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What the Lionel Messi quiz covers
Every question is written and checked by football fans, across the topics that decide a real Lionel Messi expert:
Career & clubs
Every club Lionel Messi played for and the moves in between.
Trophies & honours
Leagues, cups and the biggest nights of the career.
Goals & records
The milestones, the tallies and the records set.
International
The national-team story — tournaments, caps and glory.
Iconic moments
The goals and games fans will never forget.
Awards
Ballon d'Ors, Golden Boots and individual honours.
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Which Barcelona player scored a hat-trick away to Atlético Madrid in the round of 16 of the 2008-09 Copa del Rey?
- Ibrahimović
- Henry
- Messi
- Villa
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Answer: Messi
Messi scored all three in Barcelona's 3-1 win at the Vicente Calderón on 6 January 2009.
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Which player scored a record 50 La Liga goals in the 2011-12 season — still the highest single-season tally in a top-five European league?
- Radamel Falcao
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Lionel Messi
- Luis Suárez
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Answer: Lionel Messi
His total of 73 goals in all competitions that season (including Copa del Rey and Champions League) is also the most a player has ever scored in a single European season.
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Which La Liga player has won the most Pichichi awards — with 8 career top-scorer titles?
- Lionel Messi
- Hugo Sánchez
- Telmo Zarra
- Cristiano Ronaldo
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Answer: Lionel Messi
Messi won 8 Pichichi awards: 2009-10, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 (5 consecutive from 2016-21). Set record of 50 LL goals in 2011-12.
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Lionel Messi was born on 24 June 1987 — how old will he turn during the 2026 World Cup?
- 37
- 39
- 36
- 38
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Answer: 39
Born 24 June 1987, Messi turns 39 on 24 June 2026 — during the group stage of the 2026 World Cup, which runs 11 June to 19 July.
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Lionel Messi set a world record for goals in a single calendar year while at Barcelona in 2012. How many did he score for club and country?
- 85
- 91
- 96
- 79
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Answer: 91
Messi scored 91 goals across 2012, breaking Gerd Müller's long-standing calendar-year record.
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Which legendary striker scored a record 85 goals in a calendar year (1972) before Messi broke it with 91 in 2012?
- Eusébio
- Gerd Müller
- Pelé
- Ronaldo R9
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Answer: Gerd Müller
Gerd Müller scored 85 goals for Bayern Munich & West Germany in 1972. Messi broke this with 91 in 2012 (79 Barca + 12 Argentina).
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Who assisted the most La Liga goals in the 2014-15 season — the year Barcelona won the treble?
- Messi
- Rakitić
- Iniesta
- Neymar
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Answer: Messi
As well as scoring 43 league goals, Messi topped the La Liga assist charts in 2014-15, feeding Neymar and new signing Luis Suárez as Luis Enrique's side swept league, cup and Champions League.
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Lionel Messi set a La Liga record for the longest scoring streak in 2012-13 — in how many consecutive matches did he score?
- 26
- 33
- 21
- 18
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Answer: 21
He scored 33 goals across those 21 games from matchday 11 to matchday 34 — a streak running from 11 November 2012 to 15 May 2013.
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Lionel Messi won back-to-back MLS MVP awards in 2024 and 2025 before leading Inter Miami to their first MLS Cup title. Which club did Miami beat in the 2025 final?
- Seattle Sounders
- NYCFC
- Vancouver Whitecaps
- Atlanta United
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Answer: Vancouver Whitecaps
Inter Miami beat Vancouver Whitecaps 3-1 in the final on December 6, 2025.
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Lionel Messi scored how many goals in the 2011-12 Champions League — equalling José Altafini's 1962-63 record for a single campaign?
- 12
- 18
- 14
- 16
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Answer: 14
Five of the 14 came in a single night — a 7-1 demolition of Bayer Leverkusen in March 2012, the first five-goal haul in Champions League history. Cristiano Ronaldo took the record to 17 in 2013-14.
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About the Lionel Messi quiz
Lionel Messi is, by most measures, the most decorated footballer who has ever lived — and the one whose story finally found its perfect ending. This free Messi quiz spans all of it: the Rosario boy whose growth-hormone treatment Barcelona famously agreed to fund on a napkin, the teenager who broke into Frank Rijkaard's side, the heart of Pep Guardiola's 2009-11 team widely called the greatest of all, the all-time top scorer for a single club with 672 goals for Barcelona, the shock 2021 exit to Paris Saint-Germain, and the move to Inter Miami in 2023 that turned MLS upside down. Eight Ballon d'Ors, four Champions Leagues, and — at last — the 2022 World Cup. If you know which country Barcelona signed him from, this quiz is for you.
The defining night came in Qatar. On 18 December 2022, Messi captained Argentina to the World Cup, scoring twice in the final and converting in the shoot-out to beat France in one of the greatest finals ever played — the trophy that had eluded Diego Maradona's heir for four tournaments. It brought his eighth Ballon d'Or in 2023. And the story kept giving: at Inter Miami he won the 2025 MLS Cup and back-to-back league MVP awards, and at the 2026 World Cup, aged 38, he scored a record-setting hat-trick against Algeria to become the oldest man to do so, on his way to overtaking Miroslav Klose as the tournament's all-time top scorer.
Expect the full spread. Records — his 672 Barcelona goals, the six Ballon d'Ors he had before anyone else reached five, the 91 goals in the calendar year 2012. Transfers — the free move to PSG in 2021, the Inter Miami deal in 2023 he has since extended through 2028. Moments — the solo goal against Getafe that echoed Maradona's 1986 run, the chip against Real Madrid, the last-minute winner in the Clásico he celebrated by holding his shirt up to the Bernabéu. Difficulty climbs from easy (how many Ballon d'Ors?) to hard (who Argentina beat in the 2021 Copa América final that started the run).
Every question comes with a short explained answer, so even a miss leaves you knowing more — why 2022 meant everything, or how a napkin became folklore. Play the sample set below free in your browser, no sign-up. When you want more — 4,000+ questions, a daily word game and multiplayer — it lives in the Ball IQ app.