{"id":26604,"date":"2025-08-20T09:55:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/fabio-of-fluminense-historic-record-of-matches-surpasses-peter-shilton\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:55:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:55:38","slug":"fabio-of-fluminense-historic-record-of-matches-surpasses-peter-shilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/fabio-of-fluminense-historic-record-of-matches-surpasses-peter-shilton\/","title":{"rendered":"F\u00e1bio of Fluminense: Historic Record of Matches Surpasses Peter Shilton"},"content":{"rendered":"Fluminense goalkeeper F\u00e1bio has surpassed Peter Shilton as the footballer with the most matches played in the history of football, according to his club.\n\nThe 44-year-old Brazilian player reached his 1,391st match in the Copa Sudamericana victory against Am\u00e9rica de Cali at the Maracan\u00e3 on Tuesday. This figure allows him to surpass Shilton&#8217;s record, according to the Guinness Book of Records.\n\nShilton, however, claims to have played three fewer matches, a total of 1,387, which would also represent a world record.\n\nFluminense celebrated F\u00e1bio&#8217;s milestone after his last match, a 2-0 victory in the round of 16 of the South American competition.\n\nF\u00e1bio wore a shirt with a special patch and received a plaque and a commemorative painting after the match.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0820%2Fr1534172_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>F\u00e1bio, goalkeeper for Fluminense, was honored by his club after the victory against Am\u00e9rica de Cali.<\/em>\n\n<p><em>Buda Mendes\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I have to thank everyone who is part of my life: my father, my mother, my sisters, my friends, my wife. I try to be a good human being,&#8221; said F\u00e1bio.<\/p><cite>F\u00e1bio<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The important thing is to help my teammates. I am grateful, but without God nothing would be possible&#8221;.<\/p><cite>F\u00e1bio<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe list of players with the most appearances is headed by F\u00e1bio, followed by Shilton, Cristiano Ronaldo (1,287), Paul Bastock (1,284) and Rog\u00e9rio Ceni (1,226). Ronaldo is the only outfield player in the top five.\n\nFluminense attributes F\u00e1bio&#8217;s record to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS), which breaks down his matches as follows: 976 matches with Cruzeiro (2005-2021), 235 with Fluminense (2022-2025), 150 with Vasco (2000-2004) and 30 with Uni\u00e3o Bandeirante (1997).\n\nF\u00e1bio, who was called up to the Brazilian national team on several occasions but never debuted, has won 27 titles throughout his career, including a Copa Am\u00e9rica and a Copa Libertadores. He also played in the last Club World Cup with Fluminense, reaching the semi-finals.\n\nHe will turn 45 on September 30th.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fluminense goalkeeper F\u00e1bio has surpassed Peter Shilton as the footballer with the most matches played in the history of football, according to his club. The 44-year-old Brazilian player reached his 1,391st match in the Copa Sudamericana victory against Am\u00e9rica de Cali at the Maracan\u00e3 on Tuesday. This figure allows him to surpass Shilton&#8217;s record, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[7556,5301,7557,884],"class_list":{"0":"post-26604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-fabio","9":"tag-fluminense","10":"tag-peter-shilton","11":"tag-record"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}