Stanley Matthews
English association football player (1915-2000) (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- England
- Born
- 1 February 1915
- Died
- 23 February 2000
- Position
- Midfielder
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1932–1965
Clubs Stoke City F.C. · The Football League XI · Blackpool 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
710
Club league goals
73
International caps
56
International goals
11
League goals / match
0.10
International goals / cap
0.20
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stoke City F.C.Club | 1932–1965 | League | 318 | 54 |
| England men's national association football teamNational team | 1934–1957 | Full caps | 54 | 11 |
| The Football League XIClub | 1934–1956 | League | 13 | 2 |
| Blackpool F.C.Club | 1947–1961 | League | 379 | 17 |
| United Kingdom national association football teamNational team | 1947–1955 | Full caps | 2 | 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
No catalog team titles are recorded for this player in the current sources.
Individual accolades
- ×1
Ballon d'Or
Individual award · France Football
- 1956
Career timeline
1932
- Joins Stoke City F.C. — Until 1947
1934
- Senior international debut: England men's national association football team — Until 1957
- Joins The Football League XI — Until 1956
1947
- Senior international debut: United Kingdom national association football team — Until 1955
- Joins Blackpool F.C. — Until 1961
1956
- Ballon d'Or — 1956
1961
- Joins Stoke City F.C. — Until 1965
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
33.4
Rank #105
Partially verified3/5 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 performanceLimited evidence45.8+13.74 points
- Best window
- 1952–1956
- Individual award points in window
- 12
- Award availability in window
- 0.076
- Team honor points in window
- 0
- Peak index
- 24
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 evidence23.9+5.98 points
- League goals per match
- 0.103 → 15.85
- International goals per cap
- 0.196 → 54.29
- International caps per year
- 2.33 → 20
Individual accoladesLimited evidence39.0+7.80 points
- Contemporary award points
- 12
- Award availability coverage
- 0.112
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 24
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
- Ballon d'Or (1956)
- 12
Only 11% 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 evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Team honor points
- 0
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
LongevityFull evidence59.0+5.91 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 34 → 100
- Documented elite seasons
- 1 → 9
- International career length (years)
- 24 → 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: Ballon d'Or winners listCC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikidata: Stanley Matthews (Q216140)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Stanley Matthews 1962 (crop).jpgCC0 · retrieved 27 October 2026