TOP ACTIVE ONE CLUB PLAYERS
Picture : Thomas Müller and Lionel Messi in the Top 6 !
Top active one-club players
With his 700th appearance for Bayern, Thomas Müller became the 6th active player in world football to reach this milestone while playing for one club.
Three of the six (also Mulgrew and Akinfeev) carry on playing for the main club of their careers. The other three (Fabio, Messi, Busquets) left it and continue to play for other teams.
| MOST GAMES | FOR ONE CLUB | ACTIVE | PLAYERS | |||||
| Player | Nationality | Club | Period | Games | DL | DC | ICC | |
| 1 | Fábio | Brazil | Cruzeiro | 2005-21 | 883 | 717 | 79 | 87 |
| 2 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | Barcelona | 2004-21 | 778 | 520 | 100 | 158 |
| 3 | Jamie Mulgrew | Northern Ireland | Linfield | 2005- | 765 | 526 | 175 | 64 |
| 4 | Igor Akinfeev | Russia | CSKA | 2003- | 761 | 562 | 66 | 133 |
| 5 | Sergio Busquets | Spain | Barcelona | 2008-23 | 722 | 481 | 97 | 144 |
| 6 | Thomas Müller | Germany | Bayern | 2008- | 700 | 468 | 77 | 155 |
Only top-level games are taken into account, in domestic leagues (DL), domestic cups (DC) and official international club competitions (ICC).