Barcelona may be in free fall after losing their fourth game in just 16 days last night (and off the back of a record breaking 39 game unbeaten run, too), but amongst the disarray, Lionel Messi did still manage to reach another famous landmark in his glittering goalscoring career, as he notched goal number 500 for club and country.

Messi hadn’t scored or assisted for Barcelona in 5 full games, one of the most barren spells of his career, so although he couldn’t salvage a result for his team, this is at least one mounting pressure that has now been alleviated.

Leo will no doubt be in no mood for celebrating this achievement at present, but it’s too big a landmark for us to let pass by. So in this post, you will find a bumper collection of varied statistical breakdowns of Messi’s 500 career goals; from his favourite opponents to his favourite time to score.

All of the below stats are correct as of 18th April 2016. And by the way, Ronaldo broke the 500 career goals barrier in October 2015, earlier this season.

Messi’s 500 Goals – The Key Stats

	Barcelona	Argentina	Total
Goals	450	50	500
Games	525	107	632
Assists	170	31	201
Hat-tricks	35	3	38
Penalties	53	11	64
Free Kicks	22	3	25
Goal Ratio	0.86	0.47	0.79

Always up-to-date career stats can be found on the All Time Stats page.

By Season (Club)

Number of games shown in brackets

	LIG	UCL	CDR	SSP	USC	CWC	Total
2004/05	1 (7)	0 (1)	0 (1)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (9)
2005/06	6 (17)	1 (6)	1 (2)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	8 (25)
2006/07	14 (26)	1 (5)	2 (2)	0 (2)	0 (1)	0 (0)	17 (36)
2007/08	10 (28)	6 (9)	0 (3)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	16 (40)
2008/09	23 (31)	9 (12)	6 (8)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	38 (51)
2009/10	34 (35)	8 (11)	1 (3)	2 (1)	0 (1)	2 (2)	47 (53)
2010/11	31 (33)	12 (13)	7 (7)	3 (2)	0 (0)	0 (0)	53 (55)
2011/12	50 (37)	14 (11)	3 (7)	3 (2)	1 (1)	2 (2)	73 (60)
2012/13	46 (32)	8 (11)	4 (5)	2 (2)	0 (0)	0 (0)	60 (50)
2013/14	28 (31)	8 (7)	5 (6)	0 (2)	0 (0)	0 (0)	41 (46)
2014/15	43 (38)	10 (13)	5 (6)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	58 (57)
2015/16	23 (28)	6 (7)	5 (4)	1 (2)	2 (1)	1 (1)	38 (43)
Totals	309 (343)	83 (106)	39 (54)	11 (13)	3 (4)	5 (5)	450 (525)

Always up-to-date season stats can be found on the Main Stats page.
LIG = La Liga, UCL = Champions League, CDR = Copa Del Rey, SSC = Spanish Super Cup, USC = UEFA Super Cup, CWC = Club World Cup

By Calendar Year (Club and Country)

Number of games shown in brackets

	Barcelona Goals	Argentina Goals	Total Goals
2004	0 (7)	0 (0)	0 (7)
2005	3 (16)	0 (5)	3 (21)
2006	10 (26)	2 (7)	12 (33)
2007	25 (41)	6 (14)	31 (55)
2008	20 (40)	2 (8)	22 (48)
2009	38 (54)	3 (10)	41 (64)
2010	58 (54)	2 (10)	60 (64)
2011	55 (57)	4 (13)	59 (70)
2012	79 (60)	12 (9)	91 (69)
2013	39 (39)	6 (7)	45 (46)
2014	50 (52)	8 (14)	58 (66)
2015	48 (53)	4 (8)	52 (61)
2016	25 (25)	1 (2)	26 (27)

Always up-to-date calendar year stats can be found on the Calendar Year Stats page.

By Competition

• La Liga: 309 goals
• Champions League: 83 goals
• Copa Del Rey: 39 goals
• International Friendlies: 27 goals
• World Cup Qualifiers: 15 goals
• Supercopa de España: 11 goals
• World Cup: 5 goals
• Club World Cup: 5 goals
• Copa America: 3 goals
• UEFA Super Cup: 3 goals

Messi’s Top Assist Providers

• Dani Alves: 42
• Iniesta: 33
• Xavi: 31
• Pedro: 25
• Suarez: 16

By Body Part

• Left foot goals: 405
• Right foot goals: 72
• Headed goals: 21
• Other: 2 (1 chest, 1 hand)

By Type of Play

• Via assist: 325 goals
• Penalty: 64 goals
• Free kick: 25 goals
• Solo run: 17 goals
• Rebound: 33 goals
• By interception: 36 goals

Messi has scored 2+ goals 136 times

• 1 goal scored: 184 games
• 2 goals scored: 98 games
• 3 goals scored: 33 games
• 4 goals scored: 4 games
• 5 goals scored: 1 games

Around the World

• Countries scored in: 30
• Cities scored in: 78
• Stadiums scored in: 88

By Opponent

• Atletico Madrid: 25 goals
• Sevilla: 25 goals
• Real Madrid: 21 goals

Home/Away

• Home goals: 264
• Away goals: 201
• Neutral goals: 35

By Stadium

• Camp Nou: (Barcelona) 256 goals
• Bernabeu: (Real Madrid) 12 goals
• Vicente Calderon: (Atletico Madrid) 11 goals
• Estadio Riazor: (Deportivo La Coruna) 9 goals

By Match Time

• 0-15 Minutes: 50 goals
• 16-30 Minutes: 79 goals
• 31-45 Minutes: 92 goals
• 46-60 Minutes: 70 goals
• 61-75 Minutes: 79 goals
• 76-90+ Minutes: 130 goals

By Team’s Position

• When team is losing: 44 goals
• When team is drawing: 181 goals
• When team is winning: 275 goals

By Month

• January: 63 goals
• February: 55 goals
• March: 69 goals
• April: 41 goals
• May: 36 goals
• June: 22 goals
• July: 2 goals
• August: 27 goals
• September: 56 goals
• October: 40 goals
• November: 57 goals
• December: 32 goals

More Messi 500 Stats & Facts

• 1st Barcelona Goal: 2-0 win vs Albacete (H) La Liga, May 2005
• 1st Argentina Goal: 2-3 defeat vs Croatia (N) Friendly, March 2006
• Different opponents faced: 121
• Different opponents scored against: 90
• Opponent most faced without scoring: Chelsea (8 games)

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If you’ve got a free 40 minutes, you can watch every single one of Messi’s 500 goals on YouTube.

All of the above statistics have been curated from the following sources: this site (messivsronaldo.net), BBC Football, the excellent @MessiStats on Twitter, FC Barcelona and Sky Sports.