Lewandowski matches Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi’s goal records

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Lewandowski matches Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi’s goal records

Robert Lewandowski’s goal in Barcelona’s 3-0 La Liga victory against Mallorca on Saturday, made him the third player in the 21st century, after Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, to score at least 10 league goals in Europe’s top five leagues across 15 straight seasons.

Lewandowski’s impressive run began with Borussia Dortmund in the 2011-12 season, when he scored 22 goals as the team won the Bundesliga.

In the next two seasons, he scored 24 goals in the first and 20 goals in the second, and then he joined Bayern Munich in the summer of 2014.

The player scored 41 in the 2020-21 season, and won the Bundesliga every year.

After moving to Barca in the summer of 2022, he scored at least 19 goals in each of his first three La Liga seasons, winning the league twice.

This season, he reached double figures by scoring the first goal against Mallorca in the 10th minute. That put him on par with Messi, who has 15, all while playing for Barcelona from 2006-07 to 2020-21, and he once scored 50 goals in a single season, which was the highest in the league during 2011-12.

Only Ronaldo (16) has scored more than ten league goals in Europe’s top five leagues for three different teams — Manchester United (four), Real Madrid (nine), and Juventus (three).

Since his last season in a top five league, which was the 2022-23 season where he only scored one goal in 10 games, Ronaldo has scored at least 14 league goals in each of the next four seasons, all while playing for Al-Nassr, the big team in the Saudi Pro League.