Ruud Gullit
Ruud Dil Gullit
Dutch association football player and manager (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Born
- 1 September 1962
- Position
- Midfielder
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1975–1998
Clubs AFC DWS · HFC Haarlem · Feyenoord Rotterdam · PSV Eindhoven · AC Milan · U.C. Sampdoria · Chelsea F.C.
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
471
Club league goals
174
International caps
66
International goals
17
League goals / match
0.37
International goals / cap
0.26
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HFC HaarlemClub | 1979–1982 | League | 91 | 32 |
| Netherlands national association football teamNational team | 1981–1994 | Full caps | 66 | 17 |
| Feyenoord RotterdamClub | 1982–1985 | League | 85 | 30 |
| PSV EindhovenClub | 1985–1987 | League | 68 | 46 |
| AC MilanClub | 1987–1994 | League | 125 | 38 |
| U.C. SampdoriaClub | 1993–1995 | League | 53 | 24 |
| Chelsea F.C.Club | 1995–1998 | League | 49 | 4 |
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
Eredivisie
Domestic
- 1983–84 · Feyenoord Rotterdam
- 1985–86 · PSV Eindhoven
- 1986–87 · PSV Eindhoven
- ×3
Serie A
Domestic
- 1987–88 · AC Milan
- 1991–92 · AC Milan
- 1992–93 · AC Milan
- ×2
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
Continental club
- 1988–89 · AC Milan
- 1989–90 · AC Milan
- ×2
Intercontinental Cup
Continental club
- 1989 · AC Milan
- 1990 · AC Milan
- ×1
UEFA European Championship
International
- 1988 · Netherlands 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
- ×1
Ballon d'Or
Individual award · France Football
- 1987
Career timeline
1975
- Joins AFC DWS — Until 1979
1979
- Joins HFC Haarlem — Until 1982
1981
- Senior international debut: Netherlands national association football team — Until 1994
1982
- Joins Feyenoord Rotterdam — Until 1985
1984
- Eredivisie winner — 1983–84 · Feyenoord Rotterdam(provisional)
1985
- Joins PSV Eindhoven — Until 1987
1986
- Eredivisie winner — 1985–86 · PSV Eindhoven(provisional)
1987
- Ballon d'Or — 1987(provisional)
- Eredivisie winner — 1986–87 · PSV Eindhoven(provisional)
- Joins AC Milan — Until 1993
1988
- UEFA European Championship winner — 1988 · Netherlands national association football team
- 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)
- Joins U.C. Sampdoria — Until 1994
1994
- Joins AC Milan — Until 1994
- Joins U.C. Sampdoria — Until 1995
1995
- Joins Chelsea F.C. — Until 1998
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
56.1
Rank #28
Partially verified5/5 categories with full evidence · 7% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence56.1+16.84 points
- Best window
- 1986–1990
- Individual award points in window
- 12
- Award availability in window
- 0.794
- Team honor points in window
- 35
- Peak index
- 32.62
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 evidence61.3+15.33 points
- League goals per match
- 0.369 → 78.89
- International goals per cap
- 0.258 → 66.52
- International caps per year
- 4.71 → 54.52
Individual accoladesFull evidence28.4+5.68 points
- Contemporary award points
- 12
- Award availability coverage
- 0.739
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 16.23
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
- Ballon d'Or (1987)
- 12
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence66.9+10.03 points
- Team honor points
- 43
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- Intercontinental Cup (1989)
- 2.5
- Intercontinental Cup (1990)
- 2.5
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (1988–89)
- 8
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (1989–90)
- 8
- Serie A (1987–88)
- 3
- Serie A (1991–92)
- 3
- Serie A (1992–93)
- 3
- Eredivisie (1983–84)
- 2
- Eredivisie (1985–86)
- 2
- Eredivisie (1986–87)
- 2
- UEFA European Championship (1988)
- 7
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence82.5+8.24 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 24 → 100
- Documented elite seasons
- 8 → 66
- 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: Ruud Gullit (Q173972)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: 25th Laureus World Sports Awards - Ruud Gullit - 240422 131911 (cropped).jpgCC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026