Nílton Santos
Nílton dos Reis Santos
Brazilian association football player (1925-2013) (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Born
- 16 May 1925
- Died
- 27 November 2013
- Position
- Defender
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1948–1964
Clubs Botafogo F.R.
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
723
Club league goals
11
International caps
75
International goals
3
League goals / match
0.02
International goals / cap
0.04
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Botafogo F.R.Club | 1948–1964 | League | 723 | 11 |
| Brazil men's national football teamNational team | 1949–1962 | Full caps | 75 | 3 |
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
FIFA World Cup
International
- 1958 · Brazil men's national football team
- 1962 · Brazil men's national football team
- ×1
Copa América
International
- 1949 · 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
1948
- Joins Botafogo F.R. — Until 1964
1949
- Copa América winner — 1949 · Brazil men's national football team
- Senior international debut: Brazil men's national football team — Until 1962
1958
- FIFA World Cup winner — 1958 · Brazil men's national football team
1962
- FIFA World Cup winner — 1962 · Brazil men's national football team
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
47.6
Rank pending: 4 of 5 categories have evidence
Provisional3/5 categories with full evidence · 60% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceLimited evidence28.0+8.40 points
- Best window
- 1958–1962
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0
- Team honor points in window
- 24
- Peak index
- 12
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 performanceFull evidence63.1+15.77 points
- International caps per year
- 5.36 → 63.1
Scoring production is not used for defenders. Position-specific defensive and goalkeeping metrics are not recorded consistently across eras, so v1 relies on international selection rate.
Individual accoladesUnavailableUnavailableno contribution
- Award availability coverage
- 0
Major individual awards were essentially unavailable to this player and no retrospective honors are recorded.
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence53.0+7.95 points
- Team honor points
- 30
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- Copa América (1949)
- 6
- FIFA World Cup (1958)
- 12
- FIFA World Cup (1962)
- 12
LongevityFull evidence59.6+5.96 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 17 → 85
- Documented elite seasons
- 3 → 27
- International career length (years)
- 14 → 88.75
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: Nílton Santos (Q83329)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Nilton Santos - 2004.jpgCC BY 3.0 br · retrieved 27 October 2026