Players analysis, in distribution.
What month were most goalkeepers born? Do attackers cluster differently from defenders? Where do the GOATs (Pelé, Maradona, Cruyff, Messi, CR7, R9…) fall on the curve — on the modal month or as outliers?
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Players in the selected window, split by role
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Where the players come from
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Hemisphere split
Northern vs Southern hemisphere national teams
Northern242 (100.0%)
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ApiTeam.country × hemisphere classification
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 + 1 GOAT marker
Lev Yashin· OctModal month: Feb — 5 players (15.2%). Range: 0—5.
Defenders
Birth-month distribution + 2 GOAT markers
Franz Beckenbauer· SepFabio Cannavaro· SepModal month: Oct — 12 players (16.4%). Range: 3—12.
Midfielders
Birth-month distribution + 10 GOAT markers
Bobby Charlton· OctDiego Maradona· OctMichel Platini· JunZico· MarZinedine Zidane· JunRonaldinho· MarKaká· AprAndrés Iniesta· MayXavi Hernández· JanLuka Modrić· SepModal month: Sep — 11 players (14.5%). Range: 2—11.
Attackers
Birth-month distribution + 17 GOAT markers
Pelé· OctGarrincha· OctEusébio· JanGerd Müller· NovJohan Cruyff· AprKarl-Heinz Rummenigge· SepPaolo Rossi· SepRomário· JanRonaldo (R9)· SepCristiano Ronaldo· FebLionel Messi· JunKylian Mbappé· DecNeymar· FebRobert Lewandowski· AugMohamed Salah· JunKarim Benzema· DecVinícius Jr· JulModal month: Oct — 8 players (13.6%). Range: 0—8.
All players· Northern hemisphere only
Every player from the 1974 squad on Northern-hemisphere national teams. 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 | WCs | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grzegorz Lato | Poland | Attacker | 1950-04-08 | Apr | 1 | 7 |
| Andrzej Szarmach | Poland | Attacker | 1950-10-03 | Oct | 1 | 5 |
| Johan Neeskens | Netherlands | Midfielder | 1951-09-15 | Sep | 1 | 5 |
| Gerd Müller | West Germany | Attacker | 1945-11-03 | Nov | 1 | 4 |
| Johnny Rep | Netherlands | Attacker | 1951-11-25 | Nov | 1 | 4 |
 Ralf Edström | Sweden | Attacker | 1952-10-07 | Oct | 1 | 4 |
 Dušan Bajević | Yugoslavia | Attacker | 1948-12-10 | Dec | 1 | 3 |
| Johan CruyffC | Netherlands | Midfielder | 1947-04-25 | Apr | 1 | 3 |
| Kazimierz DeynaC | Poland | Midfielder | 1947-10-23 | Oct | 1 | 3 |
| Paul Breitner | West Germany | Defender | 1951-09-05 | Sep | 1 | 3 |
 Emmanuel Sanon | Haiti | Attacker | 1951-06-25 | Jun | 1 | 2 |
| Ivica Šurjak | Yugoslavia | Attacker | 1953-03-23 | Mar | 1 | 2 |
 Joachim Streich | East Germany | Attacker | 1951-04-13 | Apr | 1 | 2 |
 Joe Jordan | Scotland | Attacker | 1951-12-15 | Dec | 1 | 2 |
| Roland Sandberg | Sweden | Attacker | 1946-12-16 | Dec | 1 | 2 |
| Ruud Krol | Netherlands | Defender | 1949-03-24 | Mar | 1 | 2 |
| Stanislav Karasi | Yugoslavia | Attacker | 1946-11-08 | Nov | 1 | 2 |
| Wolfgang Overath | West Germany | Midfielder | 1943-09-29 | Sep | 1 | 2 |
| Bernhard Cullmann | West Germany | Midfielder | 1949-11-01 | Nov | 1 | 1 |
| Branko Oblak | Yugoslavia | Midfielder | 1947-05-27 | May | 1 | 1 |
| Conny Torstensson | Sweden | Midfielder | 1949-08-28 | Aug | 1 | 1 |
| Dragan DžajićC | Yugoslavia | Attacker | 1946-05-30 | May | 1 | 1 |
| Fabio Capello | Italy | Midfielder | 1946-06-18 | Jun | 1 | 1 |
| Gianni Rivera | Italy | Midfielder | 1943-08-18 | Aug | 1 | 1 |
 Hristo BonevC | Bulgaria | Attacker | 1947-02-03 | Feb | 1 | 1 |
| Ilija Petković | Yugoslavia | Attacker | 1945-09-22 | Sep | 1 | 1 |
| Jerzy Gorgoń | Poland | Defender | 1949-07-18 | Jul | 1 | 1 |
| Josip Katalinski | Yugoslavia | Defender | 1948-05-12 | May | 1 | 1 |
| Jürgen Grabowski | West Germany | Attacker | 1944-07-07 | Jul | 1 | 1 |
| Jürgen Sparwasser | East Germany | Midfielder | 1948-06-04 | Jun | 1 | 1 |
| Martin Hoffmann | East Germany | Attacker | 1955-03-22 | Mar | 1 | 1 |
| Peter Lorimer | Scotland | Attacker | 1946-12-14 | Dec | 1 | 1 |
| Pietro Anastasi | Italy | Attacker | 1948-04-07 | Apr | 1 | 1 |
| Rainer Bonhof | West Germany | Midfielder | 1952-03-29 | Mar | 1 | 1 |
| Rob Rensenbrink | Netherlands | Attacker | 1947-07-03 | Jul | 1 | 1 |
| Romeo Benetti | Italy | Midfielder | 1945-10-20 | Oct | 1 | 1 |
| Theo de Jong | Netherlands | Midfielder | 1947-08-11 | Aug | 1 | 1 |
| Uli Hoeneß | West Germany | Attacker | 1952-01-05 | Jan | 1 | 1 |
| Vladislav Bogićević | Yugoslavia | Midfielder | 1950-11-07 | Nov | 1 | 1 |
| Adam Musiał | Poland | Defender | 1948-12-18 | Dec | 1 | — |
| Andrzej Fischer | Poland | Goalkeeper | 1952-01-15 | Jan | 1 | — |
| Antoni Szymanowski | Poland | Defender | 1951-01-13 | Jan | 1 | — |
| Antonio Juliano | Italy | Midfielder | 1942-12-26 | Dec | 1 | — |
| Arie Haan | Netherlands | Midfielder | 1948-11-16 | Nov | 1 | — |
| Arsène Auguste | Haiti | Defender | 1951-02-03 | Feb | 1 | — |
| Asparuh Nikodimov | Bulgaria | Midfielder | 1945-08-21 | Aug | 1 | — |
| Atanas Mihailov | Bulgaria | Attacker | 1949-07-05 | Jul | 1 | — |
| Benno Magnusson | Sweden | Midfielder | 1953-02-04 | Feb | 1 | — |
| Bernd BranschC | East Germany | Defender | 1944-09-24 | Sep | 1 | — |
| Bernd Hölzenbein | West Germany | Midfielder | 1946-03-09 | Mar | 1 | — |
| Berti Vogts | West Germany | Defender | 1946-12-30 | Dec | 1 | — |
| Billy BremnerC | Scotland | Midfielder | 1942-12-09 | Dec | 1 | — |
| Björn Andersson | Sweden | Defender | 1951-07-20 | Jul | 1 | — |
| Björn Nordqvist | Sweden | Defender | 1942-10-06 | Oct | 1 | — |
| Bo LarssonC | Sweden | Midfielder | 1944-05-05 | May | 1 | — |
| Bozhidar Grigorov | Bulgaria | Attacker | 1945-07-27 | Jul | 1 | — |
| Bozhil Kolev | Bulgaria | Defender | 1949-05-20 | May | 1 | — |
 Bwanga Tshimen | Zaire | Defender | 1949-01-04 | Jan | 1 | — |
| Claes Cronqvist | Sweden | Midfielder | 1944-10-15 | Oct | 1 | — |
| Claude Barthélemy | Haiti | Attacker | 1945-05-09 | May | 1 | — |
| Danilo Popivoda | Yugoslavia | Attacker | 1947-05-01 | May | 1 | — |
| Danny McGrain | Scotland | Defender | 1950-05-01 | May | 1 | — |
| David Harvey | Scotland | Goalkeeper | 1948-02-07 | Feb | 1 | — |
| David Hay | Scotland | Midfielder | 1948-01-29 | Jan | 1 | — |
| Denis Law | Scotland | Attacker | 1940-02-24 | Feb | 1 | — |
| Dieter Herzog | West Germany | Attacker | 1946-07-15 | Jul | 1 | — |
| Dimitar Penev | Bulgaria | Defender | 1945-07-12 | Jul | 1 | — |
| Dino Zoff | Italy | Goalkeeper | 1942-02-28 | Feb | 1 | — |
| Dobromir Zhechev | Bulgaria | Defender | 1942-11-12 | Nov | 1 | — |
| Donald Ford | Scotland | Midfielder | 1944-10-25 | Oct | 1 | — |
| Dražen Mužinić | Yugoslavia | Midfielder | 1953-01-25 | Jan | 1 | — |
| Eberhard Vogel | East Germany | Attacker | 1943-04-08 | Apr | 1 | — |
| Eddy Antoine | Haiti | Midfielder | 1949-08-27 | Aug | 1 | — |
| Eddy Treijtel | Netherlands | Goalkeeper | 1946-05-28 | May | 1 | — |
| Enrico Albertosi | Italy | Goalkeeper | 1939-11-02 | Nov | 1 | — |
| Enver Hadžiabdić | Yugoslavia | Defender | 1945-11-06 | Nov | 1 | — |
| Enver Marić | Yugoslavia | Goalkeeper | 1948-04-23 | Apr | 1 | — |
| Erich Hamann | East Germany | Midfielder | 1944-11-27 | Nov | 1 | — |
| Erich Schaedler | Scotland | Defender | 1949-08-06 | Aug | 1 | — |
| Ernst Jean-Joseph | Haiti | Midfielder | 1948-06-11 | Jun | 1 | — |
| Francesco Morini | Italy | Defender | 1944-08-12 | Aug | 1 | — |
| Franco Causio | Italy | Midfielder | 1949-02-01 | Feb | 1 | — |
| Franjo Vladić | Yugoslavia | Midfielder | 1951-10-19 | Oct | 1 | — |
| Franz BeckenbauerC | West Germany | Defender | 1945-09-11 | Sep | 1 | — |
| Fritz André | Haiti | Defender | 1946-09-18 | Sep | 1 | — |
| Fritz Leandré | Haiti | Attacker | 1948-03-13 | Mar | 1 | — |
| Georgi Denev | Bulgaria | Midfielder | 1950-04-18 | Apr | 1 | — |
| Gérard Joseph | Haiti | Goalkeeper | 1949-10-22 | Oct | 1 | — |
| Gerd Kische | East Germany | Defender | 1951-10-23 | Oct | 1 | — |
| Giacinto FacchettiC | Italy | Defender | 1942-07-18 | Jul | 1 | — |
| Gigi Riva | Italy | Attacker | 1944-11-07 | Nov | 1 | — |
| Giorgio Chinaglia | Italy | Attacker | 1947-01-24 | Jan | 1 | — |
| Giuseppe Sabadini | Italy | Defender | 1949-03-26 | Mar | 1 | — |
| Giuseppe Wilson | Italy | Defender | 1945-10-27 | Oct | 1 | — |
| Göran Hagberg | Sweden | Goalkeeper | 1947-11-08 | Nov | 1 | — |
| Gordon McQueen | Scotland | Defender | 1952-06-26 | Jun | 1 | — |
| Günter Netzer | West Germany | Midfielder | 1944-09-14 | Sep | 1 | — |
| Guy François | Haiti | Midfielder | 1947-09-18 | Sep | 1 | — |
| Guy Saint-Vil | Haiti | Attacker | 1942-10-21 | Oct | 1 | — |
| Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck | West Germany | Defender | 1948-04-03 | Apr | 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 | WCs | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pelé | Brazil | Attacker | 1940-10-23 | Oct | 0 | — |
| Garrincha | Brazil | Attacker | 1933-10-28 | Oct | 0 | — |
| Eusébio | Portugal | Attacker | 1942-01-25 | Jan | 0 | — |
| Bobby Charlton | England | Midfielder | 1937-10-11 | Oct | 0 | — |
| Lev Yashin | Soviet Union | Goalkeeper | 1929-10-22 | Oct | 0 | — |
| Gerd Müller | West Germany | Attacker | 1945-11-03 | Nov | 0 | — |
| Johan Cruyff | Netherlands | Attacker | 1947-04-25 | Apr | 0 | — |
| Franz Beckenbauer | West Germany | Defender | 1945-09-11 | Sep | 0 | — |
| Diego Maradona | Argentina | Midfielder | 1960-10-30 | Oct | 0 | — |
| Michel Platini | France | Midfielder | 1955-06-21 | Jun | 0 | — |
| Zico | Brazil | Midfielder | 1953-03-03 | Mar | 0 | — |
| Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | West Germany | Attacker | 1955-09-25 | Sep | 0 | — |
| Paolo Rossi | Italy | Attacker | 1956-09-23 | Sep | 0 | — |
| Romário | Brazil | Attacker | 1966-01-29 | Jan | 0 | — |
| Ronaldo (R9) | Brazil | Attacker | 1976-09-22 | Sep | 0 | — |
| Zinedine Zidane | France | Midfielder | 1972-06-23 | Jun | 0 | — |
| Ronaldinho | Brazil | Midfielder | 1980-03-21 | Mar | 0 | — |
| Kaká | Brazil | Midfielder | 1982-04-22 | Apr | 0 | — |
| Fabio Cannavaro | Italy | Defender | 1973-09-13 | Sep | 0 | — |
| Andrés Iniesta | Spain | Midfielder | 1984-05-11 | May | 0 | — |
| Xavi Hernández | Spain | Midfielder | 1980-01-25 | Jan | 0 | — |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | Attacker | 1985-02-05 | Feb | 0 | — |
| Lionel Messi | Argentina | Attacker | 1987-06-24 | Jun | 0 | — |
| Luka Modrić | Croatia | Midfielder | 1985-09-09 | Sep | 0 | — |
| Kylian Mbappé | France | Attacker | 1998-12-20 | Dec | 0 | — |
| Neymar | Brazil | Attacker | 1992-02-05 | Feb | 0 | — |
| Robert Lewandowski | Poland | Attacker | 1988-08-21 | Aug | 0 | — |
| Mohamed Salah | Egypt | Attacker | 1992-06-15 | Jun | 0 | — |
| Karim Benzema | France | Attacker | 1987-12-19 | Dec | 0 | — |
| Vinícius Jr | Brazil | Attacker | 2000-07-12 | Jul | 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