Messi vs Ronaldo, year by year: 2005 to 2026.

Each year has its own page with the clubs both players were at, the seasons that straddle it, what happened, and how the year ranks in each career. 20 of the 22 years have enough documented detail to carry a page of their own; the remaining 2 are listed here and kept out of search results rather than published as near-empty pages. These per-year figures are reliable for comparing one year against another and should not be summed — see methodology.