IFFHS WORLD RANKING FOR PLAYERS WITH THE MOST LEAGUE GAMES

• Aug 18, 2022
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Picture : Peter Shilton (848 league matches) was England's Goalkeeper and captain at the World Cup 1986 in Mexico, when Diego Maradona scored "with the Hand of God" !

IFFHS World Ranking for Players with Most League Games

We publish the updated world ranking for players which amassed most games in the national top divisions in the whole history of football.
The Bolivian half-back Joselito Vaca has just advanced to the third position with 767 games, only conceding to two goalkeepers, Rogério Ceni and Peter Shilton. 
The “Club 700+ league games” contains 14 names at the moment; Vaca is the only active player among them. His next aim can be to reach 800 games (what is achieved only by two above mentioned goalies so far); pretty hard because at the age of 40, Vaca rarely gets a game time in his club Blooming now.

	PLAYERS WITH MOST	LEAGUE GAMES
	Player	Country	Period	Games	Leagues
1	Rogério Ceni	Brazil	1992-2015	873	Brazil (577), Paulista (296)
2	Peter Shilton	England	1966-1997	848	England (848)
3	Joselito Vaca	Bolivia	1999-	767	Bolivia (651), USA (99), Colombia (17)
4	Hugo Gatti	Argentina	1962-1988	765	Argentina (765)
	Roberto Dinamite	Brazil	1971-1992	765	Brazil (328), Carioca (429), Spain (8)
6	Oscar Pérez	Mexico	1993-2019	741	Mexico (741)
7	Oswaldo Sánchez	Mexico	1993-2014	725	Mexico (725)
8	Alan Ball Jr.	England	1962-1983	720	England (632), South Africa (4), USA (72), Hongkong (12)
9	Javier Zanetti	Argentina	1992-2014	717	Argentina (99), Italy (618)
	Roberto Carlos	Brazil	1991-2015	717	Brazil (79), Paulista (145), Italy (30), Spain (370), Turkey (65), Russia (25), India (3)
11	John Hollins	England	1963-1984	715	England (714), Republic of Ireland (1)
12	Ray Clemence	England	1965-1988	712	England (710), Australia (2)
13	Pat Jennings	Northern Ireland	1963-1986	709	England (709)
14	Benjamín Galindo	Mexico	1979-2001	700	Mexico (700)