Michel Platini
Michel François Platini
French football player, manager and executive (born 1955) (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- France
- Born
- 21 June 1955
- Position
- Midfielder
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1972–1987
Clubs A.S. Nancy-Lorraine · AS Saint-Étienne · Juventus FC
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
432
Club league goals
224
International caps
72
International goals
41
League goals / match
0.52
International goals / cap
0.57
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A.S. Nancy-LorraineClub | 1972–1979 | League | 181 | 98 |
| France men's national association football teamNational team | 1976–1987 | Full caps | 72 | 41 |
| AS Saint-ÉtienneClub | 1979–1982 | League | 104 | 58 |
| Juventus FCClub | 1982–1987 | League | 147 | 68 |
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
- ×2
Serie A
Domestic
- 1983–84 · Juventus FC
- 1985–86 · Juventus FC
- ×1
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
Continental club
- 1984–85 · Juventus FC
- ×1
Intercontinental Cup
Continental club
- 1985 · Juventus FC
- ×1
Ligue 1
Domestic
- 1980–81 · AS Saint-Étienne
- ×1
UEFA European Championship
International
- 1984 · France men's 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
- 1983
- 1984
- 1985
Career timeline
1972
- Joins A.S. Nancy-Lorraine — Until 1979
1976
- Senior international debut: France men's national association football team — Until 1987
1979
- Joins AS Saint-Étienne — Until 1982
1981
- Ligue 1 winner — 1980–81 · AS Saint-Étienne(provisional)
1982
- Joins Juventus FC — Until 1987
1983
- Ballon d'Or — 1983(provisional)
1984
- Ballon d'Or — 1984(provisional)
- UEFA European Championship winner — 1984 · France men's national association football team
- Serie A winner — 1983–84 · Juventus FC(provisional)
1985
- Ballon d'Or — 1985(provisional)
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 1984–85 · Juventus FC(provisional)
- Intercontinental Cup winner — 1985 · Juventus FC(provisional)
1986
- Serie A winner — 1985–86 · Juventus FC(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
70.9
Rank #11
Partially verified5/5 categories with full evidence · 9% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence79.7+23.90 points
- Best window
- 1981–1985
- Individual award points in window
- 36
- Award availability in window
- 0.756
- Team honor points in window
- 23
- Peak index
- 59.15
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 evidence80.3+20.07 points
- League goals per match
- 0.519 → 93.89
- International goals per cap
- 0.569 → 100
- International caps per year
- 6 → 71.67
Individual accoladesFull evidence67.1+13.43 points
- Contemporary award points
- 36
- Award availability coverage
- 0.651
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 55.32
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
- Ballon d'Or (1983)
- 12
- Ballon d'Or (1984)
- 12
- Ballon d'Or (1985)
- 12
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence48.2+7.23 points
- Team honor points
- 26
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- Intercontinental Cup (1985)
- 2.5
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (1984–85)
- 8
- Ligue 1 (1980–81)
- 2.5
- Serie A (1983–84)
- 3
- Serie A (1985–86)
- 3
- UEFA European Championship (1984)
- 7
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence63.1+6.32 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 16 → 78
- Documented elite seasons
- 5 → 45
- International career length (years)
- 12 → 78
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: Michel Platini (Q4261)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026