A photo combination of Pele and Lionel Messi created on December 28, 2020. Lionel Messi hit a historic landmark recently when he scored his 644th goal for Barcelona against Real Valladolid in La Liga, surpassing Pelé as the player with the most goals scored for a single club. However, Brazilian football club Santos, in a statement released on Saturday, claimed that Messi is yet to surpass its legend’s record. Santos put Pele’s total goal haul at 1,091. There has been a lot of controversy about how many goals the all-time leading goal scorer for Brazil actually scored for Santos. While he has been credited with 643 goals for the Brazilian club Pele has claimed in the past that he scored over 1,000.