Most-injured footballers ever

Career totals: days missed and games sat out across all recorded injuries.

#	Player	Position	Citizenship	Club	Total days	Games missed	Injury spells
101	Chinedu Ekene	Attack - Centre-Forward	Germany Nigeria	Without Club	1,580	118	10
102	Moritz Mosandl	Midfield - Central Midfield	Germany	Without Club	1,580	129	8
103	Martin Ellingsen	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Norway	AIK	1,576	202	4
104	Renato Neto	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Brazil Belgium	KSC Blankenberge	1,571	202	11
105	Ebrar Cumur	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Türkiye Azerbaijan	24 Erzincanspor	1,569	150	6
106	Manuel Schneider	Defender - Centre-Back	Germany	Retired	1,558	121	2
107	Halit Güven Kocabal	Midfield - Central Midfield	Türkiye	Retired	1,547	150	11
108	Stiliyan Petrov	Midfield - Central Midfield	Bulgaria	Retired	1,543	55	2
109	Wojciech Onsorge	Defender - Centre-Back	Poland	Retired	1,532	2	2
110	Fran Rico	Midfield - Central Midfield	Spain	Retired	1,531	172	6
111	Marius Willsch	Defender - Right-Back	Germany	Retired	1,524	94	15
112	Kean Bryan	Defender - Centre-Back	England Jamaica	Retired	1,516	15	4
113	Kyle Magennis	Midfield - Central Midfield	Scotland	Kilmarnock FC	1,513	184	11
114	Davide Raffaello	Midfield - Central Midfield	Italy	Porta Romana	1,511	157	12
115	Ryo Miyaichi	Attack - Right Winger	Japan	Yokohama F. Marinos	1,507	208	15
116	Jordan Rossiter	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	England	Waterford FC	1,496	212	7
117	Marco van Ginkel	Midfield - Central Midfield	Netherlands	Without Club	1,485	208	14
118	Thomas Pledl	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Germany	Without Club	1,481	108	14
119	Can Karatas	Attack - Right Winger	Türkiye Germany	BFC Dynamo	1,472	137	12
120	Gil-Linnart Walther	Midfield - Central Midfield	Germany	TSV Heiligendorf II	1,466	0	1
121	Kevin Costinha	Midfield - Right Midfield	Switzerland Portugal	Without Club	1,465	162	4
122	Ryan Taylor	Defender - Right-Back	England	Without Club	1,450	248	7
123	Miguel Van Damme	Goalkeeper	Belgium	---	1,450	141	2
124	Máté Deczki	Goalkeeper	Hungary	Mezőkövesd Zsóry FC	1,440	0	1
125	Ronaldo	Attack - Centre-Forward	Brazil Spain	Retired	1,433	254	11
126	Tino Schmidt	Attack - Right Winger	Germany	SV Babelsberg 03	1,430	143	15
127	Andrej Rendla	Attack - Right Winger	Slovakia	Retired	1,425	206	3
128	Charles Dunne	Defender - Centre-Back	Ireland England	Coleraine FC	1,424	188	12
129	Teit Jacobsen	Attack - Right Winger	Faroe Islands	Career break	1,416	0	1
130	İbrahim Çelik	Defender - Centre-Back	Türkiye	Retired	1,415	160	5
131	Ruan Oliveira	Midfield - Central Midfield	Brazil	Zorya Lugansk	1,415	195	2
132	Chris Cohen	Midfield - Central Midfield	England Israel	Retired	1,414	212	7
133	Amiran Sanaia	Defender - Left-Back	Georgia	Retired	1,414	70	1
134	Mourad Meghni	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Algeria France	Retired	1,403	263	15
135	Paolo Faragò	Midfield - Central Midfield	Italy	Retired	1,401	94	15
136	Wes Brown	Defender - Centre-Back	England	Retired	1,399	332	12
137	Stijn Schaars	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Netherlands	Retired	1,394	213	15
138	Martín Merquelanz	Attack - Left Winger	Spain	Without Club	1,392	188	3
139	Marcos Álvarez	Attack - Centre-Forward	Germany Spain	TuS Bersenbrück	1,384	153	11
140	Ryan Fredericks	Defender - Right-Back	England Scotland	Retired	1,382	114	14
141	Matteo Lomolino	Defender - Centre-Back	Italy Brazil	Nuova Igea Virtus	1,379	107	14
142	Nicolai Boilesen	Defender - Centre-Back	Denmark	Retired	1,376	180	15
143	Kortney Hause	Defender - Centre-Back	England Bermuda	Without Club	1,376	206	9
144	Carlinhos	Defender - Left-Back	Brazil	Retired	1,375	63	2
145	Philipp Hoffmann	Midfield - Right Midfield	Germany	Without Club	1,373	107	13
146	Greg Cunningham	Defender - Centre-Back	Ireland	Galway United FC	1,371	193	6
147	Niall Cowperthwaite	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	England	Lancaster City FC	1,371	0	1
148	Tevin Ihrig	Defender - Centre-Back	Germany	Retired	1,371	109	8
149	Ziad El Sheiwi	Defender - Left-Back	Austria	Austria Vienna	1,371	150	3
150	Mattis Daube	Defender - Right-Back	Germany	Without Club	1,369	112	9

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