Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo finished the 2020-21 campaign as the top scorer in Serie A and became the only player to achieve the feat in the Premier League, La Liga and Italy’s top flight.
The 36-year-old scored 29 goals and the Bianconeri finished the season in fourth place. Inter Milan won the Serie A title, ending Juve’s nine-year dominance.
In Ronaldo’s third season in Italy, he won the Capocannoniere race, for the first time having scored 21 goals in 2018-19, five behind Fabio Quagliarella, and 31 in the following campaign to follow the eventual Golden Boot winner. European, Ciro Immobile, with the same figure.
In total, he has scored 101 goals in 133 Serie A games. Ronaldo won the Serie A Footballer of the Year award consecutively, in 2019 and 2020.
The Portuguese striker was the Premier League’s top scorer in 2007-08 with Manchester United, with 31 goals, helping him win his first Ballon d’Or later that year. He scored 42 goals in all competitions when United won the league and Ronaldo’s first Champions League.
In total, he scored 118 goals in 292 United appearances before joining Real Madrid in 2009. While in England, he twice won the Player of the Year and Football Writers awards in 2006-07 and 2007-08.
Ronaldo won the Pichichi trophy as La Liga’s top scorer on three occasions, the first in the 2010-11 season, when he scored 40 goals and Madrid finished second behind Barcelona, but won the Copa del Rey, his first trophy in Spain.
He was the top scorer again in 2013-14, with 31 goals. That season he won the Champions League and the Ballon d’Or for the second time in his career. It was also the only time he was named LaLiga’s Best Player.
In the following campaign, he returned to win the Pichichi after scoring 48 goals, but failed in the Ballon d’Or when Lionel Messi helped Barça to get the treble, the League, the Cup and the Champions League.
Ronaldo left Madrid for Juventus in 2018 as Los Blancos’ all-time top scorer with 450 goals in 438 appearances. In La Liga, he scored 311 times in just 292 games. He also won the Champions League four times with Madrid.
The Portugal international is also the top scorer in Champions League history, with 134 goals. He has also been the top scorer in seven different editions, more than any other player.
Ronaldo has won the European Golden Boot four times (the last in 2014-15), second only to Messi, who has six.
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