Lionel Messi at Inter Miami: 100 goals in 115 games.

Messi reached 100 goals in 115 appearances for Inter Miami — a rate of 0.87 per game, which is marginally higher than his Barcelona rate of 0.86 and the highest of his three clubs. For a player who joined at 36, in a league widely assumed to be a wind-down, that is the single most surprising figure on this site.

The trophies came immediately. He joined on 21 July 2023 and won the inaugural Leagues Cup in his first month at the club. Two more followed, including the MLS Cup in December 2025 — Inter Miami's first — bringing him to three trophies in three seasons at a club that had won nothing before he arrived.

His calendar-year output has been remarkably level across the stint: 26 goals in 2023 when he arrived mid-year, 28 in 2024, 25 in 2025, and 31 so far in 2026. Those figures include his international goals for Argentina, which is why they do not sum to the 100 club goals above.

The 100 goals represent 12% of his career club total, three times the share of his two seasons at Paris Saint-Germain. His 30 assists here came in 115 appearances against 35 in 75 at PSG — a markedly lower rate, and the clearest numerical sign of the shift from a creator to a finisher in the last phase of his career.