Denis Law
Scottish footballer (1940–2025) (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Scotland
- Born
- 24 February 1940
- Died
- 17 January 2025
- Position
- Forward
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1955–1974
Clubs Huddersfield Town A.F.C. · Manchester City F.C. · Torino FC · Manchester United F.C.
Career statistics
Club figures here are senior domestic-league matches unless marked otherwise; international figures are full senior caps. Youth, reserve, Olympic, friendly and unofficial matches are excluded from totals. Totals are summed from the individual sourced records below. Where a record is missing, the figure is shown as unavailable — never as zero.
Club league apps
485
Club league goals
227
International caps
55
International goals
30
League goals / match
0.47
International goals / cap
0.55
All official apps
Unavailable
All-competition totals not yet sourced
Goals per 90
Unavailable
Requires minutes for every match
Assists: Unavailable — assists were not recorded consistently before the modern data era.
Club-by-club and international breakdown
| Team | Years | Counts | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huddersfield Town A.F.C.Club | 1956–1960 | League | 81 | 16 |
| Scotland men's national football teamNational team | 1958–1974 | Full caps | 55 | 30 |
| Manchester City F.C.Club | 1960–1974 | League | 68 | 30 |
| Torino FCClub | 1961–1962 | League | 27 | 10 |
| Manchester United F.C.Club | 1962–1973 | League | 309 | 171 |
Season by season
Season-level records are unavailable for this player in the current sources. They will appear here when a licensed season-by-season source is imported.
Team accolades
- ×2
Football League First Division
Domestic
- 1964–65 · Manchester United F.C.
- 1966–67 · Manchester United F.C.
- ×1
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
Continental club
- 1967–68 · Manchester United F.C.
Sourced stated or derived from referenced statementsProvisional inferred from club stint dates — squad membership not individually verifiedVerified checked by an editor
Individual accolades
- ×1
Ballon d'Or
Individual award · France Football
- 1964
Career timeline
1955
- Joins Huddersfield Town A.F.C. — Until 1956
1956
- Joins Huddersfield Town A.F.C. — Until 1960
1958
- Senior international debut: Scotland men's national football team — Until 1974
1960
- Joins Manchester City F.C. — Until 1961
1961
- Joins Torino FC — Until 1962
1962
- Joins Manchester United F.C. — Until 1973
1964
- Ballon d'Or — 1964
1965
- Football League First Division winner — 1964–65 · Manchester United F.C.(provisional)
1967
- Football League First Division winner — 1966–67 · Manchester United F.C.(provisional)
1968
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 1967–68 · Manchester United F.C.(provisional)
1973
- Joins Manchester City F.C. — Until 1974
Statistical score explained
Snapshot v2, methodology v1.0.0, published 27 October 2026. Each category is scored 0–100, multiplied by its weight, and summed. Full methodology →
Overall score
48.0
Rank #54
Partially verified4/5 categories with full evidence · 17% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence54.2+16.26 points
- Best window
- 1964–1968
- Individual award points in window
- 12
- Award availability in window
- 0.406
- Team honor points in window
- 14
- Peak index
- 31
v1 measures peak through documented recognition (awards and titles) in the best rolling window, because season-level performance data is not available consistently across eras.
Career performanceFull evidence48.2+12.04 points
- League goals per match
- 0.468 → 47.89
- International goals per cap
- 0.545 → 68.27
- International caps per year
- 3.24 → 33.53
Individual accoladesLimited evidence39.0+7.80 points
- Contemporary award points
- 12
- Award availability coverage
- 0.406
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 24
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
- Ballon d'Or (1964)
- 12
Only 41% of the modern award opportunity existed for this player's career; contemporary points are scaled by at most 1/0.5 (floor) to limit extrapolation.
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence32.7+4.90 points
- Team honor points
- 14
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (1967–68)
- 8
- Football League First Division (1964–65)
- 3
- Football League First Division (1966–67)
- 3
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence69.9+6.99 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 20 → 96.25
- Documented elite seasons
- 4 → 36
- International career length (years)
- 17 → 100
Appearance totals are deliberately not used, so accumulating matches alone does not raise this score.
Editorial biography
No editorial biography has been written yet. Biographies are written by hand with sources; none are generated automatically.
Sources
- Wikidata: Ballon d'Or winners listCC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikidata: Denis Law (Q233565)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Denis Law.jpgCC BY 2.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026