Marco van Basten
Marcel van Basten
Dutch association football player and manager (born 1964) (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Born
- 31 October 1964
- Position
- Forward
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1981–1995
Clubs AFC Ajax · AC Milan
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
280
Club league goals
218
International caps
58
International goals
24
League goals / match
0.78
International goals / cap
0.41
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFC AjaxClub | 1981–1987 | League | 133 | 128 |
| Netherlands national association football teamNational team | 1983–1992 | Full caps | 58 | 24 |
| AC MilanClub | 1987–1995 | League | 147 | 90 |
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
Serie A
Domestic
- 1987–88 · AC Milan
- 1991–92 · AC Milan
- 1992–93 · AC Milan
- 1993–94 · AC Milan
- ×3
Eredivisie
Domestic
- 1981–82 · AFC Ajax
- 1982–83 · AFC Ajax
- 1984–85 · AFC Ajax
- ×3
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
Continental club
- 1988–89 · AC Milan
- 1989–90 · AC Milan
- 1993–94 · AC Milan
- ×2
Intercontinental Cup
Continental club
- 1989 · AC Milan
- 1990 · AC Milan
- ×1
UEFA European Championship
International
- 1988 · Netherlands national association 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
- ×3
Ballon d'Or
Individual award · France Football
- 1988
- 1989
- 1992
- ×1
FIFA World Player of the Year
Individual award · FIFA
- 1992
Career timeline
1981
- Joins AFC Ajax — Until 1987
1982
- Eredivisie winner — 1981–82 · AFC Ajax(provisional)
1983
- Senior international debut: Netherlands national association football team — Until 1992
- Eredivisie winner — 1982–83 · AFC Ajax(provisional)
1985
- Eredivisie winner — 1984–85 · AFC Ajax(provisional)
1987
- Joins AC Milan — Until 1995
1988
- Ballon d'Or — 1988(provisional)
- UEFA European Championship winner — 1988 · Netherlands national association football team
- Serie A winner — 1987–88 · AC Milan(provisional)
1989
- Ballon d'Or — 1989(provisional)
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 1988–89 · AC Milan(provisional)
- Intercontinental Cup winner — 1989 · AC Milan(provisional)
1990
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 1989–90 · AC Milan(provisional)
- Intercontinental Cup winner — 1990 · AC Milan(provisional)
1992
- Ballon d'Or — 1992(provisional)
- FIFA World Player of the Year — 1992(provisional)
- Serie A winner — 1991–92 · AC Milan(provisional)
1993
- Serie A winner — 1992–93 · AC Milan(provisional)
1994
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 1993–94 · AC Milan(provisional)
- Serie A winner — 1993–94 · AC Milan(provisional)
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
72.8
Rank #7
Partially verified5/5 categories with full evidence · 6% of inputs directly sourced · 1 duplicate honor record merged
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence82.1+24.64 points
- Best window
- 1988–1992
- Individual award points in window
- 36
- Award availability in window
- 0.794
- Team honor points in window
- 34
- Peak index
- 62.36
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 evidence71.4+17.85 points
- League goals per match
- 0.779 → 89.71
- International goals per cap
- 0.414 → 47.21
- International caps per year
- 5.8 → 69
Individual accoladesFull evidence61.1+12.22 points
- Contemporary award points
- 36
- Award availability coverage
- 0.781
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 46.1
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
- Ballon d'Or (1988)
- 12
- Ballon d'Or (1989)
- 12
- Ballon d'Or (1992)
- 12
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence73.8+11.06 points
- Team honor points
- 54
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- Intercontinental Cup (1989)
- 2.5
- Intercontinental Cup (1990)
- 2.5
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (1988–89)
- 8
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (1989–90)
- 8
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (1993–94)
- 8
- Serie A (1987–88)
- 3
- Serie A (1991–92)
- 3
- Serie A (1992–93)
- 3
- Serie A (1993–94)
- 3
- Eredivisie (1981–82)
- 2
- Eredivisie (1982–83)
- 2
- Eredivisie (1984–85)
- 2
- UEFA European Championship (1988)
- 7
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence70.5+7.05 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 15 → 71
- Documented elite seasons
- 9 → 73
- International career length (years)
- 10 → 64
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: Marco van Basten (Q483629)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Marco van Basten (ca 2006).jpgCC BY 2.5 · retrieved 27 October 2026