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
Players in the selected window, split by role
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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%)
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: Jun — 6 players (13.0%). Range: 0—6.
Defenders
Birth-month distribution + 2 GOAT markers
Franz Beckenbauer· SepFabio Cannavaro· SepModal month: Mar — 12 players (11.2%). Range: 4—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: Jan — 14 players (13.9%). Range: 4—14.
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 — 12 players (12.2%). Range: 5—12.
All players
Every player from the 1966 squad. Search by name or filter by country, position, birth year or birth month. The C badge marks captains.
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| Player | Country | Position | DOB | Birth month | WCs | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eusébio | Portugal | Attacker | 1942-01-25 | Jan | 1 | 9 |
| Helmut Haller | West Germany | Attacker | 1939-07-21 | Jul | 1 | 6 |
 Ferenc Bene | Hungary | Attacker | 1944-12-17 | Dec | 1 | 4 |
| Franz Beckenbauer | West Germany | Midfielder | 1945-09-11 | Sep | 1 | 4 |
| Geoff Hurst | England | Attacker | 1941-12-08 | Dec | 1 | 4 |
| Valeriy Porkujan | Soviet Union | Attacker | 1944-10-04 | Oct | 1 | 4 |
| Bobby Charlton | England | Midfielder | 1937-10-11 | Oct | 1 | 3 |
| José Augusto | Portugal | Midfielder | 1937-04-13 | Apr | 1 | 3 |
| José Torres | Portugal | Attacker | 1938-09-08 | Sep | 1 | 3 |
| Luis Artime | Argentina | Attacker | 1938-12-02 | Dec | 1 | 3 |
| Roger Hunt | England | Attacker | 1938-07-20 | Jul | 1 | 3 |
| Anatoliy Banishevskiy | Soviet Union | Attacker | 1946-02-23 | Feb | 1 | 2 |
| Eduard Malofeyev | Soviet Union | Attacker | 1942-06-02 | Jun | 1 | 2 |
| Igor Chislenko | Soviet Union | Midfielder | 1939-01-04 | Jan | 1 | 2 |
| Kálmán Mészöly | Hungary | Defender | 1941-07-16 | Jul | 1 | 2 |
 Pak Seung-zin | North Korea | Attacker | 1941-01-11 | Jan | 1 | 2 |
 Rubén Marcos | Chile | Midfielder | 1942-12-06 | Dec | 1 | 2 |
| Uwe SeelerC | West Germany | Attacker | 1936-11-05 | Nov | 1 | 2 |
| Amancio | Spain | Attacker | 1939-10-16 | Oct | 1 | 1 |
| António Simões | Portugal | Midfielder | 1943-12-14 | Dec | 1 | 1 |
 Enrique Borja | Mexico | Attacker | 1945-12-20 | Dec | 1 | 1 |
| Ermindo Onega | Argentina | Attacker | 1940-04-30 | Apr | 1 | 1 |
| Garrincha | Brazil | Attacker | 1933-10-28 | Oct | 1 | 1 |
 Georgi Asparuhov | Bulgaria | Attacker | 1943-05-04 | May | 1 | 1 |
| Gérard Hausser | France | Attacker | 1939-03-18 | Mar | 1 | 1 |
| Héctor De Bourgoing | France | Defender | 1934-07-23 | Jul | 1 | 1 |
| János Farkas | Hungary | Attacker | 1942-03-27 | Mar | 1 | 1 |
| Josep Maria Fusté | Spain | Midfielder | 1941-04-15 | Apr | 1 | 1 |
 Julio César Cortés | Uruguay | Midfielder | 1941-03-29 | Mar | 1 | 1 |
| Li Dong-woon | North Korea | Midfielder | 1945-07-04 | Jul | 1 | 1 |
| Lothar Emmerich | West Germany | Attacker | 1941-11-29 | Nov | 1 | 1 |
| Manuel Sanchís | Spain | Defender | 1938-03-26 | Mar | 1 | 1 |
| Martin Peters | England | Midfielder | 1943-11-08 | Nov | 1 | 1 |
| Pak Doo-ik | North Korea | Attacker | 1942-03-17 | Mar | 1 | 1 |
| Paolo Barison | Italy | Midfielder | 1936-06-23 | Jun | 1 | 1 |
| Pedro Rocha | Uruguay | Attacker | 1942-12-03 | Dec | 1 | 1 |
| Pelé | Brazil | Attacker | 1940-10-23 | Oct | 1 | 1 |
| Pirri | Spain | Midfielder | 1945-03-11 | Mar | 1 | 1 |
 René-Pierre Quentin | Switzerland | Attacker | 1943-08-05 | Aug | 1 | 1 |
| Rildo | Brazil | Defender | 1942-01-23 | Jan | 1 | 1 |
| Sandro Mazzola | Italy | Attacker | 1942-11-08 | Nov | 1 | 1 |
| Sigfried Held | West Germany | Attacker | 1942-08-07 | Aug | 1 | 1 |
| Tostão | Brazil | Midfielder | 1947-01-25 | Jan | 1 | 1 |
| Wolfgang Weber | West Germany | Defender | 1944-06-26 | Jun | 1 | 1 |
| Yang Seung-kook | North Korea | Attacker | 1944-08-19 | Aug | 1 | 1 |
| Aarón Padilla | Mexico | Attacker | 1942-07-10 | Jul | 1 | — |
| Adán Godoy | Chile | Goalkeeper | 1936-11-26 | Nov | 1 | — |
| Adelardo | Spain | Midfielder | 1939-09-26 | Sep | 1 | — |
| Alan Ball | England | Midfielder | 1945-05-12 | May | 1 | — |
| Albert Brülls | West Germany | Midfielder | 1937-03-26 | Mar | 1 | — |
| Albert ShesternyovC | Soviet Union | Defender | 1941-06-20 | Jun | 1 | — |
| Alberto Festa | Portugal | Defender | 1939-07-21 | Jul | 1 | — |
| Alberto Fouilloux | Chile | Attacker | 1940-11-22 | Nov | 1 | — |
| Alberto González | Argentina | Attacker | 1941-08-21 | Aug | 1 | — |
| Alberto Valentini | Chile | Defender | 1938-11-25 | Nov | 1 | — |
| Alcindo | Brazil | Attacker | 1945-12-16 | Dec | 1 | — |
| Aleksandar Kostov | Bulgaria | Attacker | 1938-03-05 | Mar | 1 | — |
| Aleksandar Shalamanov | Bulgaria | Defender | 1941-09-04 | Sep | 1 | — |
| Alexandre Baptista | Portugal | Defender | 1941-02-17 | Feb | 1 | — |
| Alexey Korneyev | Soviet Union | Defender | 1939-02-06 | Feb | 1 | — |
| Alfredo Rojas | Argentina | Attacker | 1937-02-20 | Feb | 1 | — |
| Altair | Brazil | Defender | 1938-01-21 | Jan | 1 | — |
| Américo | Portugal | Goalkeeper | 1933-03-06 | Mar | 1 | — |
| An Se-bok | North Korea | Goalkeeper | 1946-10-29 | Oct | 1 | — |
| André Chorda | France | Defender | 1938-02-20 | Feb | 1 | — |
| André Grobéty | Switzerland | Midfielder | 1933-06-22 | Jun | 1 | — |
| Aníbal Tarabini | Argentina | Attacker | 1941-08-04 | Aug | 1 | — |
| Antal Nagy | Hungary | Attacker | 1944-05-16 | May | 1 | — |
| Antal Szentmihályi | Hungary | Goalkeeper | 1939-06-13 | Jun | 1 | — |
| Antonio Betancort | Spain | Goalkeeper | 1938-03-13 | Mar | 1 | — |
| Antonio Carbajal | Mexico | Goalkeeper | 1929-06-07 | Jun | 1 | — |
| Antonio Juliano | Italy | Attacker | 1942-12-26 | Dec | 1 | — |
| Antonio RattínC | Argentina | Midfielder | 1937-05-16 | May | 1 | — |
| Antonio Roma | Argentina | Goalkeeper | 1932-07-13 | Jul | 1 | — |
| Anzor Kavazashvili | Soviet Union | Goalkeeper | 1940-07-19 | Jul | 1 | — |
| Aristide Guarneri | Italy | Defender | 1938-03-07 | Mar | 1 | — |
| Armando Tobar | Chile | Midfielder | 1938-06-07 | Jun | 1 | — |
| Arturo Chaires | Mexico | Defender | 1937-03-14 | Mar | 1 | — |
| Benő Káposzta | Hungary | Defender | 1942-06-07 | Jun | 1 | — |
| Bernard Bosquier | France | Defender | 1942-06-19 | Jun | 1 | — |
| Bernd Patzke | West Germany | Defender | 1943-03-14 | Mar | 1 | — |
| Bobby MooreC | England | Defender | 1941-04-12 | Apr | 1 | — |
| Boris GaganelovC | Bulgaria | Defender | 1941-10-07 | Oct | 1 | — |
| Brito | Brazil | Defender | 1939-08-09 | Aug | 1 | — |
| Carlos Campos | Chile | Midfielder | 1937-02-14 | Feb | 1 | — |
| Carlos Lapetra | Spain | Attacker | 1938-11-29 | Nov | 1 | — |
| Carmelo Simeone | Argentina | Defender | 1934-09-22 | Sep | 1 | — |
| Custódio Pinto | Portugal | Midfielder | 1942-02-09 | Feb | 1 | — |
| Denílson | Brazil | Midfielder | 1943-03-28 | Mar | 1 | — |
| Dezső Molnár | Hungary | Attacker | 1939-12-02 | Dec | 1 | — |
| Didier Couécou | France | Attacker | 1944-07-25 | Jul | 1 | — |
| Dimitar Largov | Bulgaria | Defender | 1936-09-10 | Sep | 1 | — |
| Dimitar Penev | Bulgaria | Defender | 1945-07-12 | Jul | 1 | — |
| Dimitar Yakimov | Bulgaria | Attacker | 1941-08-12 | Aug | 1 | — |
| Dinko Dermendzhiev | Bulgaria | Midfielder | 1941-06-02 | Jun | 1 | — |
| Djalma Santos | Brazil | Defender | 1929-02-27 | Feb | 1 | — |
| Dobromir Zhechev | Bulgaria | Defender | 1942-11-12 | Nov | 1 | — |
| Domingo Pérez | Uruguay | Attacker | 1936-06-07 | Jun | 1 | — |
| Edmond Baraffe | France | Attacker | 1942-10-19 | Oct | 1 | — |
| Edu | Brazil | Attacker | 1949-08-06 | Aug | 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