We give you continuous updates from Europe's big leagues and competitions as well as the World Cup and European Championships. The player ratings you will find here were published in the major newspapers and web pages such as Gazzetta dello Sport, Don Balón, France Football, L'Équipe, Kicker, El Mundo Deportivo, Guerin Sportivo, Marca, Corriere dello Sport, La Repubblica, The Guardian, The Times, and SportBild.
18 November, 2024
Top rated Premier League players 2012/13
6,61 Coutinho (Liverpool)
6,48 van Persie (Man United)
6,42 Mata (Chelsea), Bale (Tottenham)
6,41 Fellaini (Everton)
6,39 Cazorla (Arsenal), Sturridge (Liverpool)
6,38 M. Sissoko, Ba (Newcastle)
6,37 Rooney (Man United), Jagielka (Everton)
12 November, 2024
Ligue 1 ratings 2008/09
6,18 André-Pierre Gignac (Toulouse)
6,04 Etienne Didot (Toulouse)
6,02 Stéphane Sessegnon (Paris-SG)
5,98 Karim Benzema (Lyon)
5,96 Steve Mandanda (Marseille)
5,90 Mickaël Landreau (Paris-SG)
5,87 Fabien Audard (Lorient)
5,86 Nicolas Douchez (Rennes)
5,84 Hugo Lloris (Lyon)
5,82 Jérémy Clément (Paris-SG) , Yoann Gourcuff (Bordeaux)
5,78 Mauro Cetto (Toulouse)
5,75 Vincent Planté (Caen)
5,70 Kevin Gameiro (Lorient)
5,63 Stéphane Ruffier (Monaco)
5,54 Jérôme Alonzo (Nantes)
La Liga ratings 1975/76
5,86 Cruyff (Barcelona)
5,73 Rezza (Salamanca)
5,69 Robi (Salamanca)
5,58 Pulido (Sevilla)
5,56 Marcial (Barcelona)
5,54 Junquera (Zaragoza)
5,48 Irureta (Athletic)
10 November, 2024
The arguably best WC qualifying group in history
09 November, 2024
Denmark's 23 goalscorers in the 1978/79 European Cups
Highest average attendances in European Cups 2024/25
81.365 Borussia Dortmund
Today 38 years ago: Juventus 1-3 Napoli
1-0 50' M. Laudrup, 1-1 73' Ferrario, 1-2 75' Giordano, 1-3 90' Volpecina. Att: 52.380.
Juventus: Tacconi 7,50 — Favero 6,20, Cabrini 6,60, Bonini 7,00 (78' I. Bonetti), Brio 6,20 — Caricola 6,50, Mauro 6,90 (57' Pioli 5,50), Manfredonia 6,20, Platini 5,90 — M. Laudrup 5,80, Serena 5,20. — coach: Marchesi 5,50. = average: 6,30 [good]
Napoli: Garella 6,00 — Bruscolotti 7,00, Ferrara 6,80, Ferrario 6,90, Renica 6,90 — Bagni 7,60, Sola 6,10 (53' Carnevale 6,20), De Napoli 6,80, Romano 6,20 (79' Volpecina) — Giordano 7,10, Maradona 7,40. — coach: O. Bianchi 7,00. = average: 6,75 [first-class]
08 November, 2024
Scotland's 28 goalscorers in the 1984/85 European Cups
Fiorentina's all time top 50
Europe's 20 best goalkeepers in the 1970s and '80s
Today 26 years ago: Milan 2-2 Inter
0-1 6' Ronaldo, 1-1 12' Weah, 1-2 48' Moriero, 2-2 49' Albertini PK. Att: 80.814 (L. 3.531.423.000).
Milan: S. Rossi 6,00 — N'Gotty 5,75, Costacurta 5,50, Maldini 6,00 — Helveg 5,50, Albertini 6,50, Boban 6,50, Ziege 5,00 (56' Coco 6,25) — Morfeo 5,00 (56' Ganz 5,75), Bierhoff 6,25, Weah 6,75. — coach: Zaccheroni 6,00. = average: 5,90 [vulnerable]
Inter: Pagliuca 7,00 — West 5,50, Simeone 6,50, Galante 6,00, Colonnese 6,00 — Moriero 7,00, Winter 6,00, Cauet 5,75, J. Zanetti 5,75 — Zamorano 6,25 (79' Ventola), Ronaldo 7,00 (51' Djorkaeff 6,00). — coach: Simoni 6,25. = average: 6,23 [solid]
07 November, 2024
Goals & assists per nationality in the 2024/25 Champions League
20 goals+18 assists: Germany
League topscorers 1978/79
Memory Lane: Top league scorers 1978/79.
1,00 Kist (AZ '67)
0,91 Mavros (AEK), Fekete (Újpest), Ismail (HJK)
0,90 Gomes (FC Porto)
0,88 Streich (Magdeburg)
0,85 Krankl (Barcelona)
0,83 Nené (Benfica)
0,82 Albert (Beveren)
0,79 Fazekas (Újpest)
0,77 Riediger (Dynamo Berlin)
0,76 Clarke (Ajax)
0,74 Geels (Anderlecht)
0,73 J. Eriksen (OB Odense), Berggren (Djurgården)
0,71 C. Bianchi (Paris-SG), Savic (Crvena Zvezda), Kottis (Rodos), Bajevic (AEK)
0,69 Schachner (Austria)
0,68 Quini (Sp. Gijón)
0,65 K. Allofs (Fortuna Düsseldorf), De Jong (Roda), Kühn (Lok Leipzig)
0,63 Parits (Austria), Giordano (Lazio), Gotchev (Levski), Lundquist (Skovbakken)
0,62 Fischer (Schalke), Nyilasi (Ferencváros)
0,61 Radu (Arges Pitesti)
0,60 Tzvetkov (Slavia Sofia)
0,59 Alonso (Zaragoza), Rubén Cano (Atlético), Satrústegui (Real Sociedad), Yartzev (Spartak)
0,58 Onnis (Monaco), Pécout (FC Nantes)
0,57 Worthington (Bolton), Nehoda (Dukla), Reinaldo (Benfica), Kmiecik (Wisla Kraków)
0,56 Martínez (Wiener SK)
0,55 Marguerite (Nîmes), Rocheteau (St-Étienne), Pleimelding (Lille)
0,53 Santillana (Real Madrid), Jacobs (Charleroi), Abramczik (Schalke), Kreuz (VÖEST Linz)
0,51 Jurtin (Sturm Graz)
0,50 Dalglish (Liverpool)
Åtvidaberg ratings 1972
3,79 Ralf Edström
3,55 Kent Karlsson
3,52 Jan Olsson
3,45 Ingvar Svensson
3,43 Benno Magnusson
3,42 Conny Torstensson
3,41 Roland Sandberg
3,36 Lars-Göran "Knalin" Andersson
3,27 Bo Augustsson, Ulf Blomberg
3,25 Veine Wallinder
3,00 Conny Gustafsson
2,83 Leif Franzén
06 November, 2024
Player ratings Real Madrid 1-3 Milan
0-1 12' Malick Thiaw h. (Christian Pulišić), 1-1 23' Vinícius Junior PK, 1-2 39' Álvaro Morata (Rafael Leão), 1-3 73' Tijjani Reijnders (Rafael Leão). Att: 75.561.
Real Madrid: Andriy Lunin 6,40 - Lucas Vázquez 5,00, Eder Militão 5,20, Antonio Rüdiger 5,50, Ferland Mendy 5,50 (74' Fran García 6,00), Jude Bellingham 5,10 (74' Rodrygo 6,00), Federico Valverde 5,20 (46' Brahim Díaz 5,80), Luka Modrić 5,50 (63' Dani Ceballos 5,40), Aurélien Tchouaméni 4,20 (46' Eduardo Camavinga 5,60), Vinícius Junior 5,90, Kylian Mbappé 5,10. - coach: Carlo Ancelotti 5,10. = average: 5,46 [lame]
Milan: Mike Maignan 7,10 - Emerson Royal 5,70 (90'+3 Strahinja Pavlović), Malick Thiaw 6,90, Fikayo Tomori 6,50, Theo Hernández 6,50, Tijjani Reijnders 7,80, Youssouf Fofana 6,70, Yunus Musah 7,10 (90'+3 Davide Calabria), Christian Pulišić 6,90 (70' Ruben Loftus-Cheek 5,80), Rafael Leão 7,70 (77' Noah Okafor), Álvaro Morata 7,40 (70' Tammy Abraham 5,80). - coach: Paulo Fonseca 8,00. = average: 6,76 [top-class]
Today 33 years ago: Kaiserslautern 3-1 Barcelona
1-0 35' Demir Hotić, 2-0 49' Hotić, 3-0 76' Bjarne Goldbæk, 3-1 90' Bakero. Att: 30.200.
Lautern: Gerald Ehrmann 7 - Uwe Scherr 7, Oliver Schäfer 7, Wolfgang Funkel 7, Marco Haber 7, Frank Lelle 6 (87' Markus Kranz), Bjarne Goldbæk 8, Demir Hotić 8, Guido Hoffmann 7, Marcel Witeczek 7, Stefan Kuntz 7. - coach: Karlheinz Feldkamp. = average: 7,09.
Barcelona: Zubizarreta 8 - Cristóbal Parralo 6, Nando 5, Ronald Koeman 6, Eusebio Sacristán 5, Pep Guardiola 6 (78' Nadal), Bakero 9, Richard Witschge 4, Begiristáin 5 (67' Serna), Michael Laudrup 6, Hristo Stoichkov 7. - coach: Johan Cruyff. = average: 6,09.
05 November, 2024
Combined goals/assists table in Europe's five "big" leagues
Today 21 years ago: Monaco 8-3 Deportivo
1-0 3' Rothen, 2-0 11' Giuly, 3-0 26' Pršo, 4-0 29' Pršo, 4-1 40' Tristán, 4-2 45' Scaloni, 5-2 46' Pršo, 6-2 47' Plašil, 7-2 49' Pršo, 7-3 53' Tristán, 8-3 71' E. Cissé. Att: 15.882.
Monaco: Roma 7,50 — Givet 7,25, Squillaci 7,25, Rodriguez 7,25, Evra 7,25 (84' Ibarra) — Plašil 7,50 (66' Zikos 6,50), E. Cissé 7,25, Bernardi 7,50, Rothen 7,50 — Giuly 8,25, Pršo 8,50 (76' Adebayor). — coach: Deschamps. = average: 7,46 [fantabulous]
Deportivo: Molina 4,25 (46' Munúa 4,25) — Manuel Pablo 4,00 (46' Munitis 4,00), Andrade 4,00, Naybet 4,00, Romero 4,00 — Sergio 4,00 (61' Pandiani), Mauro Silva 4,00 — Scaloni 4,50, Valerón 4,00, Amavisca 4,00 — Tristán 5,50. — coach: Irureta. = average: 4,19 [abysmal]
04 November, 2024
Top 25 South American players in Premier League history
Today 21 years ago: Lazio 0-4 Chelsea
0-1 15' Crespo, 0-2 70' Gudjohnsen, 0-3 76' Duff, 0-4 81' Lampard. Sent off: 53' Mihajlovic, 90' Johnson. Att: 48.485.
Lazio: Sereni 4,17 — Zauri 5,17, F. Couto 5,00, Mihajlovic 3,33, Favalli 5,00 — Fiore 6,17 (60' Negro 5,25), Albertini 5,67 (72' Muzzi 5,25), Liverani 5,33, D. Stankovic 6,50 — Corradi 5,33, S. Inzaghi 5,83 (72' C. López). — coach: Mancini. = average: 5,23 [lame]
Chelsea: Cudicini 7,50 — Johnson 6,33, Terry 6,33, Gallas 6,67, Bridge 6,67 — Makelele 7,00 — Lampard 7,50, Duff 7,83, Verón 7,83 (77' A. Cole), Mutu 6,17 (58' Grønkjær 6,17), Crespo 6,50 (68' Gudjohnsen 6,83). — coach: Ranieri. = average: 6,87 [top-class]
03 November, 2024
Allsvenskan top 20 players 2023-24
1958 World Cup: combined goal & assist table
Today 39 years ago: Napoli 1-0 Juventus
1-0 72' Diego Maradona freekick. Att: 81.041.
Napoli: Claudio Garella 6,00 - Moreno Ferrario 6,75, Giuseppe Bruscolotti 6,50, Alessandro Renica 6,50, Antonio Carannante 7,25, Costanzo Celestini 6,75, Eraldo Pecci 7,50 (90' Ruben Buriani), Salvatore Bagni 6,50, Diego Maradona 7,25, Bruno Giordano 5,25 (60' Luigi Caffarelli), Daniel Bertoni 6,75. - coach: Ottavio Bianchi. = average: 6,62 [very good]
Juventus: Stefano Tacconi 6,75 - Luciano Favero 6,25, Stefano Pioli 6,25, Sergio Brio 5,75, Gaetano Scirea 6,50, Antonio Cabrini 6,50, Michael Laudrup 5,00, Massimo Bonini 6,50, Michel Platini 5,25, Massimo Mauro 5,25 (75' Gabriele Pin), Aldo Serena 6,00. - coach: Giovanni Trapattoni. = average: 6,00 [satisfactory]
02 November, 2024
Top 30 French Premier League players
Today 20 years ago: Barcelona 2-1 Milan
Barcelona: Víctor Valdés 6,17 — Belletti 5,83, Puyol 6,83, Oleguer 5,50, van Bronckhorst 5,83 — Xavi 7,33, Rafa Márquez 6,00 (80' H. Larsson), Deco 6,33 — Giuly 5,17 (68' Iniesta 5,83), Ronaldinho 7,33, Eto'o 7,00. = average: 6,26 [good]
Milan: Dida 6,33 — Cafú 6,33, Maldini 5,83, Nesta 6,17, Kaladze 5,83 — Gattuso 5,83, Pirlo 6,17, Ambrosini 5,67, Serginho 5,17 (74' Seedorf) — Kaká 5,33 (77' Rui Costa), Shevchenko 6,67 (88' Tomasson). = average: 5,94 [vulnerable]
01 November, 2024
Scandinavian goalscorers in the European Cups, 1955-1999
Goals scored in Champions League, European Cup, UEFA Cup, Cupwinners' Cup, Intercontinental Cup and Super Cup.
Today eight years ago: Man City 3-1 Barcelona
0-1 21' Lionel Messi l. (Neymar), 1-1 39' İlkay Gündoğan l. (Raheem Sterling), 2-1 51' Kevin De Bruyne freekick, 3-1 74' İlkay Gündoğan r. (Kun Agüero). Att: 53.340.
Man City: Willy Caballero 6,10 - Pablo Zabaleta 6,20, Nicolás Otamendi 5,80, John Stones 6,30, Aleksandar Kolarov 6,20, Fernandinho 6,60 (60' Fernando 5,90), Raheem Sterling 7,00 (71' Jesús Navas 6,10), David Silva 6,90, İlkay Gündoğan 7,50, Kevin De Bruyne 7,20 (88' Nolito), Kun Agüero 6,80. - coach: Pep Guardiola. = average: 6,51 [very good]
Barcelona: Marc-André ter Stegen 5,40 - Sergi Roberto 4,70, Samuel Umtiti 5,50, Javier Mascherano 6,00, Lucas Digne 5,30, Ivan Rakitić 5,40 (61' Arda Turan 5,40), Busquets 5,60, André Gomes 6,00 (76' Rafinha), Luis Suárez 5,50, Lionel Messi 6,70, Neymar 6,40. - coach: Luis Enrique. = average 5,66 [disappointing]
31 October, 2024
UEFA Cup topscorers in the 1980s
Players' market value 44 years ago
Today nine years ago: Chelsea 1-3 Liverpool
1-0 4' Ramires h. (Azpilicueta), 1-1 45' Coutinho l. (Roberto Firmino), 1-2 74' Coutinho r. (Christian Benteke), 1-3 83' Christian Benteke r. (Nathaniel Clyne). Att: 41.577.
Chelsea: Asmir Begović 6,10 - Kurt Zouma 5,10, Gary Cahill 5,00, John Terry 4,70, Azpilicueta 6,00 (76' Radamel Falcao), Ramires 6,00, Oscar 5,80, Eden Hazard 4,40 (59' Kenedy 5,60), John Mikel 5,30 (70' Cesc Fàbregas 5,20), Willian 6,10, Diego Costa 5,30. - coach: José Mourinho. = average: 5,43 [feeble]
Liverpool: Simon Mignolet 6,00 - Nathaniel Clyne 6,40, Mamadou Sakho 6,90, Alberto Moreno 5,60, Martin Škrtel 6,60, James Milner 6,00 (64' Christian Benteke 6,80), Coutinho 7,50, Roberto Firmino 6,10 (76' Jordon Ibe), Adam Lallana 6,70 (90' Dejan Lovren), Lucas Leiva 6,30, Emre Can 6,30. - tr: Jürgen Klopp. = average: 6,43 [strong]