Data on players with more than 100 international caps or 30 goals for their national side are available as well.
Since goal keepers tend to have long careers and often a stable place in their national team, they figure notably among the record appearance holders. Below a list of national records of apperances of goal keepers. Those given in bold face are national record holders for all positions.
Data as of 2004.
Country Goalkeeper Caps Years
Albania Foto STRAKOSHA 67 * (1990 - 2004)
Andorra Jesús J. Alvarez "KOLDO" 37 * (1998 - 2003)
Argentina Ubaldo FILLOL 58 (1974 - 1985)
Armenia Roman BEREZOVSKI 36 * (1998 - 2003)
Australia Zeljko KALAC 39 * (1992 – 2003)
Austria Friedrich KONCILIA 84 (1970 - 1985)
Azerbaijan Jahangir HASANZADEH 22 * (2000 - 2004)
Dmitriy KRAMARENKO 22 * (1992 – 2004)
Alexsandr ZHIDKOV 22 * (1994 – 1998)
Belarus Gennadiy TUMILOVICH 32 * (1998 – 2004)
Belgium Jean-Marie PFAFF 64 (1976 - 1987)
Bolivia Carlos TRUCCO 51 (1989 - 1997)
Brazil Claudio TAFFAREL 101* (1988 - 1998)
Bulgaria Borislav MIKHAILOV 97 [8] (1983 - 1998)
Cameroon Thomas N’KONO 66 (1975 - 1990)
Jacques SONGO’O 66 * (1983 - 2002)
Canada Craig FORREST 55 * (1988 - 2001)
Chile Nelson TAPIA RÍOS 53 * (1994 - 2001)
China JIANG Jin 52 * [6] ( - 2002)
Colombia Oscar CÓRDOBA 70 * (1993 - 2003)
Costa Rica Erick LONNIS 76 * (1992 - 2002)
Croatia Drazen LADIC 59* (1990 - 1999)
Cyprus Nikos PANAYIOTOU 65 * (1994 - 2003)
Czech Republic Pavel SRNICEK 49 * (1994 - 2001)
Czechoslovakia Frantisek PLANICKA 73 (1926 - 1938)
Denmark Peter SCHMEICHEL 129* (1987 - 2001)
East Germany Jürgen CROY 86 [9] (1967 - 1981)
Ecuador José CEVALLOS 74 * (1994 - 2003)
Egypt Nader EL-SAYED 103 * [4] (1992 - 2004)
England Peter SHILTON 125 (1970 - 1990)
Estonia Mart POOM 98 * (1992 - 2004)
Faroe Islands Jens-Martin KNUDSEN 60 * (1988 - 2004)
Finland Olli HUTTUNEN 60 (1980 - 1992)
France Fabien BARTHEZ 65 * (1994 - 2004)
Georgia David GVARAMADZE 28 * (1998 - 2004)
(West) Germany Sepp MAIER 95 (1966 - 1979)
Greece Nikolaos SARGANIS 58 (1980 - 1991)
Hungary Gyula GROSICS 86 (1947 - 1962)
Iceland Birkir KRISTINSSON 73 * (1988 - 2002)
Iran Ahmad Reza ABEDZADEH 79 (1987 - 1998)
Ireland Patrick BONNER 80 (1981 - 1996)
Israel Bonny GINZBURG 62 (1984 - 1996)
Italy Dino ZOFF 112 (1968 - 1983)
Jamaica Warren BARRETT 127 * [5] (19.. - 2000)
Japan Yoshikatsu KAWAGUCHI 55 * (1997 – 2003)
Latvia Alexander KOLINKO 48 * (1997 – 2004)
Liechtenstein Peter JEHLE 32 * ( - 2003)
Lithuania Gintaras STAUCE 60 * (1992 - 2004)
Malta David CLUETT 68 * (1987 - 1996)
Mexico Jorge CAMPOS 130 * (1991 - 2003)
Moldova Denis ROMANENCO 24 * (1996 - 2001)
Netherlands Edwin VAN DER SAR 81 * (1995 - 2004)
Nigeria Peter RUFAI 70 * (19.. - 1998)
Northern Ireland Pat JENNINGS 119 (1964 - 1986)
Norway Erik THORSTVEDT 97 (1982 - 1996)
Paraguay Roberto FERNÁNDEZ 78 (1979 - 1987)
Peru Miguel MIRANDA 47 * (1993 - 2001)
Poland Jan TOMASZEWSKI 59 [11] (1971 - 1981)
Portugal VÍTOR Manuel Martins BAÍA 80 * (1990 - 2002)
Romania Bogdan STELEA 88 * (1988 - 2004)
Russia Stanislav CHERCHESOV 39 * [10] (1992 - 2000)
San Marino Federico GASPERONI 33 * (1996 – 2003)
Saudi Arabia Mohammed AL-DEAYEA 166 * (1990 - 2004)
Scotland Jim LEIGHTON 91 * (1982 - 1998)
Slovakia Miroslav KÖNIG 42 * (1997 - 2004)
Slovenia Marko SIMEUNOVIC 57 * (1991 - 2004)
South Africa Andre ARENDSE 67 * (1995 - 2004)
Soviet Union Rinat DASSAEV 97 (1979 - 1990)
Spain Andoni ZUBIZARRETA 126 (1985 - 1998)
Sweden Thomas RAVELLI 143 * (1981 - 1997)
Switzerland Eric BURGENER 64 (1973 - 1986)
Tunisia Chokri EL OUAER 101 * [7] ( - 2002)
Turkey RÜSTU Recber 90 * (1994 - 2004)
Ukraine Olexandr SHOVKOVSKYI 49 * (1994 - 2004)
United States Tony MEOLA 99 * (1988 - 2002)
Uruguay Rodolfo RODRÍGUEZ 78 (1976 - 1986)
Venezuela Rafael DUDAMEL 44 * (1993 - 2004)
Wales Neville SOUTHALL 92 * (1982 - 1997)
Yugoslavia Vladimir BEARA 59 (1950 - 1959)
Notes:
[1] (*) indicates players still playing at least at club level.
[2] players in bold face hold the absolute record of caps for their
national team.
[3] data for non-European and non-American teams are not completely reliable.
[4] "Al-Ahram Al-Riyadi" magazine, issue # 409, reports 123 caps for Ahmed
Shoubeir, but this includes youth and olympic teams.
[5] Jamaican F.A. reports 127 matches for Barrett but they include also
matches against clubs, olympic and youth national teams.
[6] Number of caps reported by FIFA prior to the start of the WC 2002.
However, English magazine World Soccer reported 35 caps in its WC 2002
Guide (May 2002).
[7] Reported by World Soccer in its WC 2002 Guide (May 2002); however this
number of caps remains to be confirmed.
[8] Verification is still under way. He has played 102 matches according to
the Bulgarian Federation, but so far only 97 were verified.
[9] Number of caps corrected after deduction of Olympic matches; was 94 caps.
[10] Played another 10 games with the Soviet Union / C.I.S.
[11] Number of caps corrected after deduction of Olympic matches; was 65 caps.
With thanks to Luis Fernando Passo Alpuin (npasso@starmedia.com) and Rasim Movsumov (football-2005@mail.ru)
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