Diego Maradona
Diego Armando Maradona
Argentine football player and manager (1960–2020) (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Argentina
- Born
- 30 October 1960
- Died
- 25 November 2020
- Position
- Midfielder
- Preferred foot
- Left
- Senior career
- 1969–1997
Clubs Argentinos Juniors · Boca Juniors · FC Barcelona · SSC Napoli · Sevilla FC · Newell's Old Boys
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
491
Club league goals
259
International caps
91
International goals
34
League goals / match
0.53
International goals / cap
0.37
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentinos JuniorsClub | 1976–1981 | League | 166 | 116 |
| Argentina national football teamNational team | 1977–1994 | Full caps | 91 | 34 |
| Boca JuniorsClub | 1981–1997 | League | 70 | 35 |
| FC BarcelonaClub | 1982–1984 | League | 36 | 22 |
| SSC NapoliClub | 1984–1991 | League | 188 | 81 |
| Sevilla FCClub | 1992–1993 | League | 26 | 5 |
| Newell's Old BoysClub | 1993–1994 | League | 5 | 0 |
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
Serie A
Domestic
- 1986–87 · SSC Napoli
- 1989–90 · SSC Napoli
- ×1
Argentine Primera División
Domestic
- 1981 · Boca Juniors
- ×1
FIFA World Cup
International
- 1986 · Argentina national football team
Sourced stated or derived from referenced statementsProvisional inferred from club stint dates — squad membership not individually verifiedVerified checked by an editor
Individual accolades
- ×1
FIFA Player of the Century
Individual award · FIFA
- 2000
- ×1
FIFA World Cup Golden Ball
Performance award · FIFA
- 1986
Career timeline
1969
- Joins Argentinos Juniors — Until 1976
1976
- Joins Argentinos Juniors — Until 1981
1977
- Senior international debut: Argentina national football team — Until 1994
1981
- Argentine Primera División winner — 1981 · Boca Juniors(provisional)
- Joins Boca Juniors — Until 1982
1982
- Joins FC Barcelona — Until 1984
1984
- Joins SSC Napoli — Until 1991
1986
- FIFA World Cup Golden Ball — 1986
- FIFA World Cup winner — 1986 · Argentina national football team
1987
- Serie A winner — 1986–87 · SSC Napoli(provisional)
1990
- Serie A winner — 1989–90 · SSC Napoli(provisional)
1992
- Joins Sevilla FC — Until 1993
1993
- Joins Newell's Old Boys — Until 1994
1995
- Joins Boca Juniors — Until 1997
2000
- FIFA Player of the Century — 2000(provisional)
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
51.0
Rank #44
Partially verified4/5 categories with full evidence · 25% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence42.2+12.66 points
- Best window
- 1986–1990
- Individual award points in window
- 6
- Award availability in window
- 0.413
- Team honor points in window
- 18
- Peak index
- 21
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 evidence70.5+17.62 points
- League goals per match
- 0.527 → 94.56
- International goals per cap
- 0.374 → 87.36
- International caps per year
- 5.06 → 59.07
Individual accoladesLimited evidence37.0+7.40 points
- Contemporary award points
- 6
- Award availability coverage
- 0.44
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 12
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 10
- FIFA Player of the Century (2000)
- 10
- FIFA World Cup Golden Ball (1986)
- 6
Only 44% 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 evidence41.0+6.15 points
- Team honor points
- 20
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- FIFA World Cup (1986)
- 12
- Argentine Primera División (1981)
- 2
- Serie A (1986–87)
- 3
- Serie A (1989–90)
- 3
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence71.2+7.12 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 29 → 100
- Documented elite seasons
- 4 → 36
- International career length (years)
- 18 → 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: Diego Maradona (Q17515)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Argentina celebrando copa (cropped).jpgPublic domain · retrieved 27 October 2026