Garrincha
Brazilian association football player (1933–1983) (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Born
- 28 October 1933
- Died
- 20 January 1983
- Position
- Midfielder
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1953–1972
Clubs Botafogo F.R. · S.C. Corinthians Paulista · Associação Atlética Portuguesa · CR Vasco da Gama · Clube de Regatas do Flamengo · Junior de Barranquilla · Olaria Atlético Clube
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
692
Club league goals
276
International caps
50
International goals
17
League goals / match
0.40
International goals / cap
0.34
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Botafogo F.R.Club | 1953–1965 | League | 614 | 245 |
| Brazil men's national football teamNational team | 1955–1966 | Full caps | 50 | 17 |
| S.C. Corinthians PaulistaClub | 1966 | League | 13 | 10 |
| Associação Atlética PortuguesaClub | 1967 | League | 33 | 7 |
| Clube de Regatas do FlamengoClub | 1968–1969 | League | 24 | 4 |
| Junior de BarranquillaClub | 1968 | League | 1 | 3 |
| Olaria Atlético ClubeClub | 1972 | League | 7 | 7 |
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
FIFA World Cup
International
- 1958 · Brazil men's national football team
- 1962 · Brazil men's 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
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
1953
- Joins Botafogo F.R. — Until 1965
1955
- Senior international debut: Brazil men's national football team — Until 1966
1958
- FIFA World Cup winner — 1958 · Brazil men's national football team
1962
- FIFA World Cup winner — 1962 · Brazil men's national football team
1966
- Joins S.C. Corinthians Paulista — Until 1966
1967
- Joins Associação Atlética Portuguesa — Until 1967
- Joins CR Vasco da Gama (loan) — Until 1967
1968
- Joins Clube de Regatas do Flamengo — Until 1969
- Joins Junior de Barranquilla — Until 1968
1972
- Joins Olaria Atlético Clube — Until 1972
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 →
Provisional estimate
45.0
Rank pending: 4 of 5 categories have evidence
Provisional3/5 categories with full evidence · 50% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceLimited evidence28.0+8.40 points
- Best window
- 1958–1962
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0
- Team honor points in window
- 24
- Peak index
- 12
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.
Award availability during the peak window was very low; this indicator understates players from that era.
Career performanceFull evidence60.1+15.03 points
- League goals per match
- 0.399 → 84.77
- International goals per cap
- 0.34 → 83
- International caps per year
- 4.17 → 47.22
Individual accoladesUnavailableUnavailableno contribution
- Award availability coverage
- 0.023
Major individual awards were essentially unavailable to this player and no retrospective honors are recorded.
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence45.8+6.87 points
- Team honor points
- 24
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- FIFA World Cup (1958)
- 12
- FIFA World Cup (1962)
- 12
LongevityFull evidence57.4+5.74 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 20 → 96.25
- Documented elite seasons
- 2 → 18
- International career length (years)
- 12 → 78
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: Garrincha (Q180642)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Manoel Francisco dos Santos-Garrincha.jpgPublic domain · retrieved 27 October 2026