Pele© unknown |
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| Name | Edson Arantes Do Nascimento 'Pele' | ||||
| Date of Birth | 23 October 1940 | ||||
| Place of Birth | Tres Coracoes, Brazil | ||||
| Height | 1.73m / 5ft 8in | ||||
| Position | Forward | ||||
| Nationality | Brazilian | ||||
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Sao Paulo State Championship (10) : 1958, 1960, 1961,
1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973 Rio-Sao Paulo Championship (3) : 1959, 1963, 1964 Taca de Prata : 1968 NASL Championship : 1977 Brazilian Cup (5) : 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 Copa Libertadores (2) : 1962, 1963 Intercontinental Cup (2) : 1962, 1963 World Cup (3) : 1958, 1962, 1970 Sao Paulo State Top Scorer (11) : 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1973 Rio-Sao Paulo Top Scorer : 1963 Copa Libertadores Top Scorer : 1965 Copa America Top Scorer : 1959 South American Player of the Year : 1973 |
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| Season | Club | Games | Goals | Position | ||
| 1957 | Santos (SPS) | 29 | 36 | 2nd | ||
| Santos (RSPS) | 9 | 5 | 4th | |||
| 1958 | Santos (SPS) | 38 | 58 | 1st | ||
| Santos (RSPS) | 8 | 8 | 7th | |||
| 1959 | Santos (SPS) | 32 | 45 | 2nd | ||
| Santos (RSPS) | 7 | 6 | 1st | |||
| 1960 | Santos (SPS) | 30 | 33 | 1st | ||
| Santos (RSPS) | 3 | 0 | 8th | |||
| 1961 | Santos (SPS) | 26 | 47 | 1st | ||
| Santos (RSPS) | 7 | 8 | 5th | |||
| 1962 | Santos (SPS) | 26 | 37 | 1st | ||
| 1963 | Santos (SPS) | 19 | 22 | 3rd | ||
| Santos (RSPS) | 8 | 14 | 1st | |||
| 1964 | Santos (SPS) | 21 | 34 | 1st | ||
| Santos (RSPS) | 4 | 3 | 1st | |||
| 1965 | Santos (SPS) | 30 | 49 | 1st | ||
| Santos (RSPS) | 7 | 5 | 9th | |||
| 1966 | Santos (SPS) | 14 | 13 | 3rd | ||
| 1967 | Santos (SPS) | 18 | 17 | 1st | ||
| 1968 | Santos (SPS) | 21 | 17 | 1st | ||
| 1969 | Santos (SPS) | 25 | 26 | 1st | ||
| 1970 | Santos (SPS) | 15 | 7 | 4th | ||
| 1971 | Santos (SPS) | 19 | 8 | 4th | ||
| Santos (Championship) | 21 | 1 | 9th | |||
| 1972 | Santos (SPS) | 20 | 9 | 3rd | ||
| Santos (Championship) | 16 | 5 | 8th | |||
| 1973 | Santos (SPS) | 19 | 11 | 1st | ||
| Santos (Championship) | 30 | 19 | 6th | |||
| 1974 | Santos (SPS) | 10 | 1 | 3rd | ||
| Santos (Championship) | 17 | 9 | 3rd | |||
| 1975 | New York Cosmos | 9 | 5 | - | ||
| 1976 | New York Cosmos | 24 | 15 | - | ||
| 1977 | New York Cosmos | 31 | 17 | - | ||
| 1957-1974 | Santos Sao Paulo State | 412 | 470 | 1.14 GPG | ||
| 1957-1965 | Santos Rio Sao Paulo | 53 | 49 | 0.92 GPG | ||
| 1971-1974 | Santos Championship | 84 | 34 | 0.40 GPG | ||
| 1975-1977 | New York Cosmos | 64 | 37 | 0.58 GPG | ||
| 1959-1966 | Brazilian Cup | 27 | 28 | 1.04 GPG | ||
| 1962-1965 | Copa Libertadores | 15 | 17 | 1.13 GPG | ||
| 1967-1990 | Taca de Prata | 57 | 37 | 0.65 GPG | ||
| 1957-1971 | Brazil | 92 | 77 | 0.84 GPG | ||
| 1957-1977 | Career | 804 | 749 | 0.93 GPG | ||
SPS = Sao Paulo State Championship
RSPS = Rio Sao Paulo State Championship
The Taca de Prata tournament, which ran between 1967-1970, is the predecessor to the first national Brazilian Championship (1971 - present). The CBF (Brazilian FA) are considering whether to classify these four tournaments as official championships. The State championships are still run as separate tournaments to the Brazilian League Championship but don't hold the same level of importance following the switch to a traditional league format (with promotion and relegation) of the Brazilian Championships in 2003.
The claims made by many sources that Pele scored 1000+ career goals include hundreds of goals scored in friendly matches, combined state championship teams and even games played while on military service. For a comprehensive list detailing the 1282 goals Pele scored in 1366 games download the statistics from Pele, Ole!
http://rivelino.caltech.edu/~pelesl/pele
I would also like to take this opportunity to criticise every major soccer publication and every soccer resource for being so damn bone idle and never taking the time to prepare detailed career statistics for the player considered to be the best in the history of this sport. No part of this profile may be published by any commercial source, including wikipedia, in any format on any platform.
Thanks to Emilio Castano Graff, Orlando Duarte, Gregoriak and rsssf.com without whom this statistical biography would not be possible.