RSSSF
International organization collecting football stats
title: "RSSSF" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["association-football-websites", "usenet", "organizations-established-in-1994", "internet-properties-established-in-1994"] description: "International organization collecting football stats" topic_path: "sports" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSSSF" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary International organization collecting football stats ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox website"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Rec.Sport.Soccer |
| Statistics Foundation | |
| (RSSSF) | |
| logo | RSSSFlogo.png |
| logo_size | 200 |
| url | |
| language | English |
| author | |
| launch_date | , as Northern European Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (NERSSSF) |
| current_status | Active |
| :: |
| name = Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) | logo = RSSSFlogo.png | logo_size = 200 | url = | language = English | owner = | author = | launch_date = , as Northern European Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (NERSSSF) | current_status = Active The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) is an international organisation dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around the world.
Website
The RSSSF website contains football-related statistics in the form of lists without commentary and it is maintained by volunteer contributors. It is considered one of "the most complete" publicly available statistical football databases in the world, and has virtually every piece of historical information.
This enterprise, according to its founders, was created in January 1994 by three regulars of the Rec.Sport.Soccer (RSS) Usenet newsgroup: Lars Aarhus, Kent Hedlundh, and Karel Stokkermans. It was originally known as the "North European Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation", but the geographical reference was dropped as its membership from other regions grew.
The RSSSF has members and contributors from all around the world and has spawned seven spin-off projects to more closely follow the leagues of that project's home country. The spin-off projects are dedicated to Albania, Brazil, Denmark, Norway, Romania, Uruguay, Venezuela and Egypt. In November 2002, the Polish service 90minut.pl became the official branch of RSSSF Poland.
Player of the Year award
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Player of the Year Award was an annual football award presented by the organisation. First presented in 1992, the readers of the newsgroup voted in a format similar to that of the France Football Ballon d'Or award. It recognised the best player in the world and was discontinued after the 2005 edition.
::data[format=table title="Award winners"]
::data[format=table title="Wins by player"]
| Player | Winner | Second place | Third place | Brazil Ronaldo | Brazil Ronaldinho | France Zinedine Zidane | Brazil Romário | Portugal Luís Figo | Brazil Rivaldo | Netherlands Marco van Basten | Italy Roberto Baggio | Liberia George Weah | England Michael Owen | Czech Republic Pavel Nedvěd |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 (1996, 1997, 2002) | — | — | ||||||||||||
| 2 (2004, 2005) | — | — | ||||||||||||
| 1 (1998) | 2 (1997, 2000) | 2 (2002, 2003) | ||||||||||||
| 1 (1994) | 1 (1993) | — | ||||||||||||
| 1 (2000) | 1 (2001) | — | ||||||||||||
| 1 (1999) | — | 1 (2000) | ||||||||||||
| 1 (1992) | — | — | ||||||||||||
| 1 (1993) | — | — | ||||||||||||
| 1 (1995) | — | — | ||||||||||||
| 1 (2001) | — | — | ||||||||||||
| 1 (2003) | — | — | ||||||||||||
| :: |
::data[format=table title="Wins by nationality"]
| Nationality | Players | Wins | Brazil | France | England | Portugal | Italy | Netherlands | Liberia | Czech Republic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 7 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| :: |
::data[format=table title="Wins by club"]
| Club | Players | Wins | Barcelona | Juventus | Real Madrid | AC Milan | Inter Milan | Liverpool |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 5 | |||||||
| 3 | 3 | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | |||||||
| 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 1 | 1 | |||||||
| :: |
References
References
- Finkelstein, Daniel. (15 November 2003). "Weighting in vain for Fifa's ranking aficionados".
- Witzig, Richard. (2006). "The Global Art of Soccer". CusiBoy Publishing.
- Loek Groot. (25 January 2008). "Economics, Uncertainty and European Football: Trends in Competitive Balance". [[Edward Elgar Publishing]].
- "O stronie".
- "Rec.sport.soccer Player of the Year Award". RSSSF.
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