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

Northern394 (74.9%)

Southern132 (25.1%)

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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: Jul — 12 players (16.7%). Range: 3—12.

Defenders

Birth-month distribution + 2 GOAT markers

Franz Beckenbauer· Sep

Fabio Cannavaro· Sep

Modal month: May — 21 players (12.0%). Range: 8—21.

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: Oct — 18 players (11.9%). Range: 6—18.

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 — 15 players (11.7%). Range: 3—15.

All players

Every player from the 1982 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
Paolo Rossi	Italy	Attacker	1956-09-23	Sep	Juventus	174cm	1	6
Karl-Heinz RummeniggeC	West Germany	Attacker	1955-09-25	Sep	Bayern Munich	182cm	1	5
Zbigniew Boniek	Poland	Attacker	1956-03-03	Mar	Widzew Łódź	182cm	1	4
Zico	Brazil	Midfielder	1953-03-03	Mar	Flamengo	—	1	4
Alain Giresse	France	Midfielder	1952-08-02	Aug	Bordeaux	162cm	1	3
Falcão	Brazil	Midfielder	1953-10-16	Oct	Roma	—	1	3
Gerry Armstrong	Northern Ireland	Attacker	1954-05-23	May	Watford	—	1	3
László Kiss	Hungary	Attacker	1956-03-12	Mar	Vasas	—	1	3
Antonín Panenka	Czechoslovakia	Midfielder	1948-12-02	Dec	Rapid Wien	178cm	1	2
Bernard Genghini	France	Midfielder	1958-01-18	Jan	Sochaux	178cm	1	2
Billy Hamilton	Northern Ireland	Attacker	1957-05-09	May	Burnley	—	1	2
Bryan Robson	England	Midfielder	1957-01-11	Jan	Manchester United	175cm	1	2
Daniel Bertoni	Argentina	Attacker	1955-03-14	Mar	Fiorentina	179cm	1	2
Daniel PassarellaC	Argentina	Defender	1953-05-25	May	River Plate	170cm	1	2
Didier Six	France	Attacker	1954-08-21	Aug	VfB Stuttgart	177cm	1	2
Diego Maradona	Argentina	Midfielder	1960-10-30	Oct	Boca Juniors	165cm	1	2
Dominique Rocheteau	France	Attacker	1955-01-14	Jan	Paris Saint-Germain	177cm	1	2
Éder	Brazil	Attacker	1957-05-25	May	Atlético Mineiro	—	1	2
Gábor Pölöskei	Hungary	Attacker	1960-10-11	Oct	Ferencváros	185cm	1	2
John Wark	Scotland	Midfielder	1957-08-04	Aug	Ipswich Town	180cm	1	2
Klaus Fischer	West Germany	Attacker	1949-12-27	Dec	1. FC Köln	178cm	1	2
László Fazekas	Hungary	Attacker	1947-10-15	Oct	Antwerp	178cm	1	2
Marco Tardelli	Italy	Midfielder	1954-09-24	Sep	Juventus	178cm	1	2
Michel PlatiniC	France	Midfielder	1955-06-21	Jun	Saint-Étienne	179cm	1	2
Pierre Littbarski	West Germany	Midfielder	1960-04-16	Apr	1. FC Köln	168cm	1	2
Salah Assad	Algeria	Attacker	1958-03-13	Mar	RS Kouba	184cm	1	2
Serginho	Brazil	Attacker	1953-12-23	Dec	São Paulo	—	1	2
SócratesC	Brazil	Midfielder	1954-02-19	Feb	Corinthians	192cm	1	2
Tibor NyilasiC	Hungary	Attacker	1955-01-18	Jan	Ferencváros	189cm	1	2
Trevor Francis	England	Attacker	1954-04-19	Apr	Manchester City	178cm	1	2
Walter Schachner	Austria	Attacker	1957-02-01	Feb	Cesena	180cm	1	2
Abdullah Al-Buloushi	Kuwait	Attacker	1960-02-16	Feb	Al-Arabi	176cm	1	1
Alain Couriol	France	Attacker	1958-10-24	Oct	Monaco	174cm	1	1
Aleksandr ChivadzeC	Soviet Union	Defender	1955-04-08	Apr	Dinamo Tbilisi	182cm	1	1
Alessandro Altobelli	Italy	Attacker	1955-11-28	Nov	Internazionale	181cm	1	1
Alexandre Czerniatynski	Belgium	Attacker	1960-07-28	Jul	Antwerp	186cm	1	1
Andriy Bal	Soviet Union	Midfielder	1958-02-16	Feb	Dynamo Kyiv	178cm	1	1
Andrzej Buncol	Poland	Midfielder	1959-09-21	Sep	Legia Warsaw	174cm	1	1
Andrzej Szarmach	Poland	Attacker	1950-10-03	Oct	Auxerre	178cm	1	1
Antonio Cabrini	Italy	Defender	1957-10-08	Oct	Juventus	177cm	1	1
Antonio Laing	Honduras	Attacker	1958-12-27	Dec	Platense	—	1	1
Bruno Conti	Italy	Midfielder	1955-03-13	Mar	Roma	169cm	1	1
Bruno Pezzey	Austria	Defender	1955-02-03	Feb	Eintracht Frankfurt	188cm	1	1
David Narey	Scotland	Defender	1956-06-12	Jun	Dundee United	183cm	1	1
Enrique Saura	Spain	Midfielder	1954-08-02	Aug	Valencia	171cm	1	1
Erwin Vandenbergh	Belgium	Attacker	1959-01-26	Jan	Lierse	184cm	1	1
Faisal Al-Dakhil	Kuwait	Attacker	1957-08-13	Aug	Al-Qadsia	176cm	1	1
Francesco Graziani	Italy	Attacker	1952-12-16	Dec	Fiorentina	180cm	1	1
Gérard Soler	France	Attacker	1954-03-29	Mar	Bordeaux	176cm	1	1
Graeme Souness	Scotland	Midfielder	1953-05-06	May	Liverpool	180cm	1	1
Grégoire M'Bida	Cameroon	Midfielder	1955-01-27	Jan	Canon Yaoundé	—	1	1
Grzegorz Lato	Poland	Attacker	1950-04-08	Apr	Lokeren	175cm	1	1
Guillermo La Rosa	Peru	Attacker	1952-06-06	Jun	Atlético Nacional	178cm	1	1
Gustavo Moscoso	Chile	Attacker	1955-08-10	Aug	Universidad Católica	169cm	1	1
Hans Krankl	Austria	Attacker	1953-02-14	Feb	Rapid Wien	182cm	1	1
Héctor Zelaya	Honduras	Defender	1957-07-12	Jul	Motagua	173cm	1	1
Horst Hrubesch	West Germany	Attacker	1951-04-17	Apr	Hamburger SV	188cm	1	1
Ivan Gudelj	Yugoslavia	Midfielder	1960-09-21	Sep	Hajduk Split	—	1	1
Janusz Kupcewicz	Poland	Midfielder	1955-12-09	Dec	Arka Gdynia	178cm	1	1
Jesús María Zamora	Spain	Midfielder	1955-01-01	Jan	Real Sociedad	179cm	1	1
Joe Jordan	Scotland	Attacker	1951-12-15	Dec	Milan	185cm	1	1
John Robertson	Scotland	Midfielder	1953-01-20	Jan	Nottingham Forest	—	1	1
Jozef Barmoš	Czechoslovakia	Defender	1954-08-28	Aug	Inter Bratislava	175cm	1	1
József Tóth	Hungary	Defender	1951-12-02	Dec	Újpest	—	1	1
József Varga	Hungary	Defender	1954-10-09	Oct	Budapest Honvéd	—	1	1
Juan Carlos Letelier	Chile	Attacker	1959-05-20	May	Cobreloa	179cm	1	1
Juanito	Spain	Attacker	1954-11-10	Nov	Real Madrid	—	1	1
Júnior	Brazil	Defender	1954-06-29	Jun	Flamengo	—	1	1
Kenny Dalglish	Scotland	Attacker	1951-03-04	Mar	Liverpool	173cm	1	1
Khoren Hovhannisyan	Soviet Union	Midfielder	1955-01-10	Jan	Ararat Yerevan	—	1	1
Lakhdar Belloumi	Algeria	Midfielder	1958-12-29	Dec	GCR Mascara	178cm	1	1
Lázár Szentes	Hungary	Attacker	1955-12-12	Dec	Győr	175cm	1	1
Ludo Coeck	Belgium	Midfielder	1955-09-25	Sep	Anderlecht	184cm	1	1
Luis Ramírez Zapata	El Salvador	Attacker	1954-01-06	Jan	Atlético Marte	175cm	1	1
Marius Trésor	France	Defender	1950-01-15	Jan	Bordeaux	182cm	1	1
Maxime Bossis	France	Defender	1955-06-26	Jun	Nantes	186cm	1	1
Miguel Ángel Neira	Chile	Midfielder	1952-10-09	Oct	Universidad Católica	173cm	1	1
Oleg Blokhin	Soviet Union	Attacker	1952-11-05	Nov	Dynamo Kyiv	180cm	1	1
Oscar	Brazil	Defender	1954-06-20	Jun	São Paulo	—	1	1
Osvaldo Ardiles	Argentina	Midfielder	1952-08-03	Aug	Tottenham Hotspur	170cm	1	1
Paul Breitner	West Germany	Defender	1951-09-05	Sep	Bayern Munich	176cm	1	1
Paul Mariner	England	Attacker	1953-05-22	May	Ipswich Town	183cm	1	1
Rabah Madjer	Algeria	Attacker	1958-12-15	Dec	MA Hussein Dey	179cm	1	1
Ramaz Shengelia	Soviet Union	Attacker	1957-01-01	Jan	Dinamo Tbilisi	173cm	1	1
Ramón Díaz	Argentina	Attacker	1959-08-29	Aug	River Plate	173cm	1	1
Reinhold Hintermaier	Austria	Midfielder	1956-02-14	Feb	1. FC Nürnberg	182cm	1	1
René Girard	France	Midfielder	1954-04-04	Apr	Bordeaux	—	1	1
Roberto López Ufarte	Spain	Attacker	1958-04-19	Apr	Real Sociedad	170cm	1	1
Rubén Toribio DíazC	Peru	Defender	1952-04-17	Apr	Sporting Cristal	177cm	1	1
Sergei Baltacha	Soviet Union	Defender	1958-02-17	Feb	Dynamo Kyiv	—	1	1
Stefan Majewski	Poland	Defender	1956-01-31	Jan	Legia Warsaw	186cm	1	1
Steve Archibald	Scotland	Attacker	1956-09-27	Sep	Tottenham Hotspur	—	1	1
Steve SumnerC	New Zealand	Midfielder	1955-04-02	Apr	West Adelaide Hellas	—	1	1
Steve Wooddin	New Zealand	Attacker	1955-01-16	Jan	South Melbourne	—	1	1
Tedj Bensaoula	Algeria	Attacker	1954-12-01	Dec	MP Oran	180cm	1	1
Uwe Reinders	West Germany	Attacker	1955-01-19	Jan	Werder Bremen	187cm	1	1
Vladimir Petrović	Yugoslavia	Midfielder	1955-07-01	Jul	Red Star Belgrade	182cm	1	1
Włodzimierz Ciołek	Poland	Attacker	1956-03-24	Mar	Stal Mielec	167cm	1	1
Włodzimierz Smolarek	Poland	Attacker	1957-07-16	Jul	Widzew Łódź	171cm	1	1
Yuri Gavrilov	Soviet Union	Midfielder	1953-05-03	May	Spartak Moscow	—	1	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.

NameCountryPositionBirth yearBirth month

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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