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The record for the most official men's international appearances is currently held by Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal with 212 caps, surpassing Bader Al-Mutawa of Kuwait's previous record total of 196 caps in March 2023.
Sep 6, 2021 · Midfielder Fara Williams is the most-capped player in England history having made 172 appearances during a 18-year career with the women’s national team. Here are the top 20 players by caps...
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Jul 5, 2023 · Over 600 players have reached the 100 cap mark for their respective countries, but some have gone far further. These are the 10 players in World Football with the most caps in International...
Mar 28, 2023 · Cristiano Ronaldo continues to break new ground as the most-capped men's player of all time after making his 198th international appearance.
- =14. Hassan Al-Haidos
- =14. Alexis Sánchez
- Ahmed Fathy
- Diego Godín
- =10. Baihakki Khaizan
- =10. Lionel Messi
- Michael Mifsud
- Michael Bradley
- Amer Shafi
- Andrés Guardado
The first inclusion is this list is Qatar legend Hassan Ali-Haidos, who is still in his 20s – remarkable when you look at his caps count. A one-club man for his nation's best team Al-Sadd, he captains the country he first represented in 2008.
At the age of just 31, few will have expected him to appear this high up on the list. The Inter forward has lost a lot of his craft in recent years, especially in the club game, but for Chile he has been a long-term servant who earned his first cap way back in April 2006. Sánchezis his country's most-capped international of all time, and also leads...
The Middle East rules the world in terms of footballers with a ludicrous number of caps. In at 13 is Egypt's veteran right-back Ahmed Fathy. His 134 caps make him the country's fourth most-capped player in history, still quite a way behind Ahmed Hassan's world record. Sheffield United and Hull City fans may recall his brief stints at their clubs.
A consummate professional and one of the greatest defenders of his generation, Uruguay captain Diego Godín has played 135 times for them since an international debut aged just 19 in 2005. He was a bigger reason than any other as to why Atlético Madrid became such a force in the mid-2010s, and why Uruguay's second golden generation reached the 2010 ...
A true journeyman currently turning out for his 15th club, Baihakki Khaizan has been a stalwart at the back for Singapore for the last 17 years. Another centre-back who debuted for his nation aged 19, he retired from international football in March 2019, but came back later that year to take part in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers. For the love of th...
One of the younger inclusions at just 32, Lionel Messiis arguably the greatest player ever to play the game, and he's so far played it 138 times for the country he has already backtracked on retirement from twice. Some say his international career is what lets him down. It may not be quite as mindblowing as Cristiano Ronaldo's, but you cannot be le...
Born in the small town of Pietà in Malta, 39-year-old striker Michael Mifsud has been the island nation's captain, top scorer and most-capped player for the last decade. A sporting legend in one of the world's smallest countries, Mifsud is a bit like Messi (bear with) in that he has also retired from international football and then returned a numbe...
By no means the best player that the United States has produced, and he would admit that himself, Bradley has mastered the simple but oh so effective facets of being a central midfielder, and he has more than 151 caps for his nation to show for that. He scored under the management of his father at the 2010 World Cup, and he is still going strong on...
Amer Shafi has been Jordan's goalkeeper since 2002. But his talents don't end there. Having just seen his teammate miss a penalty in a friendly against India in 2018, he took the ball to the edge of his area minutes later, and drop-kicked it all the ball over his opposite number's head and in. What a hero.
Mexico has produced some cracking players over the years, but few are as versatile and as talented as 33-year-old Andrés Guardado. He captained the Tricolor at Russia 2018, his fourth World Cup. Guardado is still a fair few appearances off matching Claudio Suárez, Mexico's most-capped player with 177, but he might just catch him one day. He remains...
Lothar Matthäus (Germany) is the most capped football player at the FIFA World Cup, played 25 matches
Jun 15, 2024 · Ronaldo surpassed the European landmark of 180 – set by Spain's Sergio Ramos – in 2021, while his outing against Morocco in the 2022 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals drew him level with Bader...
