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Various international honours caps. In sport, a cap is a player's appearance in a game at international level. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap to every player in an international match of rugby football and association football.
In association football, a cap is traditionally awarded in international football to a player making an official appearance for their national team. This article lists all men's football players who have played in 100 or more official international matches for a national football team according to association football's world governing body FIFA.
Adama Traoré was cap-tied from representing Australia as he had previously represented the Ivory Coast at youth level, prior to becoming an Australian citizen. Cap-tied is an adjective, used primarily in association football, to describe a player who has represented a senior national football team in more than three games (including at least one competitive game) and as a result is unable to ...
The following tables include various statistics for players on the United States men's national soccer team (featuring all caps, goals, assists and goalkeeper wins and shutouts) from the team's first match in 1916 through the January 22, 2025 game against Costa Rica.
The all-time leader in senior caps, Kristine Lilly of the United States, had 354 caps and retired from international football on 6 January 2011. [1] [2] The currently active most-capped women's international football player is Sherida Spitse of the Netherlands, with 237 caps. Three American players, Kristine Lilly, Carli Lloyd and Christie ...
A player doing a keepie-uppie Association football (more commonly known as football or soccer) was first codified in 1863 in England, although games that involved the kicking of a ball were evident considerably earlier. A large number of football-related terms have since emerged to describe various aspects of the sport and its culture. The evolution of the sport has been mirrored by changes in ...
Adrián Beltré will be a first-ballot Hall of Famer. But neither Beltré nor seven other former Dodgers on the ballot would wear an L.A. cap if inducted.
Particularly for the early decades, and until more recently for FAs outside UEFA and CONMEBOL, counts of caps were often considered unreliable. RSSSF and IFFHS have spent much effort trying to produce definitive lists of full international matches, and corresponding data on players' international caps and goals. Using this data, the following ...