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The UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award (previously known as the UEFA Best Player in Europe Award) is an association football award given to the footballer playing for a men's football club in Europe that is considered the best in the previous season of both club and national team competition. The award, created in 2011 by UEFA in partnership ...
Cristiano Ronaldo is the competition's all-time top scorer with 140 goals. The UEFA Champions League, known until 1992 as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or colloquially as the European Cup, is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1955. Originally a straight knockout competition open only to champion clubs ...
The players that came closest were Antoine Griezmann in 2016 (with 6 goals) and Marco van Basten in 1988, Alan Shearer in 1996, Savo Milošević and Patrick Kluivert in 2000, Milan Baroš in 2004, and Ronaldo and Patrik Schick in 2020 (all with 5 goals). Across the 17 tournaments of the Euro, 37 players have been credited with the most ...
Josef Bican is credited by FIFA with 805 goals. Luis Suárez, the most recent to score 500 goals. Alfredo Di Stéfano, the first South American to score 500 goals. Imre Schlosser, the first footballer to score 500 goals. According to the IFFHS and other media outlets, 25 players are credited with scoring 500 or more goals in top-level ...
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 (Aruba, Azerbaijan, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Scotland, South Sudan, Suriname, United States and U.S. Virgin Islands) have a pair of players tied for national l
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 47 players have managed to make at least 100 appearances in the competition. [1]
Overall team records. [] As of UEFA Euro 2024. The system used in the European Championship up to 1992 was 2 points for a win, and 3 points for a win from 1996 onwards. In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss.
Lionel Andrés " Leo " Messi[note 1] (Spanish pronunciation: [ljoˈnel anˈdɾes ˈmesi] ⓘ; born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains both Major League Soccer club Inter Miami and the Argentina national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Messi set numerous ...