Most Goals in a Single Football Season — All Time
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Most Goals in a Single Football Season — All TimeLionel Messi heads the table on 91, ahead of Gerd Müller (85) and Cristiano Ronaldo (69) in Goals in a Season. The total is spread widely: even Lionel Messi accounts for only 22% of the 6 combined. Places 3 to 6 are close together, spanning 69 to 54 Goals in a Season. Over 2010-11–2012-13 the steepest rise belongs to Cristiano Ronaldo: +15% (60 → 69). Lionel Messi is the only entity to fall over the period, down 34.1%. First place changed hands 6 times across the period.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 6 entities · 1965-66–2022-23 (7 years) · 8 observations
- Measure
- Goals in a Season
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
- Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
- The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
- An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.
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