Omar Sívori
Italian-Argentine footballer (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Argentina
- Born
- 2 October 1935
- Died
- 17 February 2005
- Position
- Forward
- Preferred foot
- Left
- Senior career
- 1954–1969
Clubs Club Atlético River Plate · Juventus FC · SSC Napoli
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
341
Club league goals
176
International caps
28
International goals
17
League goals / match
0.52
International goals / cap
0.61
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Club Atlético River PlateClub | 1954–1957 | League | 63 | 29 |
| Argentina national football teamNational team | 1956–1957 | Full caps | 19 | 9 |
| Juventus FCClub | 1957–1965 | League | 215 | 135 |
| Italy men's national association football teamNational team | 1961–1962 | Full caps | 9 | 8 |
| SSC NapoliClub | 1965–1969 | League | 63 | 12 |
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
- ×3
Argentine Primera División
Domestic
- 1955 · Club Atlético River Plate
- 1956 · Club Atlético River Plate
- 1957 · Club Atlético River Plate
- ×3
Serie A
Domestic
- 1957–58 · Juventus FC
- 1959–60 · Juventus FC
- 1960–61 · Juventus FC
Sourced stated or derived from referenced statementsProvisional inferred from club stint dates — squad membership not individually verifiedVerified checked by an editor
Individual accolades
- ×1
Ballon d'Or
Individual award · France Football
- 1961
Career timeline
1954
- Joins Club Atlético River Plate — Until 1957
1955
- Argentine Primera División winner — 1955 · Club Atlético River Plate(provisional)
1956
- Senior international debut: Argentina national football team — Until 1957
- Argentine Primera División winner — 1956 · Club Atlético River Plate(provisional)
1957
- Argentine Primera División winner — 1957 · Club Atlético River Plate(provisional)
- Joins Juventus FC — Until 1965
1958
- Serie A winner — 1957–58 · Juventus FC(provisional)
1960
- Serie A winner — 1959–60 · Juventus FC(provisional)
1961
- Ballon d'Or — 1961(provisional)
- Senior international debut: Italy men's national association football team — Until 1962
- Serie A winner — 1960–61 · Juventus FC(provisional)
1965
- Joins SSC Napoli — Until 1969
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
49.1
Rank #47
Partially verified3/5 categories with full evidence · 0% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceLimited evidence52.4+15.72 points
- Best window
- 1957–1961
- Individual award points in window
- 12
- Award availability in window
- 0
- Team honor points in window
- 11
- Peak index
- 29.5
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 evidence57.7+14.44 points
- League goals per match
- 0.516 → 55.58
- International goals per cap
- 0.607 → 78.14
- International caps per year
- 4 → 45
Individual accoladesLimited evidence39.0+7.80 points
- Contemporary award points
- 12
- Award availability coverage
- 0.016
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 24
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
- Ballon d'Or (1961)
- 12
Only 2% 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 evidence35.0+5.25 points
- Team honor points
- 15
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- Argentine Primera División (1955)
- 2
- Argentine Primera División (1956)
- 2
- Argentine Primera División (1957)
- 2
- Serie A (1957–58)
- 3
- Serie A (1959–60)
- 3
- Serie A (1960–61)
- 3
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence58.7+5.87 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 16 → 78
- Documented elite seasons
- 6 → 52
- International career length (years)
- 7 → 40
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: Omar Sívori (Q220700)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Omar sivori argentina.jpgPublic domain · retrieved 27 October 2026