IFFHS WORLD RANKING - MOST CONSECUTIVE CAPS

• Mar 24, 2024
• History Statistics

IFFHS ranking for players with most consecutive caps

As we have already noted, Antoine Griezmann failed to set a new world record for the number of matches played for the national team in a row. He stopped at 84 matches, while the record of Spanish goalkeeper Andoni Zubizarreta (86) stood.
But Griezmann can take solace in the fact that at least he now holds the record for outfield players. He took it from the Swiss midfielder Heinz Hermann, who appeared for the national team in 72 consecutive matches during the decade of 1980s.
Here we publish, for the first time, the ranking of the longest individual series in this category.
Billy Wright, Franz Beckenbauer and Berti Vogts are 3 players who ended their national team careers with a long unbroken streak.
Gerhard Hanappi is the only player on the list who, on the contrary, started his career with such a super series (55 games).
Kasper Schmeichel (PICTURE) holds the longest ongoing streak. Yesterday he played for Denmark in a friendly against Switzerland for the 42nd time without missing out.

	LONGEST	STREAKS	OF		CONSECUTIVE	CAPS
	Player	Country	Games	First Game		Last Game
1	Andoni Zubizarreta	Spain	86	26/05/1985	Ireland 0-0	02/06/1994	Finland 2-1
2	Antoine Griezmann	France	84	31/08/2017	Netherlands 4-0	21/11/2023	Greece  2-2
3	Heinz Hermann	Switzerland	72	09/03/1982	Liechtenstein 1-0	07/06/1989	Czechoslovakia 0-1
4	Billy Wright	England	69	03/10/1951	France 2-2	28/05/1959	USA 8-1
5	Franz Beckenbauer	Germany	60	09/09/1970	Hungary 3-1	23/02/1977	France 0-1
6	Gerhard Hanappi	Austria	55	14/11/1948	Sweden 2-1	02/05/1956	Scotland 1-1
7	Neville Southall	Wales	49	26/04/1989	Sweden  0-2	24/01/1996	Italy 0-3
8	Berti Vogts	Germany	48	27/03/1974	Scotland 2-1	21/06/1978	Austria 2-3
9	Luis Arconada	Spain	46	14/03/1979	Czechoslovakia 0-1	16/11/1983	Netherlands 1-2
10	Patrick Vieira	France	44	09/10/1999	Iceland 3-2	16/10/2002	Malta 4-0
11	Kenny Dalglish	Scotland	43	08/05/1976	N. Ireland 3-0	25/02/1981	Israel 1-0
12	Nir Klinger	Israel	43	23/09/1992	Hungary 0-0	01/09/1996	Bulgaria  2-1
13	Dino Zoff	Italy	42	20/09/1972	Yugoslavia 3-1	03/12/1977	Luxembourg 3-0
14	Marko Kristal	Estonia	42	11/06/1995	Slovenia 1-3	10/10/1998	Scotland 2-3
15	Javad Nekounam	Iran	42	12/10/2003	New Zealand 3-0	17/06/2006	Portugal  0-2
16	Milivoje Novaković	Slovenia	42	08/09/2007	Luxembourg 3-0	06/09/2011	Italy 0-1
17	Marek Hamšík	Slovakia	42	10/10/2009	Slovenia 0-2	10/09/2013	Bosnia 1-2
18	Kasper Schmeichel	Denmark	42	15/11/2020	Iceland 2-1
19	Sergio Ramos	Spain	40	02/09/2011	Chile 3-2	05/03/2014	Italy 1-0