Comparing Ronaldo and Messi’s Golden Boots After Al Nassr Star Wins Scoring Title in Saudi League

• Cristiano Ronaldo became the first player to win the Golden Boot in four different leagues
• The Portuguese star has won the Golden Boot award in a league six times in his career
• Lionel Messi won the Pichichi Trophy eight times during his time in the Spanish La Liga

Cristiano Ronaldo entered the record books yet again on Monday night.

The Al-Nassr star became the first player in history to win the Golden Boot award in four different leagues after winning the scoring title in the Saudi top flight.

Sports Brief compares Ronaldo's Golden Boot awards in domestic leagues to the scoring titles Lionel Messi won in the Spanish La Liga.

Ronaldo's Golden Boot titles

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* In the domestic leagues he played in

The Portuguese star first won the Golden Boot award in the 2007-08 season when he captured the scoring title for Manchester United in the Premier League.

He scored 31 goals in the English top flight that season, helping United win their second consecutive Premier League title.

Ronaldo moved to Real Madrid in 2009 and found the same level of success in La Liga. He won the Pichichi Trophy, the Spanish equivalent of the Golden Boot award, in the 2010-11 season, scoring 40 goals.

He won that award again in the 2013-14 season, scoring 31 goals. He won his third and last Pichichi Trophy the following season, scoring 48 goals in the 2014-15 campaign.

Interestingly, Real Madrid failed to win the title in the three seasons that Ronaldo became the scoring king in La Liga.

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Ronaldo joined Juventus in 2018 and remained a lethal attacking threat in Italy. He won the Golden Boot in Serie A once, claiming the scoring title in the 2020-21 season with 29 goals.

He won his sixth Golden Boot award in a domestic league on Monday when he claimed the scoring title in the Saudi top flight. He netted 35 goals in the 2023-24 season to break the scoring record in the Saudi Pro League.

Messi's scoring titles in La Liga

The Argentine star won the Pichichi Trophy eight times in his illustrious career, per Goal.com.

He first won the scoring title in La Liga in the 2009-10 season, nabbing 34 goals for Barcelona. He won that award again in the 2011-12 season, scoring a whopping 50 goals in the Spanish top flight.

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He captured the scoring title again the following season, finding the back of the net 46 times in La Liga in the 2012-13 campaign.

Messi returned to the top of the scoring charts in the 2016-17 season, netting 37 goals for the Catalan giants. That started a run of five consecutive Pichichi trophies for Messi.

He won the Golden Boot in the 2017-18 season after scoring 34 goals. He claimed the award again in the 2018-19 season with 36 goals.

The Barcelona star made it a 5-peat after scoring 25 and 30 goals, respectively, in the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons.

He has not won a Golden Boot title in the league since, failing to top the scoring charts with PSG in Ligue 1 and Inter Miami in MLS last season.

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They called him the greatest of all time after claiming the scoring title on Monday.

He won it in style, breaking the record previously held by Abderrazak Hamdallah.