Lionel Messi y Cristiano Ronaldo They dominated football worldwide for more than a decade, to the point of becoming the top scorers in history.
And in 2025, with 38 and 40 yearsrespectively, remain at the forefront of global football, despite being outside the top leagues. Throughout the year, the footballer Inter Miami addition 46 goalswhile the forward of Al-Nassr accumulate 40 points.
The Argentine star also gave 28 assists throughout the 54 parties that he played, totaling 74 goal contributions. The former Barcelona and PSG also added two new titleswho affirmed him as the most successful in history: the Eastern Conference and the MLS Cup.
Of those 46 goals, 43 were with the Inter Miami shirt and 3 with that of the Argentine National Team.
CR7, for his part, has one game aheadon Tuesday the 30th against Al-Ettifaq, but at the moment he has 40 goals and 4 assists in 45 presentations.
8 of those conquests were with the Portuguese National Team, with which he became champion of the UEFA Nations League, and the remaining 32 with the Saudi team, where he seeks to win his first title.
With his double this December 27, the former Real Madrid, Manchester United, Juventus and Sporting Lisbon reached four tens in a calendar year for the fourteenth time in his career, surpassing Messi, who did it 13 times.
Furthermore, Messi and Cristiano are still searching for the 1000 goals: the Portuguese adds 956 and the Argentine, 896.
The top scorers of 2025
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