Josef Masopust
Czech footballer (1931-2015) (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Czechoslovakia
- Born
- 9 February 1931
- Died
- 29 June 2015
- Position
- Midfielder
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1950–1970
Clubs FK Teplice · Dukla Prague · K.V.V. Crossing Elewijt
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
483
Club league goals
98
International caps
63
International goals
10
League goals / match
0.20
International goals / cap
0.16
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FK TepliceClub | 1950–1952 | League | 54 | 10 |
| Dukla PragueClub | 1952–1968 | League | 386 | 79 |
| Czechoslovakia men's national association football teamNational team | 1954–1966 | Full caps | 63 | 10 |
| K.V.V. Crossing ElewijtClub | 1968–1970 | League | 43 | 9 |
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
- ×1
Ballon d'Or
Individual award · France Football
- 1962
Career timeline
1950
- Joins FK Teplice — Until 1952
1952
- Joins Dukla Prague — Until 1968
1954
- Senior international debut: Czechoslovakia men's national association football team — Until 1966
1962
- Ballon d'Or — 1962
1968
- Joins K.V.V. Crossing Elewijt — Until 1970
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
40.3
Rank #82
Partially verified3/5 categories with full evidence · 33% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence45.8+13.74 points
- Best window
- 1958–1962
- Individual award points in window
- 12
- Award availability in window
- 0.381
- Team honor points in window
- 0
- Peak index
- 24
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 evidence52.7+13.17 points
- League goals per match
- 0.203 → 45.58
- International goals per cap
- 0.159 → 46.75
- International caps per year
- 4.85 → 56.28
Individual accoladesLimited evidence39.0+7.80 points
- Contemporary award points
- 12
- Award availability coverage
- 0.29
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 24
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
- Ballon d'Or (1962)
- 12
Only 29% 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 accomplishmentsLimited evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Team honor points
- 0
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 0
Only 0% of senior club years were in leagues the honor catalog covers.
LongevityFull evidence56.0+5.61 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 21 → 100
- Documented elite seasons
- 1 → 9
- International career length (years)
- 13 → 85
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: Ballon d'Or winners listCC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikidata: Josef Masopust (Q223158)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Josef Masopust (2011).jpgCC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026