Progression of association football caps record

This is a progressive list of men's association footballers who have held or co-held the world record for international caps, beginning with Billy MacKinnon, the only man to play in all of Scotland's first seven internationals.

Criteria

The criteria used by national FAs in considering a match as a full international were not historically fixed. Particularly for the early decades, and until more recently for FAs outside UEFA and CONMEBOL, counts of caps were often considered unreliable. RSSSF and IFFHS have spent much effort trying to produce definitive lists of full international matches, and corresponding data on players' international caps and goals. Using this data, the following records can be retrospectively produced. Note that, at the time, these records may not have been recognised.

One point of note is that early matches by the England Amateur side were played against the full national side of opponents. These matches are counted as full internationals by the IFFHS and the opposing FAs, though not by the (English) FA. This affects Vivian Woodward, who won 23 full caps and 30 amateur caps; the IFFHS considers him as the record-holder from 1909, when his total of 31 caps included 11 amateur matches.[1][2]

Before 1977, the world record holder was always European, except when Ángel Romano narrowly overtook Imre Schlosser. After 1977, many sources, including FIFA[3][4] and the Guinness Book of Records,[5] reported later European cap records as world records. Subsequent validation of the caps claimed by Cha Bum-Kun, Hussein Saeed, Majed Abdullah, and Adnan Al Talyani has shown that, even stripping out ineligible matches, these players exceeded the contemporary European counts. Similarly, Hossam Hassan of Egypt was reported as having broken Lothar Matthäus' putative record of 150 caps in 2001.[6]

In August 2021, four retired Malaysian internationals were retrospectively admitted to the FIFA Century Club,[7] with Soh Chin Ann's 1984 appearance against North Yemen recognised as a record 195th cap,[7][8] thereby annulling the putative record totals achieved in intervening decades by Cha, Saeed, Abdullah, Al Talyani, Claudio Suárez, Mohamed Al-Deayea, Ahmed Hassan, and Bader Al Mutawa.[8]

The women's international cap record is 354, held by Kristine Lilly of the United States, who exceeded Soh's total with her 196th cap against Norway in the 2000 Algarve Cup.[9]

World record
PlayerCountryCapDateVenueOpponentScoreNotes
Billy MacKinnon Scotland71877-03-03Kennington Oval England3–1[1][10]
81878-03-02Hampden Park England7–2[1][10]
91879-04-05Kennington Oval England4–5[1][10]
Henry McNeil Scotland91881-03-12Kennington Oval England6–1[1][11]
101881-03-14Acton Park, Wrexham Wales5–1[1][11]
John Price Wales101882-03-25Glasgow Scotland0–5[12]
111883-03-12Wrexham Scotland0–3[1][13]
121883-03-17Belfast Ireland1–1[1][13]
Norman Bailey England121884-03-17Racecourse Ground Wales4–0British Home Championship[14]
131885-02-28Whalley Range, Blackburn Ireland4–0British Home Championship[1][14]
141885-03-14Leamington Road Wales1–1British Home Championship[1][14]
151885-03-21Kennington Oval Scotland1–1British Home Championship[1][14]
161886-03-27Hampden Park Scotland1–1British Home Championship[1][14]
171886-03-29Racecourse Ground Wales3–1British Home Championship[1][14]
181887-02-26Kennington Oval Wales4–0British Home Championship[1][14]
191887-03-19Leamington Road Scotland2–3British Home Championship[1][14]
Olphert Stanfield Ireland191893-04-05Belfast Wales4–3British Home Championship[15]
201894-02-24Swansea Wales1–4British Home Championship[1][15]
211894-03-03Solitude England2–2British Home Championship[1][16]
221894-03-31Belfast Scotland1–3British Home Championship[1][15]
231895-03-09County Cricket Ground, Derby England0–9British Home Championship[1][17]
241895-03-30Glasgow Scotland1–3British Home Championship[1][15]
261896-03-07Solitude England0–2British Home Championship[1][18]
271896-03-28Belfast Scotland3–3British Home Championship[1][15]
281897-02-20Trent Bridge England0–6British Home Championship[1][19]
291897-03-06Belfast Wales4–3British Home Championship[1][15]
301897-03-27Glasgow Scotland1–5British Home Championship[1][15]
Vivian Woodward England301909-03-15Nottingham Wales2–0British Home Championship[2]
311909-05-29Budapest Hungary4–2[1][2]
321909-05-31Budapest Hungary8–2[1][2]
331909-06-01Vienna Austria8–1[1][2]
England Amateurs341909-11-06Hull Sweden7–0[1][2]
351909-12-11London Netherlands9–1[1][2]
 England361910-02-12Belfast Ireland1–1British Home Championship[1][2]
Billy Meredith Wales361911-03-13London England0–3British Home Championship[20]
371912-03-02Edinburgh Scotland0–1British Home Championship[20]
381912-03-11Wrexham England0–2British Home Championship[20]
391912-04-13Cardiff Ireland2–3British Home Championship[20]
401913-01-18Belfast Ireland1–0British Home Championship[20]
411913-03-03Wrexham Scotland0–0British Home Championship[20]
421913-03-17Bristol England3–4British Home Championship[20]
431914-01-19Wrexham Ireland1–2British Home Championship[20]
441914-02-28Glasgow Scotland0–0British Home Championship[20]
451914-03-16Ninian Park England0–2British Home Championship[21]
Imre Schlosser Hungary451915-05-30Vienna Austria2–1[22]
461915-10-03Vienna Austria2–4[22]
471915-11-07Budapest Austria6–2[22]
481916-06-04Budapest Austria2–1[22]
491916-10-01Budapest Austria2–3[22]
501916-11-05Vienna Austria3–3[22]
511917-05-06Vienna Austria1–1[22]
521917-06-03Budapest Austria6–2[22]
531917-07-15Vienna Austria4–1[22]
541917-10-07Budapest Austria2–1[22]
551917-11-04Vienna Austria2–1[22]
561918-04-14Budapest Austria2–0[22]
571918-05-12Budapest  Switzerland2–1[22]
581918-06-02Vienna Austria2–0[22]
591918-10-06Vienna Austria3–0[22]
601919-11-09Budapest Austria3–2[22]
611920-10-24Berlin Germany0–1[22]
621921-04-24Vienna Austria1–4[22]
631921-06-05Budapest Germany3–0[22]
641921-11-06Budapest Sweden4–2[22]
651921-12-18Budapest Poland1–0[22]
Ángel Romano Uruguay651924-10-26Montevideo Paraguay3–1Copa América[23]
661924-11-02Montevideo Argentina0–0Copa América[23]
Imre Schlosser Hungary661926-06-06Budapest Czechoslovakia2–1[22]
Ángel Romano Uruguay671926-10-28Santiago Bolivia6–0Copa América[23]
681926-11-01Santiago Paraguay6–1Copa América[23]
Imre Schlosser Hungary681927-04-10Vienna Austria0–6[22]
Ángel Romano Uruguay691927-07-14Montevideo Argentina0–1Copa Newton[23]
Severino Minelli  Switzerland691939-11-12Zürich Italy3–1[24]
701940-03-03Turin Italy1–1[24]
711940-03-31Budapest Hungary0–3[24]
721941-04-20Bern Germany2–1[24]
731941-12-28Valencia Spain2–3[24]
741942-01-01Lisbon Portugal0–3[24]
751942-02-01Vienna Germany2–1[24]
761942-03-08Marseille France2–0[24]
771942-10-18Bern Germany3–5[24]
781942-11-01Budapest Hungary0–3[24]
791942-11-15Zürich Sweden3–1[24]
801943-06-14Stockholm Sweden0–1[24]
Ferenc Puskás Hungary801956-06-09Lisbon Portugal2–2[25]
811956-07-15Budapest Poland4–1[25]
821956-09-16Belgrade Yugoslavia3–1Dr. Gerö Cup[25]
831956-09-23Moscow Soviet Union1–0[25]
841956-10-07Paris France2–1[25]
851956-10-14Vienna Austria2–0[25]
Billy Wright England851957-05-19Dublin Republic of Ireland1–1World Cup qualifying[26]
861957-10-19Cardiff Wales4–0British Home Championship[26]
871957-11-06London Northern Ireland2–3British Home Championship[26]
881957-11-27London France4–0[26]
891958-04-19Glasgow Scotland4–0British Home Championship[26]
901958-05-07London Portugal2–1[26]
911958-05-11Belgrade Yugoslavia0–5[26]
921958-05-18Moscow Soviet Union1–1[26]
931958-06-08Gothenburg Soviet Union2–2World Cup[26]
941958-06-11Gothenburg Brazil0–0World Cup[26]
951958-06-15Borås Austria2–2World Cup[26]
961958-06-17Gothenburg Soviet Union0–1World Cup[26]
971958-10-04Belfast Northern Ireland3–3British Home Championship[26]
981958-10-22London Soviet Union5–0[26]
991958-11-26Birmingham Wales2–2British Home Championship[26]
1001959-04-11London Scotland1–0British Home Championship[26]
1011959-05-06London Italy2–2[26]
1021959-05-13Rio de Janeiro Brazil0–2[26]
1031959-05-17Lima Peru1–4[26]
1041959-05-24Mexico City Mexico1–2[26]
1051959-05-28Los Angeles United States8–1[26]
Bobby Charlton England1051970-06-11Guadalajara Czechoslovakia1–0World Cup[27]
1061970-06-14León West Germany2–3World Cup[27]
Bobby Moore England1061973-06-10Moscow Soviet Union2–1[28]
1071973-06-14Turin Italy0–2[28]
1081973-11-14London Italy0–1[28]
Soh Chin Ann Malaysia1081977-03-01Singapore Thailand6–4World Cup qualification[29]
1091977-03-03Singapore Indonesia0–0World Cup qualification[29]
[29]
1951984-10-18Calcutta North Yemen4–1Asian Cup qualification[8][29]

See also

References
  1. "IFFHS (International Federation of Football History & Statistics)". IFFHS.
  2. Vivian John Woodward – International Appearances RSSSF
  3. "Matthäus sets new caps record against Netherlands". FIFA. 22 February 2000. Archived from the original on October 3, 2009. Retrieved 14 February 2010. Matthäus was level with Sweden's Thomas Ravelli, both totalling 143 caps.
  4. Vecsey, George (17 June 1990). "World Cup '90; No. 120 Gives Shilton Record". The New York Times. p. 87. Retrieved 15 February 2010. Shilton was honored in a brief ceremony before the game for breaking the world record, set by Pat Jennings of Northern Ireland. Jennings made his 119th and final appearance in the 1986 World Cup.
  5. McFarlan, Donald (1989). The Guinness Book of Records 1990 (36th ed.). London: Guinness. p. 248. ISBN 0-85112-341-4.
  6. Gleeson, Mark (8 January 2001). "Egyptian striker breaks caps record". FIFA. Archived from the original on March 22, 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
  7. Bernama (4 August 2021). "Four Malaysian legends join Fifa Century Club". New Straits Times. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  8. "FIFA Century Club" (PDF). FIFA. 10 February 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  9. Shannon, David (12 January 2001). "Kristine Lilly — International Matches". RSSSF. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  10. Scotland – International Matches 1872–1880 RSSSF
  11. Henry McNeil SFA
  12. John Price European football archive
  13. International matches of Wales RSSSF
  14. Norman Bailey FA
  15. Stanfield Olphert Martin European football archive
  16. England Ireland v England – 1894-03-03 FA
  17. England v Ireland – 1895-03-09 FA
  18. Ireland v England – 1896-03-07 FA
  19. England v Ireland – 1897-02-20 FA
  20. Meredith William Henry European football archive
  21. WALES v ENGLAND – 1914-03-16 FA
  22. Imre Schlosser-Lakatos RSSSF
  23. Angel Romano RSSSF
  24. Severino Minelli RSSSF
  25. Ferenc Puskás RSSSF
  26. Billy Wright RSSSF
  27. Bobby Charlton RSSSF
  28. Bobby Moore RSSSF
  29. The FIFA list of 195 caps is the same as the following RSSSF list of 219 caps except with 24 Olympic football matches excluded: HarimauMYstats; Mamrud, Roberto (11 August 2021). "Soh Chin Ann — Double Century of International Appearances". RSSSF. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
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