Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 60 goals in a calendar year more than any other player in history having done it 4 times in his career. Here are all his best scoring years.
Cristiano Ronaldo – 60 goals in 2011
Cristiano Ronaldo scored 60 goals in 2011, his greatest year in terms of goals in a calendar year at that point, after failing to reach the 50-goal mark with Manchester United.
With 40 goals in the 2010-11 La Liga season, he also earned the first Pichichi trophy of his career and the second European Golden Shoe award of his career.
In 2011, he also won the Copa del Rey, Spain’s first major championship. He also scored seven goals in eight appearances for Portugal, which was the highest total for the national team in a year until that point.
Cristiano Ronaldo – 61 goals in 2014
Cristiano Ronaldo’s goal-scoring prowess in the 2014 calendar year helped Real Madrid win their first Champions League title. As Real Madrid won the historic La Decima that season, he scored 17 goals in the competition, the majority of them in the knockout stages.
In the 2013-14 season, he was the leading scorer in La Liga and also scored five goals for Portugal. In January 2015, he won the Ballon d’Or after winning four trophies with Real Madrid in the calendar year.
Cristiano Ronaldo – 63 goals in 2012
In the 2011-12 season, Cristiano Ronaldo was on fire, scoring a total of 46 goals in La Liga as Real Madrid won the league title in the summer. He also won his maiden Supercopa de Espana, which was only his second trophy of the calendar year.
His goal-scoring form continued in the 2012-13 season, when he surpassed his previous high by scoring 63 goals in a calendar year , the second-highest total of his career.
He only scored five goals for Portugal, three of which came in the Euro 2012 semi-finals when they were ousted on penalties by arch-rivals Spain.
Cristiano Ronaldo – 69 goals in 2013
In 2013, Cristiano Ronaldo had his finest year in a calendar year. Unfortunately, despite all of his goal-scoring prowess, the Portuguese forward did not win a single trophy.
It was also the first calendar year in which he scored ten goals for Portugal, the majority of which came during the 2014 World Cup qualification campaign.
In addition, he had 11 assists in the Spanish top division that year, as well as 15 goals in the Champions League. That year, he won the Ballon d’Or, one of the few times a player has won the trophy after a trophyless calendar year.
