During their years competing in Europe's top competition, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have broken countless records in the Champions League that will be difficult to surpass in the long run.

Cristiano Ronaldo has played 19 seasons in the Champions League with 3 clubs: MU in 2 periods, Real Madrid and Juventus; Won the championship 5 times. No player has appeared more in the tournament than him with 183 appearances, and is also the person with the highest number of goals in tournament history with 140 goals. Besides these marks, he also added other records such as top scorer in a season with 17 goals (2013/14), the most goals in the knockout round (67).

CR7 is the only player to score in 11 consecutive matches and the only one to score in 3 finals. He also won the title of top scorer of the tournament in 5 seasons (2007/08, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18).

For his part, Messi has played the same number of seasons, 17 with Barcelona and the remaining 2 with PSG. During this time, La Pulga won the championship four times, all under the Catalan team's colors. In 163 matches, he scored 129 goals and assisted 45 times. Leo set the record for scoring the most goals in the group stage with 80 (71 with Barca) and no one scored as many goals in the round of 16 as the Argentine player with 29 goals