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: Mar — 3 players (12.5%). Range: 0—3.
Defenders
Birth-month distribution + 1 GOAT marker
Paolo Maldini· JunModal month: Feb — 11 players (18.3%). Range: 0—11.
Midfielders
Birth-month distribution + 8 GOAT markers
Michel Platini· JunAndrés Iniesta· MayXavi· JanZinedine Zidane· JunAntonín Panenka· DecRuud Gullit· SepLothar Matthäus· MarAndrea Pirlo· MayModal month: Oct — 7 players (13.0%). Range: 0—7.
Attackers
Birth-month distribution + 3 GOAT markers
Marco van Basten· OctCristiano Ronaldo· FebLuís Figo· NovModal month: Nov — 6 players (15.8%). Range: 1—6.
All players
Every player from the 1980 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adrie Koster | Netherlands | Attacker | 1954-11-18 | Nov | PSV Eindhoven | — | 1 | — |
| Aldo Maldera | Italy | Defender | 1953-10-14 | Oct | Milan | — | 1 | — |
| Alessandro Altobelli | Italy | Attacker | 1955-11-28 | Nov | Internazionale | — | 1 | — |
 Anthimos Kapsis | Greece | Defender | 1950-09-03 | Sep | Panathinaikos | — | 1 | — |
| Anton OndrušC | Czechoslovakia | Defender | 1950-03-27 | Mar |  Slovan Bratislava | — | 1 | — |
| Antonín Panenka | Czechoslovakia | Midfielder | 1948-12-02 | Dec | Bohemians Prague | — | 1 | — |
| Antonio Cabrini | Italy | Defender | 1957-10-08 | Oct | Juventus | — | 1 | — |
| Antonio Olmo | Spain | Defender | 1954-01-18 | Jan | Barcelona | — | 1 | — |
| Arie Haan | Netherlands | Midfielder | 1948-11-16 | Nov | Anderlecht | — | 1 | — |
| Ben Wijnstekers | Netherlands | Defender | 1955-08-31 | Aug | Feyenoord | — | 1 | — |
 Bernard DietzC | West Germany | Defender | 1948-03-22 | Mar | MSV Duisburg | — | 1 | — |
| Bernd Förster | West Germany | Defender | 1956-05-03 | May | VfB Stuttgart | — | 1 | — |
| Bernd Schuster | West Germany | Midfielder | 1959-12-22 | Dec | 1. FC Köln | — | 1 | — |
| Bernhard Cullmann | West Germany | Defender | 1949-11-01 | Nov | 1. FC Köln | — | 1 | — |
| Caspar Memering | West Germany | Midfielder | 1953-06-01 | Jun | Hamburger SV | — | 1 | — |
| Charalambos Xanthopoulos | Greece | Midfielder | 1956-08-29 | Aug | Iraklis | — | 1 | — |
| Christos Ardizoglou | Greece | Attacker | 1953-05-25 | May | AEK Athens | — | 1 | — |
| Christos Terzanidis | Greece | Midfielder | 1945-02-13 | Feb | Panathinaikos | — | 1 | — |
| Claudio Gentile | Italy | Defender | 1953-09-27 | Sep | Juventus | — | 1 | — |
| Cundi | Spain | Defender | 1955-04-13 | Apr | Sporting Gijón | — | 1 | — |
| Dani | Spain | Attacker | 1951-06-28 | Jun | Athletic Bilbao | — | 1 | — |
 Dave Watson | England | Defender | 1946-10-05 | Oct | Southampton | — | 1 | — |
| David Johnson | England | Attacker | 1951-10-23 | Oct | Liverpool | — | 1 | — |
| Dick Nanninga | Netherlands | Attacker | 1949-01-17 | Jan | Roda JC | — | 1 | — |
| Dino ZoffC | Italy | Goalkeeper | 1942-02-28 | Feb | Juventus | — | 1 | — |
| Dinos Kouis | Greece | Midfielder | 1955-06-05 | Jun | Aris | — | 1 | — |
| Dušan Kéketi | Czechoslovakia | Goalkeeper | 1951-03-24 | Mar | Spartak Trnava | — | 1 | — |
| Eike Immel | West Germany | Goalkeeper | 1960-11-27 | Nov | Borussia Dortmund | — | 1 | — |
| Eleftherios Poupakis | Greece | Goalkeeper | 1946-12-28 | Dec | OFI | — | 1 | — |
| Emlyn Hughes | England | Defender | 1947-08-28 | Aug | Wolverhampton Wanderers | — | 1 | — |
| Enrique Saura | Spain | Midfielder | 1954-08-02 | Aug | Valencia | — | 1 | — |
 Eric Gerets | Belgium | Defender | 1954-05-18 | May | Standard Liège | — | 1 | — |
| Ernie Brandts | Netherlands | Defender | 1956-02-03 | Feb | PSV Eindhoven | — | 1 | — |
| Erwin Vandenbergh | Belgium | Attacker | 1959-01-26 | Jan | Lierse | — | 1 | — |
| Felix Magath | West Germany | Midfielder | 1953-07-26 | Jul | Hamburger SV | — | 1 | — |
| Francesco Graziani | Italy | Attacker | 1952-12-16 | Dec | Torino | — | 1 | — |
| Francisco Javier Uría | Spain | Defender | 1950-02-01 | Feb | Sporting Gijón | — | 1 | — |
| Francisco José Carrasco | Spain | Attacker | 1959-03-06 | Mar | Barcelona | — | 1 | — |
| Franco Baresi | Italy | Defender | 1960-05-08 | May | Milan | — | 1 | — |
| Franco Causio | Italy | Attacker | 1949-02-01 | Feb | Juventus | — | 1 | — |
| François Van der Elst | Belgium | Attacker | 1954-12-01 | Dec | Anderlecht | — | 1 | — |
| Frans Thijssen | Netherlands | Midfielder | 1952-01-23 | Jan | Ipswich Town | — | 1 | — |
| František Štambachr | Czechoslovakia | Defender | 1953-02-13 | Feb | Dukla Prague | — | 1 | — |
| Fulvio Collovati | Italy | Defender | 1957-05-09 | May | Milan | — | 1 | — |
| Gabriele Oriali | Italy | Midfielder | 1952-11-25 | Nov | Internazionale | — | 1 | — |
| Gaetano Scirea | Italy | Defender | 1953-05-25 | May | Juventus | — | 1 | — |
| Garry Birtles | England | Attacker | 1956-07-27 | Jul | Nottingham Forest | — | 1 | — |
| Gerard Plessers | Belgium | Defender | 1959-03-30 | Mar | Standard Liège | — | 1 | — |
| Giancarlo Antognoni | Italy | Midfielder | 1954-04-01 | Apr | Fiorentina | — | 1 | — |
| Giorgos Foiros | Greece | Defender | 1953-11-08 | Nov | Aris | — | 1 | — |
| Giorgos Kostikos | Greece | Attacker | 1958-04-26 | Apr | PAOK | — | 1 | — |
| Giorgos KoudasC | Greece | Midfielder | 1946-11-23 | Nov | PAOK | — | 1 | — |
| Giovanni Galli | Italy | Goalkeeper | 1958-04-29 | Apr | Fiorentina | — | 1 | — |
| Giuseppe Baresi | Italy | Defender | 1958-02-07 | Feb | Internazionale | — | 1 | — |
| Glenn Hoddle | England | Midfielder | 1957-10-27 | Oct | Tottenham Hotspur | — | 1 | — |
| Guy Dardenne | Belgium | Midfielder | 1954-10-19 | Oct | Lokeren | — | 1 | — |
| Hans van Breukelen | Netherlands | Goalkeeper | 1956-10-04 | Oct | Utrecht | — | 1 | — |
| Hans-Peter Briegel | West Germany | Defender | 1955-10-11 | Oct | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | — | 1 | — |
| Hansi Müller | West Germany | Midfielder | 1957-07-27 | Jul | VfB Stuttgart | — | 1 | — |
| Harald Schumacher | West Germany | Goalkeeper | 1954-03-06 | Mar | 1. FC Köln | — | 1 | — |
| Heini Otto | Netherlands | Midfielder | 1954-08-24 | Aug | Twente | — | 1 | — |
| Herbert Zimmermann | West Germany | Defender | 1954-07-01 | Jul | 1. FC Köln | — | 1 | — |
| Horst Hrubesch | West Germany | Attacker | 1951-04-17 | Apr | Hamburger SV | — | 1 | — |
| Hugo Hovenkamp | Netherlands | Defender | 1950-10-05 | Oct | AZ | — | 1 | — |
| Huub Stevens | Netherlands | Defender | 1953-11-29 | Nov | PSV Eindhoven | — | 1 | — |
| Ioannis Damanakis | Greece | Midfielder | 1952-10-02 | Oct | PAOK | — | 1 | — |
| Ioannis Gounaris | Greece | Defender | 1952-07-06 | Jul | PAOK | — | 1 | — |
| Ioannis Kyrastas | Greece | Defender | 1952-10-25 | Oct | Olympiacos | — | 1 | — |
| Ivano Bordon | Italy | Goalkeeper | 1951-04-13 | Apr | Internazionale | — | 1 | — |
| Jan Berger | Czechoslovakia | Midfielder | 1955-11-27 | Nov | Dukla Prague | — | 1 | — |
| Jan Ceulemans | Belgium | Midfielder | 1957-02-28 | Feb | Club Brugge | — | 1 | — |
| Jan Fiala | Czechoslovakia | Defender | 1956-05-19 | May | Dukla Prague | — | 1 | — |
| Ján Kozák | Czechoslovakia | Midfielder | 1954-04-17 | Apr | Lokomotiva Košice | — | 1 | — |
| Jan Poortvliet | Netherlands | Defender | 1955-09-21 | Sep | PSV Eindhoven | — | 1 | — |
| Jaroslav Netolička | Czechoslovakia | Goalkeeper | 1954-03-03 | Mar | Dukla Prague | — | 1 | — |
| Jaroslav Pollák | Czechoslovakia | Midfielder | 1947-07-11 | Jul | Sparta Prague | — | 1 | — |
| Jean-Marie Pfaff | Belgium | Goalkeeper | 1953-12-04 | Dec | Beveren | — | 1 | — |
| Jesús María Satrústegui | Spain | Attacker | 1954-02-12 | Feb | Real Sociedad | — | 1 | — |
| Jesús María Zamora | Spain | Midfielder | 1955-01-01 | Jan | Real Sociedad | — | 1 | — |
| Joe Corrigan | England | Goalkeeper | 1948-11-18 | Nov | Manchester City | — | 1 | — |
| John Metgod | Netherlands | Defender | 1958-02-27 | Feb | AZ | — | 1 | — |
| Johnny Rep | Netherlands | Attacker | 1951-11-25 | Nov | Saint-Étienne | — | 1 | — |
| Jos Heyligen | Belgium | Midfielder | 1947-06-30 | Jun | Beringen | — | 1 | — |
| José Diego | Spain | Midfielder | 1954-11-21 | Nov | Real Sociedad | — | 1 | — |
| José Ramón Alexanko | Spain | Defender | 1956-05-19 | May | Athletic Bilbao | — | 1 | — |
| Jozef Barmoš | Czechoslovakia | Defender | 1954-08-28 | Aug | Inter Bratislava | — | 1 | — |
| Juan Manuel AsensiC | Spain | Midfielder | 1949-09-23 | Sep | Barcelona | — | 1 | — |
| Juanito | Spain | Attacker | 1954-11-10 | Nov | Real Madrid | — | 1 | — |
| Julien CoolsC | Belgium | Midfielder | 1947-02-13 | Feb | K. Beerschot | — | 1 | — |
| Julio Cardeñosa | Spain | Midfielder | 1949-10-27 | Oct | Real Betis | — | 1 | — |
| Karl Del'Haye | West Germany | Midfielder | 1955-08-18 | Aug | Borussia Mönchengladbach | — | 1 | — |
| Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | West Germany | Attacker | 1955-09-25 | Sep | Bayern Munich | — | 1 | — |
| Karlheinz Förster | West Germany | Defender | 1958-07-25 | Jul | VfB Stuttgart | — | 1 | — |
| Karol Dobiaš | Czechoslovakia | Defender | 1947-12-18 | Dec | Bohemians Prague | — | 1 | — |
| Kees Kist | Netherlands | Attacker | 1952-08-07 | Aug | AZ | — | 1 | — |
| Kenny Sansom | England | Defender | 1958-09-26 | Sep | Crystal Palace | — | 1 | — |
| Kevin KeeganC | England | Attacker | 1951-02-14 | Feb | Hamburger SV | — | 1 | — |
| Klaus Allofs | West Germany | Attacker | 1956-12-05 | Dec | Fortuna Düsseldorf | — | 1 | — |
| Koloman Gögh | Czechoslovakia | Defender | 1948-01-07 | Jan | Slovan Bratislava | — | 1 | — |
| Konstantinos Iosifidis | Greece | Defender | 1952-01-14 | Jan | PAOK | — | 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