300 official club goals
- Best La Liga penalty conversion rate (at least 30 PK): 93%
- Best goalscoring ratio in La Liga history (over 100 games): 1.07
- The first player to score 40+ goals in 3 La Liga seasons (shared with Lionel Messi)
- Most La Liga hat-tricks in one season: 8 hat tricks (shared with Lionel Messi)
RONALDO ENGLISH RECORDS
- Most goals scored to win the Premier League Golden Boot for a 38-game season: 31 goals (shared with Alan Shearer and Luis Suarez)
- The first player to win the top four PFA and FWA awards
RONALDO REAL MADRID RECORDS:
- Most goals scored in the Madrid derby: 21 goals
- Only Real Madrid player to score a hat-trick in a Champions League knockout game (shared with Ronaldo Nazario)
- The fastest UEFA Champions League treble for Real Madrid: 11 minutes
- Real Madrid's all-time top scorer 409 goals
- Real Madrid's all-time top scorer in the Champions League 92 goals
- Real Madrid's all-time top scorer in La Liga: 285 goals
- Most goals scored in a season in all competitions for Real Madrid: 61 goals
- Most goals scored in a single La Liga season for Real Madrid: 48 goals
- Most goals scored in UEFA Super Cup matches: 2 goals
- Most La Liga hat-tricks: 32 hat tricks
- The first Real Madrid player to win 2 European golden shoes
- The first Real Madrid player to win 3 European golden shoes
- The first Real Madrid player to win 4 European golden shoes
- The first player to score more than 50 goals in a season
- The first player to score over 50 goals in 6 seasons (did so consecutively)
RONALDO MANCHESTER UNITED RECORDS:
- Most goals in a league season (38 games) for Manchester United: 31 goals
- Record sale of a Manchester United player: 80 million pounds sterling
- First and only Manchester United player to win the European Golden Boot
- First and only Manchester United player to win FIFA World Player of the Year
- First and only Manchester United player to win the Fifa Puskas Award
RONALDO PORTUGAL RECORDS:
- Most goals scored in European World Cup qualifiers: 29 goals
- Most goals scored in a single European World Cup qualifying campaign: 14 goals (2018) (shared with Predrag Mijatović (1998))
- Portugal's all-time top scorer: 78 goals
- Portugal's all-time top scorer in UEFA Euro matches: 9 goals
- Most matches played in UEFA European Championship finals: 19 matches
- Most games played in World Cup finals: 13 games
- Youngest player to reach 100 caps: 27 years, 8 months and 11 days
- The only player to score for Portugal in 3 different world cups
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