Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Yazid Zidane
French association football player and coach (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- France
- Born
- 23 June 1972
- Position
- Midfielder
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1989–2006
Clubs AS Cannes · FC Girondins de Bordeaux · Juventus FC · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol
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
506
Club league goals
95
International caps
108
International goals
31
League goals / match
0.19
International goals / cap
0.29
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS CannesClub | 1989–1992 | League | 61 | 6 |
| FC Girondins de BordeauxClub | 1992–1996 | League | 139 | 28 |
| France men's national association football teamNational team | 1994–2006 | Full caps | 108 | 31 |
| Juventus FCClub | 1996–2001 | League | 151 | 24 |
| Real Madrid Club de FútbolClub | 2001–2006 | League | 155 | 37 |
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
Intercontinental Cup
Continental club
- 1996 · Juventus FC
- 2002 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol
- ×2
Serie A
Domestic
- 1996–97 · Juventus FC
- 1997–98 · Juventus FC
- ×1
European Cup / UEFA Champions League
Continental club
- 2001–02 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol
- ×1
FIFA World Cup
International
- 1998 · France men's national association football team
- ×1
La Liga
Domestic
- 2002–03 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol
- ×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
- ×3
FIFA World Player of the Year
Individual award · FIFA
- 1998
- 2000
- 2003
- ×1
Ballon d'Or
Individual award · France Football
- 1998
- ×1
FIFA World Cup Golden Ball
Performance award · FIFA
- 2006
- ×1
UEFA Club Footballer of the Year
Individual award · UEFA
- 2002
Career timeline
1989
- Joins AS Cannes — Until 1992
1992
- Joins FC Girondins de Bordeaux — Until 1996
1994
- Senior international debut: France men's national association football team — Until 2006
1996
- Intercontinental Cup winner — 1996 · Juventus FC(provisional)
- Joins Juventus FC — Until 2001
1997
- Serie A winner — 1996–97 · Juventus FC(provisional)
1998
- Ballon d'Or — 1998(provisional)
- FIFA World Player of the Year — 1998(provisional)
- FIFA World Cup winner — 1998 · France men's national association football team
- Serie A winner — 1997–98 · Juventus FC(provisional)
2000
- FIFA World Player of the Year — 2000(provisional)
- UEFA European Championship winner — 2000 · France men's national association football team
2001
- Joins Real Madrid Club de Fútbol — Until 2006
2002
- UEFA Club Footballer of the Year — 2002(provisional)
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League winner — 2001–02 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol(provisional)
- Intercontinental Cup winner — 2002 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol(provisional)
2003
- FIFA World Player of the Year — 2003(provisional)
- La Liga winner — 2002–03 · Real Madrid Club de Fútbol(provisional)
2006
- FIFA World Cup Golden Ball — 2006
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
71.2
Rank #10
Partially verified5/5 categories with full evidence · 20% of inputs directly sourced · 1 duplicate honor record merged
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence69.8+20.94 points
- Best window
- 1998–2002
- Individual award points in window
- 28
- Award availability in window
- 0.933
- Team honor points in window
- 32.5
- Peak index
- 46.25
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 evidence79.2+19.79 points
- League goals per match
- 0.188 → 41.32
- International goals per cap
- 0.287 → 72.41
- International caps per year
- 8.31 → 92.85
Individual accoladesFull evidence66.1+13.22 points
- Contemporary award points
- 46
- Award availability coverage
- 0.873
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 52.69
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
- Ballon d'Or (1998)
- 12
- FIFA World Player of the Year (2000)
- 12
- FIFA World Player of the Year (2003)
- 12
- UEFA Club Footballer of the Year (2002)
- 4
- FIFA World Cup Golden Ball (2006)
- 6
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence65.6+9.84 points
- Team honor points
- 41
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- Intercontinental Cup (1996)
- 2.5
- Intercontinental Cup (2002)
- 2.5
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League (2001–02)
- 8
- FIFA World Cup (1998)
- 12
- La Liga (2002–03)
- 3
- Serie A (1996–97)
- 3
- Serie A (1997–98)
- 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 evidence74.6+7.46 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 18 → 88.75
- Documented elite seasons
- 7 → 59
- International career length (years)
- 13 → 85
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: UEFA Club Footballer of the Year winners listCC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikidata: Zinedine Zidane (Q1835)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Zinedine Zidane by Tasnim 03.jpgCC BY 4.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026