Messi: 600 goals for Barça and Argentina, 99 rivals

Messi: 600 goals for Barça and Argentina, 99 rivals

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Messi has scored against 72 different sides playing for Barça

His first goal was 13 years ago against Albacete

Leo Messi scored his 600th career goal on March 4, 2017 as Barcelona beat Atletico Madrid 1-0. He has scored 539 for his club and 61 for Argentina, scoring against 99 different rivals in the process (72 + 27), one short of a century. 

His first Barça goal came at Camp Nou against Albacete (in La Liga) in May 2005 and his first for his country came the followin year, in March, against Croatia. 

Since then, the goals haven't stopped pouring in, with number 600 arriving against Atletico via a free-kick. 

In total, Messi has scored against 72 sides while wearing a Barça shirt and 27 for Argentina. Here are all of his victims:

WITH FC Barcelona (72)

29 goals

Sevilla (23 Liga, 4 Supercopa España & 2 Supercopa Europa)

28 goals

Atlético Madrid (23 Liga & 5 Copa)

25 goals

Real Madrid (17 Liga, 6 Supercopa España & 2 Champions)

24 goals

Valencia (21 Liga & 3 Copa)

23 goals

Athletic (14 Liga, 6 Copa & 3 Supercopa España)

Osasuna (21 Liga & 2 Copa)

21 goals

Espanyol (18 Liga & 3 Copa)

18 goals

Betis (14 Liga & 4 Copa)

Getafe (12 Liga & 6 Copa)

17 goals

Deportivo (Liga)

16 goals

Levante (Liga)

Rayo Vallecano (Liga)

15 goals

Real Sociedad (13 Liga & 2 Copa)

14 goals

Zaragoza (13 Liga & 1 Copa)

13 goals

Almería (11 Liga & 2 Copa)

Málaga (11 Liga & 2 Copa), 

Villarreal (12 Liga & 1 Copa)

12 goals

Eibar (Liga)

Mallorca (11 Liga & 1 Copa)

Racing Santander (Liga)

11 goals

Granada (Liga)

9 goals

Arsenal (Champions)

Celta (7 Liga & 2 Copa)

8 goals

Celtic (Champions)

Milan (Champions)

7 goals

Bayer Leverkusen (Champions)

6 goals

Ajax (champions)

Deportivo Alavés (5 Liga & 1 Copa)

Córdoba (4 Liga & 2 Copa),

Manchester City (Champions)

Sporting Gijón (Liga)

5 goals

Elche (4 Liga & 1 Copa)

Tenerife (Liga)

4 goals

Bayern Múnich (Champions)

Las Palmas (Liga)

Leganés (Liga)

Panathinaikos (Champions), 

PSG (Champions)

Spartak Moscow (Champions)

Valladolid (Liga)

3 goals

APOEL (Champions)

Copenhague (Champions)

Olympique Lyon (Champions)

Recreativo Huelva (Liga)

Shakhtar Donetsk (Champions)

Stuttgart (Champions)

Viktoria Plzen (Champions)

2 goals

Basilea (Champions)

BATE Borisov (Champions)

Dinamo Kiev (Champions)

Nàstic (Liga)

Girona (Liga)

Hércules (Liga)

Juventus (Champions)

Manchester United (Champions)

Numancia (Liga)

Roma (Champions)

Santos (Mundial Clubes)

1 goal

Albacete (Liga)

Atlante (Mundial Clubes)

Benidorm (Copa)

Borussia Mönchengladbach (Champions)

Ceuta (Copa)

Chelsea (Champions)

Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa (Copa)

Estudiantes de La Plata (Mundial Clubes)

Olympiacos (Champions)

Porto (Supercopa Europa), 

Rangers (Champions)

River Plate (Mundial Clubes)

Sporting Lisbon (Champions)

Werder Bremen (Champions)

With Argentina (27)

4 goals

Venezuela (3 qualifiers & 1 Copa América)

Uruguay (qualifiers)

Brazil (Friendly), 

Ecuador (qualifiers)

Paraguay (3 qualifiers y 1 Copa América)

3 goals

México (1 Copa América y 2 qualifiers)

Colombia (qualifiers)

Chile (qualifiers)

Switzerland (Friendly)

Guatemala (Friendly)

Bolivia (2 Friendly y 1 qualifiers)

Panamá (Friendly)

2 goals

Croatia (Friendly) 

Algeria (Friendly)

Spain (Friendly)

Nigeria (World Cup)

Hong Kong (Friendly)

1 goal

Serbia (World Cup)

Perú (Copa América)

France (Friendly)

Portugal (Friendly)

Albania (Friendly)

Germany (Friendly)

Slovenia (Friendly) 

Bosnia (World Cup)

Irán (World Cup) 

USA (Copa América)

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