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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 ...
This category registers those international men's association football players who have appeared in at least 100 full international matches. This achievement is celebrated by FIFA as documented on the page List of men's footballers with 100 or more international caps .
The world record holder for the highest number of international caps as of 5 November 2010 is retired American player Kristine Lilly, who has 354 caps.In men's association football, the record belongs to Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal; he surpassed Bader Al-Mutawa with his 197th cap on 23 March 2023, before extending his record to 198 caps on 26 March 2023.
As of 18 December 2024, a total of 502 women have played 100 or more international matches for their respective nations. 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 ...
List of women's footballers with 100 or more international caps Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title List of footballers with 100 or more caps .
The top twenty are most likely accurate as no players before the mid-1980s amassed more than twenty or thirty caps. For example, Boris Bandov, the player active before 1980 with the highest number of caps, played 33 times between 1976 and 1983, while Perry Van der Beck played 23 times between 1979 and 1985. With the typical low scores of the ...
In total, he made 70 consecutive full international appearances with 105 in all, scoring three times. He was also the first footballer in the world to earn 100 caps, [7] reaching the landmark in a 1–0 victory over Scotland at Wembley on 11 April 1959. [9] It was more than a decade before his record was broken by another player, Bobby Charlton.
Each player's details include his usual playing position while with the team, the number of caps earned and the years spent playing for England while also playing for a Football League club. For example, Trevor Brooking was capped 47 times, but 12 of those caps were when West Ham United were in the Second Division. The names are initially ...