Players analysis, in distribution.
What month were most goalkeepers born? Do attackers cluster differently from defenders? Where do the GOATs (Michel Platini, Marco van Basten, Cristiano Ronaldo, Andrés Iniesta, Xavi…) fall on the curve — on the modal month or as outliers?
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Birth month, by position
One chart per role. GOAT pin-marks (gold dots above the bars) call out where iconic players sit. Look for the “relative-age effect” — many youth-academy systems privilege Q1 birthdays (Jan-Mar) for early physical development, and you sometimes see the same skew in elite squads.
Goalkeepers
Birth-month distribution + 2 GOAT markers
Gianluigi Buffon· JanIker Casillas· MayModal month: Feb — 2 players (16.7%). Range: 0—2.
Defenders
Birth-month distribution + 1 GOAT marker
Paolo Maldini· JunModal month: Apr — 4 players (14.3%). Range: 0—4.
Midfielders
Birth-month distribution + 8 GOAT markers
Michel Platini· JunAndrés Iniesta· MayXavi· JanZinedine Zidane· JunAntonín Panenka· DecRuud Gullit· SepLothar Matthäus· MarAndrea Pirlo· MayModal month: May — 4 players (14.3%). Range: 0—4.
Attackers
Birth-month distribution + 3 GOAT markers
Marco van Basten· OctCristiano Ronaldo· FebLuís Figo· NovModal month: Feb — 3 players (15.0%). Range: 0—3.
All players
Every player from the 1968 squad. Search by name or filter by country, position, birth year or birth month. The C badge marks captains. Change the hemisphere filter in the hero above.
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| Player | Country | Position | DOB | Birth month | Club | Ht | WCs | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Alan Ball | England | Midfielder | 1945-05-12 | May | Everton | — | 1 | — |
| Alan Mullery | England | Midfielder | 1941-11-23 | Nov | Tottenham Hotspur | — | 1 | — |
 Albert ShesternyovC | Soviet Union | Defender | 1941-06-20 | Jun | CSKA Moscow | — | 1 | — |
| Aleksandr Lenev | Soviet Union | Midfielder | 1944-09-25 | Sep | Torpedo Moscow | — | 1 | — |
| Alex Stepney | England | Goalkeeper | 1942-09-18 | Sep | Manchester United | — | 1 | — |
| Anatoliy Banishevskiy | Soviet Union | Attacker | 1946-02-23 | Feb | Neftchi Baku | — | 1 | — |
| Anatoliy Byshovets | Soviet Union | Attacker | 1946-04-23 | Apr | Dynamo Kyiv | — | 1 | — |
| Angelo Anquilletti | Italy | Defender | 1943-04-25 | Apr | Milan | — | 1 | — |
| Angelo Domenghini | Italy | Attacker | 1941-08-25 | Aug | Internazionale | — | 1 | — |
| Antonio Juliano | Italy | Midfielder | 1942-12-26 | Dec | Napoli | — | 1 | — |
| Anzor Kavazashvili | Soviet Union | Goalkeeper | 1940-07-19 | Jul | Torpedo Moscow | — | 1 | — |
| Aristide Guarneri | Italy | Midfielder | 1938-03-07 | Mar | Bologna | — | 1 | — |
 Blagoje Paunović | Yugoslavia | Defender | 1947-06-04 | Jun | Partizan Belgrade | — | 1 | — |
| Bobby Charlton | England | Midfielder | 1937-10-11 | Oct | Manchester United | — | 1 | — |
| Bobby MooreC | England | Defender | 1941-04-12 | Apr | West Ham United | — | 1 | — |
| Borivoje Đorđević | Yugoslavia | Midfielder | 1948-08-02 | Aug | Partizan Belgrade | — | 1 | — |
| Boško Antić | Yugoslavia | Attacker | 1944-01-07 | Jan | FK Sarajevo | — | 1 | — |
| Brian Labone | England | Defender | 1940-01-23 | Jan | Everton | — | 1 | — |
| Colin Bell | England | Midfielder | 1946-02-26 | Feb | Manchester City | — | 1 | — |
| Cyril Knowles | England | Defender | 1944-07-13 | Jul | Tottenham Hotspur | — | 1 | — |
| Dino Zoff | Italy | Goalkeeper | 1942-02-28 | Feb | Napoli | — | 1 | — |
| Dobrivoje Trivić | Yugoslavia | Midfielder | 1943-10-26 | Oct | Vojvodina Novi Sad | — | 1 | — |
| Dragan Džajić | Yugoslavia | Attacker | 1946-05-30 | May | Red Star Belgrade | — | 1 | — |
| Dragan Holcer | Yugoslavia | Defender | 1945-01-19 | Jan | Hajduk Split | — | 1 | — |
| Eduard Malofeyev | Soviet Union | Attacker | 1942-06-02 | Jun | Dynamo Minsk | — | 1 | — |
| Enrico Albertosi | Italy | Goalkeeper | 1939-11-02 | Nov | Fiorentina | — | 1 | — |
| Ernesto Castano | Italy | Defender | 1939-05-02 | May | Juventus | — | 1 | — |
| Evgeni Rudakov | Soviet Union | Goalkeeper | 1942-01-02 | Jan | Dynamo Kyiv | — | 1 | — |
| Gennady Logofet | Soviet Union | Defender | 1942-02-15 | Feb | Spartak Moscow | — | 1 | — |
| Gennady Yevriuzhikin | Soviet Union | Attacker | 1944-07-04 | Jul | Dynamo Moscow | — | 1 | — |
| Geoff Hurst | England | Attacker | 1941-12-08 | Dec | West Ham United | — | 1 | — |
| Giacinto FacchettiC | Italy | Defender | 1942-07-18 | Jul | Internazionale | — | 1 | — |
| Giacomo Bulgarelli | Italy | Attacker | 1940-10-24 | Oct | Bologna | — | 1 | — |
| Giancarlo Bercellino | Italy | Defender | 1941-10-09 | Oct | Juventus | — | 1 | — |
| Giancarlo De Sisti | Italy | Midfielder | 1943-03-13 | Mar | Fiorentina | — | 1 | — |
| Gianni Rivera | Italy | Midfielder | 1943-08-18 | Aug | Milan | — | 1 | — |
| Gigi Riva | Italy | Attacker | 1944-11-07 | Nov | Cagliari | — | 1 | — |
| Giorgio Ferrini | Italy | Midfielder | 1939-08-18 | Aug | Torino | — | 1 | — |
| Giovanni Lodetti | Italy | Midfielder | 1942-08-10 | Aug | Milan | — | 1 | — |
| Givi Nodia | Soviet Union | Attacker | 1948-01-02 | Jan | Dinamo Tbilisi | — | 1 | — |
| Gordon Banks | England | Goalkeeper | 1937-12-30 | Dec | Stoke City | — | 1 | — |
| Gordon West | England | Goalkeeper | 1943-04-24 | Apr | Everton | — | 1 | — |
| Idriz Hošić | Yugoslavia | Attacker | 1944-02-17 | Feb | Partizan Belgrade | — | 1 | — |
| Igor Chislenko | Soviet Union | Midfielder | 1939-01-04 | Jan | Dynamo Moscow | — | 1 | — |
| Ilija Pantelić | Yugoslavia | Goalkeeper | 1942-08-02 | Aug | Vojvodina Novi Sad | — | 1 | — |
| Ilija Petković | Yugoslavia | Midfielder | 1945-09-22 | Sep | OFK Belgrade | — | 1 | — |
| Ivica Brzić | Yugoslavia | Midfielder | 1941-05-28 | May | Vojvodina Novi Sad | — | 1 | — |
| Ivica Osim | Yugoslavia | Midfielder | 1941-05-06 | May | FK Željezničar | — | 1 | — |
| Jack Charlton | England | Defender | 1935-05-08 | May | Leeds United | — | 1 | — |
| Jimmy Greaves | England | Attacker | 1940-02-20 | Feb | Tottenham Hotspur | — | 1 | — |
| Jovan Aćimović | Yugoslavia | Midfielder | 1948-06-21 | Jun | Red Star Belgrade | — | 1 | — |
| Kakhi Asatiani | Soviet Union | Midfielder | 1947-01-01 | Jan | Dinamo Tbilisi | — | 1 | — |
| Keith Newton | England | Defender | 1941-06-23 | Jun | Blackburn Rovers | — | 1 | — |
| Lido Vieri | Italy | Goalkeeper | 1939-07-16 | Jul | Torino | — | 1 | — |
| Ljubomir Mihajlović | Yugoslavia | Defender | 1943-09-04 | Sep | Partizan Belgrade | — | 1 | — |
| Martin Peters | England | Midfielder | 1943-11-08 | Nov | West Ham United | — | 1 | — |
| Mike Summerbee | England | Attacker | 1942-12-15 | Dec | Manchester City | — | 1 | — |
| Milan Damjanović | Yugoslavia | Defender | 1943-10-15 | Oct | Partizan Belgrade | — | 1 | — |
| Miroslav Pavlović | Yugoslavia | Midfielder | 1942-10-23 | Oct | Red Star Belgrade | — | 1 | — |
| Mirsad FazlagićC | Yugoslavia | Defender | 1943-04-04 | Apr | FK Sarajevo | — | 1 | — |
| Mladen Ramljak | Yugoslavia | Defender | 1945-07-01 | Jul | Dinamo Zagreb | — | 1 | — |
| Murtaz Khurtsilava | Soviet Union | Midfielder | 1943-01-05 | Jan | Dinamo Tbilisi | — | 1 | — |
| Nikolai Smolnikov | Soviet Union | Attacker | 1949-03-10 | Mar | Neftchi Baku | — | 1 | — |
| Nobby Stiles | England | Midfielder | 1942-05-18 | May | Manchester United | — | 1 | — |
| Norman Hunter | England | Defender | 1943-10-29 | Oct | Leeds United | — | 1 | — |
| Peter Thompson | England | Midfielder | 1942-11-27 | Nov | Liverpool | — | 1 | — |
| Pierino Prati | Italy | Attacker | 1946-12-13 | Dec | Milan | — | 1 | — |
| Pietro Anastasi | Italy | Attacker | 1948-04-07 | Apr | Varese | — | 1 | — |
| Radomir Vukčević | Yugoslavia | Goalkeeper | 1944-09-15 | Sep | Hajduk Split | — | 1 | — |
| Rajko Aleksić | Yugoslavia | Defender | 1947-02-19 | Feb | Vojvodina Novi Sad | — | 1 | — |
| Ratomir Dujković | Yugoslavia | Goalkeeper | 1946-02-24 | Feb | Red Star Belgrade | — | 1 | — |
| Ray Wilson | England | Defender | 1934-12-17 | Dec | Everton | — | 1 | — |
| Roberto Rosato | Italy | Defender | 1943-08-18 | Aug | Milan | — | 1 | — |
| Roger Hunt | England | Attacker | 1938-07-20 | Jul | Liverpool | — | 1 | — |
| Rudolf Belin | Yugoslavia | Midfielder | 1942-11-04 | Nov | Dinamo Zagreb | — | 1 | — |
| Sandro Mazzola | Italy | Attacker | 1942-11-08 | Nov | Internazionale | — | 1 | — |
| Sandro Salvadore | Italy | Defender | 1939-11-29 | Nov | Juventus | — | 1 | — |
| Tarcisio Burgnich | Italy | Defender | 1939-04-25 | Apr | Internazionale | — | 1 | — |
| Tommy Wright | England | Defender | 1944-10-21 | Oct | Everton | — | 1 | — |
| Vahidin Musemić | Yugoslavia | Attacker | 1946-10-29 | Oct | FK Sarajevo | — | 1 | — |
| Valentin Afonin | Soviet Union | Defender | 1939-12-22 | Dec | CSKA Moscow | — | 1 | — |
| Valery Voronin | Soviet Union | Midfielder | 1939-07-17 | Jul | Torpedo Moscow | — | 1 | — |
| Viktor Anichkin | Soviet Union | Midfielder | 1941-12-08 | Dec | Dynamo Moscow | — | 1 | — |
| Vladimir Kaplichny | Soviet Union | Defender | 1944-05-26 | May | CSKA Moscow | — | 1 | — |
| Vladimir Levchenko | Soviet Union | Defender | 1944-02-18 | Feb | Dynamo Kyiv | — | 1 | — |
| Vladimir Muntyan | Soviet Union | Midfielder | 1946-09-14 | Sep | Dynamo Kyiv | — | 1 | — |
| Yuri Pshenichnikov | Soviet Union | Goalkeeper | 1940-06-02 | Jun | CSKA Moscow | — | 1 | — |
| Yuriy Istomin | Soviet Union | Defender | 1944-07-03 | Jul | CSKA Moscow | — | 1 | — |
GOAT reference
Curated. Inclusion in this list isn't a championship ranking — it's a span of Ballon-d'Or winners + nominees + commonly-cited GOATs across eras, used for the overlay above.
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| Player | Country | Position | DOB | Birth month | Club | Ht | WCs | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michel Platini | France | Midfielder | 1955-06-21 | Jun | — | — | 0 | — |
| Marco van Basten | Netherlands | Attacker | 1964-10-31 | Oct | — | — | 0 | — |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | Attacker | 1985-02-05 | Feb | — | — | 0 | — |
| Andrés Iniesta | Spain | Midfielder | 1984-05-11 | May | — | — | 0 | — |
| Xavi | Spain | Midfielder | 1980-01-25 | Jan | — | — | 0 | — |
| Zinedine Zidane | France | Midfielder | 1972-06-23 | Jun | — | — | 0 | — |
| Antonín Panenka | Czechoslovakia | Midfielder | 1948-12-02 | Dec | — | — | 0 | — |
| Ruud Gullit | Netherlands | Midfielder | 1962-09-01 | Sep | — | — | 0 | — |
| Luís Figo | Portugal | Attacker | 1972-11-04 | Nov | — | — | 0 | — |
| Gianluigi Buffon | Italy | Goalkeeper | 1978-01-28 | Jan | — | — | 0 | — |
| Paolo Maldini | Italy | Defender | 1968-06-26 | Jun | — | — | 0 | — |
| Lothar Matthäus | Germany | Midfielder | 1961-03-21 | Mar | — | — | 0 | — |
| Andrea Pirlo | Italy | Midfielder | 1979-05-19 | May | — | — | 0 | — |
| Iker Casillas | Spain | Goalkeeper | 1981-05-20 | May | — | — | 0 | — |
Hat-tricks (3+ goals in a match)
Every individual 3+ goal performance in World Cup history. Oleg Salenko's 5-goal haul in 1994 v Cameroon is the all-time single-match record.
| # | Player | Team | Opponent | Stage | Year | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Oleg Salenko | Russia |  Cameroon | Group | 1994 | 5 |
| 2 |  Ernst Wilimowski | Poland |  Brazil | Round of 16 | 1938 | 4 |
| 3 | Ademir | Brazil |  Sweden | Final round | 1950 | 4 |
| 4 |  Sándor Kocsis | Hungary |  West Germany | Group | 1954 | 4 |
| 5 | Eusébio | Portugal |  North Korea | Quarter-final | 1966 | 4 |
| 6 | Emilio Butragueño | Spain |  Denmark | Round of 16 | 1986 | 4 |
| 7 |  Bert Patenaude | United States |  Paraguay | Group | 1930 | 3 |
| 8 |  Pedro Cea | Uruguay | Yugoslavia | Semi-final | 1930 | 3 |
| 9 |  Guillermo Stábile | Argentina |  Mexico | Group | 1930 | 3 |
| 10 | Edmund Conen | Germany |  Belgium | Round of 16 | 1934 | 3 |
| 11 | Angelo Schiavio | Italy | United States | Round of 16 | 1934 | 3 |
| 12 | Oldřich Nejedlý | Czechoslovakia | Germany | Semi-final | 1934 | 3 |
| 13 | Leônidas | Brazil | Poland | Round of 16 | 1938 | 3 |
| 14 | Gyula Zsengellér | Hungary |  Dutch East Indies | Round of 16 | 1938 | 3 |
| 15 | Harry Andersson | Sweden |  Cuba | Quarter-final | 1938 | 3 |
| 16 | Gustav Wetterström | Sweden | Cuba | Quarter-final | 1938 | 3 |
| 17 | Oscar Míguez | Uruguay |  Bolivia | Group | 1950 | 3 |
| 18 | Estanislao Basora | Spain | Uruguay | Final round | 1950 | 3 |
| 19 | Sándor Kocsis | Hungary |  South Korea | Group | 1954 | 3 |
| 20 |  Erich Probst | Austria | Czechoslovakia | Group | 1954 | 3 |
| 21 | Carlos Borges | Uruguay |  Scotland | Group | 1954 | 3 |
| 22 |  Suat Mamat | Turkey | South Korea | Group | 1954 | 3 |
| 23 |  Josef Hügi | Switzerland | Austria | Quarter-final | 1954 | 3 |
| 24 | Just Fontaine | France | Paraguay | Group | 1958 | 3 |
| 25 | Just Fontaine | France | West Germany | Third place | 1958 | 3 |
| 26 | Pelé | Brazil | France | Semi-final | 1958 | 3 |
| 27 | Florian Albert | Hungary |  Bulgaria | Group | 1962 | 3 |
| 28 | Geoff Hurst | England | West Germany | Final | 1966 | 3 |
| 29 | Franz Beckenbauer | West Germany | Switzerland | Group | 1966 | 3 |
| 30 | Helmut Haller | West Germany | Switzerland | Group | 1966 | 3 |
| 31 | Eusébio | Portugal | Brazil | Group | 1966 | 3 |
| 32 | Gerd Müller | West Germany | Bulgaria | Group | 1970 | 3 |
| 33 | Gerd Müller | West Germany |  Peru | Quarter-final | 1970 | 3 |
| 34 | Andrzej Szarmach | Poland |  Haiti | Group | 1974 | 3 |
| 35 | Dušan Bajević | Yugoslavia |  Zaire | Group | 1974 | 3 |
| 36 | Robbie Rensenbrink | Netherlands |  Iran | Group | 1978 | 3 |
| 37 | Teófilo Cubillas | Peru | Iran | Group | 1978 | 3 |
| 38 | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | West Germany |  Chile | Group | 1982 | 3 |
| 39 | Zbigniew Boniek | Poland | Belgium | Second round | 1982 | 3 |
| 40 | László Kiss | Hungary |  El Salvador | Group | 1982 | 3 |
| 41 | Paolo Rossi | Italy | Brazil | Second round | 1982 | 3 |
| 42 | Gary Lineker | England | Poland | Group | 1986 | 3 |
| 43 | Igor Belanov | Soviet Union | Belgium | Round of 16 | 1986 | 3 |
| 44 | Tomáš Skuhravý | Czechoslovakia |  Costa Rica | Round of 16 | 1990 | 3 |
| 45 | Míchel | Spain | South Korea | Group | 1990 | 3 |
| 46 | Gabriel Batistuta | Argentina |  Greece | Group | 1994 | 3 |
| 47 | Gabriel Batistuta | Argentina |  Jamaica | Group | 1998 | 3 |
| 48 | Miroslav Klose | Germany |  Saudi Arabia | Group | 2002 | 3 |
| 49 | Pauleta | Portugal | Poland | Group | 2002 | 3 |
| 50 | Gonzalo Higuaín | Argentina | South Korea | Group | 2010 | 3 |
| 51 | Thomas Müller | Germany | Portugal | Group | 2014 | 3 |
| 52 | Xherdan Shaqiri | Switzerland |  Honduras | Group | 2014 | 3 |
| 53 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | Spain | Group | 2018 | 3 |
| 54 | Harry Kane | England |  Panama | Group | 2018 | 3 |
| 55 | Gonçalo Ramos | Portugal | Switzerland | Round of 16 | 2022 | 3 |
| 56 | Kylian Mbappé | France | Argentina | Final | 2022 | 3 |
56 hat-tricks · 6with 4+ goals · Salenko's 5 (1994) is the only 5-goal haul on record