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In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is dos Santos and the second or paternal family name is Aveiro.

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Cristiano Ronaldo

Ronaldo playing for Al Nassr in 2023

Personal information

Full name

\nCristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro^[1]

Date of birth

\n5 February 1985 (age 39)^[2]

Place of birth

\nFunchal, Madeira, Portugal

Height

\n1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)^{[note 1]}

Position(s)

\nForward

Team information

Current team

\nAl Nassr

Number

\n7

Youth career

1992\u20131995

\nAndorinha

1995\u20131997

\nNacional

1997\u20132002

\nSporting CP

Senior career\"

Years

\nTeam

\nApps

\n(Gls)

2002\u20132003

\nSporting CP B

\n2

\n(0)

2002\u20132003

\nSporting CP

\n25

\n(3)

2003\u20132009

\nManchester United

\n196

\n(84)

2009\u20132018

\nReal Madrid

\n292

\n(311)

2018\u20132021

\nJuventus

\n98

\n(81)

2021\u20132022

\nManchester United

\n40

\n(19)

2023\u2013

\nAl Nassr

\n64

\n(64)

International career^\u2021

2001

\nPortugal U15

\n9

\n(7)

2001\u20132002

\nPortugal U17

\n7

\n(5)

2003

\nPortugal U20

\n5

\n(1)

2002\u20132003

\nPortugal U21

\n10

\n(3)

2004

\nPortugal U23

\n3

\n(2)

2003\u2013

\nPortugal

\n217

\n(135)

Medal record

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Men's football\n
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Representing $\"\"$ Portugal\n
UEFA European Championship\n
Winner	2016 France	\n
Runner-up	2004 Portugal	\n
$\"Bronze$	2012 Poland-Ukraine	^{[note 2]}\n
UEFA Nations League\n
Winner	2019 Portugal	\n
FIFA Confederations Cup\n
$\"Third$	2017 Russia	\n

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Signature
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$\"Cristiano$

\n\"Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:10, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
\u2021 National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:40, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Portuguese professional footballer

Eponyms and public art

Films

Family

Related

Galaxy CR7

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro GOIH ComM (Portuguese pronunciation: [k\u027ei\u0283\u02c8tj\u0250nu \u0281\u0254\u02c8naldu] ^\u24d8; born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains both the Saudi Pro League club Al Nassr and the Portugal national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Ronaldo has won numerous individual accolades throughout his career, such as five Ballon d'Or awards, a record three UEFA Men's Player of the Year Awards, four European Golden Shoes, and was named five times the world's best player by FIFA,^{[note 3]} the most by a European player. He has won 33 trophies in his career, including seven league titles, five UEFA Champions Leagues, the UEFA European Championship and the UEFA Nations League. Ronaldo holds the records for most appearances (183), goals (140) and assists (42) in the Champions League, most appearances (30), assists (8), goals in the European Championship (14), international appearances (217) and international goals (135). He is one of the few players to have made over 1,200 professional career appearances, the most by an outfield player, and has scored over 900 official senior career goals for club and country, making him the top goalscorer of all time.^{[note 4]}\n

Ronaldo began his senior career with Sporting CP, before signing with Manchester United in 2003, winning the FA Cup in his first season. He went on to win three consecutive Premier League titles, the Champions League and the FIFA Club World Cup; at age 23, he won his first Ballon d'Or. Ronaldo was the subject of the then-most expensive association football transfer when he signed for Real Madrid in 2009 in a transfer worth \u20ac94 million (\u00a380 million). He became a key contributor and formed an attacking trio with Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale which was integral to the team winning four Champions Leagues from 2014 to 2018, including La D\u00e9cima. During this period, he won back-to-back Ballons d'Or in 2013 and 2014, and again in 2016 and 2017, and was runner-up three times behind Lionel Messi, his perceived career rival. He also became the club's all-time top goalscorer and the all-time top scorer in the Champions League, and finished as the competition's top scorer for six consecutive seasons between 2012 and 2018. With Real, Ronaldo won four Champions Leagues, two La Liga titles, two Copas del Rey, two UEFA Super Cups and three Club World Cups. In 2018, he signed for Juventus in a transfer worth an initial \u20ac100 million (\u00a388 million), the most expensive transfer for an Italian club and for a player over 30 years old. He won two Serie A titles, two Supercoppa Italiana trophies and a Coppa Italia, became the inaugural Serie A Most Valuable Player, and the first footballer to finish as top scorer in the English, Spanish and Italian leagues. He returned to Manchester United in 2021, finishing his only full season as the club's top scorer, before his contract was terminated in 2022. In 2023, he signed for Al Nassr.\n

Ronaldo made his international debut for Portugal in 2003 at the age of 18 and has earned more than 200 caps, making him history's most-capped male player.^[8] With 130 international goals, he is also the all-time top male goalscorer. Ronaldo has played in eleven major tournaments and scored in ten; he scored his first international goal at Euro 2004, where he helped Portugal reach the final. He assumed captaincy of the national team in July 2008. In 2015, Ronaldo was named the best Portuguese player of all time by the Portuguese Football Federation. The following year, he led Portugal to their first major tournament title at Euro 2016, and received the Silver Boot as the second-highest goalscorer of the tournament. This achievement saw him receive his fourth Ballon d'Or. He also led them to victory in the inaugural UEFA Nations League in 2019, receiving the top scorer award in the finals, and later received the Golden Boot as top scorer of Euro 2020. The same tournament, he broke the record of most international goals scored in men's football and became the player with the most international caps in men's football in 2023.\n

One of the world's most marketable and famous athletes, Ronaldo was ranked the world's highest-paid athlete by Forbes in 2016, 2017, 2023, and 2024 and the world's most famous athlete by ESPN from 2016 to 2019. Time included him on their list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2014. Ronaldo is the most popular sportsperson on social media: he counts over 1 billion total followers across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram, making him the first person to achieve that feat. In 2020, Ronaldo was named to the Ballon d'Or Dream Team and he is the first footballer and the third sportsman to earn US$1 billion in his career.\n

Club\n	Season\n	League\n	National cup^[a]\n	League cup^[b]\n	Continental^[c]\n	Other\n	Total\n
Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals\n
Sporting CP B^[434]^[435]\n	2002\u201303\n	Segunda Divis\u00e3o B\n	2	0	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	2	0\n
Sporting CP\n	2002\u201303\n	Primeira Liga\n	25	3	3	2	\u2014	3^[d]	0	0	0	31	5\n
Manchester United\n	2003\u201304\n	Premier League\n	29	4	5	2	1	0	5	0	0	0	40	6\n
2004\u201305\n	Premier League\n	33	5	7	4	2	0	8^[e]	0	0	0	50	9\n
2005\u201306\n	Premier League\n	33	9	2	0	4	2	8^[f]	1	\u2014	47	12\n
2006\u201307\n	Premier League\n	34	17	7	3	1	0	11	3	\u2014	53	23\n
2007\u201308\n	Premier League\n	34	31	3	3	0	0	11	8	1^[g]	0	49	42\n
2008\u201309\n	Premier League\n	33	18	2	1	4	2	12	4	2^[h]	1	53	26\n
Total\n	196	84	26	13	12	4	55	16	3	1	292	118\n
Real Madrid\n	2009\u201310\n	La Liga\n	29	26	0	0	\u2014	6	7	\u2014	35	33\n
2010\u201311\n	La Liga\n	34	40^[i]\n	8	7	\u2014	12	6	\u2014	54	53\n
2011\u201312\n	La Liga\n	38	46	5	3	\u2014	10	10	2^[j]	1	55	60\n
2012\u201313\n	La Liga\n	34	34	7	7	\u2014	12	12	2^[j]	2	55	55\n
2013\u201314\n	La Liga\n	30	31	6	3	\u2014	11	17	\u2014	47	51\n
2014\u201315\n	La Liga\n	35	48	2	1	\u2014	12	10	5^[k]	2	54	61\n
2015\u201316\n	La Liga\n	36	35	0	0	\u2014	12	16	\u2014	48	51\n
2016\u201317\n	La Liga\n	29	25	2	1	\u2014	13	12	2^[h]	4	46	42\n
2017\u201318\n	La Liga\n	27	26	0	0	\u2014	13	15	4^[l]	3	44	44\n
Total\n	292	311	30	22	\u2014	101	105	15	12	438	450\n
Juventus\n	2018\u201319\n	Serie A\n	31	21	2	0	\u2014	9	6	1^[m]	1	43	28\n
2019\u201320\n	Serie A\n	33	31	4	2	\u2014	8	4	1^[m]	0	46	37\n
2020\u201321\n	Serie A\n	33	29	4	2	\u2014	6	4	1^[m]	1	44	36\n
2021\u201322\n	Serie A\n	1	0	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	1	0\n
Total\n	98	81	10	4	\u2014	23	14	3	2	134	101\n
Manchester United\n	2021\u201322\n	Premier League\n	30	18	1	0	0	0	7	6	\u2014	38	24\n
2022\u201323\n	Premier League\n	10	1	0	0	0	0	6^[n]	2	\u2014	16	3\n
Total\n	40	19	1	0	0	0	13	8	\u2014	54	27\n
Al Nassr\n	2022\u201323\n	Saudi Pro League\n	16	14	2	0	\u2014	\u2014	1^[o]	0	19	14\n
2023\u201324\n	Saudi Pro League\n	31	35	4	3	\u2014	9^[p]	6	7^[q]	6	51	50\n
2024\u201325\n	Saudi Pro League\n	17	15	1	0	\u2014	4^[p]	4	2^[o]	2	24	21\n
Total\n	64	64	7	3	\u2014	13	10	10	8	94	85\n
Career total\n	717	562	77	44	12	4	208	153	31	23	1,045	786\n

Appearances and goals by national team, year and competition\n
Team\n	Year\n	Competitive\n	Friendly\n	Total\n
Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals\n
Portugal U15\n	2001\n	2^[a]\n	1\n	7\n	6\n	9\n	7\n
Portugal U17\n	2001\n	\u2014\n	3\n	2\n	3\n	2\n
2002\n	4^[b]\n	3\n	\u2014\n	4\n	3\n
Total\n	4\n	3\n	3\n	2\n	7\n	5\n
Portugal U20\n	2003\n	\u2014\n	5^[c]\n	1\n	5\n	1\n
Portugal U21\n	2002\n	0\n	0\n	1\n	1\n	1\n	1\n
2003\n	7^[d]\n	2\n	2\n	0\n	9\n	2\n
Total\n	7\n	2\n	3\n	1\n	10\n	3\n
Portugal U23\n	2004\n	2^[e]\n	1\n	1\n	1\n	3\n	2\n
Portugal\n	2003\n	\u2014\n	2\n	0\n	2\n	0\n
2004\n	11^[f]\n	7\n	5\n	0\n	16\n	7\n
2005\n	7^[g]\n	2\n	4\n	0\n	11\n	2\n
2006\n	10^[h]\n	4\n	4\n	2\n	14\n	6\n
2007\n	9^[i]\n	5\n	1\n	0\n	10\n	5\n
2008\n	5^[j]\n	1\n	3\n	0\n	8\n	1\n
2009\n	5^[k]\n	0\n	2\n	1\n	7\n	1\n
2010\n	6^[l]\n	3\n	5\n	0\n	11\n	3\n
2011\n	6^[m]\n	5\n	2\n	2\n	8\n	7\n
2012\n	9^[n]\n	4\n	4\n	1\n	13\n	5\n
2013\n	6^[o]\n	7\n	3\n	3\n	9\n	10\n
2014\n	5^[p]\n	3\n	4\n	2\n	9\n	5\n
2015\n	4^[q]\n	3\n	1\n	0\n	5\n	3\n
2016\n	10^[r]\n	10\n	3\n	3\n	13\n	13\n
2017\n	10^[s]\n	10\n	1\n	1\n	11\n	11\n
2018\n	4^[t]\n	4\n	3\n	2\n	7\n	6\n
2019\n	10^[u]\n	14\n	\u2014\n	10\n	14\n
2020\n	4^[v]\n	2\n	2\n	1\n	6\n	3\n
2021\n	11^[w]\n	11\n	3\n	2\n	14\n	13\n
2022\n	12^[x]\n	3\n	\u2014\n	12\n	3\n
2023\n	9^[y]\n	10\n	\u2014\n	9\n	10\n
2024\n	10^[z]\n	5\n	2\n	2\n	12\n	7\n
Total\n	163\n	113\n	54\n	22\n	217\n	135\n
Career total\n	178\n	120\n	73\n	33\n	251\n	153\n

Early life

Club career

Sporting CP

Manchester United

2003\u20132007: Development and breakthrough

2007\u20132009: Collective and individual success and Ballon d'Or

Real Madrid

2009\u20132015: World record transfer and consecutive Ballon d'Or wins

2015\u20132018: All-time Madrid top scorer and Fifth Ballon d'Or

Juventus

2018\u20132020: Consecutive Serie A titles

2020\u20132021: 100 Juve goals, Capocannoniere, and departure

Return to Manchester United

Al Nassr

International career

Player profile

Style of play

Reception and image

Goal celebrations

Rivalry with Lionel Messi

In popular culture

Popularity and online following

Wealth and sponsorships

Philanthropy

Eponyms and honors

Public art

Business ventures

Media

Personal life

Family, children, and relationships

Health

Legal issues

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

See also

Notes

References

Citations

Works cited

Further reading

External links

Cristiano Ronaldo

Talks

1 November, 2003