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Xavi (middle) with Barcelona teammates Carles Puyol (left) and Lionel Messi (right) in December 2011. On 2 January 2011, in a league match against Levante, Xavi made his 549th appearance for the club in all competitions, matching the record held by Migueli. Xavi later became the player with the most appearances for Barcelona of all time. [44]
Goalkeeper Peter Shilton holds the record for the most competitive appearances. In association football, 52 players have played at least 1,000 official matches at all age levels. Regarding B teams and reserve teams, appearances for such teams are only included if made in the primary football pyramid and not in reserve divisions.
Xavi has made the most international competition appearances with 178 matches for Barcelona Lionel Messi is the only player to win Ballon d'Or, FIFA World Player of the Year, Pichichi Trophy and European Golden Shoe in the same season. [8] He is also the all-time highest scorer for Barcelona.
Barcelona is the team with the most players selected in a single season, with six players in both 2009 and 2010. The only other teams with more than three players in one season are Bayern Munich (four in 2013 and five in both 2014 and 2020), Liverpool (five in 2019), and Real Madrid (five in both 2017 and 2018 and four in 2003, 2012, 2013, 2014 ...
Cristiano Ronaldo made 183 UEFA Champions League appearances, the most in the competition.. Since the rebranding of the European Champion Clubs' Cup to UEFA Champions League in 1992 at the start of the 1992–93 season, a total of 50 players have managed to make at least 100 appearances in the competition. [1]
Following the team's impressive 4–0 victory over FC Barcelona in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League semi-final clash on 23 April, he was lauded by many pundits for his all-around display and was credited as the key man in breaking up the tiki-taka football of national teammates Xavi and Andrés Iniesta; [23] in the final game of his ...
The club was formed in 1913 and started out as a works team for Philips employees. PSV is the second most successful club in Dutch Football, next to archrivals Ajax, having won 21 Eredivisie titles, 9 KNVB Cups and 8 Supercups. In Europe, PSV won the 1977–78 UEFA Cup and the 1987–88 European Cup. PSV players who have played more than 100 ...
Peter Shilton has made the most appearances, and is the only player to have played in over one thousand games. Chris O'Grady made appearances for 17 different clubs, while 49 players made their appearances for only one team. Frank Womack is the only outfield player who failed to score a goal in his appearances, while Arthur Rowley scored 434.