Appearance Records
The player with the most appearances in the team is Cristiano Ronaldo, having appeared seven times. Second is Iker Casillas and Carles Puyol, having appeared six times. Third is Thierry Henry, Xavi and Lionel Messi with 5 appearances. Alessandro Nesta, John Terry, have four. They are followed by several players with three appearances: Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldinho, Pavel Nedvěd, Gianluigi Buffon, Steven Gerrard, Kaká, Dani Alves and Iniesta. The most consecutive appearances in the team is six for Cristiano Ronaldo (2007–12) and Iker Casillas (2007–11).
The teams with the most player appearances (not including manager appearances) are Barcelona with 31, Real Madrid (19), followed by Milan (17), Juventus (10), Arsenal (9), Manchester United (8) and Chelsea (8). Barcelona has been the team with the most players selected in a single season with 6 players in 2009 and 2010, 5 players in 2011, four players in 2006 and 3 players in 2005 and 2008. The only other teams with more than two players in one season are Real Madrid with 3 players in 2002,2003 and 2011, Milan with 3 players in 2004, 2005 and 2007 and Juventus with 3 players in 2006.
The manager with the most appearances is José Mourinho, with four appearances (one with Internazionale, two with Porto, one with Chelsea). He is followed by Alex Ferguson and Josep Guardiola, with two.
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