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List of association football teams to have won four or more trophies in one season; List of football managers with the most games; List of footballers with 500 or more goals; List of footballers with the most goals in a single game; List of goalkeepers who have scored in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The Argentina, Ecuador and Cameroon national teams have been prevented from retiring the numbers of Diego Maradona (10), Christian Benítez (11) [7] and Marc-Vivien Foé (17), respectively, by FIFA rules dealing with squad numbers for Finals tournaments; in other competitions, qualifiers or friendlies, national associations may assign numbers ...
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 ...
Team that played most games on the same day: 3 matches – Grêmio; On 11 December 1994, Grêmio played three matches on a single day during the 1994 Campeonato Gaúcho, with kick-off times of 2PM, 4PM, and 6PM, due to their extensive schedule. They won two and drew the third match, using a total of 34 different players. [102]
Number of goals scored in an intercontinental / worldwide club competition ‡ Player won the European Golden Shoe: GM: Player won the Gerd Müller Trophy: Red Number of goals with which the European Golden Shoe was won Player (X) Denotes the number of times the player had scored 50 or more goals in a season at that time
The U.S. men's soccer team have played in the Summer Olympics since 1924. From that tournament to 1980, only amateur and state-sponsored Eastern European players were allowed on Olympic teams. The Olympics became a full international tournament in 1984 after the IOC allowed full national teams from outside FIFA CONMEBOL & UEFA confederations.
David Beckham, an English retired professional footballer with a net worth of US$300 million. Association football is the world's most popular sport and is worth US$600 billion worldwide. [1] By the end of the 20th century it was played by over 250 million players in over 200 countries.
In 1993, The Football Association (The FA) switched to persistent squad numbers, abandoning the mandatory use of 1–11 for the starting line-up. The first league event to feature this was the 1993 Football League Cup Final between Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday, and it became standard in the FA Premier League the following season, along with names printed above the numbers. [6]