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 targets forward of his nearest rivals, whereas no participant eclipsed the Argentina icon’s haul of assists.
Learn the way many targets Messi scored in the course of the common season and skim the total 2025 golden boot record 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 record as Messi wins
Remarkably, Messi made a minimum of two fewer MLS appearances than some other 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 targets in 28 video games (1.08 targets 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 Pink Bulls): 17 in 33 (0.54)
Hugo Cuypers (Chicago Hearth): 17 in 33 (0.54)
29 targets 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 file, set by Carlos Vela for LAFC in 2019.
MLS golden boot: Messi 2025 stats
Listed below are a choice of Messi landmarks picked out by Inter Miami in the course of the 2025 common season.
February 22 (vs New York Metropolis): Messi turned the quickest participant in MLS historical past to succeed in 40 profession aim contributions in the course of the common season, contributing 21 targets 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 targets, 20 assists), beating Gonzalo Higuain’s file for essentially the most in membership historical past in the course of the common season.
Could 28 (vs Montreal): Two targets 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 targets, 21 assists), requiring 37 video games.
Could 28 to July 12: A number of targets in 5 consecutive video games ensured Messi was the primary participant in MLS historical past to attain a number of targets in additional than 4 matches, netting 10 instances 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 targets, doing so in simply 44 matches (Josef Martinez achieved the feat in 42).
September 20 (vs DC United): Two targets and an help represented Messi’s sixteenth recreation with a minimum of one aim and one help, matching Carlos Vela’s file (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 in opposition to New England Revolution made Messi turned the second participant in MLS historical past to succeed in a minimum of 40 mixed targets and assists in an everyday marketing campaign.
October 11 (vs Atlanta United): Two targets in a 4-0 win over Atlanta United made Messi the primary participant in MLS historical past to file 9 multi-goal video games in a single common season.
MLS golden boot: Messi targets file
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 very best targets file per 90 minutes, with a 1.21 common standing 0.25 forward of some other participant among the many leaders.
Benteke scored 23 targets in 30 video games that season, with Messi on 20 in 19 matches. Bouanga and Miami’s Luis Suarez matched his complete.
MLS golden boot winners by 12 months
2025: Lionel Messi, Miami (29 targets)
2024: Christian Benteke, DC (23)
2023: Denis Bouanga, LAFC (20)
2022: Hany Mukhtar, Nashville (23)
2021: Taty Castellanos, NYCFC (19)
2020: Diego Rossi, LAFC (14)
2019: Carlos Vela, LAFC (34)
2018: Josef Martinez, Atlanta (31)
2017: Nemanja Nikolic, Chicago (24)
2016: Bradley Wright-Phillips, New York (24)
2015: Sebastian Giovinco, Toronto (22)
2014: Bradley Wright-Phillips, New York (27)
2013: Camilo Sanvezzo, Vancouver (22)
2012: Chris Wondolowski, San Jose (27)
2011: Dwayne De Rosario, DC (16)
2010: Chris Wondolowski, San Jose (18)
2009: Jeff Cunningham, Dallas (17)
2008: Landon Donovan, LA (20)
2007: Luciano Emilio, DC (20)
2006: Jeff Cunningham, Salt Lake (16)
2005: Taylor Twellman, New England (17)
MLS golden boot winners (points-based system)
2004: Amado Guevara, Pat Noonan; MetroStars, New England (30 factors)
2003: Preki, Kansas Metropolis (41)
2002: Taylor Twellman, New England (52)
2001: Alex Pineda Chacon, Miami (47)
2000: Mamadou Diallo, Tampa Bay (56)
1999: Jason Kreis, Dallas (51)
1998: Stern John, Columbus (57)
1997: Preki, Kansas Metropolis (41)
1996: Roy Lassiter, Tampa Bay (58)
Methods to watch Lionel Messi within the MLS: Stay stream, TV channel
Stay protection of Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami and their MLS rivals is obtainable by way of the MLS Season Move on Apple TV+.
Within the US, a subscription prices $14.99 a month or $69 a season. Present Apple TV+ subscribers pay $12.99 per 30 days or $59 a season.
