2025 golden boot: Full MLS goals list as Lionel Messi wins

Lionel Messi has gained the MLS 2025 golden boot by a distance after one other spectacular season for Inter Miami.

Eight-time Ballon d’Or winner Messi completed the common season with a hat-trick in a 5-2 win at Nashville as Miami completed third within the Japanese Convention.

The treble meant Messi ended 5 objectives forward of his nearest rivals, whereas no participant eclipsed the Argentina icon’s haul of assists.

Learn how many objectives Messi scored in the course of the common season and browse the complete 2025 golden boot checklist within the MLS.

One other classic efficiency from Messi to lock up the Golden Boot pres. by Audi. 🙌

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MLS golden boot race: Full checklist as Messi wins

Remarkably, Messi made no less than two fewer MLS appearances than another participant within the prime 10 for the season.

Denis Bouanga, who got here joint-second, had the excellence of changing into LAFC’s all-time prime scorer courtesy of a aim in a 4-1 win at Actual Salt Lake on September 17.

Lionel Messi (Inter Miami): 29 objectives in 28 video games (1.08 objectives per 90 minutes)

Denis Bouanga (LAFC): 24 in 31 (0.81)

Sam Surridge (Nashville): 24 in 34 (0.73)

Anders Dreyer (San Diego): 19 in 34 (0.57)

Evander (Cincinnati): 18 in 32 (0.59)

Dejan Joveljic (Sporting Kansas Metropolis): 18 in 32 (0.59)

Petar Musa (Dallas): 18 in 30 (0.71)

Alonso Martinez (New York Metropolis): 17 in 30 (0.61)

Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (New York Crimson Bulls): 17 in 33 (0.54)

Hugo Cuypers (Chicago Fireplace): 17 in 33 (0.54)

29 objectives within the common season. 💪

Hat trick and an help to safe the dub.

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MLS golden boot 2025: Messi assists

Solely San Diego’s Anders Dreyer matched Messi’s complete of 19 assists in the course of the common season, with Cincinnati’s Evander, Orlando Metropolis’s Martín Ojeda and Philip Zinckernagel and Inter Miami’s Jordi Alba subsequent, on 15.

Messi’s complete of 48 aim contributions in 2025 was one in need of the document, set by Carlos Vela for LAFC in 2019.

MLS golden boot: Messi 2025 stats

Listed below are a collection of Messi landmarks picked out by Inter Miami in the course of the 2025 common season.

February 22 (vs New York Metropolis): Messi grew to become the quickest participant in MLS historical past to succeed in 40 profession aim contributions in the course of the common season, contributing 21 objectives and 19 assists in 26 matches.

April 6 (vs Toronto): A aim within the 1-1 draw gave Messi 44 aim contributions in 29 regular-season matches (24 objectives, 20 assists), beating Gonzalo Higuain’s document for essentially the most in membership historical past in the course of the common season.

Could 28 (vs Montreal): Two objectives and an help within the 4-2 win made Messi the primary participant in Miami historical past to succeed in 50 aim contributions in the course of the common season (29 objectives, 21 assists), requiring 37 video games.

Could 28 to July 12: A number of objectives in 5 consecutive video games ensured Messi was the primary participant in MLS historical past to attain a number of objectives in additional than 4 matches, netting 10 occasions in complete.

August 16 (vs LA Galaxy): Messi’s aim within the 3-1 win made him the second-fastest participant in MLS historical past to succeed in 40 profession objectives, doing so in simply 44 matches (Josef Martinez achieved the feat in 42).

September 20 (vs DC United): Two objectives and an help represented Messi’s sixteenth sport with no less than one aim and one help, matching Carlos Vela’s document (16) for the second-most in a participant’s first three MLS seasons, behind solely Preki (17).

October 4 (vs New England Revolution): Three assists in a 4-0 win towards New England Revolution made Messi grew to become the second participant in MLS historical past to succeed in no less than 40 mixed objectives and assists in an everyday marketing campaign.

October 11 (vs Atlanta United): Two objectives in a 4-0 win over Atlanta United made Messi the primary participant in MLS historical past to document 9 multi-goal video games in a single common season.

Lionel Messi playing football for MLS team Inter Miami

MLS golden boot: Messi objectives document

Messi is Miami’s first-ever golden boot winner since their inception in 2018 and the primary Argentinian victor since Valentin ‘Taty’ Castellanos for New York Metropolis FC in 2021.

In his first full MLS season in 2024, Messi was solely outscored by DC United’s Christian Benteke and had by far the best objectives document per 90 minutes, with a 1.21 common standing 0.25 forward of another participant among the many leaders.

Benteke scored 23 objectives in 30 video games that season, with Messi on 20 in 19 matches. Bouanga and Miami’s Luis Suarez matched his complete.