Cristiano Ronaldo’s club scoring record as Man Utd forward nets 700th goal
The Portugal ace has been a prolific scorer for Man Utd, Real Madrid and Juventus since leaving Sporting as a youngster
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Your support makes all the difference.Cristiano Ronaldo’s winner for Manchester United against Everton on Sunday was his 700th goal in club football.
Here we looks at the 37-year-old’s scoring record for United, Real Madrid, Juventus and Sporting.
Sporting
Appearances: 31 Goals: 5
The future Portugal star played just one senior season in his homeland, demonstrating his potential with a handful of goals while only turning 18 late in the campaign.
Manchester United
Appearances: 340 Goals: 144
Those early flashes of promise earned him a move to Old Trafford, where he flourished first as a flying winger before adding regular goals to his game.
He hit double figures for the first time in 2005-06 before three successive seasons of 20-plus goals, peaking with 31 in the Premier League and 42 in all competitions in 2007-08.
His first spell brought a total of 118 goals in 293 games to persuade Real Madrid to part with a then-world record 94million euros (£80m).
After returning to Manchester last season, Ronaldo hit 18 league goals and six in the Champions League. A Europa League strike against Sheriff Tiraspol got him up and running for this season before he opened his league account with Sunday’s milestone strike at Goodison Park.
Real Madrid
Appearances: 438 Goals: 450
It was as Real’s latest – and perhaps greatest – ‘galactico’ from 2009 to 2018 that Ronaldo grew into the feared central striker he has become, as his rivalry with then-Barcelona star Lionel Messi saw both men achieve scarcely believable scoring rates.
Ronaldo had six straight seasons of scoring over 50 goals in all competitions from 2010-11, scoring a goal a game or better in all but the first of those and astonishingly maintaining such a record over his nine-year spell as a whole.
His best season brought him 61 goals in 54 games in 2014-15, surpassing his 60 in 55 in 2011-12 and setting him up for a host of records the following year.
He beat Raul’s club records of 228 league goals and 323 in all competitions, became the Champions League’s record scorer – having previously set the single season record with 17 in 2013-14 – and reached 500 career goals for club and country.
By the time he left Spain in 2018, his 311 LaLiga goals ranked second only to Messi. Along the way he won two league titles and three Pichichi trophies as LaLiga’s top scorer, with four Champions Leagues and four Ballons d’Or to take his personal total to five of each.
Juventus
Appearances: 134 Goals: 101
While not matching the extraordinary heights of his time in Spain, Ronaldo largely remained a 30-goal-a-season striker in his three years with Juve and helped them to two league titles and a Coppa Italia.
He scored 28 goals in his debut season then 37 and 36, bringing up his century in a 3-1 win at Sassuolo in his penultimate Serie A appearance.
He was named Serie A footballer of the year for 2019 and 2020 and won an Outstanding Career Achievement honour at FIFA’s 2021 The Best awards – with his latest landmark adding to that impressive list of achievements.
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