WHO HELD THE RECORD FOR THE MOST GOALS IN A CALENDAR YEAR , BEFORE LIONEL MESSI BROKE IT IN 2012.

Who actually previously held the record in Europe for scoring the most goals or a single club in a single calendar year.? This record was held by the West German Gerd Muller, who played his club football in West Germany with Bayern Munich. In the year 1975 Gerd Muller had scored a total of 85, eighty five goals in that single calendar year. And that was broken by the Argentinean footballer Lionel Messi, in the year 2012, by scoring 91 ninety ne goals