Lionel Messi has won the 2025 Major League Soccer Golden Boot presented by Audi after scoring 29 goals in his latest regular season campaign for Inter Miami CF.
He outpaced LAFC’s Denis Bouanga and Nashville SC’s Sam Surridge, who each finished the season on 24 goals.
The Argentine captain also made history by becoming the only professional footballer to have ever won both the MLS Golden Boot and the European Golden Boot in his career.
Messi concluded the regular season with 29 goals in 28 appearances. His scoring rate of 1.03 goals per game is the second-best among Golden Boot winners since 2005, behind only Carlos Vela’s 1.10 in 2019. His record includes 28 penalty-goals in a single season which is the most in MLS history by a margin of three goals.
He also became the first player in MLS history to record 10 multi-goal games in a single season, breaking the previous record of eight held by Stern John (1998), Mamadou Diallo (2000) and Zlatan Ibrahimovic (2019).
Between 28 May and 12 July, Messi scored multiple goals in five consecutive matches, becoming the first MLS player to post such a streak, and racked up ten goals during that spell.
The Argentina international’s overall output this season was staggering 48 goal-contributions (goals + assists), the second-most ever recorded in a single MLS season.
He delivered at least three goal-contributions in nine matches, another league record. He also became the only player in MLS history to have multiple seasons with at least 36 goal-contributions (having achieved it in both 2024 and 2025), and he joined Toronto FC’s Sebastian Giovinco (2015) as the only players to lead the league in goals and assists in the same season.
This landmark achievement underscores Messi’s enduring brilliance and his profound impact on Major League Soccer.
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