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Lionel Messi: Full list of teams Barcelona & PSG icon has scored against

The legendary Argentine, who has a number of goal scoring records to his name, has made a habit of tormenting defenders across a remarkable career

Lionel Messi has sent records tumbling across a stunning career at the very highest level, with an iconic spell for the Argentine at La Liga giants Barcelona now being followed by a stint at Ligue 1 heavyweights Paris Saint-Germain.

A mercurial South American has collected seven Ballons d’Or to sit alongside a Copa America triumph with his country and the countless honours he has won at club level – with that haul including 10 title triumphs in Spain and four Champions League crowns.

Few can claim to have got anywhere close to matching the standards Messi has set, with defenders around the world tormented by his remarkable ability, but which sides has he found the target against? GOAL delivers a full list of the teams forced to pick a ball out of the back of their net.

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Which club teams has Lionel Messi scored goals against?

Bursting onto the scene at Camp Nou as a precociously-gifted teenager, Messi opened his senior goal account on May 1, 2005 in a Liga clash with Albacete – becoming Barcelona’s youngest-ever scorer at the time.

There was to be no stopping him from there, with the target found on 672 occasions through 778 appearances for the Blaugrana.

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He is the all-time leading marksman in the history of Spanish top-flight football, has over 120 Champions League efforts to his name and has proven himself time and again when lining up against opponents from every corner of the planet - with 84 different defences breached as of January 2022.

Here is the full list of club teams that Messi has scored goals against:

No.	Opponent	No.	Opponent	No.	Opponent
1	Albacete	31	Benidorm	61	Elche
2	Panathinaikos	32	Sporting	62	Eibar
3	Racing Santander	33	Numancia	63	APOEL
4	Athletic Club	34	Bayern Munich	64	Roma
5	Alaves	35	Manchester United	65	River Plate
6	Real Mallorca	36	Dynamo Kyiv	66	Leganes
7	Real Zaragoza	37	Cultural Leonesa	67	Borussia Monchengladbach
8	Real Betis	38	Atlante	68	Las Palmas
9	Celta Vigo	39	Estudiantes	69	Juventus
10	Osasuna	40	Tenerife	70	Olympiacos
11	Werder Bremen	41	Real Valladolid	71	Chelsea
12	Sevilla	42	Arsenal	72	Girona
13	Real Madrid	43	Villarreal	73	Huesca
14	Recreativo	44	FC Copenhagen	74	PSV
15	Deportivo La Coruna	45	AD Ceuta	75	Tottenham
16	Getafe	46	Real Sociedad	76	Liverpool
17	Atletico Madrid	47	Hercules Alicante	77	Sparta Prague
18	Espanyol	48	Porto	78	Borussia Dortmund
19	Gimnastic	49	BATE	79	Napoli
20	Lyon	50	Viktoria Plzen	80	Ferencvaros
21	Levante	51	AC Milan	81	Cadiz
22	Stuttgart	52	Rayo Vallecano	82	RB Leipzig
23	Almeria	53	Santos	83	Nantes
24	Rangers	54	Bayer Leverkusen	84	Club Brugge
25	Celtic	55	Granada
26	Valencia	56	Spartak Moscow
27	Sporting Gijon	57	Cordoba
28	Shakhtar Donetsk	58	Paris Saint-Germain
29	Basel	59	Ajax
30	Malaga	60	Manchester City

Table correct as of 16/01/2022

How many more goals will Lionel Messi score?

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Messi is now 34 years of age, but there is no sign of him slowing down and he committed to a two-year contract when linking up with PSG in the summer of 2021.

A slow start was made to his time in France, but gracing a new division will provide him with ample opportunity in which to add to an ever-growing list of sides that he has scored against.

There has also been talk of him heading to MLS at some stage, or returning to his native Argentina, and any stints on American soil – north or south – would allow even more scalps to be claimed.

Messi is also going strong at international level, with a further 80 goals recorded when earning 158 caps there, and he will get another shot at securing the Holy Grail of World Cup glory in late 2022 when football’s grandest showpiece heads to Qatar.