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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Squads by position

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By confederation

Where the players come from

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Hemisphere split

Northern vs Southern hemisphere national teams

Northern170 (61.2%)

Southern108 (38.8%)

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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 + 1 GOAT marker

Lev Yashin· Oct

Modal month: Jan — 5 players (17.9%). Range: 0—5.

Defenders

Birth-month distribution + 2 GOAT markers

Franz Beckenbauer· Sep

Fabio Cannavaro· Sep

Modal month: Jan — 8 players (12.5%). Range: 3—8.

Midfielders

Birth-month distribution + 10 GOAT markers

Bobby Charlton· Oct

Diego Maradona· Oct

Michel Platini· Jun

Zico· Mar

Zinedine Zidane· Jun

Ronaldinho· Mar

Kaká· Apr

Andrés Iniesta· May

Xavi Hernández· Jan

Luka Modrić· Sep

Modal month: Jan — 7 players (11.3%). Range: 1—7.

Attackers

Birth-month distribution + 17 GOAT markers

Pelé· Oct

Garrincha· Oct

Eusébio· Jan

Gerd Müller· Nov

Johan Cruyff· Apr

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge· Sep

Paolo Rossi· Sep

Romário· Jan

Ronaldo (R9)· Sep

Cristiano Ronaldo· Feb

Lionel Messi· Jun

Kylian Mbappé· Dec

Neymar· Feb

Robert Lewandowski· Aug

Mohamed Salah· Jun

Karim Benzema· Dec

Vinícius Jr· Jul

Modal month: May — 16 players (14.3%). Range: 3—16.

All players

Every player from the 1950 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.

NameCountryPositionBirth yearBirth monthHemisphereClub country

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Player	Country	Position	DOB	Birth month	Club	Ht	WCs	Goals
Ademir	Brazil	Attacker	1922-11-06	Nov	Vasco da Gama	—	1	9
Oscar Míguez	Uruguay	Attacker	1927-12-05	Dec	Peñarol	—	1	5
Alcides Ghiggia	Uruguay	Attacker	1926-12-22	Dec	Peñarol	169cm	1	4
Chico	Brazil	Attacker	1922-01-07	Jan	Vasco da Gama	—	1	4
Estanislau Basora	Spain	Attacker	1926-11-18	Nov	Barcelona	168cm	1	4
Telmo Zarra	Spain	Attacker	1921-01-20	Jan	Atlético Bilbao	180cm	1	4
Juan Alberto Schiaffino	Uruguay	Attacker	1925-07-28	Jul	Peñarol	185cm	1	3
Karl-Erik Palmér	Sweden	Attacker	1929-04-17	Apr	Malmö FF	168cm	1	3
Stig Sundqvist	Sweden	Attacker	1922-07-19	Jul	IFK Norrköping	—	1	3
Atilio Cremaschi	Chile	Attacker	1923-03-08	Mar	Unión Española	—	1	2
Baltazar	Brazil	Attacker	1926-01-14	Jan	Corinthians	—	1	2
Hasse Jeppson	Sweden	Attacker	1925-05-10	May	Djurgårdens IF	—	1	2
Jacques Fatton	Switzerland	Attacker	1925-12-19	Dec	Servette	—	1	2
Jair	Brazil	Attacker	1921-03-21	Mar	Palmeiras	—	1	2
Kosta Tomašević	Yugoslavia	Attacker	1923-07-25	Jul	Red Star Belgrade	—	1	2
Riccardo CarapelleseC	Italy	Attacker	1922-07-01	Jul	Torino	—	1	2
Silvestre Igoa	Spain	Attacker	1920-09-05	Sep	Valencia	—	1	2
Sune Andersson	Sweden	Midfielder	1921-02-22	Feb	AIK	—	1	2
Željko Čajkovski	Yugoslavia	Attacker	1925-05-05	May	Dinamo Zagreb	178cm	1	2
Zizinho	Brazil	Attacker	1922-09-14	Sep	Bangu	169cm	1	2
Alfredo	Brazil	Attacker	1920-01-01	Jan	Vasco da Gama	—	1	1
Andrés Prieto	Chile	Attacker	1928-12-19	Dec	Universidad Católica	—	1	1
Atilio López	Paraguay	Attacker	1925-02-05	Feb	Guarani	—	1	1
Bror Mellberg	Sweden	Attacker	1923-12-09	Dec	AIK	182cm	1	1
César López Fretes	Paraguay	Attacker	1923-03-21	Mar	Olimpia	—	1	1
Charles Antenen	Switzerland	Attacker	1929-11-03	Nov	La Chaux-de-Fonds	174cm	1	1
Egisto Pandolfini	Italy	Attacker	1926-02-19	Feb	Fiorentina	—	1	1
Ermes Muccinelli	Italy	Attacker	1927-07-28	Jul	Juventus	—	1	1
Ernesto Vidal	Uruguay	Attacker	1921-11-15	Nov	Peñarol	—	1	1
Fernando Riera	Chile	Attacker	1920-06-27	Jun	Universidad Católica	—	1	1
Frank Wallace	United States	Attacker	1922-07-15	Jul	St. Louis Simpkins-Ford	—	1	1
Friaça	Brazil	Attacker	1924-10-20	Oct	São Paulo	178cm	1	1
George Robledo	Chile	Attacker	1926-04-14	Apr	Newcastle United	175cm	1	1
Gino Pariani	United States	Attacker	1928-02-21	Feb	St. Louis Simpkins-Ford	173cm	1	1
Héctor Ortiz	Mexico	Midfielder	1928-12-20	Dec	Marte	—	1	1
Horacio Casarín	Mexico	Attacker	1918-05-25	May	Real España	173cm	1	1
Joe Gaetjens	United States	Attacker	1924-03-19	Mar	Brookhattan	178cm	1	1
Joe Maca	United States	Defender	1920-09-28	Sep	Brooklyn Hispano	—	1	1
Julio Pérez	Uruguay	Attacker	1926-06-19	Jun	River Plate	—	1	1
Maneca	Brazil	Attacker	1926-01-28	Jan	Vasco da Gama	—	1	1
Obdulio VarelaC	Uruguay	Midfielder	1917-09-20	Sep	Peñarol	183cm	1	1
Rajko MitićC	Yugoslavia	Attacker	1922-09-06	Sep	Red Star Belgrade	—	1	1
René Bader	Switzerland	Attacker	1922-08-07	Aug	Basel	—	1	1
Stan Mortensen	England	Attacker	1921-05-26	May	Blackpool	—	1	1
Stjepan Bobek	Yugoslavia	Attacker	1923-12-03	Dec	Partizan Belgrade	—	1	1
Tihomir Ognjanov	Yugoslavia	Attacker	1927-03-02	Mar	Red Star Belgrade	—	1	1
Wilf Mannion	England	Attacker	1918-05-16	May	Middlesbrough	—	1	1
Adam Wolanin	United States	Attacker	1919-11-13	Nov	Chicago Eagles	—	1	—
Adãozinho	Brazil	Attacker	1923-04-02	Apr	Internacional	—	1	—
Adolphe Hug	Switzerland	Goalkeeper	1923-09-23	Sep	Urania Genf	—	1	—
Agustín Gaínza	Spain	Attacker	1922-05-28	May	Atlético Bilbao	172cm	1	—
Alberto Achá	Bolivia	Defender	1917-02-18	Feb	The Strongest	173cm	1	—
Alberto Aparicio	Bolivia	Midfielder	1923-11-11	Nov	Ferroviario La Paz	—	1	—
Alberto González	Paraguay	Defender	—	—	Olimpia	—	1	—
Aldo Campatelli	Italy	Attacker	1919-04-07	Apr	Internazionale	175cm	1	—
Aleksandar Atanacković	Yugoslavia	Midfielder	1920-04-29	Apr	Partizan Belgrade	—	1	—
Alf Ramsey	England	Defender	1920-01-22	Jan	Tottenham Hotspur	173cm	1	—
Alfonso Montemayor	Mexico	Defender	1922-04-28	Apr	León	—	1	—
Alfonso Silva	Spain	Midfielder	1926-03-19	Mar	Atlético Madrid	—	1	—
Alfred BickelC	Switzerland	Attacker	1918-05-02	May	Grasshoppers Club Zurich	—	1	—
Amedeo Amadei	Italy	Attacker	1921-07-26	Jul	Internazionale	173cm	1	—
André Neury	Switzerland	Defender	1921-09-03	Sep	FC Locarno	173cm	1	—
Ángel Berni	Paraguay	Attacker	1931-01-09	Jan	Sportivo Luqueño	—	1	—
Aníbal Paz	Uruguay	Goalkeeper	1917-05-21	May	Nacional	—	1	—
Antoni Ramallets	Spain	Goalkeeper	1924-06-04	Jun	Barcelona	182cm	1	—
Antonio Cabrera	Paraguay	Defender	—	—	Libertad	—	1	—
Antonio Carbajal	Mexico	Goalkeeper	1929-06-07	Jun	Real España	181cm	1	—
Antonio Flores	Mexico	Midfielder	1923-07-13	Jul	Atlas	—	1	—
Antonio Greco	Bolivia	Defender	1923-09-17	Sep	Litoral	—	1	—
Antonio Puchades	Spain	Midfielder	1925-06-04	Jun	Valencia	179cm	1	—
Antonio Valencia	Bolivia	Midfielder	1925-05-10	May	Club Bolívar	180cm	1	—
Armando González	Paraguay	Midfielder	—	—	Guaraní	—	1	—
Arne Månsson	Sweden	Defender	1925-11-11	Nov	Malmö FF	—	1	—
Arturo Farías	Chile	Defender	1927-09-01	Sep	Colo-Colo	—	1	—
Attilio Giovannini	Italy	Defender	1924-07-30	Jul	Internazionale	175cm	1	—
AugustoC	Brazil	Defender	1920-10-22	Oct	Vasco da Gama	—	1	—
Augusto Magli	Italy	Midfielder	1923-03-09	Mar	Fiorentina	178cm	1	—
Barbosa	Brazil	Goalkeeper	1921-03-27	Mar	Vasco da Gama	—	1	—
Bauer	Brazil	Midfielder	1925-11-21	Nov	São Paulo	—	1	—
Bela Palfi	Yugoslavia	Midfielder	1923-02-16	Feb	Red Star Belgrade	—	1	—
Benedicto Godoy Véizaga	Bolivia	Attacker	1924-07-28	Jul	Ferroviario La Paz	—	1	—
Benigno Gutiérrez	Bolivia	Attacker	1925-09-01	Sep	Litoral	—	1	—
Benito Lorenzi	Italy	Attacker	1925-12-20	Dec	Internazionale	—	1	—
Benjamin Maldonado	Bolivia	Attacker	1928-01-04	Jan	San Jose de Oruro	—	1	—
Benny McLaughlin	United States	Attacker	1928-04-10	Apr	Philadelphia Nationals	173cm	1	—
Bernard Vukas	Yugoslavia	Attacker	1927-05-01	May	Hajduk Split	171cm	1	—
Bert Williams	England	Goalkeeper	1920-01-31	Jan	Wolverhampton Wanderers	—	1	—
Bigode	Brazil	Midfielder	1922-04-04	Apr	Flamengo	—	1	—
Bill Eckersley	England	Defender	1925-07-16	Jul	Blackburn Rovers	—	1	—
Bill Nicholson	England	Midfielder	1919-01-26	Jan	Tottenham Hotspur	—	1	—
Billy WrightC	England	Midfielder	1924-02-06	Feb	Wolverhampton Wanderers	—	1	—
Börje Tapper	Sweden	Attacker	1922-05-20	May	Malmö FF	—	1	—
Božo Broketa	Yugoslavia	Defender	1921-12-24	Dec	Hajduk Split	—	1	—
Branko Stanković	Yugoslavia	Defender	1921-10-31	Oct	Red Star Belgrade	—	1	—
Carlo Annovazzi	Italy	Defender	1925-05-24	May	Milan	—	1	—
Carlo Parola	Italy	Midfielder	1921-09-20	Sep	Juventus	176cm	1	—
Carlos Guevara	Mexico	Midfielder	1930-04-03	Apr	Asturias	—	1	—
Carlos Ibáñez	Chile	Attacker	1930-11-28	Nov	Magallanes	—	1	—
Carlos Rojas	Chile	Midfielder	1928-10-02	Oct	Unión Española	—	1	—
Carlos Romero	Uruguay	Attacker	1927-09-07	Sep	Danubio	—	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	Goals
Pelé	Brazil	Attacker	1940-10-23	Oct	—	—	—
Garrincha	Brazil	Attacker	1933-10-28	Oct	—	—	—
Eusébio	Portugal	Attacker	1942-01-25	Jan	—	—	—
Bobby Charlton	England	Midfielder	1937-10-11	Oct	—	—	—
Lev Yashin	Soviet Union	Goalkeeper	1929-10-22	Oct	—	—	—
Gerd Müller	West Germany	Attacker	1945-11-03	Nov	—	—	—
Johan Cruyff	Netherlands	Attacker	1947-04-25	Apr	—	—	—
Franz Beckenbauer	West Germany	Defender	1945-09-11	Sep	—	—	—
Diego Maradona	Argentina	Midfielder	1960-10-30	Oct	—	—	—
Michel Platini	France	Midfielder	1955-06-21	Jun	—	—	—
Zico	Brazil	Midfielder	1953-03-03	Mar	—	—	—
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	West Germany	Attacker	1955-09-25	Sep	—	—	—
Paolo Rossi	Italy	Attacker	1956-09-23	Sep	—	—	—
Romário	Brazil	Attacker	1966-01-29	Jan	—	—	—
Ronaldo (R9)	Brazil	Attacker	1976-09-22	Sep	—	—	—
Zinedine Zidane	France	Midfielder	1972-06-23	Jun	—	—	—
Ronaldinho	Brazil	Midfielder	1980-03-21	Mar	—	—	—
Kaká	Brazil	Midfielder	1982-04-22	Apr	—	—	—
Fabio Cannavaro	Italy	Defender	1973-09-13	Sep	—	—	—
Andrés Iniesta	Spain	Midfielder	1984-05-11	May	—	—	—
Xavi Hernández	Spain	Midfielder	1980-01-25	Jan	—	—	—
Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	Attacker	1985-02-05	Feb	—	—	—
Lionel Messi	Argentina	Attacker	1987-06-24	Jun	—	—	—
Luka Modrić	Croatia	Midfielder	1985-09-09	Sep	—	—	—
Kylian Mbappé	France	Attacker	1998-12-20	Dec	—	—	—
Neymar	Brazil	Attacker	1992-02-05	Feb	—	—	—
Robert Lewandowski	Poland	Attacker	1988-08-21	Aug	—	—	—
Mohamed Salah	Egypt	Attacker	1992-06-15	Jun	—	—	—
Karim Benzema	France	Attacker	1987-12-19	Dec	—	—	—
Vinícius Jr	Brazil	Attacker	2000-07-12	Jul	—	—	—

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