Cristiano Ronaldo is Actual Madrid’s all-time main high goalscorer, having scored 450 targets in simply 438 appearances for the membership.
It’s protected to say that he lived as much as the hype after his world-record switch from Manchester United in 2009, having gained 4 Champions Leagues and 4 Ballon d’Or throughout his 9 seasons with the membership.
However home silverware was conspicuously missing, and it seems like a glitch that he gained simply two of 9 doable La Liga titles. That tells you simply what he was up in opposition to in Lionel Messi’s Barcelona, who gained six over the identical interval.
Listed here are six gamers we are able to’t imagine boast extra La Liga titles than Ronaldo.
Lamine Yamal
To be honest, Yamal is a little bit of a technicality.
The 18-year-old gained the primary of his three La Liga titles along with his boyhood membership by advantage of constructing one seven-minute cameo within the 2022-23 marketing campaign below Xavi Hernandez. It’s protected to say he didn’t actually play a task in lifting the trophy that yr.
However he’s had significantly extra of an affect in titles No.2 and No.3 gained below the steering of Hansi Flick, and he’s arguably been the league’s standout participant in 2025-26.
And it’s arduous to begrudge him that first title, given Xavi noticed match to present him his bow on the age of simply 15, making him the youngest debutant in Barcelona’s storied historical past.
A particular point out for some extra names from this present Barcelona technology: Gavi, Pedri, Jules Kounde, Ronald Araujo and even Andreas Christensen are amongst those that have lifted the La Liga trophy extra usually than Ronaldo did.
Robert Lewandowski
Much less of a technicality, this one.
On the one hand, you may say this one wasn’t a shock. Lewandowski is without doubt one of the biggest strikers of his technology, with solely Messi and Ronaldo notching extra targets within the historical past of Europe’s large 5 leagues.
He arrived at Barcelona having simply gained back-to-back European Golden Sneakers. In his debut season, he did as he invariably did within the Bundesliga and fired his crew to the league title, additionally profitable the Pichichi award for La Liga’s high scorer.
But it surely’s fairly wild to suppose that Lewandowski arrived in Spain on the age of 33 and has eclipsed Ronaldo for La Liga titles in simply 4 seasons – 5 fewer than the Portuguese at Madrid.
Lewandowski has gained the title in 75% of his seasons in La Liga. For Ronaldo, that ratio is simply 22%.
David Villa
The Spain legend didn’t win a La Liga title till he was 29.
He’d spent 5 years at an excellent Valencia facet, however they had been by no means fairly ready to bloody the noses of Spain’s large two.
It was practically a decade after making his debut that he lastly obtained the massive transfer to Barcelona. He was by no means fairly as prolific as you would possibly bear in mind, averaging simply 11 league targets a season there, however he inevitably gained two titles in three years in that all-conquering pressure.
Simply as he seemed on the downslope, he then went to Atletico and performed a key function in them profitable the title in his one and solely season within the capital.
All three of Villa’s titles had been gained no less than partly on the expense of Ronaldo’s Actual Madrid.
Gonzalo Higuain
We needed to double-check this one, as in our heads Higuain’s time in Spain completely overlapped with Ronaldo’s. However not fairly.
The Argentinian signed for Los Blancos in 2007, arriving as a promising teenager straight from River Plate. That was two and a half years earlier than Ronaldo.
He wasn’t particularly prolific, however he performed his half when Madrid gained the title in 2006-07 and 2007-08 below Fabio Capello and Bernd Schuster – nonetheless the final time the membership have gained back-to-back titles – earlier than including a 3rd alongside Ronaldo in 2011-12.
Higuain then repeated the trick in Italy, profitable three Scudetti in all three of his seasons with Juventus, the final as soon as once more alongside Ronaldo in 2019-20.
Vinicius Junior
The curious factor about Actual Madrid’s period of Champions League domination, largely spearheaded by Ronaldo’s targets, is that they by no means fairly dominated Spain in the identical manner.
Throughout his time on the Bernabeu, he gained twice as many Champions League titles (4, together with a historic three in a row) than he did league titles.
That started to alter after Ronaldo’s departure in 2018 – the identical yr {that a} teenage Vini Jr arrived – between home and European success. Over the previous eight seasons, they’ve gained three La Liga titles and two Champions Leagues, with Vini scoring essential targets in each finals.
The Brazilian has needed to abdomen watching Barcelona get again on their perch, profitable three of the final 4, however he nonetheless boasts extra La Liga titles than Ronaldo. And in a single fewer season.
Alvaro Odriozola
We may’ve picked quite a lot of names for example this level, however we struggled to seek out any higher than Odriozola.
The 30-year-old right-back’s honours checklist formally contains the Champions League in a treble-winning marketing campaign on mortgage at Bayern Munich, in addition to three La Liga titles, two Copa del Rey (one this season with Actual Sociedad) and two Membership World Cups.
And but he may simply stroll down a few of the busiest streets on the earth and possibly go unrecognised, such is his low profile.
That’s as a result of he performed subsequent to no function in any of these trophies. The odd cameo in Bayern’s 2019-20 treble. A bit half in La Actual’s run to the Copa del Rey last this season. A complete of 344, zero (two unused sub appearances) and 397 minutes in every of his three La Liga titles (2019-20, 2021-22, 2023-24).
Nonetheless, information are information — the honours checklist has him one forward of Ronaldo.
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