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

Northern264 (75.0%)

Southern88 (25.0%)

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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: Aug — 7 players (16.3%). Range: 1—7.

Defenders

Birth-month distribution + 2 GOAT markers

Franz Beckenbauer· Sep

Fabio Cannavaro· Sep

Modal month: Jul — 13 players (11.7%). Range: 5—13.

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: Mar — 10 players (13.0%). Range: 3—10.

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: Jun — 15 players (12.4%). Range: 5—15.

All players

Every player from the 1962 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
Dražan Jerković	Yugoslavia	Attacker	1936-08-06	Aug	Dinamo Zagreb	186cm	1	4
Flórián Albert	Hungary	Attacker	1941-09-15	Sep	Ferencváros	181cm	1	4
Garrincha	Brazil	Attacker	1933-10-28	Oct	Botafogo	169cm	1	4
Leonel Sánchez	Chile	Attacker	1936-04-25	Apr	Universidad de Chile	174cm	1	4
Valentin Ivanov	Soviet Union	Attacker	1934-11-19	Nov	Torpedo Moscow	—	1	4
Vavá	Brazil	Attacker	1934-11-12	Nov	Palmeiras	174cm	1	4
Adolf Scherer	Czechoslovakia	Attacker	1938-05-05	May	TJ Slovnaft Bratislava	—	1	3
Amarildo	Brazil	Attacker	1939-06-29	Jun	Botafogo	—	1	3
Lajos Tichy	Hungary	Midfielder	1935-03-21	Mar	Budapest Honvéd	—	1	3
Milan GalićC	Yugoslavia	Midfielder	1938-03-08	Mar	Partizan	173cm	1	3
Eladio Rojas	Chile	Midfielder	1934-11-08	Nov	Everton	181cm	1	2
Giacomo Bulgarelli	Italy	Midfielder	1940-10-24	Oct	Bologna	—	1	2
Igor Chislenko	Soviet Union	Midfielder	1939-09-08	Sep	Dynamo Moscow	171cm	1	2
Jaime Ramírez	Chile	Attacker	1931-08-14	Aug	Universidad de Chile	—	1	2
Jorge Toro	Chile	Midfielder	1939-01-10	Jan	Colo-Colo	172cm	1	2
José Sasía	Uruguay	Attacker	1933-12-27	Dec	Peñarol	181cm	1	2
Ron Flowers	England	Midfielder	1934-07-28	Jul	Wolverhampton Wanderers	180cm	1	2
Uwe Seeler	West Germany	Attacker	1936-11-05	Nov	Hamburger SV	170cm	1	2
Viktor Ponedelnik	Soviet Union	Attacker	1937-05-22	May	SKA Rostov	180cm	1	2
Adelardo	Spain	Midfielder	1939-09-26	Sep	Atlético Madrid	—	1	1
Albert Brülls	West Germany	Midfielder	1937-03-26	Mar	Borussia Mönchengladbach	168cm	1	1
Aleksei Mamykin	Soviet Union	Attacker	1936-02-29	Feb	CSKA Moscow	180cm	1	1
Alfredo del Águila	Mexico	Attacker	1935-01-03	Jan	Toluca	—	1	1
Ángel Cabrera	Uruguay	Attacker	1939-10-09	Oct	Peñarol	183cm	1	1
Antonio Rada	Colombia	Attacker	1937-06-13	Jun	Deportivo Pereira	—	1	1
Bobby Charlton	England	Attacker	1937-10-11	Oct	Manchester United	173cm	1	1
Bruno Mora	Italy	Attacker	1937-03-29	Mar	Juventus	175cm	1	1
Ernő Solymosi	Hungary	Defender	1940-09-21	Sep	Újpest	186cm	1	1
Francisco ZuluagaC	Colombia	Defender	1929-02-04	Feb	Independiente Santa Fe	—	1	1
Georgi Sokolov	Bulgaria	Attacker	1942-06-19	Jun	Levski Sofia	—	1	1
Germán Aceros	Colombia	Attacker	1938-09-30	Sep	Deportivo Cali	—	1	1
Gerry Hitchens	England	Attacker	1934-10-08	Oct	Internazionale	—	1	1
Héctor Facundo	Argentina	Attacker	1937-11-02	Nov	San Lorenzo	—	1	1
Héctor Hernández	Mexico	Attacker	1935-12-06	Dec	Guadalajara	—	1	1
Heinz Schneiter	Switzerland	Defender	1935-04-12	Apr	Young Boys	—	1	1
Horst Szymaniak	West Germany	Midfielder	1934-08-29	Aug	Catania	—	1	1
Isidoro Díaz	Mexico	Attacker	1940-03-14	Mar	Guadalajara	168cm	1	1
Jimmy Greaves	England	Attacker	1940-02-20	Feb	Tottenham Hotspur	173cm	1	1
Joaquín Peiró	Spain	Midfielder	1936-01-29	Jan	Atlético Madrid	178cm	1	1
José Sanfilippo	Argentina	Attacker	1935-05-04	May	San Lorenzo	—	1	1
Josef Kadraba	Czechoslovakia	Attacker	1933-09-29	Sep	SONP Kladno	—	1	1
Josef Masopust	Czechoslovakia	Midfielder	1931-02-09	Feb	Dukla Prague	177cm	1	1
Josip Skoblar	Yugoslavia	Attacker	1941-03-12	Mar	OFK Belgrade	177cm	1	1
Jozef Štibrányi	Czechoslovakia	Midfielder	1940-04-11	Apr	Spartak Trnava	—	1	1
Luis Cubilla	Uruguay	Attacker	1940-03-28	Mar	Peñarol	—	1	1
Marcos Coll	Colombia	Midfielder	1935-08-23	Aug	América de Cali	172cm	1	1
Marino Klinger	Colombia	Attacker	1936-02-07	Feb	Millonarios	—	1	1
Mário Zagallo	Brazil	Attacker	1931-08-09	Aug	Botafogo	167cm	1	1
Pelé	Brazil	Attacker	1940-10-23	Oct	Santos	173cm	1	1
Petar Radaković	Yugoslavia	Midfielder	1937-02-22	Feb	Rijeka	—	1	1
Rolf Wüthrich	Switzerland	Attacker	1938-09-04	Sep	Servette	—	1	1
Václav Mašek	Czechoslovakia	Attacker	1941-03-21	Mar	Spartak Praha Sokolovo	—	1	1
Vojislav Melić	Yugoslavia	Midfielder	1940-01-05	Jan	Red Star Belgrade	174cm	1	1
Zito	Brazil	Midfielder	1932-08-18	Aug	Santos	—	1	1
Achito Vivas	Colombia	Goalkeeper	1934-03-01	Mar	Deportivo Pereira	—	1	—
Adán Godoy	Chile	Goalkeeper	1936-11-26	Nov	Santiago Morning	174cm	1	—
Alan Hodgkinson	England	Goalkeeper	1936-08-16	Aug	Sheffield United	175cm	1	—
Alan Peacock	England	Attacker	1937-10-29	Oct	Middlesbrough	—	1	—
Albert Shesternyov	Soviet Union	Midfielder	1941-06-20	Jun	CSKA Moscow	183cm	1	—
Alberto Baeza	Mexico	Attacker	1938-12-06	Dec	Necaxa	—	1	—
Alberto Fouilloux	Chile	Attacker	1940-11-22	Nov	Universidad Católica	—	1	—
Alberto González	Argentina	Attacker	1941-08-21	Aug	Boca Juniors	—	1	—
Alberto Mariotti	Argentina	Defender	1935-08-23	Aug	San Lorenzo	—	1	—
Alberto Sainz	Argentina	Defender	1937-12-13	Dec	River Plate	162cm	1	—
Aleksandar Ivoš	Yugoslavia	Midfielder	1931-06-28	Jun	Sloboda Tuzla	170cm	1	—
Aleksandar Kostov	Bulgaria	Midfielder	1938-03-05	Mar	Levski Sofia	—	1	—
Alfredo Di Stéfano	Spain	Attacker	1926-07-04	Jul	Real Madrid	178cm	1	—
Alfredo Hernández	Mexico	Attacker	1935-06-18	Jun	Monterrey	—	1	—
Altair	Brazil	Defender	1938-01-21	Jan	Fluminense	—	1	—
Anatoli Maslyonkin	Soviet Union	Defender	1930-06-26	Jun	Spartak Moscow	178cm	1	—
André Grobéty	Switzerland	Defender	1933-06-22	Jun	Lausanne-Sport	170cm	1	—
Andrej Kvašňák	Czechoslovakia	Attacker	1936-05-19	May	Spartak Praha Sokolovo	—	1	—
Andrija Anković	Yugoslavia	Attacker	1937-07-16	Jul	Hajduk Split	177cm	1	—
Angelo Sormani	Italy	Attacker	1939-07-03	Jul	Mantova	—	1	—
Aníbal Alzate	Colombia	Defender	1933-01-31	Jan	Deportes Tolima	—	1	—
Antal Szentmihályi	Hungary	Goalkeeper	1939-06-13	Jun	Vasas	—	1	—
Anton Allemann	Switzerland	Midfielder	1936-01-06	Jan	Mantova	170cm	1	—
Antonio CarbajalC	Mexico	Goalkeeper	1929-06-07	Jun	León	181cm	1	—
Antonio Jasso	Mexico	Attacker	1935-03-11	Mar	América	—	1	—
Antonio Mota	Mexico	Goalkeeper	1939-01-26	Jan	Oro	—	1	—
Antonio Permunian	Switzerland	Goalkeeper	1930-08-15	Aug	Luzern	—	1	—
Antonio Rattín	Argentina	Midfielder	1937-05-16	May	Boca Juniors	190cm	1	—
Antonio Roma	Argentina	Goalkeeper	1932-07-13	Jul	Boca Juniors	179cm	1	—
Armando Tobar	Chile	Attacker	1938-06-07	Jun	Universidad Católica	—	1	—
Arturo Chaires	Mexico	Defender	1937-03-14	Mar	Guadalajara	—	1	—
Béla Kuharszki	Hungary	Attacker	1940-04-20	Apr	Újpest	—	1	—
Bobby Moore	England	Defender	1941-04-12	Apr	West Ham United	178cm	1	—
Bobby Robson	England	Midfielder	1933-02-18	Feb	West Bromwich Albion	182cm	1	—
Braulio Musso	Chile	Attacker	1930-03-08	Mar	Universidad de Chile	170cm	1	—
Bryan Douglas	England	Midfielder	1934-05-27	May	Blackburn Rovers	—	1	—
Carlo Mattrel	Italy	Goalkeeper	1937-04-14	Apr	Palermo	183cm	1	—
Carlos Aponte	Colombia	Defender	1939-01-24	Jan	Independiente Santa Fe	—	1	—
Carlos Campos	Chile	Attacker	1937-02-14	Feb	Universidad de Chile	—	1	—
Carlos Contreras	Chile	Defender	1938-10-07	Oct	Universidad de Chile	—	1	—
Carmelo Cedrún	Spain	Goalkeeper	1930-12-06	Dec	Atlético Bilbao	184cm	1	—
Castilho	Brazil	Goalkeeper	1927-11-27	Nov	Fluminense	—	1	—
Cesare Maldini	Italy	Defender	1932-02-05	Feb	Milan	183cm	1	—
Charles AntenenC	Switzerland	Attacker	1929-11-03	Nov	La Chaux-de-Fonds	174cm	1	—
Coutinho	Brazil	Attacker	1943-06-11	Jun	Santos	—	1	—
Delio Gamboa	Colombia	Attacker	1936-01-28	Jan	Millonarios	—	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