Ruud van Nistelrooy
Rutgerus Johannes Martinus van Nistelrooij
Dutch association football player and coach (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Born
- 1 July 1976
- Position
- Forward
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1993–2012
Clubs FC Den Bosch · SC Heerenveen · PSV Eindhoven · Manchester United F.C. · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol · Hamburger SV · Málaga CF
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
449
Club league goals
249
International caps
70
International goals
35
League goals / match
0.55
International goals / cap
0.50
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FC Den BoschClub | 1993–1997 | League | 69 | 17 |
| SC HeerenveenClub | 1997–1998 | League | 31 | 13 |
| Netherlands national association football teamNational team | 1998–2011 | Full caps | 70 | 35 |
| PSV EindhovenClub | 1998–2001 | League | 67 | 62 |
| Manchester United F.C.Club | 2001–2006 | League | 150 | 95 |
| Real Madrid Club de FútbolClub | 2006–2010 | League | 68 | 46 |
| Hamburger SVClub | 2010–2011 | League | 36 | 12 |
| Málaga CFClub | 2011–2012 | League | 28 | 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
- ×2
Eredivisie
Domestic
- 1999–00 · PSV Eindhoven
- 2000–01 · PSV Eindhoven
- ×2
La Liga
Domestic
- 2006–07 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol
- 2007–08 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol
- ×1
Premier League
Domestic
- 2002–03 · Manchester United F.C.
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
1993
- Joins FC Den Bosch — Until 1997
1997
- Joins SC Heerenveen — Until 1998
1998
- Senior international debut: Netherlands national association football team — Until 2011
- Joins PSV Eindhoven — Until 2001
2000
- Eredivisie winner — 1999–00 · PSV Eindhoven(provisional)
2001
- Eredivisie winner — 2000–01 · PSV Eindhoven(provisional)
- Joins Manchester United F.C. — Until 2006
2003
- Premier League winner — 2002–03 · Manchester United F.C.(provisional)
2006
- Joins Real Madrid Club de Fútbol — Until 2010
2007
- La Liga winner — 2006–07 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol(provisional)
2008
- La Liga winner — 2007–08 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol(provisional)
2010
- Joins Hamburger SV — Until 2011
2011
- Joins Málaga CF — Until 2012
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
29.3
Rank #122
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 evidence8.2+2.45 points
- Best window
- 1999–2003
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0.94
- Team honor points in window
- 7
- Peak index
- 3.5
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.
Career performanceFull evidence60.4+15.09 points
- League goals per match
- 0.555 → 61.73
- International goals per cap
- 0.5 → 61
- International caps per year
- 5 → 58.33
Individual accoladesFull evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Contemporary award points
- 0
- Award availability coverage
- 0.927
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 0
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence30.3+4.55 points
- Team honor points
- 13
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- Premier League (2002–03)
- 3
- La Liga (2006–07)
- 3
- La Liga (2007–08)
- 3
- Eredivisie (1999–00)
- 2
- Eredivisie (2000–01)
- 2
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence71.7+7.17 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 20 → 96.25
- Documented elite seasons
- 5 → 45
- 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 van Nistelrooy (Q45626)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Ruud van Nistelrooy 2017.jpgCC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026