Barcelona captain Messi wins his eighth Pichichi Trophy | OneFootball

Barcelona captain Lionel Messi has won this season's Pichichi Trophy as the LaLiga top scorer.

With 30 goals in LaLiga Santander, he will once again win the Pichichi Trophy, which will be the eighth of his career and his fifth in succession.

The previous seven came in 2009/10 (34 goals), 2011/12 (50), 2012/13 (46), 2016/17 (37), 2017/18 (34), 2018/19 (36), 2019/20 (25) and 2020/21 (30), but this one is more significant than any other.

Messi has now finished as top goalscorer the most times and has achieved the greatest consecutive streak of top goalscorer triumphs of anyone in Europe's top leagues.

In LaLiga Santander, Telmo Zarra is the closest challenger to his overall Pichichi Trophy haul with six. Both Hugo Sanchez and Alfredo Di Stefano won five throughout their respective careers, and the greatest consecutive streak of each was four seasons.