Jairzinho
Brazilian footballer and manager (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Born
- 25 December 1944
- Position
- Midfielder
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1959–1983
Clubs Botafogo F.R. · Olympique de Marseille · Cruzeiro E.C. · Kaizer Chiefs F.C. · Portuguesa FC · Associação Portuguesa de Desportos · Esporte Clube Noroeste · Nacional Fast Clube · C.D. Jorge Wilstermann · Club 9 de Octubre
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
73
Club league goals
52
International caps
Unavailable
International goals
Unavailable
League goals / match
0.71
International goals / cap
Unavailable
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympique de MarseilleClub | 1974–1975 | League | 18 | 9 |
| Kaizer Chiefs F.C.Club | 1975 | League | 3 | 7 |
| Portuguesa FCClub | 1977 | League | 10 | 2 |
| Esporte Clube NoroesteClub | 1978–1979 | League | 2 | 0 |
| Nacional Fast ClubeClub | 1979 | League | 19 | 17 |
| C.D. Jorge WilstermannClub | 1980–1981 | League | 19 | 17 |
| Botafogo F.R.Club | 1981–1982 | League | 2 | 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
- ×1
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
Domestic
- 1968 · Botafogo F.R.
- ×1
Copa Libertadores
Continental club
- 1976 · Cruzeiro E.C.
- ×1
FIFA World Cup
International
- 1970 · 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
1959
- Joins Botafogo F.R. — Until 1974
1962
- Joins Botafogo F.R. — Until 1974
1963
- Senior international debut: Brazil men's national football team — Until 1982
1968
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A winner — 1968 · Botafogo F.R.(provisional)
1970
- FIFA World Cup winner — 1970 · Brazil men's national football team
1974
- Joins Olympique de Marseille — Until 1975
1975
- Joins Cruzeiro E.C. — Until 1977
- Joins Kaizer Chiefs F.C. — Until 1975
1976
- Copa Libertadores winner — 1976 · Cruzeiro E.C.(provisional)
1977
- Joins Associação Portuguesa de Desportos — Until 1977
- Joins Portuguesa FC — Until 1978
- Joins Portuguesa FC — Until 1977
1978
- Joins Esporte Clube Noroeste — Until 1979
1979
- Joins Nacional Fast Clube — Until 1980
- Joins Nacional Fast Clube — Until 1979
1980
- Joins C.D. Jorge Wilstermann — Until 1981
1981
- Joins Botafogo F.R. — Until 1982
1982
- Joins Club 9 de Octubre — Until 1983
- Joins Club 9 de Octubre — Until 1982
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
30.8
Rank pending: 3 of 5 categories have evidence
Provisional1/5 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 performanceLimited evidence16.3+4.90 points
- Best window
- 1966–1970
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0
- Team honor points in window
- 14
- Peak index
- 7
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 performanceUnavailableUnavailableno contribution
- League goals per match
- Unavailable
- International goals per cap
- Unavailable
- International caps per year
- Unavailable
No career production or selection data is available.
Individual accoladesUnavailableUnavailableno contribution
- Award availability coverage
- 0.126
Major individual awards were essentially unavailable to this player and no retrospective honors are recorded.
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence41.0+6.15 points
- Team honor points
- 20
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 0.96
- Copa Libertadores (1976)
- 6
- FIFA World Cup (1970)
- 12
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (1968)
- 2
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityLimited evidence58.9+5.89 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 25 → 100
- Documented elite seasons
- 3 → 27
- International career length (years)
- Unavailable
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: Jairzinho (Q210102)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Jairzinho 1970s.jpgPublic domain · retrieved 27 October 2026