Paolo Maldini
Paolo Cesare Maldini
Italian association football player (born 1968) (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Italy
- Born
- 26 June 1968
- Position
- Defender
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1985–2009
Clubs 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
647
Incomplete: some spells unrecorded
Club league goals
Unavailable
International caps
126
International goals
7
League goals / match
Unavailable
International goals / cap
0.06
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AC MilanClub | 1985–2009 | League | 647 | Unavailable |
| Italy men's national association football teamNational team | 1988–2026 | Full caps | 126 | 7 |
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
- ×7
Serie A
Domestic
- 1987–88 · AC Milan
- 1991–92 · AC Milan
- 1992–93 · AC Milan
- 1993–94 · AC Milan
- 1995–96 · AC Milan
- 1998–99 · AC Milan
- 2003–04 · AC Milan
- ×5
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
Continental club
- 1988–89 · AC Milan
- 1989–90 · AC Milan
- 1993–94 · AC Milan
- 2002–03 · AC Milan
- 2006–07 · AC Milan
- ×2
Intercontinental Cup
Continental club
- 1989 · AC Milan
- 1990 · AC Milan
- ×1
FIFA Club World Cup
Continental club
- 2007 · AC Milan
Sourced stated or derived from referenced statementsProvisional inferred from club stint dates — squad membership not individually verifiedVerified checked by an editor
Individual accolades
- ×2
UEFA Team of the Year
Individual award · UEFA
- 2003
- 2005
- ×1
Ballon d'Or Dream Team
Individual award · France Football
- 2020
Career timeline
1985
- Joins AC Milan — Until 2009
1988
- Senior international debut: Italy men's national association football team — Ongoing or end date unrecorded
- Serie A winner — 1987–88 · AC Milan(provisional)
1989
- 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
- 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)
1996
- Serie A winner — 1995–96 · AC Milan(provisional)
1999
- Serie A winner — 1998–99 · AC Milan(provisional)
2003
- UEFA Team of the Year — 2003(provisional)
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 2002–03 · AC Milan(provisional)
2004
- Serie A winner — 2003–04 · AC Milan(provisional)
2005
- UEFA Team of the Year — 2005(provisional)
2007
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 2006–07 · AC Milan(provisional)
- FIFA Club World Cup winner — 2007 · AC Milan(provisional)
2020
- Ballon d'Or Dream Team — 2020(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
42.0
Rank #76
Partially verified5/5 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 performanceFull evidence32.1+9.63 points
- Best window
- 1990–1994
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0.794
- Team honor points in window
- 27.5
- Peak index
- 13.75
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 evidence33.5+8.37 points
- International caps per year
- 3.23 → 33.46
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 accoladesFull evidence11.6+2.32 points
- Contemporary award points
- 2.3
- Award availability coverage
- 0.876
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 2.63
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 4
- Ballon d'Or Dream Team (2020)
- 4
- UEFA Team of the Year (2003)
- 1.15
- UEFA Team of the Year (2005)
- 1.15
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence82.8+12.42 points
- Team honor points
- 68.5
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- Intercontinental Cup (1989)
- 2.5
- Intercontinental Cup (1990)
- 2.5
- FIFA Club World Cup (2007)
- 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
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (2002–03)
- 8
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (2006–07)
- 8
- Serie A (1987–88)
- 3
- Serie A (1991–92)
- 3
- Serie A (1992–93)
- 3
- Serie A (1993–94)
- 3
- Serie A (1995–96)
- 3
- Serie A (1998–99)
- 3
- Serie A (2003–04)
- 3
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence92.8+9.28 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 25 → 100
- Documented elite seasons
- 11 → 84
- International career length (years)
- 39 → 100
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: Paolo Maldini (Q483027)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Paolo Maldini press conference in Tehran (cropped).jpgCC BY 4.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026