UPDATED 13th October 2012:



All records that Lionel Messi has broken or equalled during the 2012/13 season so far.....





RECORD #1

Lionel Messi became the first Barça player in 43 years to score 2 goals in the first 20 minutes of Match Day 1 of La Liga (Miguel Ángel Bustillo, 1969/70).



RECORD #2

Lionel Messi became the first Barça player in 19 years to score in 3 consecutive Match Day 1's of a La Liga season (Hristo Stoichkov, 1991-1993).



RECORD #3

Lionel Messi became the only player this century to score a total of 7 goals on Match Day 1 of La Liga (Forlan = 6, Negredo = 5).



RECORD #4

Lionel Messi became only the 3rd player to score a total of 5 goals vs Real Sociedad at Camp Nou (Rivaldo & Juan Manuel Asensi).



RECORD #5

Lionel Messi became the only player in the history of Barcelona to score 15 Clásico goals (César Rodríguez Alvarez = 14).



RECORD #6

Lionel Messi became the only player in the history of Barcelona to score 7 goals at Camp Nou vs Real Madrid (Evaristo de Macedo = 6).



RECORD #7

Lionel Messi became the only player in the history of the Supercopa de España to score in 4 consecutive editions (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012).



RECORD #8

Lionel Messi became the only player in the history of La Liga to score a brace in each of the first two games of the season.



RECORD #9

Lionel Messi became the only player in the history of Barcelona to score 10 league goals against Osasuna (Samuel Eto'o = 8).



RECORD #10

Lionel Messi became the only the player in the history of Barça to score the most away goals (5) in La Liga vs Osasuna (Luis Suárez Miramontes, Eulogio Martínez, Francisco José Carrasco = 3).



RECORD #11

Lionel Messi became the first player in 11 years to score in six consecutive games for Argentina (Hernán Crespo, 2000/01).



RECORD #12

Lionel Messi surpasses his personal record of 60 goals in a calendar year during 2010, by scoring his 61st against Getafe.



RECORD #13

Lionel Messi became the first Barça player in 59 years to score three braces in the first four league games of La Liga (László Kubala, 1953/54).



RECORD #14

Lionel Messi became the first player in 18 years to score 3 braces in the 1st four league games of La Liga (Iván Zamorano, 1994/95).



RECORD #15

Lionel Messi became only the 8th player in the history of La Liga to score 3 braces in the 1st four league games (Olivares, Mariano Martín, Pahiño, Zarra, Kubala, Puskas, Zamorano).



RECORD #16

Lionel Messi became the first Barça player in 51 years to score 6 goals in the 1st four games of La Liga (Evaristo de Macedo, 1961/62).



RECORD #17

Lionel Messi became the first player in 13 years to score 6 goals in the 1st four games of La Liga (Salva Ballesta, 1999/00).



RECORD #18

Lionel Messi became only the second player in the history of La Liga to score 5 goals at Getafe's Coliseum Alfonso Pérez stadium (Roberto Soldado = 5).



RECORD #19

Lionel Messi became only the 2nd player in the history of the Champions League to score a brace in 14 different games (Raúl).



RECORD #20

Lionel Messi became only the 2nd player in the history of football to win the Onze d'Or award three times in a row (Michel Platini, 1983-1985).



RECORD #21

Lionel Messi became the only the player in the history of Barça to score 100 league goals at Camp Nou.



RECORD #22

Lionel Messi became the only the player in the history of Barça to score 150 goals at Camp Nou.



RECORD #23

Lionel Messi became the only player in the history of Barça to score 6 league goals against Real Madrid at Camp Nou (Evaristo de Macedo & Gary Lineker = 5).



RECORD #24

Lionel Messi became the first Barça player in 18 years to score 2 goals from direct free-kicks in a Clásico (Ronald Koeman, 1992-1994).



RECORD #25

Lionel Messi became the first player in 13 years to score 2 goals from direct free-kicks in a Clásico (1998/99).



RECORD #26

Lionel Messi became the only player to score 9 league goals against Iker Casillas (Samuel Eto'o = 8, David Villa = 7).



RECORD #27

Lionel Messi became the only player in the history of El Clásico to be directly involved in 27 goals (17 goals, 10 assists).



#RECORD #28

Lionel Messi (25y-110d) became the 5th youngest player in history to score 9 World Cup qualifying goals (after Marcelo Salas, Tostão, Obafemi Martins and Luis Suárez).



RECORD #29

Lionel Messi became the only player to score 2 free kicks during the CONMEBOL 2014 World Cup qualifying tournament (Dorlan Pabón, Juan Arango, James Rodríguez = 1).



RECORD #30

Lionel Messi became the only player to score 10 goals for his country in 2012.







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