15 Lists of association football players

This list summarizes men's association football players with 100 or more international appearances.

This list summarizes women's association football players with 100 or more international appearances.

This is a list of the footballers who have played at least 900 official football matches at all age levels. Players in bold are still active.

The list of Basque footballers features association football players from the 'Greater Basque Country', a territory with a population of around 3 million who have reached international status with the national teams as specified, the vast majority representing Spain.

The list of Catalan footballers features association football players from Catalonia, one of Spain's seventeen autonomous communities and a territory with a population of over 7 million, plus the adjoining Pyrénées-Orientales, a French department, who have reached international status with the national teams as specified, the vast majority representing Spain.

The FIFA 100 is a list of the world-renowned Brazilian striker Pelé's choice of the "greatest living footballers". Unveiled on 4 March 2004 at a gala ceremony in London, England, the FIFA 100 marked part of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the international governing body of football.

The FIFA World Cup Dream Team is an all-time FIFA World Cup all-star team published by FIFA in 2002 after conducting an internet poll of fans to select a World Cup dream team. Diego Maradona of Argentina received the most votes. More than one-and-a-half million fans worldwide voted in the poll, conducted by the official FIFA website, www.FIFAworldcup.com, with Maradona receiving 111,035 votes. Brazil's Pelé, who played for three World Cup-winning teams, won 107,539 votes and Zinedine Zidane, who scored twice for France in their 1998 triumph, came in third with 80,527.

The Football League 100 Legends is a list of 100 great association football players who played part or all of their professional career in English Football League and Premier League football. The players were selected in 1998 by a panel of journalists, including veteran reporter Bryon Butler, and the list was intended to reflect the League's history by including players from throughout the preceding 99 seasons. The Football League also announced plans for a gala dinner later in the season at which surviving legends would receive a specially commissioned award.

Goals scored by goalkeepers are a somewhat rare event in football. Goalkeepers spend the majority of a match in the penalty area of their own team, a marked area around the goal they are defending in which they can handle the ball, in order to defend their goal. It is highly unusual for a goalkeeper to move far beyond this area and join an attack, as this leaves the defence vulnerable to long-distance attempts until the goalkeeper can return to defend it.

These are lists of Bundesliga players who have made the most appearances in this league, which is the top level of the German football league system and started in 1963.

In the FIFA World Cup, the following male players have been named in the national team squad in at least four finals tournaments.

In association football, the situation of players being capped for two senior national teams is fairly rare. The list of these players includes only those who have been capped by two countries for senior matches. It does not include the far wider scope of those who have played at youth level for one country then at senior level for another – something which became possible following a 2004 rule change, then more common when an age limit was removed in 2009 – or the those who were eligible for more than one country, but only played for one.

Oleksandr Chizhevskiy Club is a non-official name of list of the football players who during their career in the Ukrainian Premier League had more than 300 official match appearances. This club was named in honor of Oleksandr Chizhevskiy, who first achieved this goal.

The following is a list of most expensive association football transfers, which details the highest transfer fees ever paid for players, as well as transfers which set new world transfer records. The first recorded record transfer was of Willie Groves from West Bromwich Albion to Aston Villa for £100 in 1893. This occurred just eight years after the introduction of professionalism by the Football Association in 1885. The current transfer record was set by the transfer of Neymar from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for €222 million (£198 million) in August 2017.

Association football at the professional level is a low scoring sport. An athlete in association football, or soccer in short, can score 100 goals in international matches by playing a forward position, maintaining a high-level of success in scoring for a long period of usually more than 10 years. This page lists the highly accomplished top all-time female goal scorers in official international football matches for her country. The world governing body FIFA calls this elite group the Century Club.