Goals · 2005
Messi vs Ronaldo in 2005: 8 vs 9 goals.
In 2005, Cristiano Ronaldo scored 9 goals to Lionel Messi's 8 — a margin of 1 in Ronaldo's favour.
Cristiano Ronaldo · 2005
9
goals — his 22nd-best scoring year
Played for Manchester United and Portugal.
2005 is one of two years on this site kept out of search results. Messi scored 8 and Ronaldo 9, which are their 22nd- and 22nd-best calendar years respectively — the two lowest-scoring years either man has on record here. Messi was at Barcelona and Ronaldo at Manchester United, both early in careers that had not yet produced most of what the rest of this site is about.
Beyond the one dated moment shown below, this site holds no further 2005-specific records — no overlapping peak season, no award involving either player, no shared fixture. Rather than pad the page to look like the others, it is left short and marked noindex. It stays in the year navigation and in the year-by-year index, where the adjacent years have considerably more.
What happened in 2005
Messi · 2005-05-01
Messi's first senior goal
First goal for Barcelona — a Ronaldinho-assisted chip against Albacete in La Liga.
Frequently asked
How many goals did Lionel Messi score in 2005?+
Lionel Messi scored 8 goals in the 2005 calendar year, playing for Barcelona and Argentina. That is his 22nd-highest scoring year on record.
How many goals did Cristiano Ronaldo score in 2005?+
Cristiano Ronaldo scored 9 goals in the 2005 calendar year, playing for Manchester United and Portugal. That is his 22nd-highest scoring year on record.
Who scored more goals in 2005, Messi or Ronaldo?+
Cristiano Ronaldo, by 1 goal — 9 to 8. Between them they scored 17 goals in the 2005 calendar year.