Lionel Messi Stats: Career, Goals & Age Comparisons
Explore Lionel Messi’s goals, assists, shooting and passing charts. Filter career output by team and year, then compare Messi, Ronaldo, Haaland and Mbappé by age.
10Career output through the years.
Senior club and international appearances in the imported source. Includes cups, Champions League, World Cups, qualifiers and international friendlies.
Output through the years · totals
Assists follow this provider’s main assist definition; non-Opta assists shown separately on the source are not added. Minutes and assist definitions differ from StatsBomb. No youth or club exhibition matches.
Same age. Different trajectories.
Cumulative output before each birthday. A player’s line stops at their last completed birthday in this snapshot.
Goals by birthday
The next generation: Champions League milestones
Actual ages reaching 20, 30, 40 and 50 UCL goals. These are milestones, not reconstructed full-career curves.
| Player | 20 goals | 30 goals | 40 goals | 50 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haaland | 20y 231d | 22y 236d | 23y 130d | 25y 59d |
| Mbappé | 21y 355d | 22y 352d | 23y 317d | 25y 356d |
| Messi | 22y 266d | 23y 131d | 24y 130d | 24y 284d |
| Ronaldo | 24y 306d | 26y 270d | 27y 241d | 28y 78d |
Haaland reached these milestones younger than Messi. The birthday chart above uses senior club and country match histories for all four players.