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.
02 October, 2024
German top 50 all-time players
1. Franz Beckenbauer
2. Gerd Müller
3. Fritz Walter
4. Lothar Matthäus
5. Philipp Lahm
6. Miroslav Klose
7. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
8. Sepp Maier
9. Manuel Neuer
10. Thomas Müller
11. Wolfgang Overath
12. Uwe Seeler
13. Günter Netzer
14. Helmut Rahn
15. Bastian Schweinsteiger
16. Paul Breitner
17. Andreas Brehme
18. Mario Götze
19. Jupp Heynckes
20. Hans Schäfer
21. Horst Eckel
22. Jürgen Klinsmann
23. Toni Kroos
24. Mattias Sammer
25. Fritz Szepan
26. Bernd Schuster
27. Thomas Hässler
28. Helmut Haller
29. Uli Hoeness
30. Max Morlock
31. Oliver Kahn
32. Berti Vogts
33. Rainer Bonhof
34. Oliver Bierhoff
35. Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck
36. Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
37. Paul Janes
38. Rudi Völler
39. Toni Schumacher
40. Jürgen Grabowski
41. Klaus Augenthaler
42. Manfred Kaltz
43. Andreas Möller
44. Mesut Özil
45. Mats Hummels
46. Jürgen Kohler
47. Karl-Heinz Riedle
48. Karlheinz Förster
49. Sami Khedira
50. Hans-Peter Briegel
25 March, 2023
National teams' World Cup scores with key players
w d l goals points avg score
Brazil with Pelé 12 1 1 37-14 89,3% 2,64-1,00
Brazil with Garrincha 10 1 1 30-12 87,5% 2,50-1,00
West Germany with F. Beckenbauer 15 1 2 45-19 86,1% 2,37-1,00
France with Kylian Mbappé 11 2 1 30-14 85,7% 2,09-0,98
West Germany with Gerd Müller 11 0 2 31-14 84,6% 2,27-1,02
Brazil with Didi 11 3 1 38-14 83,3% 2,48-0,91
Brazil with Ronaldo 15 1 3 42-16 81,6% 2,17-0,83
Germany with Philipp Lahm 15 2 3 45-13 80,0% 2,11-0,61
Brazil with Sócrates 7 2 1 25-7 80,0% 2,42-0,68
Holland with Arjen Robben 11 2 2 27-12 80,0% 1,69-0,75
Italy with Franco Baresi 7 2 1 11-3 80,0% 1,03-0,28
Brazil with Roberto Carlos 13 1 3 33-13 79,4% 1,90-0,75
Brazil with Zico 9 4 1 31-9 78,6% 2,16-0,63
Holland with Johan Cruyff 5 1 1 15-3 78,6% 2,14-0,43
Italy with Roberto Baggio 10 5 1 23-10 78,1% 1,33-0,58
Germany with Miroslav Klose 17 3 4 52-15 77,1% 2,08-0,60
Brazil with Neymar 8 4 1 25-9 76,9% 1,83-0,66
Spain with Xavi 11 1 3 24-14 76,7% 1,53-0,89
Colombia with James Rodríguez 6 0 2 17-6 75,0% 2,12-0,75
Italy with Paolo Rossi 9 3 2 21-12 75,0% 1,50-0,86
France with Zinédine Zidane 7 4 1 19-6 75,0% 1,50-0,47
Italy with Alessandro Del Piero 7 4 1 17-6 75,0% 1,28-0,45
Italy with Paolo Maldini 14 6 3 31-15 73,9% 1,26-0,61
West Germany with Berti Vogts 12 4 3 40-19 73,7% 2,03-0,97
Belgium with Kevin De Bruyne 9 1 3 21-11 73,1% 1,58-0,82
Poland with Kazimierz Deyna 9 1 3 22-11 73,1% 1,69-0,85
Spain with Raúl 7 2 2 27-13 72,7% 2,38-1,15
USSR with Albert Shesternev 6 1 2 15-6 72,2% 1,61-0,64
Germany with Lothar Matthäus 15 6 4 43-26 72,0% 1,68-1,01
Uruguay with Luis Suárez 10 3 3 21-11 71,9% 1,29-0,67
West Germany with Uwe Seeler 13 4 4 45-26 71,4% 2,05-1,18
West Germany with Paul Breitner 9 2 3 25-14 71,4% 1,74-0,98
Argentina with Leo Messi 16 5 5 47-28 71,2% 1,68-1,00
France with Thierry Henry 9 6 2 22-8 70,6% 1,22-0,44
Poland with Grzegorz Lato 12 4 4 33-16 70,0% 1,65-0,80
Brazil with Jairzinho 10 2 4 29-17 68,8% 1,81-1,06
Italy with Francesco Totti 6 3 2 17-7 68,2% 1,42-0,58
Spain with Andrés Iniesta 8 3 3 18-15 67,9% 1,23-1,02
Holland with Ruud Krol 8 3 3 30-13 67,9% 2,09-0,91
Argentina with Diego Maradona 12 4 5 33-17 66,7% 1,52-0,78
Spain with Emilio Butragueño 5 2 2 17-8 66,7% 1,76-0,83
Sweden with "Nacka" Skoglund 5 2 2 18-18 66,7% 2,00-2,00
England with David Beckham 6 5 2 17-9 65,4% 1,24-0,66
England with Bobby Charlton/Moore 8 2 4 20-13 64,3% 1,36-0,89
England with Terry Butcher 6 6 2 18-8 64,3% 1,20-0,53
England with Harry Kane 6 2 3 25-11 63,6% 2,14-0,94
Italy with Andrea Pirlo 6 2 3 16-8 63,6% 1,37-0,69
Argentina with Daniel Passarella 7 1 4 23-11 62,5% 1,86-0,89
France with Jean Tigana 6 3 3 23-16 62,5% 1,77-1,23
Denmark with Michael Laudrup 5 1 3 19-13 61,1% 2,11-1,44
Poland with Zbigniew Boniek 7 5 4 18-16 59,4% 1,12-1,00
Croatia with Luka Modrić 7 8 4 30-14 57,9% 1,45-1,16
Argentina with Gabriel Batistuta 6 2 4 20-12 58,3% 1,62-0,97
England with Gary Lineker 5 4 3 15-9 58,3% 1,15-0,69
Belgium with Eric Gerets 6 2 4 18-16 58,3% 1,35-1,20
France with Michel Platini 6 4 4 26-18 57,1% 1,77-1,23
Hungary with Flórián Albert 4 0 3 16-10 57,1% 2,29-1,43
Hungary with József Bozsik 4 1 3 30-15 56,2% 3,75-1,88
Scotland with Kenny Dalglish 3 3 2 14-13 56,2% 1,75-1,62
West Germany with K-H Rummenigge 7 7 5 30-22 55,3% 1,53-1,12
Portugal with Cristiano Ronaldo 9 6 7 34-24 54,5% 1,52-1,07
Mexico with Cuauhtémoc Blanco 4 4 3 15-13 54,5% 1,36-1,18
Italy with Giacinto Facchetti 5 3 4 17-14 54,2% 1,38-1,14
Argentina with Mario Kempes 8 3 7 32-23 52,8% 1,75-1,25
Mexico with Rafa Márquez 8 4 7 21-20 52,6% 1,09-1,03
Holland with Ronald Koeman 3 3 3 11-10 50,0% 1,22-1,11
England with Wayne Rooney 3 5 3 10-11 50,0% 0,88-0,97
Portugal with Pepe 4 3 5 17-16 45,8% 1,42-1,33
Sweden with Tomas Brolin 3 3 4 18-14 45,0% 1,74-1,35
Cameroon with Roger Milla 3 3 4 9-19 45,0% 0,84-1,78
Peru with Teófilo Cubillas 4 3 6 18-27 42,3% 1,38-2,08
Ghana with Asamoah Gyan 3 3 5 11-15 40,9% 0,94-1,29
Sweden with Björn Nordqvist 3 2 5 9-10 40,0% 0,90-1,00
Sweden with Zlatan Ibrahimović 1 2 2 3-5 40,0% 0,60-1,00
Sweden with Ralf Edström 2 3 4 8-9 38,9% 0,89-1,00
Uruguay with Luis Cubilla 3 1 5 7-12 38,9% 0,75-1,29
Sweden with Bo Larsson 2 4 5 8-10 36,4% 0,73-0,91
Colombia with Carlos Valderrama 3 1 6 9-12 35,0% 0,84-1,12
Ivory Coast with Didier Drogba 2 1 5 10-12 31,2% 1,25-1,50
Chile with Elías Figueroa 0 3 6 6-15 16,7% 0,67-1,67
10 February, 2014
Player ratings Lazio 0, Roma 0.
Lazio: Etrit Berisha 6,20 - André Dias 6,30, Giuseppe Biava 6,10, Stefan Radu 5,80, Abdoulay Konko 5,70, Álvaro González 5,70 (78' Ogenyi Onazi), Senad Lulić 5,80, Cristian Ledesma 6,60, Antonio Candreva 6,00, Miroslav Klose 5,20, Baldé Diao Keita 5,40 (46' Stefano Mauri 5,20). - coach: Edoardo Reja 6,00. = average: 5,83 [mediocre]
Roma: Morgan De Sanctis 6,10 - Leandro Castán 6,20, Maicon 6,60, Mehdi Benatia 6,50, Vasilios Torosidis 6,10, Kevin Strootman 6,20, Miralem Pjanić 6,00 (78' Adem Ljajić), Daniele De Rossi 6,10, Alessandro Florenzi 5,40 (65' Michel Bastos 6,00), Francesco Totti 5,90 (81' Mattia Destro), Gervinho 5,80. - coach: Rudi Garcia 6,00. = average: 6,08 [satisfactory]
09 March, 2013
Memory Lane: goalscorers in the 2012 Euro.
12: Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Holland)
10: Miroslav Klose (Germany), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)
9: Mario Gómez (Germany)
7: David Villa (Spain), Antonio Cassano (Italy), Alan Dzagoev (Russia), Zlatan Ibrahimović (Sweden), Robin van Persie (Holland), Robbie Keane (Ireland), Mikael Forssell (Finland)
6: David Silva (Spain), Mesut Özil (Germany), Mario Mandžukić (Croatia), Dirk Kuyt (Holland), Rudolf Gergely (Hungary), Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Armenia)
5: Fernando Torres (Spain), Roman Pavlyuchenko (Russia), Nani & Hélder Postiga (Portugal), Nicklas Bendtner (Denmark), Marvin Ogunjimi (Belgium), Gevorg Ghazaryan (Armenia), Konstantin Vassiljev (Estonia), Tim Matavž (Slovenia), Adrian Mutu (Romania)
4: Lukas Podolski (Germany), Wayne Rooney (England), Michal Kadlec (Czech Republic), Michael Krohn-Dehli (Denmark), Sebastian Larsson (Sweden), Marko Arnautović (Austria), Arda Turan (Turkey), Niko Kranjčar (Croatia), Yossi Benayoun (Israel), Aleksandrs Cauņa (Latvia), Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland), Kasper Hämäläinen (Finland), Ádám Szalai (Hungary), Alexandr Suvorov (Moldova), Edin Džeko & Zvjezdan Misimović (Bosnia), Yura Movsisyan & Marcos Pizzelli (Armenia).
08 March, 2013
Memory Lane: 2006 World Cup.
7,18 F. Cannavaro (Italy)
7,04 Buffon (Italy)
6,93 Klose (Germany)
6,90 Vieira (France), Maxi Rodríguez (Argentina)
6,85 Riquelme (Argentina)
6,81 Materazzi & Gattuso (Italy)
6,79 Zidane (France)
6,75 Pirlo (Italy), Lahm (Germany), Kingson (Ghana)
6,70 Ballack (Germany)
6,67 Lehmann (Germany)
6,62 Tévez (Argentina), Van der Sar (Holland), Viduka (Australia)
6,61 Ricardo (Portugal)
6,60 Ayala (Argentina)
6,57 Makelele (France)
6,56 Figo (Portugal), Crespo (Argentina), Appiah (Ghana), Cahill (Australia)
6,51 Gerrard (England)
6,50 Van Persie (Holland), Zuberbühler (Switzerland), Zambrotta (Italy), Rafa Márquez (Mexico)
6,45 Abbondanzieri (Argentina), Juan (Brazil)
6,44 Sorín (Argentina)
6,43 Henry (France)
6,40 Dida & Lúcio (Brazil)
6,39 Schweinsteiger (Germany)
6,36 Thuram & Sagnol (France)
6,35 Shevchenko (Ukraine)
6,32 Ribéry (France), Schneider (Germany)
6,31 Valencia (Ecuador)
6,30 Grosso (Italy)
06 March, 2013
Memory Lane: European goalscorers in the 2002 World Cup.
11: Henrik Larsson (Sweden), Pauleta (Portugal)
10: Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine), Marc Wilmots (Belgium)
9: Ebbe Sand (Denmark), Emmanuel Olisadebe (Poland)
8: Michael Ballack (Germany), Michael Owen (England), Vladimir Beschastnykh (Russia), Jon Dahl Tomasson (Denmark)
7: Miroslav Klose (Germany), Raúl (Spain), Nuno Gomes (Portugal), Kubilay Türkyilmaz (Switzerland), Savo Milošević (Yugoslavia), Filippo Inzaghi (Italy)
6: Hakan Şükür (Turkey), Michalis Konstantinou (Cyprus), Ruud van Nistelrooy (Holland), Luís Figo (Portugal), Alessandro Del Piero (Italy)
5: Fernando Hierro & Fernando Morientes (Spain), Alexander Frei (Switzerland), Mateja Kežman (Yugoslavia), Patrick Kluivert (Holland), Marcus Allbäck (Sweden), Dimitar Berbatov (Bulgaria), Pavel Nedvěd (Czech Republic), Raman Vasilyuk (Belarus), John Carew (Norway), Radosław Kałużny (Poland), Bosko Balaban (Croatia)
4: Sérgio Conceição (Portugal), Christian Vieri (Italy), Aleksandr Iashvili (Georgia), Zlatko Zahovič (Slovenia), Yegor Titov (Russia), David Healy ( Northern Ireland), Dennis Rommedahl (Denmark), Anders Svensson (Sweden), John Hartson (Wales), Marcin Żewłakow (Poland), Andreas Herzog (Austria), Gaizka Mendieta (Spain), Mikael Forssell (Finland), David Beckham (England), Roy Keane & Robbie Keane (Ireland)
25 January, 2013
Average ratings Lazio 2012/13.
6,35 Ledesma
6,29 Klose
6,20 Radu
6,18 Hernanes
6,15 Candreva
6,12 Mauri
6,09 Konko
6,08 Biava
6,07 Floccari
6,06 Álvaro González
5,90 Bizzarri
5,86 Cana, Lulic
5,75 Brocchi
5,73 Cavanda
5,36 Ciani
5,00 Kozák
27 September, 2012
World Cup: all time top scorers.
14 goals:
Ronaldo (Brazil), Miroslav Klose & Gerd Müller (Germany)
13 goals:
Just Fontaine (France)
12 goals:
Pelé (Brazil)
11 goals:
Jürgen Klinsmann (Germany), Sándor Kocsis (Hungary)
10 goals:
Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina), Gary Lineker (England), Helmut Rahn (Germany), Teófilo Cubillas (Peru), Grzegorz Lato (Poland)
9 goals:
Ademir, Jairzinho & Vavá (Brazil), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge & Uwe Seeler (Germany), Roberto Baggio, Paolo Rossi & Christian Vieri (Italy), Eusébio (Portugal)
8 goals:
Diego Maradona & Guillermo Stábile (Argentina), Leônidas & Rivaldo (Brazil), Rudi Völler (Germany), David Villa (Spain), Oscar Míguez (Uruguay)
7 goals:
Careca (Brazil), Oldřich Nejedlý (Czechoslovakia), Hans Schäfer (Germany), Lajos Tichy (Hungary), Johnny Rep (Holland), Andrzej Szarmach (Poland)
6 goals:
Mario Kempes (Argentina), Erich Probst (Austria), Bebeto & Rivelino (Brazil), Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria), Davor Šuker (Croatia), Thierry Henry (France), Helmut Haller, Lothar Matthäus & Max Morlock (Germany), György Sárosi & Gyula Zsengellér (Hungary), Salvatore Schillaci (Italy), Dennis Bergkamp & Rob Rensenbrink (Holland), Zbigniew Boniek (Poland), Oleg Salenko (Russia), Josef Hügi (Switzerland), Diego Forlán (Uruguay)
5 goals:
Hans Krankl (Austria), Marc Wilmots (Belgium), Garrincha, Romário & Zico (Brazil), Roger Milla (Cameroon), Tomáš Skuhravý (Czechoslovakia), Jon Dahl Tomasson (Denmark), Geoff Hurst (England), Michel Platini & Zinédine Zidane (France), Franz Beckenbauer, Thomas Müller & Lukas Podolski (Germany), Alessandro Altobelli & Silvio Piola (Italy), Johan Neeskens & Wesley Sneijder (Holland), Peter McParland (Northern Ireland), Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union), Estanislao Basora, Emilio Butragueño, Raúl González, Fernando Hierro & Fernando Morientes (Spain), Kennet Andersson & Henrik Larsson (Sweden), Landon Donovan (USA), Pedro Cea & Juan Alberto Schiaffino (Uruguay), Dražan Jerković (Yugoslavia).
08 September, 2012
Goals in the national team.
54 Robbie Keane
52 Villa
48 Shevchenko
44 Podolski
41 Baros
37 Cristiano Ronaldo
34 Mutu
33 Ibrahimović, Forlán, Ronaldinho
32 Huntelaar
31 Fernando Torres
30 Van Persie
29 Rooney
28 Messi, Luis Suárez
27 Kaká
26 Robinho, Forssell
25 Lampard
24 Sneijder, Džeko, Gekas, Kuyt, Gudjohnsen
22 Misimović, Tuncay, Maldonado
21 Suazo
20 Bendtner, Rosický, Hélder Postiga, Žigić
19 Van der Vaart, Gerrard, Arango, Paolo Guerrero
18 Silva
17 Robben, Arshavin, Bogdani, Defoe, E. Méndez
15 D. Stanković, Agüero, Benzema, Lewandowski
Average goals per appearance
0,627 Villa
0,561 Huntelaar
0,525 Klose
0,519 Higuaín, Luis Suárez
0,511 Džeko
0,466 Mutu
0,452 Paolo Guerrero
0,450 Alexandre Pato
0,446 Robbie Keane
0,441 Baros
0,436 Podolski
0,435 Van Persie
0,432 Shevchenko
0,429 Neymar
0,420 Suazo
0,414 Vučinić
0,407 Ibrahimović
0,405 Agüero
0,391 Nilmar
0,389 Messi
0,385 Bendtner
0,382 Rooney
0,381 Cristiano Ronaldo
0,377 Hélder Postiga
0,371 Forlán
0,370 Janko
0,353 Gudjohnsen
0,351 Žigić, Ronaldinho
0,344 Maldonado
0,340 Defoe
0,333 Dzagoev, Lewandowski
0,329 Kaká
0,323 Marcelo Moreno
0,321 Forssell
0,319 Misimović
0,316 Falcao
0,310 Fenando Torres
0,303 T. Müller
0,294 Benzema
0,292 Alexis Sánchez
0,289 Robinho
0,286 Cassano
0,283 Robben
0,279 Maxi Rodríguez
0,276 Sneijder
0,275 Özil, Tuncay
0,273 Silva
0,272 Gerrard
13 June, 2012
Goal scorers in World Cups and Euros, 2000-2012.
In bold text, players who have scored in the Euro 2012.
16: Klose
12: Villa
9: Henry
8: Podolski, Zidane, Tomasson
7: H. Larsson, Sneijder
6: Ballack, Van Nistelrooy
5: Raúl, Fernando Torres, T. Müller, Milosevic, Baroš, Koller, Kluivert, Ibrahimovic
4: Shevchenko, Wilmots, Schweinsteiger, Nuno Gomes, Maniche, Pauleta, Owen, Rooney, Gerrard, Vieri, Vittek, Charisteas, Pavlyuchenko
3: Morientes, Mendieta, Hakan Şükür, Semih Şentürk, Ilhan Mansiz, Trezeguet, Sérgio Conceição, Rui Costa, Šmicer, Lampard, F. Inzaghi, Totti, Del Piero, Van Persie, Robbie Keane, Robben
2: Fàbregas, Rommedahl, Bosacki, Frings, Neuville, Djorkaeff, Wiltord, Vieira, Hélder Postiga, Deco, Raul Meireles, Heinz, Scholes, Shearer, Beckham, Cassano, Pirlo, Materazzi, Toni, F. de Boer, Overmars, Zenden, Huntelaar, Kuyt, Van Bronckhorst, Hasan Şaş, Ümit Davala, Arda Turan, Nihat Kahveci, N. Kovač, Klasnić, Srna, Mandžukić, Dzagoev.








