Robert Pires
Robert Emmanuel Pires
French footballer (born 1973) (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- France
- Born
- 29 October 1973
- Position
- Midfielder
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1991–2016
Clubs Stade de Reims · FC Metz · Olympique de Marseille · Arsenal F.C. · Villarreal CF · Aston Villa F.C. · FC Goa
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
629
Club league goals
150
International caps
79
International goals
14
League goals / match
0.24
International goals / cap
0.18
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stade de ReimsClub | 1991–1992 | League | 5 | 2 |
| FC MetzClub | 1993–1998 | League | 162 | 43 |
| France men's national association football teamNational team | 1996–2004 | Full caps | 79 | 14 |
| Olympique de MarseilleClub | 1998–2000 | League | 66 | 8 |
| Arsenal F.C.Club | 2000–2006 | League | 284 | 84 |
| Villarreal CFClub | 2006–2010 | League | 103 | 13 |
| Aston Villa F.C.Club | 2010–2011 | League | 9 | 0 |
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
Premier League
Domestic
- 2001–02 · Arsenal F.C.
- 2003–04 · Arsenal F.C.
- ×1
FIFA World Cup
International
- 1998 · France men's national association football team
- ×1
UEFA European Championship
International
- 2000 · 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
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
1991
- Joins Stade de Reims — Until 1992
1993
- Joins FC Metz — Until 1998
1996
- Senior international debut: France men's national association football team — Until 2004
1998
- FIFA World Cup winner — 1998 · France men's national association football team
- Joins Olympique de Marseille — Until 2000
2000
- UEFA European Championship winner — 2000 · France men's national association football team
- Joins Arsenal F.C. — Until 2006
2002
- Premier League winner — 2001–02 · Arsenal F.C.(provisional)
2004
- Premier League winner — 2003–04 · Arsenal F.C.(provisional)
2006
- Joins Villarreal CF — Until 2010
2010
- Joins Aston Villa F.C. — Until 2011
2014
- Joins FC Goa — Until 2016
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
41.1
Rank #79
Partially verified5/5 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 evidence25.7+7.70 points
- Best window
- 1998–2002
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0.933
- Team honor points in window
- 22
- Peak index
- 11
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+20.08 points
- League goals per match
- 0.238 → 52.69
- International goals per cap
- 0.177 → 50.44
- International caps per year
- 8.78 → 95.67
Individual accoladesFull evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Contemporary award points
- 0
- Award availability coverage
- 0.928
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 0
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence47.0+7.05 points
- Team honor points
- 25
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 0.875
- FIFA World Cup (1998)
- 12
- Premier League (2001–02)
- 3
- Premier League (2003–04)
- 3
- UEFA European Championship (2000)
- 7
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence62.6+6.26 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 26 → 100
- Documented elite seasons
- 4 → 36
- International career length (years)
- 9 → 57
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: Robert Pires (Q113156)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Robert Pirès.jpgCC BY 4.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026