Lionel Messi

Career record

Lionel Messi is a forward, midfielder, born 24 June 1987, listed at 169 cm, and holds Argentina, Spain citizenship. The club record here runs 2003–2023 across 5 clubs, 677 appearances and 569 goals.

The longest stay was FC Barcelona, 17 years from 2004 to 2021 and 520 appearances. FC Barcelona accounts for the most football: 520 appearances of the 677 on record. The best scoring rate came at Inter Miami CF — 62 in 67, a goal every 1.1 games. Across 20 years there were 4 moves, roughly one every 5.0 seasons. At senior international level the record is 207 caps and 125 goals.

International record

His clubs, in this archive

The archive covers 17 of the seasons Lionel Messi spent at FC Barcelona, 2004/05 to 2020/21. FC Barcelona won the La Liga eleven times in that span and finished in the top four 17 times, averaging 87 points a season. At Paris Saint-Germain FC, 2 covered seasons run 2021/22 to 2022/23, best finish 1st in 2021/22. The single covered season at FC Barcelona C is 2003/04, when they finished 2nd of 20 on 72 points. Those placings are recalculated from the individual results rather than copied from a table, so they can be read against any other club on this site.

Only the seasons this archive holds are listed — it begins in 2000/01 and covers league matches in the five competitions named above, so a career that started earlier or ran through other leagues shows a gap here rather than a blank.

How this page is put together

The career table above is the structured record held on Wikidata under a public-domain licence, read once and cached, not queried while you are reading. The player is bound to that record by date of birth rather than by name: a name search returns the wrong Klose and three different Robinhos, and a page carrying somebody else’s links cannot afford that.

Compare any two clubs he played for with the head-to-head tool, or read the records these seasons feed into.

Frequently asked

Career record

Lionel Messi, born 1987-06-24, in Rosario, Argentina, listed at 170 cm, an attacker. The club record below covers 4 senior teams between 2004 and 2026.

Youth and reserve sides are recorded separately: Argentina U23 (2008).

The record spans 23 years, from 2004 to 2026, across 3 clubs, with 2 moves between them. The longest single spell was at Argentina, 20 recorded seasons from 2006 to 2026, and the average club spell runs to 7.7 seasons.

International football accounts for a further 20 seasons with Argentina, running alongside the club years rather than after them — which is why the dates in the table overlap. Youth and reserve appearances are held separately below and are not counted in these figures.

Spells are listed by the seasons in which the player appears in the provider’s squad records. Where two clubs overlap in the same year the player moved mid-season, and both are shown rather than one being chosen.

Honours

65 titles are recorded, alongside 29 runner-up or other placed finishes. Both lists come from the same squad records as the career table above, so a competition the player was registered for but did not play in can still appear.

Titles won

Runner-up and other finishes

Frequently asked

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