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.
25 December, 2023
Top rated Bundesliga players 1989/90
7,47 Rüdiger Vollborn (Bayer Leverkusen)
7,46 Guido Buchwald (Stuttgart)
7,43 Gerry Ehrmann (Kaiserslautern)
7,38 Manfred Binz (Eintracht Frankfurt), Uwe Kamps (Borussia M'gladbach), Pierre Littbarski (Köln)
7,37 Thomas Kempe (Bochum)
7,35 Richard Golz (Hamburger SV)
7,34 Rune Bratseth (Werder Bremen)
7,32 Heinz Gründel (Eintracht Frankfurt)
7,30 Ralf Falkenmayer (Eintracht Frankfurt), Eike Immel (Stuttgart)
7,29 Thomas Häßler (Köln), Andreas Wessels (Bochum)
03 February, 2023
West Germany ratings in the Euro 1988
Ratings: Guerin Sportivo - El Mundo Deportivo.6,76 Lothar Matthäus
6,42 Jürgen Klinsmann
6,35 Eike Immel
6,26 Wolfgang Rolff
6,23 Pierre Littbarski
6,17 Andreas Brehme, Rudi Völler
6,09 Jürgen Kohler
5,81 Uli Borowka
5,75 Olaf Thon
5,59 Matthias Herget
02 February, 2023
1982 World Cup: average ratings in the 1st stage
Ratings: El Gráfico.
8,33 Osvaldo Ardiles (Arg)
8,00 Rinat Dasaev (URS)
7,67 Américo Gallego (Arg)
7,33 Pierre Littbarski (BRD), Ferenc Mészáros (Hun), Oleg Blokhin (URS)
7,00 Luizinho, Sócrates, Toninho Cerezo (Bra), Diego Maradona (Arg), Alain Giresse (Fra), Friedl Koncilia (Aut), Walter Meeuws (Bel)
03 January, 2023
West Germany ratings in the 1990 World Cup
Ratings: Guerin Sportivo - France Football - La Repubblica - El Mundo Deportivo.
6,78 Andreas Brehme
6,68 Lothar Matthäus
6,45 Pierre Littbarski
6,42 Jürgen Kohler
6,28 Uwe Bein, Jürgen Klinsmann
6,25 Stefan Reuter
6,20 Guido Buchwald
6,19 Thomas Häßler
6,15 Thomas Berthold
6,11 Bodo Illgner
6,01 Klaus Augenthaler
5,99 Rudi Völler*
5,50 Karl-Heinz Riedle
*) got a 3,50 mark after spitting at Frank Rijkaard and being sent off in the quarterfinal. Average rating in the other matches was 6,48.
31 October, 2020
West Germany ratings in the 1990 World Cup
Ratings: Guerin Sportivo - France Football - La Repubblica - El Mundo Deportivo.
6,78 Andreas Brehme
6,68 Lothar Matthäus
6,45 Pierre Littbarski
6,42 Jürgen Kohler
6,28 Uwe Bein, Jürgen Klinsmann
6,25 Stefan Reuter
6,20 Guido Buchwald
6,19 Thomas Häßler
6,15 Thomas Berthold
6,11 Bodo Illgner
6,01 Klaus Augenthaler
5,99 Rudi Völler*
5,50 Karl-Heinz Riedle
*) got a 3,50 mark after spitting at Frank Rijkaard and being sent off in the quarterfinal. Average rating in the other matches was 6,48.
15 October, 2020
West Germany: average ratings in the Euro 1988
Ratings: Guerin Sportivo - El Mundo Deportivo.
6,76 Lothar Matthäus
6,42 Jürgen Klinsmann
6,35 Eike Immel
6,26 Wolfgang Rolff
6,23 Pierre Littbarski
6,17 Andreas Brehme, Rudi Völler
6,09 Jürgen Kohler
5,81 Uli Borowka
5,75 Olaf Thon
5,59 Matthias Herget
12 October, 2020
1982 World Cup: average ratings in the 1st stage
Ratings: El Gráfico.
8,33 Ardiles (Arg)
8,00 Dasaev (URS)
7,67 Gallego (Arg)
7,33 Littbarski (BRD), Meszaros (Hun), Blokhin (URS)
7,00 Luizinho, Sócrates, Toninho Cerezo (Bra), Maradona (Arg), Giresse (Fra), Koncilia (Aut), Meeuws (Bel)
04 March, 2013
Memory Lane: topscorers 1980-81 World Cup qualifiers Europe.
7: Fischer (West Germany), Zlatko Vujović (Yugoslavia)
6: Arnesen (Denmark)
5: Kaltz (West Germany), Platini (France), Vandenbergh (Belgium), Blokhin (Soviet Union), Smolarek (Poland), Kouis (Greece)
4: Slavkov (Bulgaria), Welzl (Austria), Ceulemans (Belgium), Shengelia (Soviet Union)
3: Schachner & Krankl (Austria), Littbarski (West Germany), Daley, Robinson & Stapleton (Ireland), Lacombe & Six (France), Andreyev (Soviet Union), Walsh (Wales), Nehoda & Kozák (Czechoslovakia), McDermott & Mariner (England), Fazekas & L. Kiss (Hungary), Sulser (Switzerland), J. Robertson (Scotland), Jordão (Portugal), Tabak (Israel), Streich (GDR), Halilhodžić (Yugoslavia), Elkjær (Denmark), Graziani (Italy)
2: Kostadinov (Bulgaria), Jara & Prohaska (Austria), Schuster & Breitner (West Germany), Lawrenson & Grealish (Ireland), A. Mühren & Van Kooten (Holland), Larios, Zimako & Soler (France), Sigurvinsson (Iceland), Gavrilov & Oganesian (Soviet Union), Giles, Flynn & L. James (Wales), Janecka & Vízek (Czechoslovakia), Woodcock & Brooking (England), Iordanescu (Romania), Hareide & Thoresen (Norway), Nyilasi & Balint (Hungary), Barberis (Switzerland), Humberto Coelho & Manuel Fernandes (Portugal), G. Armstrong (Northern Ireland), Damti (Israel), Schnuphase (GDR), Petrovic, Pantelic & Šurjak (Yugoslavia), Collovati, Bettega & Conti (Italy), Kostikos & Mavros (Greece)
In bold text: players scoring at least three goals in the 1982 World Cup.
19 May, 2012
Memory Lane: assist leaders in World Cups 1982-2010.
1982
5: Pierre Littbarski (West Germany)
4: Zico (Brazil)
3: Zbigniew Boniek (Polen), Giancarlo Antognoni & Bruno Conti (Italy), Alain Giresse & Jean Tigana (France), Grzegorz Lato (Polen), Gordon Strachan (Skottland), Jozsef Tóth (Ungern)
2: Andrzej Buncol & Janusz Kupcewicz (Polen), Didier Six (France), Leandro & Júnior I (Brazil), Felix Magath & Horst Hrubesch (West Germany), Michel Platini (France), Juri Gavrilov (Soviet Union), Laszlo Fazekas & Gabor Pölöskei (Ungern).
1986
5: Diego Maradona (Argentina)
4: Dominique Rocheteau (France), Igor Belanov (Soviet Union)
3: Stephane Demol (Belgium)
2: Jorge Burruchaga (Argentina), Frank Vercauteren, Eric Gerets & Jan Ceulemans (Belgium), Careca & Müller (Brazil), Frank Arnesen, Preben Elkjær & Michael Laudrup (Denmark), Steve Hodge (England), Klaus Allofs (West Germany), Antonio Di Gennaro (Italy), Manuel Negrete (Mexico), Aleksandr Zavarov (Soviet Union), Eloy (Spain).
1990
3: Andreas Brehme (Germany), Jozef Chovanec & Ľubomír Moravčík (Tjeckoslovakien)
2: Diego Maradona & Julio Olarticoechea (Argentina), Carlos Valderrama (Colombia), Paul Gascoigne (England), Guido Buchwald, Pierre Littbarski & Stefan Reuter (Germany), Roberto Donadoni, Giuseppe Giannini & Gianluca Vialli (Italy), Ioan Ovidiu Sabau (Romania), Stefan Schwarz (Sweden), Safet Sušić (Yugoslavia).
1994
5: Thomas Hässler (Germany)
4: Tomas Brolin (Sweden), Gheorghe Hagi (Romania)
3: Sergi (Spain)
2: Jorginho, Bebeto & Romário (Brazil), Roberto Donadoni, Demetrio Albertini & Giuseppe Signori (Italy), Kenneth Andersson & Jonas Thern (Sweden), Zlatko Jankov (Bulgaria), Ilie Dumitrescu (Romania), Marc Overmars (Holland), Carlos Hermosillo (Mexico), Rashidi Yekini & Finidi George (Nigeria), Omari Tetradze (Russia).
1998
3: Juan Sebastián Verón (Argentina), Ronaldo (Brazil), Brian Laudrup (Denmark), Youri Djorkaeff (France), Tahar El-Khalej (Morocco), Dennis Bergkamp (Holland)
2: Ariel Ortega (Argentina), Bebeto, Denilson, Dunga & Rivaldo (Brazil), Aljoša Asanović, Zvonimir Boban, Robert Jarni & Mario Stanić (Croatia), Michael Laudrup (Denmark), Oliver Bierhoff (Germany), Roberto Baggio (Italy), Cuaúhtemoc Blanco & Ramón Ramìrez (Mexico), Frank de Boer, Ronald de Boer & Wim Jonk (Holland), Gheorghe Hagi (Romania), Fernando Hierro (Spain).
2002
4: Michael Ballack (Germany)
3: Ronaldinho Gaúcho (Brazil), David Beckham (England), Bernd Schneider & Christian Ziege (Germany), Francisco De Pedro (Spain), Hasan Şaş (Turkey)
2: Eric Van Meir (Belgium), Kléberson, Júnior II & Rivaldo (Brazil), Steven Bryce (Costa Rica), Jesper Grønkjaer (Denmark), Francesco Totti (Italy), Atsushi Yanagisawa (Japan), Francisco Javier Arce (Paraguay), Henri Camara (Senegal), Lee Eul-Young & Lee Young-Pyo (South Korea), Hakan Şükür (Turkey).
2006
4: Francesco Totti (Italy)
3: Juan Román Riquelme (Argentina), Luis Figo (Portugal), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany), Andrea Pirlo (Italy)
2: Patrick Vieira (France), Javier Saviola (Argentina), John Aloisi (Australia), David Beckham (England), Maksim Kalinichenko (Ukraine), Cafu (Brazil), Edison Méndez (Ecuador).
2010
3: Dirk Kuyt (Holland), Kaká (Brazil), Mesut Özil, Bastian Schweinsteiger & Thomas Müller (Germany)
2: Walter Gargano & Luis Suárez (Uruguay), Ki Sung-Yong (South Korea), Arthur Boka (Côte d'Ivoire), Robin van Persie (Holland), Xavi (Spain), Lukas Podolski (Germany).





