THE MALDINI'S - THE FIRST EVER IN ITALY
Maldini's and other triple dynasties in national teams
Daniel Maldini has debutted for Italy on 14 October in the Nations League game vs Israel (4-1).
With Cesare, Paolo and now also Daniel, Maldini is the first ever family with 3 generations of players (grandfather, father and son) in the history of Italian national team.
22 years 118 days have passed since Paolo Maldini's last match with Italy; 61 years 1 day since Cesare Maldini's last.
Here we list, in chronological order, 13 dynasties in the history of world football which represented men’s national teams in 3 different generations.
The members of a dynasty are marked by index of generation. (1) is given to oldest member (founder of dynasty). The ones with (2) are sons for him, (3) grandsons, (4) great-grandsons.
The letters next to a digit (a,b,c) are used in case of multiple members in a generation (the brothers are marked age-wise alphabetically) or in case to indicate kinship (whose son is a member).
Only direct relationships inside a family are admitted.
The name of a dinasty is conditional (in cases of lacking or not using normal surnames).
| TRIPLE | DYNASTIES | NATIONAL | TEAMS | ||||
| Dynasty | Gen. | Player | Nation | NT Career | Caps | Goals | |
| 1 | Emam | 1 | Yehia Emam | Egypt | 1948–1950 | 5 | |
| 2 | Hamada Emam | Egypt | 1963–1966 | 5 | 2 | ||
| 3 | Hazem Emam | Egypt | 1995–2005 | 87 | 15 | ||
| 2 | Feeney | 1 | Jim Feeney | Northern Ireland | 1946–1949 | 2 | |
| 2 | Warren Feeney I | Northern Ireland | 1976 | 1 | |||
| 3 | Warren Feeney II | Northern Ireland | 2002–2011 | 46 | 5 | ||
| 3 | Mihaylov | 1 | Biser Mihaylov | Bulgaria | 1962–1971 | 5 | |
| 2 | Borislav Mihaylov | Bulgaria | 1983–1998 | 102 | |||
| 3 | Nikolay Mihaylov | Bulgaria | 2006–2022 | 45 | |||
| 4 | Schembri | 1 | Salvinu Schembri | Malta | 1957–1958 | 3 | 1 |
| 2 | Eric Schembri | Malta | 1974–1980 | 5 | |||
| 3 | André Schembri | Malta | 2006–2018 | 94 | 3 | ||
| 5 | Weiss | 1 | Vladimír Weiss I | Czechoslovakia | 1964–1965 | 3 | |
| 2 | Vladimír Weiss II | CS/Slovakia | 1988–1995 | 31 | 2 | ||
| 3 | Vladimír Weiss III | Slovakia | 2009–2022 | 77 | 8 | ||
| 6 | Ahmad | 1 | Ahmad Wartam | Singapore | 1968 | 1 | |
| 2 | Fandi Ahmad | Singapore | 1979–1997 | 101 | 55 | ||
| 3a | Irfan Fandi | Singapore | 2016– | 48 | 2 | ||
| 3b | Ikhsan Fandi | Singapore | 2017– | 38 | 18 | ||
| 3c | Ilhan Fandi | Singapore | 2021– | 15 | 2 | ||
| 7 | Guðmundsson | 1 | Albert Guðmundsson I | Iceland | 1946–1958 | 6 | 2 |
| 2 | Ingi Björn Albertsson | Iceland | 1971–1979 | 15 | 2 | ||
| 4 | Albert Guðmundsson | Iceland | 2017– | 37 | 10 | ||
| 8 | Kluivert | 1 | Kenneth Kluivert | Suriname | 1964–1965 | 3 | 2 |
| 2 | Patrick Kluivert | Netherlands | 1994–2004 | 79 | 40 | ||
| 3 | Justin Kluivert | Netherlands | 2018 | 2 | |||
| 9 | Marcos Alonso | 1 | Marquitos | Spain | 1955–1960 | 2 | |
| 2 | Marcos Alonso I | Spain | 1981–1985 | 22 | 1 | ||
| 3 | Marcos Alonso II | Spain | 2018–2022 | 9 | |||
| 10 | Guðjónsson | 1 | Guðjón Þórðarson | Iceland | 1985 | 1 | |
| 2a | Þórður Guðjónsson | Iceland | 1993–2004 | 58 | 13 | ||
| 2b | Bjarni Guðjónsson | Iceland | 1997–2010 | 23 | 1 | ||
| 2c | Joey Guðjónsson | Iceland | 2001–2007 | 34 | 1 | ||
| 3c | Ísak Bergmann Jóhannesson | Iceland | 2020– | 29 | 3 | ||
| 11 | Berg | 1 | Harald Berg | Norway | 1964–1974 | 43 | 12 |
| 2a | Ørjan Berg | Norway | 1988–2000 | 19 | 1 | ||
| 2b | Runar Berg | Norway | 1994–2003 | 5 | |||
| 3a | Patrick Berg | Norway | 2021– | 29 | |||
| 12 | Guðjohnsen | 1 | Arnór Guðjohnsen | Iceland | 1979–1997 | 73 | 14 |
| 2 | Eiður Guðjohnsen | Iceland | 1996–2016 | 88 | 26 | ||
| 3 | Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen | Iceland | 2021–2023 | 19 | 2 | ||
| 3 | Andri Guðjohnsen | Iceland | 2021– | 28 | 7 | ||
| 13 | Maldini | 1 | Cesare Maldini | Italy | 1960–1963 | 14 | |
| 2 | Paolo Maldini | Italy | 1988–2002 | 126 | 7 | ||
| 3 | Daniel Maldini | Italy | 2024- | 1 |