Lionel Messi vs Neymar: height compared

Drawn to a common scale from sourced heights.

• Lionel Messi: 169 cm (5′7″). Neymar: 175 cm (5′9″).
• Neymar is about 6 cm (2.4 in) taller than Lionel Messi.
• Neymar is 1.04x the height of Lionel Messi.

Both heights are as recorded on Wikidata (CC0), retrieved August 27, 2026; recorded heights of real people are approximate, so treat differences of a centimeter or two as noise.

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