Most career games missed to injury

Players who sat out the most matches across their career.

#	Player	Position	Citizenship	Club	Games missed	Total days	Injury spells
101	Ibrahim Afellay	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Netherlands Morocco	Retired	182	1,086	7
102	Alexander Meyer	Defender - Left-Back	Germany	Retired	181	1,083	2
103	Francesco Coco	Defender - Left-Back	Italy	Retired	181	835	9
104	Alexander Merkel	Midfield - Central Midfield	Kazakhstan Germany	Without Club	181	815	12
105	Jakub Hromada	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Slovakia	FC Rapid 1923	181	610	11
106	Nicolai Boilesen	Defender - Centre-Back	Denmark	Retired	180	1,356	14
107	Takuji Yonemoto	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Japan	Kyoto Sanga	180	1,114	9
108	Michael Owen	Attack - Centre-Forward	England	Retired	179	877	9
109	Piotr Trochowski	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Germany	Retired	179	656	6
110	Mark González	Attack - Left Winger	Chile South Africa	Retired	179	1,015	13
111	Slobodan Rajković	Defender - Centre-Back	Serbia	Retired	179	954	14
112	Sergio Asenjo	Goalkeeper	Spain	Retired	179	1,079	9
113	Ryota Oshima	Midfield - Central Midfield	Japan	Kawasaki Frontale	179	1,061	15
114	Adama Traoré	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Mali	Amed SK	178	1,056	11
115	Rico Henry	Defender - Left-Back	England Jamaica	Brentford FC	177	1,248	7
116	Atsuto Uchida	Defender - Right-Back	Japan	Retired	176	1,240	15
117	Lee Wallace	Defender - Left-Back	Scotland	Retired	176	1,002	13
118	Miguel Peralta	Midfield - Right Midfield	Spain Venezuela	FC Oetwil-Geroldswil	176	1,590	10
119	Dmytro Chygrynskyi	Defender - Centre-Back	Ukraine	Retired	174	843	14
120	Haris Vuckic	Attack - Second Striker	Slovenia	NK Domzale	174	933	7
121	Connor Wickham	Attack - Centre-Forward	England Northern Ireland	Without Club	174	1,194	15
122	Carlos Fernández	Attack - Centre-Forward	Spain	CD Mirandés	174	1,098	14
123	David Odonkor	Attack - Right Winger	Germany	Retired	173	787	5
124	Alberto Aquilani	Midfield - Central Midfield	Italy	Retired	173	570	15
125	Nicolás Pareja	Defender - Centre-Back	Argentina Italy	Retired	173	877	14
126	Erik Pieters	Defender - Left-Back	Netherlands	Without Club	173	579	6
127	Gustav Dahl	Defender - Left-Back	Denmark	Retired	173	2,486	4
128	Rafael	Defender - Right-Back	Brazil Portugal	Retired	172	874	15
129	Fran Rico	Midfield - Central Midfield	Spain	Retired	172	1,531	6
130	Alejandro Grimaldo	Defender - Left-Back	Spain	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	172	723	15
131	Gezim Pepsi	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Kosovo Switzerland	FC Basel 1893 U21	172	784	9
132	Alexandar Borkovic	Defender - Centre-Back	Austria	SK Sturm Graz	171	1,252	13
133	Zinho Vanheusden	Defender - Centre-Back	Belgium	Marbella FC	171	1,070	15
134	Christoph Preuß	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Germany	Retired	170	770	3
135	Steven Naismith	Attack - Second Striker	Scotland	Retired	170	988	12
136	Julian Roth	Defender - Centre-Back	Switzerland	Retired	170	1,228	7
137	Walce	Defender - Centre-Back	Brazil	Retrô FC Brasil	170	879	1
138	Christian Vieri	Attack - Centre-Forward	Italy Australia	Retired	169	862	12
139	Filip Helander	Defender - Centre-Back	Sweden	BK Häcken	169	1,019	13
140	Fernando	Attack - Centre-Forward	Brazil	Red Bull Bragantino	169	1,143	12
141	Mikel Arteta	Midfield - Central Midfield	Spain	Retired	168	701	14
142	Pierre De Wit	Midfield - Central Midfield	Germany	Retired	168	1,264	10
143	Dennis Daube	Midfield - Central Midfield	Germany	Retired	168	1,333	14
144	Dan Gosling	Midfield - Central Midfield	England	Without Club	168	872	9
145	Kevin Artmann	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Germany	Retired	167	964	15
146	Lukasz Fabianski	Goalkeeper	Poland	West Ham United	167	577	13
147	James McCarthy	Midfield - Central Midfield	Ireland Scotland	Without Club	167	839	10
148	Raphael Framberger	Defender - Right-Back	Germany	Retired	167	1,645	15
149	Jordan Morris	Attack - Centre-Forward	United States	Seattle Sounders FC	166	836	9
150	Judivan	Attack - Centre-Forward	Brazil	Sisaket United	166	874	1

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