Lionel Messi's 39th career prize and his first with his new team Paris Saint-Germain is the Ligue 1 championship for 2021–2022.
The most awards ever won by a football player was Dani Alves of Barcelona, who throughout the course of his career earned a staggering 43 titles.
With his hometown club Bahia, the Brazilian defender earned his first professional championships. Dani Alves moved to Barcelona for £23 million after winning five medals in six seasons with Sevilla. He went on to win 23 trophies, including six La Liga championships and three UEFA Champions League crowns.
Alves returned to Barcelona for a second time after trophy-laden stints with Juventus (2016–17 – two titles), Paris Saint-Germain (2017–19 – six titles), and Sao Paulo (2019–21 – one trophy).
The 38-year-old has won two Confederations Cups, the Copa America, and the gold medal in men's football at Tokyo 2020. The only prize that is missing from his collection is the FIFA World Cup.
The favorite to surpass the Brazilian's record is Alves' former colleague Lionel Messi. The UEFA-CONMEBOL Cup of Champions is the most recent of the superstar from Argentina's 40 career victories.
Messi won four trophies while competing for his country, including the Copa America 2021, while winning 35 of his total career titles while playing for Barcelona (2004–2021). In Beijing in 2008, the Argentine also took home the Olympic gold medal.
With the Ligue 1 championship, Messi matched the record of 39 titles held by Egyptian footballer Hossam Ashour.
Ashour received 39 awards during a 17-year partnership with Al Hyly (2003-2020). (6 CAF Champions League, 1 CAF Confederation Cup, 5 CAF Super Cups, 13 Egyptian Premier League, 4 Egypt Cups, 10 Egyptian Super Cups). He is the athlete who has garnered the most honors while representing a single team.
Maxwell and Andres Iniesta are tied for fourth place in football for most trophies won by a player. The two, who were teammates at Barcelona, have a combined 37 trophies.
Of the two, Iniesta distinguished himself as one of the greatest midfielders in history and is admired for scoring the game-winning goal in South Africa during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The Spanish midfielder, who amassed 32 trophies with his youth team Barcelona, has two titles with his current squad Vissel Kobe (the Emperor's Cup and the Japanese Super Cup).
Ryan Giggs, a former star for Manchester United, rounds out the top five. The Welsh hero, one of the select few one-club players in history, made 672 games for the Red Devils and amassed an amazing 36 trophies, including 13 Premier League championships.
Player Career Trophies
Dani Alves 43
Lionel Messi 40
Hossam Ashour 39
Andres Iniesta 37
Maxwell 37
Ryan Giggs 36
Daglish 35
CR7 & Victor Baia 34
Xavi 33
Ibrahimovic & Busquets 32
Robben 31