Lionel Andrés Messi - Century of International Appearances


The outstanding Argentinian player, who obtained 180 international caps with his National Team, has entered the symbolic but exclusive circle of players with a Century of Caps; he scored 106 international goals for his National Team and thereby entered the symbolic but exclusive circle of players with Two Score Goals for his national team. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.
Cap  Goals    Date	Venue		Opponent       Score	Competition

  1         17- 8-05	Budapest	Hungary 	2-1	
  2          3- 9-05	Asunción	Paraguay	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
  3          9-10-05	Buenos Aires	Peru    	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
  4         12-10-05	Montevideo	Uruguay 	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
  5         16-11-05	Doha    	Qatar   	3-0	
  6  1   1   1- 3-06	Basel   	Croatia 	2-3	
  7      1  30- 5-06	Salerno 	Angola  	2-0	
  8  1   2  16- 6-06	Gelsenkirchen	Serbia-Monten.	6-0	World Cup
  9      2  21- 6-06	Frankfurt	Netherlands	0-0	World Cup
 10      2  24- 6-06	Leipzig 	Mexico  	2-1	World Cup
 11      2   3- 9-06	London  	Brazil  	0-3	
 12      2  11-10-06	Murcia  	Spain   	1-2	
 13      2   2- 6-07	Basel   	Switzerland	1-1	
 14  2   4   5- 6-07	Barcelona	Algeria 	4-3	
 15      4  28- 6-07	Maracaibo	United States	4-1	Copa América
 16      4   2- 7-07	Maracaibo	Colombia	4-2	Copa América
 17      4   5- 7-07	Barquisimeto	Paraguay	1-0	Copa América
 18  1   5   8- 7-07	Barquisimeto	Peru    	4-0	Copa América
 19  1   6  11- 7-07	Puerto Ordaz	Mexico  	3-0	Copa América
 20      6  15- 7-07	Maracaibo	Brazil  	0-3	Copa América
 21      6  22- 8-07	Oslo    	Norway  	1-2	
 22      6  11- 9-07	Melbourne	Australia	1-0	
 23      6  13-10-07	Buenos Aires	Chile   	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 24  1   7  16-10-07	Maracaibo	Venezuela	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 25      7  17-11-07	Buenos Aires	Bolivia 	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
 26  1   8  20-11-07	Bogotá  	Colombia	1-2	World Cup Qualifier
 27  1   9   4- 6-08	San Diego	Mexico  	4-1	
 28      9   8- 6-08	East Rutherford	United States	0-0	
 29      9  15- 6-08	Buenos Aires	Ecuador 	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 30      9  18- 6-08	Belo Horizonte	Brazil  	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 31      9   6- 9-08	Buenos Aires	Paraguay	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 32      9  10- 9-08	Lima    	Peru    	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 33  1  10  11-10-08	Buenos Aires	Uruguay 	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
 34     10  15-10-08	Santiago	Chile   	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
 35  1  11  11- 2-09	Marseille	France  	2-0	
 36  1  12  28- 3-09	Buenos Aires	Venezuela	4-0	World Cup Qualifier
 37     12   1- 4-09	La Paz  	Bolivia 	1-6	World Cup Qualifier
 38     12   6- 6-09	Buenos Aires	Colombia	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 39     12  10- 6-09	Quito   	Ecuador 	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
 40     12   5- 9-09	Rosario 	Brazil  	1-3	World Cup Qualifier
 41     12   9- 9-09	Asunción	Paraguay	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
 42     12  10-10-09	Buenos Aires	Peru    	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
 43     12  14-10-09	Montevideo	Uruguay 	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 44  1  13  14-11-09	Madrid  	Spain   	1-2	
 45     13   3- 3-10	München 	Germany 	1-0	 
 46     13  12- 6-10    Johannesburg    Nigeria         1-0     World Cup
 47     13  17- 6-10    Johannesburg    South Korea     4-1     World Cup
 48     13  22- 6-10    Polokwane       Greece          2-0     World Cup
 49     13  27- 6-10    Johannesburg    Mexico          3-1     World Cup
 50     13   3- 7-10    Cape Town       Germany         0-4     World Cup
 51     13  11- 8-10    Dublin          Ireland         1-0
 52  1  14   7- 9-10    Buenos Aires    Spain           4-1
 53     14   8-10-10    Saitama         Japan           0-1
 54  1  15  17-11-10    Doha            Brazil          1-0
 55  1  16   9- 2-11    Genève          Portugal        2-1
 56     16  26- 3-11    East Rutherford United States   1-1
 57  1  17  20- 6-11    Buenos Aires    Albania         4-0
 58     17   1- 7-11    La Plata        Bolivia         1-1     Copa América
 59     17   6- 7-11    Santa Fe        Colombia        0-0     Copa América
 60     17  11- 7-11    Córdoba         Costa Rica      3-0     Copa América
 61     17  16- 7-11    Córdoba         Uruguay         1-1 [1] Copa América
 62     17   2- 9-11    Kolkata         Venezuela       1-0
 63     17   6- 9-11    Dhaka           Nigeria         3-1
 64  1  18   7-10-11    Buenos Aires    Chile           4-1	World Cup Qualifier
 65     18  11-10-11    Puerto La Cruz  Venezuela       0-1	World Cup Qualifier
 66     18  11-11-11    Buenos Aires    Bolivia         1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 67  1  19  15-11-11    Barraquilla     Colombia        2-1	World Cup Qualifier
 68  3	22  29- 2-12	Bern		Switzerland	3-1
 69  1	23   2- 6-12	Buenos Aires	Ecuador		4-0	World Cup Qualifier
 70  3	26   8- 6-12	East Rutherford	Brazil		4-3
 71  1	27  15- 8-12	Frankfurt	Germany		3-1
 72  1	28   7- 9-12	Córdoba		Paraguay	3-1	World Cup Qualifier
 73	28  11- 9-12	Lima		Peru		1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 74  2	30  12-10-12	Mendoza		Uruguay		3-0	World Cup Qualifier
 75  1	31  16-10-12	Santiago	Chile		2-1	World Cup Qualifier
 76 	31  14-11-12	Riyadh		Saudi Arabia	0-0
 77	31   6- 2-13	Stockholm	Sweden		3-2
 78  1	32  22- 3-13	Buenos Aires	Venezuela	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
 79	32  26- 3-13	La Paz		Bolivia		1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 80	32   7- 6-13	Buenos Aires	Colombia	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 81	32  11- 6-13	Quito		Ecuador		1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 82  3	35  14- 6-13	Cd. Guatemala	Guatemala	4-0
 83  2  37  10- 9-13    Asunción        Paraguay        5-2	World Cup Qualifier
 84     37   5- 3-14    Bucuresti       Romania         0-0
 85     37   4- 6-14	Buenos Aires	Trinidad/Tobago 3-0 
 86  1  38   7- 6-14	La Plata	Slovenia        2-0
 87  1  39  15- 6-14	Rio de Janeiro	Bosnia-Herzeg.  2-1	World Cup
 88  1  40  21- 6-14	Belo Horizonte	Iran            1-0	World Cup
 89  2	42  25- 6-14	Porto Alegre	Nigeria         3-2	World Cup
 90	42   1- 7-14	São Paulo	Switzerland     1-0	World Cup
 91	42   5- 7-14	Brasilia	Belgium         1-0	World Cup
 92	42   9- 7-14	São Paulo	Netherlands     0-0 [2]	World Cup 
 93	42  13- 7-14	Rio de Janeiro	Germany         0-1	World Cup
 94	42  11-10-14	Beijing		Brazil	        0-2
 95  2	44  14-10-14	Hongkong	Hongkong        7-0
 96  1  45  12-11-14    London          Croatia         2-1
 97	45  18-11-14    Manchester      Portugal        0-1
 98  1  46  13- 6-15    La Serena       Paraguay        2-2	Copa América
 99     46  16- 6-15    La Serena       Uruguay         1-0	Copa América
100     46  20- 6-15    Viña del Mar    Jamaica         1-0	Copa América
101     46  26- 6-15	Viña del Mar	Colombia 	0-0 [3]	Copa América
102     46  30- 6-15	Concepción	Paraguay	6-1	Copa América
103     46   4- 7-15	Santiago        Chile           0-0 [4] Copa América
104  2  48   4- 9-15    Houston  	Bolivia         7-0
105  1  49   8- 9-15    Dallas  	Mexico          2-2
106	49  24- 3-16	Santiago	Chile           2-1     World Cup Qualifier
107  1  50  29- 3-16	Córdoba  	Bolivia         2-0     World Cup Qualifier
108	50  27- 5-16	San Juan	Honduras	1-0
109  3	53  10- 6-16	Chicago 	Panama  	5-0	Copa América
110     34  14- 6-16	Seattle  	Bolivia 	3-0	Copa América
111  1  54  18- 6-16	Foxborough	Venezuela	4-1	Copa América
112  1  55  21- 6-16	Houston  	United States	4-0	Copa América
113	55  26- 6-16	East Rutherford	Chile   	0-0 [5]	Copa América
114  1  56   1- 9-16    Mendoza  	Uruguay  	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
115     56  10-11-16    Belo Horizonte	Brazil  	0-3	World Cup Qualifier
116  1  57  15-11-16    San Juan	Colombia	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
117  1  58  23- 3-17    Buenos Aires    Chile           1-0     World Cup Qualifier
118	58   9- 6-17	Melbourne 	Brazil          1-0
119     58  31- 8-17  	Montevideo	Uruguay 	0-0     World Cup Qualifier
120	58   5- 9-17	Buenos Aires	Venezuela 	1-1  	World Cup Qualifier
121	58   5-10-17	Buenos Aires	Peru    	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
122  3  61  10-10-17    Quito   	Ecuador  	3-1	World Cup Qualifier
123	61  11-11-17	Moskva  	Russia  	1-0	
124  3  64  29- 5-18	Buenos Aires	Haiti           4-0
125     64  16- 6-18    Moskva          Iceland         1-1	World Cup
126     64  21- 6-18    Nizhny Novgorod Croatia         0-3	World Cup
127  1  65  26- 6-18    Sankt Peterburg Nigeria         2-1	World Cup
128     65  30- 6-18    Kazan           France          3-4	World Cup
129     65  22- 3-19	Madrid		Venezuela	1-3
130  2  67   7- 6-19	San Juan	Nicaragua 	5-1
131	67  15- 6-19	Salvador	Colombia	0-2	Copa América
132  1	68  19- 6-19	Belo Horizonte	Paraguay	1-1	Copa América
133	68  23- 6-19	Porto Alegre	Qatar		2-0	Copa América
134	68  28- 6-19	Río de Janeiro	Venezuela	2-0	Copa América
135	68   2- 7-19	Belo Horizonte	Brazil		0-2	Copa América
136	68   6- 7-19	São Paulo	Chile		2-1	Copa América
137  1	69  15-11-19	Riyadh		Brazil		1-0
138  1	70  18-11-19	Tel-Aviv	Uruguay 	2-2
139  1	71   8-10-20	Buenos Aires	Ecuador 	1-0  	World Cup Qualifier
140   	71  13-10-20	La Paz		Bolivia		2-1	World Cup Qualifier
141   	71  12-11-20	Buenos Aires	Paraguay	1-1  	World Cup Qualifier
142	71  17-11-20	Lima		Peru		2-0	World Cup Qualifier
143  1	72   3- 6-21	Sgo. del Estero	Chile   	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
144 	72   8- 6-21	Barranquilla	Colombia	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
145  1	73  14- 6-21	Rio de Janeiro	Chile   	1-1	Copa América
146 	73  18- 6-21	Brasília	Uruguay 	1-0	Copa América
147 	73  21- 6-21	Brasília	Paraguay	1-0	Copa América
148  2	75  28- 6-21	Cuiabá  	Bolivia 	4-1	Copa América
149  1	76   3- 7-21	Goiânia  	Ecuador 	3-0	Copa América
150 	76   6- 7-21	Brasília	Colombia  	1-1 [6]	Copa América
151 	76  10- 7-21	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil   	1-0	Copa América
152 	76   2- 9-21	Caracas 	Venezuela	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
153  3	79   9- 9-21	Buenos Aires	Bolivia 	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
154	79   7-10-21	Asunción	Paraguay	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
155  1	80  10-10-21	Buenos Aires	Uruguay 	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
156	80  14-10-21	Buenos Aires	Peru    	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
157	80  11-11-21	Montevideo	Argentina	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
158	80  16-11-21	San Juan	Brazil  	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
159  1	81  24- 3-22	Buenos Aires	Venezuela	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
160	81  29- 3-22	Guayaquil	Ecuador 	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
161	81   1- 6-22	London  	Italy   	3-0	Conmebol-UEFA
162  5	86   5- 6-22	Pamplona	Estonia 	5-0	
163  2	88  23- 9-22	Miami   	Honduras	3-0
164  2	90  27- 9-22	Harrison	Jamaica 	3-0
165  1	91  16-11-22	Abu Dhabi	UA Emirates	5-0
166  1	92  22-11-22	Lusail  	Saudi Arabia	1-2	World Cup
167  1	93  26-11-22	Lusail   	Mexico   	2-0	World Cup
168	93  30-11-22	Doha    	Poland   	2-0	World Cup
169  1	94   3-12-22	Al-Rayyan	Australia	2-1	World Cup
170  1	95   9-12-22	Lusail   	Netherlands 	2-2 [7]	World Cup
171  1	96  13-12-22	Lusail   	Croatia 	3-0	World Cup
172  2	98  18-12-22	Doha    	France   	3-3 [8]	World Cup
173  1	99  23- 3-23	Buenos Aires	Panama  	2-0
174  3 102  28- 3-23	Stgo. d. Estero Curacao 	7-0
175  1 103  15- 6-23	Beijing 	Australia	2-0
176  1 104   7- 9-23	Buenos Aires	Ecuador 	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
177    104  12-10-23	Buenos Aires	Paraguay	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
178  2 106  17-10-23	Lima    	Peru    	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
179    106  16-11-23	Buenos Aires	Uruguay 	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
180    106  21-11-23	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil   	1-0	World Cup Qualifier

[1] Argentina lost 4-5 on penalty kicks.
[2] Argentina won 4-2 on penalty kicks.
[3] Argentina won 5-4 on penalty kicks.
[4] Argentina lost 1-4 on penalty kicks.
[5] Argentina lost 2-4 on penalty kicks.
[6] Argentina won 3-2 on penalty kicks.
[7] Argentina won 4-3 on penalty kicks.
[8] Argentina won 4-2 on penalty kicks.

Total Record

Matches  Won Draw Lost  For Against  Points  Percentage
   180   112   40   28   338- 138     264       73.33

106 Goals in 180 Matches (% 0.59 per match)

Types of             Matches  Goals

World Cup Qualifier	65	31
Friendlies      	54      49
Copa América       	34	13
World Cup		26      13
Conmebol-UEFA Cup        1       0

Total caps / goals:    180     106


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Prepared and maintained by Roberto Mamrud for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Roberto Mamrud (roberto.mamrud@gmail.com)
Last updated: 19 Jan 2024

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