Gary Lineker
Gary Winston Lineker
English football pundit and former player (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- England
- Born
- 30 November 1960
- Position
- Forward
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1976–1994
Clubs Leicester City F.C. · Everton F.C. · FC Barcelona · Tottenham Hotspur F.C. · Nagoya Grampus
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
461
Club league goals
238
International caps
80
International goals
48
League goals / match
0.52
International goals / cap
0.60
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leicester City F.C.Club | 1978–1985 | League | 194 | 95 |
| England men's national association football teamNational team | 1984–1992 | Full caps | 80 | 48 |
| Everton F.C.Club | 1985–1986 | League | 41 | 30 |
| FC BarcelonaClub | 1986–1989 | League | 103 | 42 |
| Tottenham Hotspur F.C.Club | 1989–1992 | League | 105 | 67 |
| Nagoya GrampusClub | 1993–1994 | League | 18 | 4 |
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
No catalog team titles are recorded for this player in the current sources.
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
1976
- Joins Leicester City F.C. — Until 1978
1978
- Joins Leicester City F.C. — Until 1985
1984
- Senior international debut: England men's national association football team — Until 1992
1985
- Joins Everton F.C. — Until 1986
1986
- Joins FC Barcelona — Until 1989
1989
- Joins Tottenham Hotspur F.C. — Until 1992
1993
- Joins Nagoya Grampus — Until 1994
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
23.2
Rank #141
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 evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Best window
- 1976–1980
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0.603
- Team honor points in window
- 0
- Peak index
- 0
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 evidence75.4+18.86 points
- League goals per match
- 0.516 → 55.6
- International goals per cap
- 0.6 → 77
- International caps per year
- 8.89 → 96.33
Individual accoladesFull evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Contemporary award points
- 0
- Award availability coverage
- 0.747
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 0
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Team honor points
- 0
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 0.895
LongevityFull evidence43.8+4.38 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 19 → 92.5
- Documented elite seasons
- 0 → 0
- International career length (years)
- 9 → 57
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: Gary Lineker (Q47778)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Gary Lineker (cropped).jpgCC BY 2.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026