Famous #8s

Footballers who wore the number 8 shirt for their national team, ranked by caps.

#1 #7 #9 #10 #11 #3 #4 #5 #6 #8 #2 All numbers ranked

100 players who wore #8.

#	Player	Position	Citizenship	Club	Caps	Intl goals
1	Pável Pardo	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Mexico	Retired	148	11
2	Arturo Vidal	Midfield - Central Midfield	Chile	CSD Colo-Colo	147	34
3	João Moutinho	Midfield - Central Midfield	Portugal	SC Braga	146	7
4	Javier Zanetti	Defender - Right-Back	Argentina Italy	Retired	143	5
5	Clint Dempsey	Attack - Second Striker	United States	Retired	141	57
6	Steven Davis	Midfield - Central Midfield	Northern Ireland	Retired	136	12
7	Andres Oper	Attack - Centre-Forward	Estonia	Retired	134	38
8	Xavi	Midfield - Central Midfield	Spain	Retired	133	12
9	Njitap Geremi	Midfield - Right Midfield	Cameroon	Retired	119	13
10	Marcel Desailly	Defender - Centre-Back	France Ghana	Retired	116	3
11	Toni Kroos	Midfield - Central Midfield	Germany	Retired	114	17
12	Birkir Bjarnason	Midfield - Central Midfield	Iceland	Retired	113	15
13	Mateo Kovacic	Midfield - Central Midfield	Croatia	Manchester City	110	5
14	David Alaba	Defender - Centre-Back	Austria	Real Madrid	107	15
15	Frank Lampard	Midfield - Central Midfield	England	Retired	106	29
16	Salomon Kalou	Attack - Left Winger	Cote d'Ivoire	Retired	97	28
17	Wilson Palacios	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Honduras	Retired	97	5
18	Juan Jayo	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Peru	Retired	97	1
19	Georginio Wijnaldum	Midfield - Central Midfield	Netherlands Suriname	Al-Ettifaq FC	96	28
20	Jacek Krzynowek	Midfield - Left Midfield	Poland	Retired	96	15
21	Tugay Kerimoğlu	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Türkiye	Retired	94	2
22	Gilberto Silva	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Brazil	Retired	93	3
23	Tie Li	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	China	Retired	92	5
24	Cheikhou Kouyaté	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Senegal Belgium	Without Club	92	4
25	Khaleem Hyland	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Trinidad and Tobago	Without Club	91	5
26	Junmin Hao	Midfield - Central Midfield	China	Without Club	90	12
27	Gökhan Inler	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Switzerland Türkiye	Retired	89	7
28	Marouane Fellaini	Midfield - Central Midfield	Belgium Morocco	Retired	87	18
29	Xuri Zhao	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	China	Without Club	87	2
30	Ezgjan Alioski	Defender - Left-Back	North Macedonia Switzerland	FC Lugano	85	13
31	Jordan Henderson	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	England	Brentford FC	85	3
32	Bruno Fernandes	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Portugal	Manchester United	82	25
33	Zoubaier Baya	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Tunisia	Retired	82	17
34	Remo Freuler	Midfield - Central Midfield	Switzerland	Bologna FC 1909	82	11
35	Ondrej Duda	Midfield - Central Midfield	Slovakia	Al-Ettifaq FC	81	15
36	Thomas Delaney	Midfield - Central Midfield	Denmark United States	FC Copenhagen	81	8
37	Bryan Oviedo	Defender - Left-Back	Costa Rica	AD San Carlos	81	2
38	Jesper Grønkjær	Attack - Left Winger	Denmark Greenland	Retired	80	5
39	Youri Tielemans	Midfield - Central Midfield	Belgium DR Congo	Aston Villa	79	12
40	Sergey Kornilenko	Attack - Centre-Forward	Belarus Russia	Retired	78	17
41	Luke Wilkshire	Defender - Right-Back	Australia United Kingdom	Retired	78	8
42	Lloyd Palun	Defender - Right-Back	Gabon France	Without Club	77	1
43	Emmanuel Badu	Midfield - Central Midfield	Ghana	Without Club	76	11
44	Christopher Martins	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Luxembourg Cape Verde	Spartak Moscow	75	1
45	Genki Haraguchi	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Japan	Beerschot VA	74	11
46	Edgar Davids	Midfield - Central Midfield	Netherlands Suriname	Retired	74	6
47	Gennaro Gattuso	Midfield - Central Midfield	Italy	Retired	73	1
48	Ronny Büchel	Midfield	Liechtenstein	Retired	72	0
49	Abel Aguilar	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Colombia	Retired	71	7
50	Jung-woo Kim	Midfield - Central Midfield	Korea, South	Retired	71	6
51	Albin Ekdal	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Sweden	Djurgårdens IF	70	0
52	Koke	Midfield - Central Midfield	Spain	Atlético de Madrid	70	0
53	Takumi Minamino	Attack - Left Winger	Japan	AS Monaco	69	24
54	Nihat Kahveci	Attack - Centre-Forward	Türkiye	Retired	69	19
55	Brandur Hendriksson	Midfield - Central Midfield	Faroe Islands	NSÍ Runavík	69	6
56	Alban Bushi	Attack - Centre-Forward	Albania	Retired	67	14
57	Paul Scholes	Midfield - Central Midfield	England	Retired	66	14
58	Adalberto Carrasquilla	Midfield - Central Midfield	Panama	UNAM Pumas	66	3
59	Ali Asad	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Qatar Bahrain	Al-Sadd SC	65	12
60	Carlos Gruezo	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Ecuador	LDU Quito	65	1
61	Leon Goretzka	Midfield - Central Midfield	Germany	Bayern Munich	63	15
62	Harry Wilson	Attack - Right Winger	Wales England	Fulham FC	63	14
63	Valeri Qazaishvili	Attack - Left Winger	Georgia	Shandong Taishan	63	13
64	Peter Odemwingie	Attack - Centre-Forward	Nigeria Russia	Retired	62	11
65	Pál Dárdai	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Hungary	Retired	61	5
66	Carlos Rodríguez	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Mexico	CD Cruz Azul	61	0
67	Marcos Acuña	Defender - Left-Back	Argentina	CA River Plate	61	0
68	Weston McKennie	Midfield - Central Midfield	United States	Juventus FC	60	11
69	Szilárd Németh	Attack - Second Striker	Slovakia	Retired	59	22
70	Dietmar Hamann	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Germany	Retired	59	5
71	Naby Keïta	Midfield - Central Midfield	Guinea	Ferencvárosi TC	58	12
72	André Macanga	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Angola	Retired	58	2
73	Yakubu Aiyegbeni	Attack - Centre-Forward	Nigeria	Retired	57	21
74	Benjamin Moukandjo	Attack - Centre-Forward	Cameroon France	Retired	57	8
75	Jorginho	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Italy Brazil	CR Flamengo	57	5
76	Denis Glushakov	Midfield - Central Midfield	Russia	SKA Rostov-na-Donu	57	5
77	Petit	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Portugal France	Retired	57	4
78	Alfredo Mejía	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Honduras	Retired	56	1
79	Edin Visca	Attack - Right Winger	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Trabzonspor	55	10
80	Mitsuo Ogasawara	Midfield - Central Midfield	Japan	Retired	55	7
81	Stefan Johansen	Midfield - Central Midfield	Norway	Retired	55	6
82	Claudio Marchisio	Midfield - Central Midfield	Italy	Retired	55	5
83	Scott Brown	Midfield - Central Midfield	Scotland	Retired	55	4
84	Michael McGlinchey	Midfield - Right Midfield	New Zealand Scotland	Retired	54	5
85	Karim El Ahmadi	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Morocco Netherlands	Retired	53	1
86	Mathieu Valbuena	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	France Spain	Olympiacos Piraeus B	52	8
87	Ramires	Midfield - Central Midfield	Brazil	Retired	51	4
88	Perparim Hetemaj	Midfield - Central Midfield	Finland Kosovo	Retired	49	4
89	Marko Babic	Midfield - Left Midfield	Croatia	Retired	49	3
90	Chavdar Yankov	Midfield - Central Midfield	Bulgaria	Retired	48	5
91	Lubambo Musonda	Defender - Left-Back	Zambia	1.FC Magdeburg	48	2
92	Luka Jović	Attack - Centre-Forward	Serbia Bosnia-Herzegovina	AEK Athens	47	11
93	Jordan Adéoti	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Benin France	US Avranches	47	1
94	Jordy Delem	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Martinique France	Retired	45	7
95	Will Johnson	Midfield - Central Midfield	Canada England	Retired	45	4
96	Peter Etebo	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Nigeria	Genclerbirligi Ankara	45	3
97	Todor Nedelev	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Bulgaria	Botev Plovdiv	44	5
98	Mehdi Lacen	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	Algeria France	Retired	44	0
99	Bassala Touré	Midfield - Attacking Midfield	Mali	Retired	43	6
100	Aurélien Tchouaméni	Midfield - Defensive Midfield	France Cameroon	Real Madrid	43	3