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Top 30 most appearances, all-time (only Serie A regular-season games) Updated as of 19 September 2024 Players in bold are still active in Serie A. Players in italics are still active outside of Serie A.
This is a list of the top 100 positioned players by number of appearances in Serie A, Italy's top flight football league, during its history starting from the 1929–30 season. This list does not include goals scored during 1944 Campionato Alta Italia and the 1945–46 Serie A-B , held in both rounds.
Serie A, as it is structured today, began during the 1929–30 season.From 1898 to 1922, the competition was organised into regional groups. Because of ever growing teams attending regional championships, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) split the CCI (Italian Football Confederation) in 1921, which founded in Milan the Lega Nord (Northern Football League), ancestor of present-day Lega ...
Most points in a Serie A season: [8] Two points for a win: 60 in 38 games, during the 1950–51 season; ... Most appearances in Serie A: Paolo Maldini, 647;
Most appearances in all competitions (Milan): 902 [26] Second-most Serie A appearances (only Serie A regular-seasons): 647; Most league appearances for Milan (only Serie A regular-seasons): 647; Most league appearances for the same club (Milan) (only Serie A regular-seasons): 647; Most seasons played in Serie A: 25 (shared with Francesco Totti)
Mario Balotelli made his first Serie A appearance in four years when he came on as a late substitute in Genoa's 1-0 win over Parma on Monday and earned a yellow card within five minutes.
Goalkeeper Peter Shilton holds the record for the most competitive appearances. In association football, 51 players have played at least 1,000 official matches at all age levels. Regarding B teams and reserve teams, appearances for such teams are only included if made in the primary football pyramid and not in reserve divisions.
Only seasons with appearances in the senior first team are counted. Manchester United midfielder Ryan Giggs appeared in 963 matches over 24 seasons. Giggs is also one of only two players (alongside James Milner ) to play in 22 successive Premier League seasons, and the only player to score in 21 successive Premier League seasons.