INTERNATIONAL CAPS : A NEW RECORD FOR GIANLUIGI BUFFON ?
Posted on Oct 30, 2017 | IFFHS News Category
Ahmed Hassan (Egypt) first of the ranking today, Claudio Suarez (Mexico), Mohamed Al-Deayea (Saudi Arabia), Ivan Hurtado (Ecuador) and Gianluigi Buffon (Italy), here with the IFFHS Trophy (he has won 4 IFFHS WORLD’S BEST GOALKEEPER Awards, maybe one more for 2017 (result at end December) : five players, five continents represented in the World Top 6 !
SAUDI ARABIA AND USA : 7 PLAYERS EACH
The World Ranking of the Players with the most international caps can allow the great Italian Goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon to become next year after the World Cup 2018 in Russia the new Recordman of this extraordinary ranking. The two Egypt players Ahmed Hassan and Hossam Hassan (they are not in family) have the leadership since a long time, but they know that Buffon (the only active player in the Top 15) can be the next leader. In the ranking of the most international caps to 125 caps, all the greatest football continents are represented (AFC with 38 players, UEFA with 37, CONCACAF with 24, CONMEBOL with 7, CAF with 5) and the countries with the most players in the ranking are : Saudi Arabia 7, USA 7, Mexico 6, Oman 6, Spain 4, Sweden 4, Kuwait 4, South Korea 4, Egypt 4. For the different continents, Ahmed Hassan (Egypt) leads the CAF ranking, Claudio Suarez (Mexico) the CONCACAF, Gianluigi Buffon (Italy) the UEFA, Mohamed Al-Deayea (Saudi Arabia) the AFC and Ivan Hurtado (Ecuador) the CONMEBOL. The most important concurrents for Buffon are the two Real Madrid stars Sergio Ramos (Spain) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) who are able to join the Top 10 next year !
Ranking at 30.10.2017
Name, Country, Caps, from _ to _.
| Ahmed HASSAN | EGYPT | 184 | (1995-2012) |
| Hossam HASSAN | EGYPT | 178 | (1985-2006) |
| Claudio SUAREZ | MEXICO | 177 | (1992-2006) |
| Gianluigi BUFFON | ITALY | 173 | (1997-2017) |
| Mohamed AL-DEAYEA | SAUDI ARABIA | 172 | (1993-2006) |
| Ivan HURTADO | ECUADOR | 168 | (1992-2014) |
| Vitalijs ASTAFJEVS | LATVIA | 167 | (1992-2010) |
| Iker CASILLAS | SPAIN | 167 | (2000-2016) |
| Cobi JONES | USA | 164 | (1992-2004) |
| Mohamed AL-KHILAIWI | SAUDI ARABIA | 163 | (1992-2001) |
| Adnan AL TALYANI | UAE | 161 | (1984-1997) |
| Bader Ahmed AL-MUTAWA | KUWAIT | 158 | (2003-2015) |
| Landon DONOVAN | USA | 157 | (2000-2014) |
| Martin REIM | ESTONIA | 157 | (1992-2009) |
| Salman ISA | BAHRAIN | 156 | (2001-2012) |
| Sami AL JABER | SAUDI ARABIA | 156 | (1992-2006) |
| Essam EL HADARY | EGYPT | 155 | (1996-2017) |
| Yasuhito ENDO | JAPAN | 152 | (2002-2015) |
| Javad NEKOUNAM | IRAN | 151 | (2000-2015) |
| Lothar MATTHAÜS | GERMANY | 150 | (1980-2000) |
| Ali DAEI | IRAN | 149 | (1993-2006) |
| Younis MAHMOUD | IRAQ | 148 | (2002-2016) |
| Anders SVENSSON | SWEDEN | 148 | (1999-2013) |
| Sergio RAMOS | SPAIN | 147 | (2005-2017) |
| Paulo Cesar DA SILVA | PARAGUAY | 147 | (2000-2017) |
| Robbie KEANE | IRELAND | 146 | (1998-2016) |
| Pavel PARDO | MEXICO | 146 | (1996-2009) |
| Gerardo TORRADO | MEXICO | 146 | (1999-2013) |
| Cristiano RONALDO | PORTUGAL | 146 | (2003-2017) |
| Maynor FIGUEROA | HONDURAS | 146 | (2003-2017) |
| Mohamed HUSAIN | BAHRAIN | 145 | (1997-2015) |
| Ahmed AL MAHAIJRI | OMAN | 144 | (2003-2017) |
| Anatoliy TYMOSCHUK | UKRAINE | 144 | (2000-2016) |
| Andres GUARDADO | MEXICO | 143 | (2005-2017) |
| Marko KRISTAL | ESTONIA | 143 | (1992-2005) |
| Thomas RAVELLI | SWEDEN | 143 | (1981-1997) |
| Javier ZANETTI | ARGENTINA | 143 | (1994-2011) |
| Fawzi BASHIR | OMAN | 142 | (2001-2013) |
| Daniel BENNETT | SINGAPORE | 142 | (2002-2017) |
| CAFU | BRAZIL | 142 | (1990-2006) |
| Gabriel GOMEZ | PANAMA | 142 | (2003-2017) |
| Rafael MARQUEZ | MEXICO | 142 | (1997-2017) |
| Lilian THURAM | FRANCE | 142 | (1994-2008) |
| Abdullah ZUBROMAWI | SAUDI ARABIA | 142 | (1993-2002) |
| Clint DEMPSEY | USA | 141 | (2004-2017) |
| Michael BRADLEY | USA | 140 | (2006-2017) |
| Giorgios KARAGOUNIS | GREECE | 139 | (1999-2014) |
| Javier MASCHERANO | ARGENTINA | 139 | (2003-2017) |
| Amer Shafi SABBAH | JORDAN | 139 | (2002-2017) |
| Amado GUEVARA | HONDURAS | 138 | (1994-2010) |
| Shahril ISHAK | SINGAPORE | 138 | (2003-2017) |
| Walter CENTENO | COSTA RICA | 137 | (1995-2009) |
| Miroslav KLOSE | GERMANY | 137 | (2001-2014) |
| Jari LITMANEN | FINLAND | 137 | (1989-2010) |
| Hussein Saeed MOHAMMED | IRAQ | 137 | (1976-1990) |
| Rigobert SONG | CAMEROON | 137 | (1993-2010) |
| Fabio CANNAVARO | ITALY | 136 | (1997-2010) |
| Myung Bo HONG | SOUTH KOREA | 136 | (1990-2002) |
| Waleed Ali JUMAH | KUWAIT | 135 | (2002-2014) |
| Noel VALLADARES | HONDURAS | 135 | (2000-2016) |
| Jeff AGOOS | USA | 134 | (1988-2003) |
| Bum Kun CHA | SOUTH KOREA | 134 | (1972-1986) |
| Shay GIVEN | IRELAND | 134 | (1996-2016) |
| Dorinel MUNTEANU | ROMANIA | 134 | (1991-2007) |
| Andres OPER | ESTONIA | 134 | (1995-2014) |
| Kiatisuk SENAMUANG | THAILAND | 134 | (1993-2007) |
| Dario SRNA | CROATIA | 134 | (2002-2016) |
| Hussein O.A. SULIMANI | SAUDI ARABIA | 134 | (1996-2014) |
| Bashar ABDULLAH | KUWAIT | 133 | (1996-2007) |
| Andreas ISAKSSON | SWEDEN | 133 | (2002-2016) |
| Saud KARIRI | SAUDI ARABIA | 133 | (2001-2015) |
| Carlos Humberto RUIZ | GUATEMALA | 133 | (1998-2016) |
| Xavi HERNANDEZ “XAVI” | SPAIN | 133 | (2000-2014) |
| Sarkis HOVSEPYAN | ARMENIA | 132 | (1992-2012) |
| Ibrahim HASSAN | EGYPT | 131 | (1988-2002) |
| Kim KALLSTRÖM | SWEDEN | 131 | (2001-2016) |
| Baihakki KHAIZAN | SINGAPORE | 131 | (2003-2016) |
| Woon Jae LEE | SOUTH KOREA | 131 | (1994-2010) |
| Wesley SNEIJDER | NETHERLANDS | 131 | (2003-2017) |
| Jaime PENEDO | PANAMA | 131 | 2003-2017) |
| Jorge CAMPOS | MEXICO | 130 | (1991-2003) |
| Peter JEHLE | LIECHTENSTEIN | 130 | 1998-2017) |
| Lukas PODOLSKI | GERMANY | 130 | (2004-2017) |
| Edwin VAN DER SAR | NETHERLANDS | 130 | (1995-2008) |
| Juan Arango SAEZ | VENEZUELA | 129 | (1999-2015) |
| Peter SCHMEICHEL | DENMARK | 129 | (1987-2001) |
| Ian GOODISON | JAMAICA | 128 | (1996-2009) |
| Ali Abdullah AL HABSI | OMAN | 128 | (2001-2017) |
| Luis Antonio MARIN | COSTA RICA | 128 | (1993-2009) |
| Roberto PALACIOS | PERU | 128 | (1992-2012) |
| Marcelo BALBOA | USA | 127 | (1988-2000) |
| Linval DIXON | JAMAICA | 127 | (1993-2003) |
| Server DJEPAROV | UZBEKISTAN | 127 | (2002-2017) |
| Luis FIGO | PORTUGAL | 127 | (1991-2006) |
| Hassan AL GHILANI | OMAN | 127 | (2003-2015) |
| Ali,Mohammed KARIMI | IRAN | 127 | (1998-2012) |
| Ismael MATAR | UAE | 127 | (2003-2017) |
| Lee YOUNG-PYO | SOUTH KOREA | 127 | (1999-2011) |
| DaMarcus BEASLEY | USA | 126 | (2001-2017) |
| Osama HAWSAWI | SAUDI ARABIA | 126 | (2006-2017) |
| Paolo MALDINI | ITALY | 126 | (1988-2002) |
| Yenier MARQUEZ | CUBA | 126 | (2000-2015) |
| Dennis ROMMEDAHL | DENMARK | 126 | (2000-2013) |
| Mohamed SALMEEN | BAHRAIN | 126 | (2000-2013) |
| Andoni ZUBIZARETTA | SPAIN | 126 | (1985-1998) |
| Michael MIFSUD | MALTA | 126 | (2000-2017) |
| Peter SHILTON | ENGLAND | 125 | (1970-1990) |
| Roberto CARLOS | BRAZIL | 125 | (1992-2006) |
| Amer DEEB | OMAN | 125 | (2002-2014) |
| Mesaed Nada AL ENEZI | KUWAIT | 125 | (2002-2015) |
| Mario FRICK | LIECHTENSTEIN | 125 | (1993-2015) |
| Amad Ali AL HOSNI | OMAN | 125 | (2003-2015) |