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In association football, a cap is traditionally awarded in international football to a player making an official appearance for their national team. This article lists all men's football players who have played in 100 or more official international matches for a national football team according to association football's world governing body FIFA.
Players in bold are still active at international level. Players in italics also hold the record for most caps for their nation. Rank is a count of the 211 FIFA nations. Fourteen nations (Azerbaijan, Bermuda, Brunei, Bulgaria, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Faroe Islands, Puerto Rico, Romania, Scotland, South Sudan, United States and U.S. Virgin Islands) have a pair of players tied ...
The all-time leader in senior caps, Kristine Lilly of the United States, had 354 caps and retired from international football on 6 January 2011. [1] [2] The currently active most-capped women's international football player is Sherida Spitse of the Netherlands, with 237 caps. Three American players, Kristine Lilly, Carli Lloyd and Christie ...
Most capped player overall: 191 – Lionel Messi, 2005 – present; Most FIFA World Cup tournaments played: 5 – Lionel Messi in 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022; Most FIFA World Cup appearances made: 26 – Lionel Messi; Most FIFA World Cup appearances made as captain: 19 – Lionel Messi
Best would be to wait for the respective official new list. The FIFA list is the only verified source. Live with your player having less games than you think. The Wiki-pages of the players do count non FIFA-caps as well. Sometimes if a national assosiation is banned by FIFA, their players would disappear from the official list.
Most goals at the FIFA World Cup and FIFA World Cup qualifiers Gigi Riva, 17 [49] Most FIFA World Cups scored in Roberto Baggio (1990, 1994 and 1998), 3 [50] Most goals in FIFA World Cup qualifiers Gigi Riva, 14 [49] First goal in a FIFA World Cup match Angelo Schiavio, 27 May 1934, 7–1 vs. United States [3] [51] First goal in a FIFA World ...
England's most capped player is Peter Shilton with 125 caps and its top goalscorer is Harry Kane with 68 goals. England compete in the FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, and UEFA Nations League.
The top twenty are most likely accurate as no players before the mid-1980s amassed more than twenty or thirty caps. For example, Boris Bandov, the player active before 1980 with the highest number of caps, played 33 times between 1976 and 1983, while Perry Van der Beck played 23 times between 1979 and 1985. With the typical low scores of the ...