Mario Kempes
Mario Alberto Kempes
Argentine footballer (born 1954) (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Argentina
- Born
- 15 July 1954
- Position
- Forward
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1970–1995
Clubs Instituto Atlético Central Córdoba · Club Atlético Rosario Central · Valencia CF · Club Atlético River Plate · Hércules CF · First Vienna FC · SKN St. Pölten · Kremser SC · Madura United F.C. · C.C.D. Arturo Fernández Vial
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
555
Club league goals
302
International caps
43
International goals
20
League goals / match
0.54
International goals / cap
0.47
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Instituto Atlético Central CórdobaClub | 1970–1973 | League | 13 | 11 |
| Argentina national football teamNational team | 1973–1982 | Full caps | 43 | 20 |
| Club Atlético Rosario CentralClub | 1974–1976 | League | 107 | 85 |
| Valencia CFClub | 1976–1984 | League | 184 | 116 |
| Club Atlético River PlateClub | 1981–1982 | League | 29 | 15 |
| Hércules CFClub | 1984–1986 | League | 38 | 10 |
| First Vienna FCClub | 1986–1987 | League | 20 | 7 |
| SKN St. PöltenClub | 1987–1990 | League | 96 | 34 |
| Kremser SCClub | 1990–1992 | League | 39 | 7 |
| Madura United F.C.Club | 1993–1994 | League | 18 | 12 |
| C.C.D. Arturo Fernández VialClub | 1995 | League | 11 | 5 |
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
FIFA World Cup
International
- 1978 · Argentina 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
1970
- Joins Instituto Atlético Central Córdoba — Until 1973
1973
- Senior international debut: Argentina national football team — Until 1982
1974
- Joins Club Atlético Rosario Central — Until 1976
1976
- Joins Valencia CF — Until 1981
1978
- FIFA World Cup winner — 1978 · Argentina national football team
1981
- Joins Club Atlético River Plate — Until 1982
1982
- Joins Valencia CF — Until 1984
1984
- Joins Hércules CF — Until 1986
1986
- Joins First Vienna FC — Until 1987
1987
- Joins SKN St. Pölten — Until 1990
1990
- Joins Kremser SC — Until 1992
1993
- Joins Madura United F.C. — Until 1994
1995
- Joins C.C.D. Arturo Fernández Vial — Until 1995
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
27.3
Rank #126
Partially verified4/5 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 evidence14.0+4.20 points
- Best window
- 1974–1978
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0.275
- Team honor points in window
- 12
- Peak index
- 6
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 evidence55.0+13.75 points
- League goals per match
- 0.544 → 60.06
- International goals per cap
- 0.465 → 55.42
- International caps per year
- 4.3 → 49
Individual accoladesLimited evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Contemporary award points
- 0
- Award availability coverage
- 0.444
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 0
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
Only 44% 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 accomplishmentsFull evidence28.0+4.20 points
- Team honor points
- 12
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 0.654
- FIFA World Cup (1978)
- 12
LongevityFull evidence51.9+5.18 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 26 → 100
- Documented elite seasons
- 1 → 9
- 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: Mario Kempes (Q180649)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Mario Kempes Argentina v Spain 19 July 2026-036 (cropped).jpgCC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026