Eric Cantona
Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona
French footballer and actor (born 1966) (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- France
- Born
- 24 May 1966
- Position
- Forward
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1983–1997
Clubs AJ Auxerre · FC Martigues · FC Girondins de Bordeaux · Montpellier Hérault Sport Club · Nîmes Olympique · Leeds United F.C. · 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
329
Club league goals
118
International caps
46
International goals
21
League goals / match
0.36
International goals / cap
0.46
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AJ AuxerreClub | 1983–1988 | League | 82 | 23 |
| FC MartiguesClub | 1985–1986 | League | 15 | 4 |
| France men's national association football teamNational team | 1987–1995 | Full caps | 45 | 20 |
| FC Girondins de BordeauxClub | 1989 | League | 11 | 6 |
| Montpellier Hérault Sport ClubClub | 1989–1990 | League | 33 | 10 |
| Nîmes OlympiqueClub | 1991 | League | 17 | 2 |
| Leeds United F.C.Club | 1992 | League | 28 | 9 |
| Manchester United F.C.Club | 1992–1997 | League | 143 | 64 |
| France national beach soccer teamNational team | 2005 | Full caps | 1 | 1 |
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
- ×4
Premier League
Domestic
- 1992–93 · Manchester United F.C.
- 1993–94 · Manchester United F.C.
- 1995–96 · Manchester United F.C.
- 1996–97 · 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
No dated individual awards from the catalog are recorded for this player in the current sources. This may reflect incomplete source data rather than an absence of awards; editors can add sourced entries.
Career timeline
1983
- Joins AJ Auxerre — Until 1988
1985
- Joins FC Martigues (loan) — Until 1986
1987
- Senior international debut: France men's national association football team — Until 1995
1989
- Joins FC Girondins de Bordeaux (loan) — Until 1989
- Joins Montpellier Hérault Sport Club (loan) — Until 1990
1991
- Joins Nîmes Olympique — Until 1991
1992
- Joins Leeds United F.C. — Until 1992
- Joins Manchester United F.C. — Until 1997
1993
- Premier League winner — 1992–93 · Manchester United F.C.(provisional)
1994
- Premier League winner — 1993–94 · Manchester United F.C.(provisional)
1996
- Premier League winner — 1995–96 · Manchester United F.C.(provisional)
1997
- Senior international debut: France national beach soccer team — Until 2005
- Premier League winner — 1996–97 · Manchester United F.C.(provisional)
2005
- Senior international debut: France national beach soccer team — Until 2005
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
22.7
Rank #144
Partially verified5/5 categories with full evidence · 0% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence14.0+4.20 points
- Best window
- 1993–1997
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0.794
- Team honor points in window
- 12
- Peak index
- 6
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 evidence32.6+8.16 points
- League goals per match
- 0.359 → 28.56
- International goals per cap
- 0.457 → 54.04
- International caps per year
- 2.42 → 21.32
Individual accoladesFull evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Contemporary award points
- 0
- Award availability coverage
- 0.794
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 0
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence28.0+4.20 points
- Team honor points
- 12
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- Premier League (1992–93)
- 3
- Premier League (1993–94)
- 3
- Premier League (1995–96)
- 3
- Premier League (1996–97)
- 3
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence61.0+6.11 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 15 → 71
- Documented elite seasons
- 4 → 36
- International career length (years)
- 19 → 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: Eric Cantona (Q170328)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Eric Cantona Cannes 2009.jpgCC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026