Famous #21s

Footballers who wore the number 21 shirt for their national team, ranked by caps.

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100 players who wore #21.

#	Player	Position	Citizenship	Club	Caps	Intl goals
1	Edinson Cavani	Attack - Centre-Forward	Uruguay Italy	CA Boca Juniors	136	58
2	David Silva	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Spain	Retired	125	35
3	Andrea Pirlo	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Italy	Retired	116	13
4	Konstantinos Katsouranis	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Greece	Retired	116	10
5	Domagoj Vida	Defender - Centre-Back	Croatia	AEK Athens	105	4
6	Ji-sung Park	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Korea, South	Retired	100	13
7	Jonathan Osorio	Midfield - Central Midfield	Canada Colombia	Toronto FC	85	9
8	Dakonam Djené	Defender - Centre-Back	Togo	Getafe CF	84	0
9	İlkay Gündoğan	Midfield - Central Midfield	Germany	Galatasaray	82	19
10	Josh Magennis	Attack - Centre-Forward	Northern Ireland	Exeter City	81	12
11	Christian Wilhelmsson	Attack - Right Winger	Sweden	Retired	80	9
12	Nuno Gomes	Attack - Centre-Forward	Portugal	Retired	79	29
13	Emmanuel Eboué	Defender - Right-Back	Cote d'Ivoire Belgium	Retired	78	3
14	Alexander González	Defender - Right-Back	Venezuela	CS Emelec	72	2
15	Hai Yu	Defender - Left-Back	China	Retired	71	11
16	Marc Janko	Attack - Centre-Forward	Austria	Retired	70	28
17	Odise Roshi	Attack - Right Winger	Albania	Ankara Keciörengücü	70	5
18	Nicolas Anelka	Attack - Centre-Forward	France Martinique	Retired	69	14
19	Jesús Arellano	Attack - Right Winger	Mexico	Retired	69	7
20	John Boye	Defender - Centre-Back	Ghana	Retired	68	5
21	Marcos Ureña	Attack - Centre-Forward	Costa Rica	CS Cartaginés	67	15
22	Arnór Ingvi Traustason	Midfield - Central Midfield	Iceland	IFK Norrköping	67	6
23	Sung-ryong Jung	Goalkeeper	Korea, South	Kawasaki Frontale	67	0
24	Akira Kaji	Defender - Right-Back	Japan	Retired	64	2
25	Kasper Hämäläinen	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Finland	Retired	63	9
26	Frenkie de Jong	Midfield - Central Midfield	Netherlands	FC Barcelona	60	2
27	Rúben Neves	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Portugal	Al-Hilal SFC	60	0
28	Óscar Romero	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Paraguay	Sport Club Internacional	58	4
29	Shinji Ono	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Japan	Retired	56	6
30	Joseph-Désiré Job	Attack - Centre-Forward	Cameroon France	Retired	52	8
31	Egor Filipenko	Defender - Centre-Back	Belarus Russia	Ural Yekaterinburg	52	1
32	Răzvan Cociș	Midfield - Central Midfield	Romania	Retired	51	2
33	Alan Franco	Midfield - Central Midfield	Ecuador	Clube Atlético Mineiro	51	1
34	Laurent Koscielny	Defender - Centre-Back	France Poland	Retired	51	1
35	Christian Vieri	Attack - Centre-Forward	Italy Australia	Retired	49	23
36	Diogo Jota	Attack - Left Winger	Portugal	---	49	14
37	Jimmy Durmaz	Midfield - Central Midfield	Sweden Türkiye	Etimesgut Spor Kulübü	49	3
38	Eric Bailly	Defender - Centre-Back	Cote d'Ivoire	Real Oviedo	49	2
39	Lamine Gassama	Defender - Right-Back	Senegal France	Without Club	49	0
40	Nemanja Matic	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Serbia Slovakia	US Sassuolo	48	2
41	Abzal Beysebekov	Defender - Right-Back	Kazakhstan	FC Astana	48	0
42	Mikel Oyarzabal	Attack - Centre-Forward	Spain	Real Sociedad	47	17
43	Cyrille Bayala	Attack - Right Winger	Burkina Faso	FC Sheriff Tiraspol	47	4
44	Alex Král	Midfield - Central Midfield	Czech Republic	1.FC Union Berlin	47	2
45	Andreas Cornelius	Attack - Centre-Forward	Denmark	FC Copenhagen	46	13
46	Juan Carlos Valerón	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Spain	Retired	46	5
47	Dejan Kulusevski	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Sweden North Macedonia	Tottenham Hotspur	45	5
48	Habib Beye	Defender - Right-Back	Senegal France	Retired	45	1
49	Mladen Petric	Attack - Centre-Forward	Croatia Switzerland	Retired	44	12
50	Filip Djuricic	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Serbia	Panathinaikos FC	44	5
51	Hyeon-woo Jo	Goalkeeper	Korea, South	Ulsan HD FC	44	0
52	Stanislav Ivanov	Midfield - Central Midfield	Moldova Russia	Retired	43	0
53	Konstantinos Tsimikas	Defender - Left-Back	Greece	AS Roma	43	0
54	Matus Bero	Midfield - Central Midfield	Slovakia	VfL Bochum	42	1
55	Gotoku Sakai	Defender - Right-Back	Japan Germany	Vissel Kobe	42	0
56	Massimo Luongo	Midfield - Central Midfield	Australia Italy	Millwall FC	41	6
57	Jackson Martínez	Attack - Centre-Forward	Colombia	Retired	40	8
58	João Pereira	Defender - Right-Back	Portugal	Retired	40	0
59	Alessandro Bastoni	Defender - Centre-Back	Italy	Inter Milan	39	3
60	Daniel Muñoz	Defender - Right-Back	Colombia	Crystal Palace	39	3
61	Adolfo Bautista	Attack - Second Striker	Mexico	Retired	38	11
62	Halil Altıntop	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Türkiye Germany	Retired	38	8
63	Luis Rodríguez	Defender - Right-Back	Mexico	CF Pachuca	38	2
64	Dragoș Grigore	Defender - Centre-Back	Romania	CSM Vaslui	38	1
65	Abdou Traoré	Midfield - Central Midfield	Mali France	Eclaron Valcourt	37	3
66	Iván Zarandona	Midfield - Central Midfield	Equatorial Guinea Spain	Retired	37	1
67	Avraam Papadopoulos	Defender - Centre-Back	Greece Australia	Retired	37	0
68	Lucas Moura	Attack - Right Winger	Brazil	São Paulo Futebol Clube	36	4
69	Djaniny	Attack - Centre-Forward	Cape Verde	Without Club	35	7
70	Khalid Boulahrouz	Defender - Centre-Back	Netherlands Morocco	Retired	35	0
71	Jaime Lozano	Midfield - Left Midfield	Mexico	Retired	34	12
72	Adama Traoré	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Mali	Amed SK	34	3
73	Cédric Soares	Defender - Right-Back	Portugal Germany	São Paulo Futebol Clube	34	1
74	Maksym Bragaru	Attack - Left Winger	Ukraine	Polissya Zhytomyr	33	4
75	Aleksandr Erokhin	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Russia	Zenit St. Petersburg	32	4
76	Youssouf Sabaly	Defender - Right-Back	Senegal France	Al-Duhail SC	32	1
77	Thomas Fontaine	Defender - Centre-Back	Madagascar France	Grand Ouest Association Lyonnaise FC	32	1
78	Nicola Zalewski	Midfield - Left Midfield	Poland	Atalanta BC	31	3
79	Calvin Bassey	Defender - Centre-Back	Nigeria England	Fulham FC	31	0
80	Geraldo	Attack - Right Winger	Angola Brazil	Corum FK	30	2
81	Endre Botka	Defender - Right-Back	Hungary	Ferencvárosi TC	30	1
82	Fabio Quagliarella	Attack - Centre-Forward	Italy	Retired	29	8
83	Olcay Şahan	Attack - Left Winger	Türkiye Germany	TSV Eller	29	2
84	Zoran Jankovic	Attack - Centre-Forward	Bulgaria Serbia	Retired	29	1
85	Timothy Chandler	Defender - Right-Back	United States Germany	Eintracht Frankfurt	29	1
86	André Gomes	Midfield - Central Midfield	Portugal	LOSC Lille	29	0
87	Bryan Róchez	Attack - Centre-Forward	Honduras	Leixões SC	28	5
88	Ángel Correa	Attack - Right Winger	Argentina Spain	Tigres UANL	28	3
89	Mijat Gacinovic	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Serbia Bosnia-Herzegovina	AEK Athens	28	2
90	Nahki Wells	Attack - Centre-Forward	Bermuda	Luton Town	27	20
91	Alexandre Pato	Attack - Centre-Forward	Brazil	Retired	27	10
92	Jeremy Christie	Midfield - Central Midfield	New Zealand	Retired	27	1
93	Mirko Ivanovski	Attack - Centre-Forward	North Macedonia Bulgaria	Pelister Bitola	27	1
94	Joel Matip	Defender - Centre-Back	Cameroon Germany	Retired	27	1
95	Teun Koopmeiners	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Netherlands	Juventus FC	25	3
96	David Degen	Midfield - Right Midfield	Switzerland	Retired	24	6
97	Romario Williams	Attack - Centre-Forward	Jamaica	Indy Eleven	24	4
98	César Huerta	Attack - Left Winger	Mexico	RSC Anderlecht	24	3
99	Robin Gosens	Defender - Left-Back	Germany Netherlands	ACF Fiorentina	24	2
100	Nair Tiknizyan	Defender - Left-Back	Armenia Russia	Red Star Belgrade	24	1