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Neymar Santos against the field

13 categories, one sample: Neymar Santos against 199 of the most recognizable footballers in DailyFoot's data. Every card shows the whole field's distribution with Neymar Santos pinned inside it.

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0.608goals per cap
130Caps
79Goals
13Categories ranked
International years2010–2026 (17)
PositionMidfielder
Notable clubs4
Major trophies2
Born1992

Every ranking here is drawn from the same sample: DailyFoot's 199 most recognizable footballers, using the caps, goals, career years and honours in the game's own data.

Scoring rates

Goals measured against appearances, seasons and the era the player scored them in.

01 · Scoring

Neymar Santos: Goals per cap

International goals divided by international appearances. The purest scoring rate this data can support, and the number pundits mean by "goals-per-game ratio". Players under 20 caps are left out: a ratio over a handful of matches ranks first and means nothing.

0.608 goals per cap Top 8% #16 of 198 · sample median 0.243
0.243 Neymar Santos 0.608 0.000 1.097
  1. #14Cristiano Ronaldo0.627
  2. #15Didier Drogba0.619
  3. #16Neymar Santos0.608
  4. #17David Villa0.602
  5. #18Gary Lineker0.600
02 · Scoring

Neymar Santos: Caps per goal

How many international appearances the player needed for each goal they scored. The same fact as goals per cap, read the way a scouting note phrases it: lower is more lethal.

1.65 caps per goal Lowest 8% #16 of 180 · sample median 3.88
3.88 Neymar Santos 1.65 0.91 76.00
  1. #14Cristiano Ronaldo1.60
  2. #15Didier Drogba1.62
  3. #16Neymar Santos1.65
  4. #17David Villa1.66
  5. #18Gary Lineker1.67
03 · Scoring

Neymar Santos: Goals per international season

International goals spread across the years between a first and last cap. It rewards scoring a lot in a short window, which a per-cap rate hides: two players on the same ratio can be ten years apart in how fast they got there.

4.65 goals per season Top 7% #14 of 198 · sample median 1.68
1.68 Neymar Santos 4.65 0.00 7.56
  1. #12Didier Drogba5.00
  2. #13Robert Lewandowski4.68
  3. #14Neymar Santos4.65
  4. #15Alfredo Di Stéfano4.60
  5. #16David Villa4.54
04 · Scoring

Neymar Santos: Era-adjusted goal rate

Goals per cap divided by the average goals per cap of everyone in this sample who debuted in the same decade. 1.00 is exactly average for the era, 2.00 is twice as prolific as the players they actually played against. Scoring rates fell as the game professionalised, so this is the fairest way to put a 1950s forward next to a modern one.

2.23 × their era's average Top 6% #12 of 198 · sample median 0.89
0.89 Neymar Santos 2.23 0.00 3.67
  1. #10Klaas-Jan Huntelaar2.31
  2. #11Hernán Crespo2.30
  3. #12Neymar Santos2.23
  4. #12Robert Lewandowski2.23
  5. #14Miroslav Klose2.16

Career shape

When the career started, how long it ran, and how densely it was played.

07 · Longevity

Neymar Santos: Caps per season

Appearances divided by the seasons between a first and last cap: how relentlessly a player was picked while they were in the squad, rather than how long they lasted. Fixture calendars grew over the decades, so the leaders here are almost all modern.

7.65 caps per season Top 45% #89 of 198 · sample median 7.50
7.50 Neymar Santos 7.65 2.00 10.60
  1. #87Hidetoshi Nakata7.70
  2. #87Sami Khedira7.70
  3. #89Neymar Santos7.65
  4. #90Ashley Cole7.64
  5. #91Jérôme Boateng7.60

Silverware and recognition

Trophies won, trophies per appearance, and how widely the player is written about.

11 · Silverware and fame

Neymar Santos: Major trophies

World Cups, continental titles, Nations Leagues, Olympic golds and European Cups/Champions Leagues added together. Domestic leagues and cups are not in this data, so this counts the honours the game itself asks about, not a full trophy cabinet.

2 trophies Top 23% #46 of 199 · sample median 1
1 Neymar Santos 2 0 8
  1. #46Michel Platini2
  2. #46N'Golo Kanté2
  3. #46Neymar Santos2
  4. #46Olivier Giroud2
  5. #46Paolo Rossi2
13 · Silverware and fame

Neymar Santos: Wikipedia languages per cap

How many Wikipedia language editions cover the player, divided by their caps. A rough measure of fame earned per appearance: high means the world knows them for something other than turning up a lot.

1.19 languages per cap Top 23% #47 of 198 · sample median 0.89
0.89 Neymar Santos 1.19 0.43 3.70
  1. #45Hernán Crespo1.22
  2. #46André Schürrle1.21
  3. #47Neymar Santos1.19
  4. #47David Beckham1.19
  5. #47Alan Shearer1.19

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