List of footballers with 100 or more caps

The list of football players with at least 100 caps ( also called hundreds of club or club of hundreds) lists all male football players who have played 100 or more A- international matches for a football team, according to the world football governing body FIFA, to (as of March 5, 2014 ). At the moment 295 football players from 77 federations are each of rank, nationality, the Continental Association, the position on the field, the number of matches and the period in which he has completed the games, as well as the date and the opponent of the 100th international match called.

Most-capped player is the Egyptian Ahmed Hassan, his 179th of now 184 internationals made ​​on 27 February 2012, ad -Da ʿ ayya ʿ and Mexican defender Claudio Suarez, the 178 and 177 recognized by FIFA Games disputed before the Saudi Arabian goalkeeper Mohammad have.

The English footballer Billy Wright was the first footballer ever, who brought it in 1959 to 100 international matches, including 32 in the British Home Championship. The second player who came on 100 caps, Norwegian Thor Bjørn Svenssen denied many (40 ) of his 100 games, a swept yearly local football tournament, the Nordic championships. Until the late 1970s there were only seven players, six of them from Europe and Cha Bum -kun from South Korea. In the late 1980s, there were 14, of which 11 Europeans. Thereafter, the number of games has increased also by the decay of the Soviet bloc, by which the number of UEFA members increased greatly. Thus participated in the qualification for the European Championship 1988 part 32 teams to qualify for the European Championship in 2008 there were already 50 In Africa, Asia and Oceania, the number of FIFA members. The qualifying for the World Cup 1990 took part 110 associations for the Football World Cup 2014 202 teams have reported. So the number of performed worldwide internationals of 387 increased in 1987 up to 1064 in 2004. Likewise, the number of players used in particular in test matches to where here in February 2004, FIFA has again regulates the maximum number of substitutions, as that now only a maximum of six substitutes per team are possible. There are also tactical substitutions in the last minutes of the game, leading to missions of a few minutes, but are counted as an international match. Therefore, direct comparison of statistics from different eras with regard to these changing conditions is to relativize.

Until October 9, 1977, there were never more than one active players with at least 100 games. 2012 were 65 players used, which had played at least 100 matches. Youngest player in his 100th international match was the South Korean Cha Bum -kun with 24 years and 140 days. Youngest player a European national team, Sergio Ramos, who played his 100th game for the Spanish national football team at the age of 26 years and 357 days on March 22, 2013. Oldest player was the Ecuadorian Luis Capurro, who was old in his 100th and final international game 41 years and 284 days.

Iker Casillas is currently the only player to reach 100 international match victories.

The New Zealand Association lists more the players Steve Sumner at 105 and Brian Turner with 102 international appearances, much of it is not recognized by FIFA as official international games as they took place against club teams or regional teams from New Zealand.

UEFA awarded as part of the European Championship qualifier 7 October 2011 memory caps and medals to players who have played at least 100 matches. In the list of honored players and players to be named, where the FIFA will recognize not all games as 'A' matches.

Hundreds Club

Explanations

• Players: Still in their national teams active players are highlighted in bold. Last but not used players in italics. (* The player was also at times world record holder. When sorting Icelandic players by first name, Brazilian, Portuguese and Spanish players are sorted according to the Spitz or name (if common ) and Chinese and Korean players after the preceding family name. )
• Country: With record internationals, the country is highlighted in bold.
• 100th game: Denotes the date of the 100th game with a link to more information about the game (if any) - Recent Additions: Philipp Lahm and Clint Dempsey on September 6, 2013, Frank Lampard and Māris Verpakovskis on September 10, 2013, Michael Mifsud on October 11, 2013, Bastian Schweinsteiger on October 15, 2013, Mohamed Abo Treka and Enar Jääger on 19 November 2013 and Server Jeparov and Andrés Guardado on March 5, 2014
• Opponents: Call the opponent in the 100th game and possibly the occasion when it was a tournament game.
• Associations: AFC: Asian Football Confederation ( German: Asian Football Confederation )
• CAF: Confederation of African Football ( German: African Football Confederation )
• CONMEBOL: Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol - ( German: South American Football Confederation )
• CONCACAF: Confederation of North and Central American and Caribbean Association Football - ( German: Confederation of North and Central American and Caribbean Association Football )
• UEFA: Union des Associations Européennes de Football - ( German: Association of European Football Associations )

Rankings

* Several possible for one player.

Former members

The following list of ten players are listed, which are performed at the FIFA no longer with more than 100 international matches. According to FIFA's rule from 1999 discharged as part of the Olympic football tournament games will no longer be credited after 1948 as 'A' matches. From this scheme introduced particularly Eastern European national teams are concerned, that dominated the action at the Olympics, especially with their state amateurs. Due to the deletion of these matches slipped out several players from the club of hundreds that were listed there until 1999. However, these are reported in the literature, depending on the inclusion of games at the Olympics, with more than 100 international matches. Even the German Football Association leads, for example, in his record list Joachim Streich and Hans -Jürgen Dörner with 102 and 100 caps, although these are performed at the FIFA with less than 100 internationals.

Special Anniversary Games

Some players denied her 100th international game in major international tournaments games:

• Fabio Cannavaro: 2006 World Cup final against France
• Franz Beckenbauer: European Championship final in 1976 against Czechoslovakia
• Cláudio Taffarel: World Cup 1998 semi-final against the Netherlands
• Didier Deschamps: EM- 2000 semi-final against Portugal
• Javier Zanetti: Confed Cup semi-final in 2005 against Mexico
• Ramón Ramírez: Copa America 1999 3rd place match against Chile
• Miroslav Klose: World Cup quarter- final against Argentina in 2010
• Xabi Alonso: European Championship quarter- finals in 2012 against France
• Yoo Sang- chul: World Cup 3rd place match against Turkey
• Hwang Sun -hong: World Cup knockout round in 2002 against Italy

The 150th game contested Cobi Jones in the CONCACAF Gold Cup final in 2002 and Landon Donovan in the semifinals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2013.

Hundreds in finals

The following players that have at least 100 games disputed reached a World Cup final:

The following players that have at least 100 games disputed reached a European final:

The following players that have at least 100 games disputed reached a Copa América final:

• 2007: Javier Zanetti ( 111th game ) and Roberto Ayala ( 115th and last game )

The following players that have at least 100 games disputed reached a final of the AFC Asian Cup:

The following players that have at least 100 games disputed reached a final of the African Cup of Nations:

The following players that have at least 100 games disputed reached a Gold Cup final:

• 2002: Jeff Agoos ( 122 game )
• 2007: Pavel Pardo ( 136th game )
• 2011: Landon Donovan ( 136th game), Gerardo Torrado ( 132 game ) and Rafael Marquez ( 106th game )
• 2013: Landon Donovan ( 151 game), DaMarcus Beasley ( 109th game )

The following players that have at least 100 games disputed reached a Confed Cup Final: