Most matches played

Who has spent the most seasons in the top division, counted from every one of the 31,126 matches this site holds. These five leagues, top division only, from 2000 onwards. Nothing a club or a player did in a lower division, a cup, Europe or another country is counted here, so a great career spent mostly outside these competitions will look thin or be absent.

The list

Where two are level they share a rank, and the list runs past fifty when fiftieth place is shared, because splitting a tie would mean choosing between them on no stated basis.

Played — the leading 15. Every one of the 50 is in the table below.

#	Club	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost
1	Chelsea FC	993	557	229	207
1	Everton FC	993	368	277	348
1	Liverpool FC	993	551	240	202
1	Arsenal FC	993	574	225	194
1	Tottenham Hotspur FC	993	452	221	320
1	Manchester United FC	993	580	211	202
7	Manchester City FC	955	533	185	237
8	Newcastle United FC	917	333	228	356
9	Aston Villa FC	879	302	243	334
10	West Ham United FC	874	284	217	373
11	Fulham FC	727	220	187	320
12	Southampton FC	646	189	174	283
13	Sunderland AFC	575	142	152	281
14	FC Bayern München	548	403	82	63
14	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	548	193	148	207
14	Borussia Mönchengladbach	548	217	134	197
14	1. FSV Mainz 05	548	186	142	220
14	Borussia Dortmund	548	328	106	114
14	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	548	284	125	139
20	VfL Wolfsburg	544	197	143	204
21	RC Celta de Vigo	539	175	143	221
21	Sevilla FC	539	234	132	173
21	Real Madrid C.F.	539	371	93	75
21	Valencia CF	539	199	152	188
21	FC Barcelona	539	390	82	67
21	Real Sociedad de Fútbol	539	218	141	180
21	Club Atlético de Madrid	539	330	116	93
28	Athletic Club	538	212	149	177
29	Crystal Palace FC	537	164	141	232
30	SV Werder Bremen	514	157	136	221
30	SC Freiburg	514	183	137	194
30	Eintracht Frankfurt	514	184	146	184
30	FC Augsburg	514	155	132	227
34	Getafe CF	501	152	137	212
34	Real Betis Balompié	501	188	131	182
34	Villarreal CF	501	224	127	150
37	AC Milan	499	251	128	120
37	Juventus FC	499	325	104	70
37	FC Internazionale Milano	499	292	113	94
37	Atalanta BC	499	231	127	141
37	Lazio Roma	499	249	110	140
37	Udinese Calcio	499	144	133	222
37	AS Roma	499	277	110	112
37	SSC Napoli	499	300	105	94
37	Torino FC	499	164	160	175
37	ACF Fiorentina	499	196	141	162
47	Leicester City FC	494	165	118	211
47	West Bromwich Albion FC	494	117	139	238
49	VfB Stuttgart	480	169	110	201
50	RCD Espanyol de Barcelona	463	136	127	200

Where this came from

Fixtures and results from openfootball, released into the public domain (CC0). Players, clubs and career figures from Wikidata (CC0). Tables, totals and records on this page are worked out here from the results rather than copied from anywhere. No free source links players to individual matches, so these pages give results and career totals but never who scored in a given game.

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