800 FOR CRISTIANO RONALDO

• Aug 17, 2024
• History Statistics

Cristiano Ronaldo joins the «800+ Domestic Games Club»

The first match of the new season, for Al-Nassr against Al-Taawon (2-0) in the Saudi Arabian Super Cup semifinal on 14 August, was Cristiano Ronaldo's 800th top-level domestic match of his career. 
He is only the second active player in world football to reach this level, along with Brazilian goalkeeper Fábio, who holds the world record (1073 games).
There are now 16 players in the “800+ Domestic Matches Club”. 11 of them are Europeans; all 10 who previously joined the club represented only Great Britain. 
In conjunction with this event, we publish for the first time a historical ranking of the players with the most domestic matches. 

	PLAYERS   WITH	MOST	DOMESTIC	GAMES
	Player	Games	Nation	Career	NL	OL	NC	OC	IP
1	Fábio	1 073	Brazil	2000-	690	270	107	6
2	Peter Shilton	1 052	England	1966-1996	848		87	117
3	Rogério Ceni	1 023	Brazil	1993-2015	575	307	67	74
4	Glenn Ferguson	992	Northern Ireland	1987-2011	646		80	266
5	Noel Bailie	955	Northern Ireland	1989-2011	577		87	291
6	Ray Clemence	899	England	1965-1988	712		81	106
7	John Hollins	871	England	1963-1984	715		75	81
8	Pat Jennings	868	Northern Ireland	1963-1986	709		84	75
9	Dougie Gray	851	Scotland	1903-1925	490	177	65	119
10	Alan Ball Jr.	845	England	1962-1983	720		76	49
11	Romário	823	Brazil	1985-2007	450	253	66	52	2
12	Émerson Leão	820	Brazil	1968-1987	315	495		10
13	Yasuhito Endō	810	Japan	1998-2023	675		51	84
14	Martin Peters	801	England	1962-1981	688		44	69
15	Ryan Giggs	801	Wales	1990-2014	672		74	55
16	Cristiano Ronaldo	800	Portugal	2002-	698		76	26

The following tournaments are included in this category:
NL = National Leagues (only top divisions), 
OL = Other relevant Leagues (regional, war-time, parallel),
NC = National Cup,
OC = other relevant domestic club competitions,
IP = Inter-Provincial competitions.