Wynton Rufer

**Wynton Rufer** (born 29 December 1962) is a New Zealand former football player. He has played for New Zealand national team.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|Cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|rowspan="2"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Stop Out|1980|National Soccer League|5|2|||–|–|5|2||||||
|Wellington Diamond United|1981|National Soccer League|19|7|||–|–|19|7||||||
|Miramar Rangers|1982|National Soccer League|8|3|||–|–|8|3||||||
|rowspan="6"|FC Zürich|1982–83|rowspan="5"|Nationalliga A|23|9|4|2|7|1|–|34|12|||
|1983–84|22|8|4|2|3|1|–|29|11|||||||
|1984–85|22|10|3|3|5|1|–|30|14|||||||
|1985–86|28|14|1|1|5|1|–|34|16|||||||
|1986–87|5|2|0|0|4|2|–|9|4|||||||
|rowspan="3"|FC Aarau|1986–87|rowspan="2"|Nationalliga A|15|7|||0|0|4|3|19|10||
|1987–88|22|11|||0|0|14|9|36|20||||||
|Grasshoppers|1988–89|Nationalliga A|22|12|||2|0|14|6|38|18||||
|rowspan="7"|Werder Bremen|1989–90|rowspan="6"|Bundesliga|34|10|5|5|10|4|0|0|49|19||
|1990–91|33|15|6|4|0|0|0|0|39|19||||||
|1991–92|29|5|4|1|8|4|2|2|43|12||||||
|1992–93|32|17|5|5|4|4|1|1|42|27||||||
|1993–94|33|10|6|5|10|8|1|1|50|24||||||
|1994–95|13|2|3|0|1|0|1|1|18|3||||||
|rowspan="3"|JEF United|1995|rowspan="2"|J.League|26|17|||||||26|17||
|1996|28|21|||||||28|21||||||
|1. FC Kaiserslautern|1996–97|2. Bundesliga|14|4|||||||14|4||||
|Central United|1996–97|National Soccer League||||||||||||||
|North Shore United|1997–98|National Soccer League||||||||||||||
|rowspan="4"|Auckland Kingz|1999–2000|rowspan="3"|National Soccer League|25|6|||||||25|6||
|2000–01|18|6|||||||18|6||||||
|2001–02|5|0|||||||5|0||||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="18"|New Zealand|1980|4|0|
|1981|2|3|||
|1982|6|2|||
|1983|0|0|||
|1984|0|0|||
|1985|3|1|||
|1986|0|0|||
|1987|0|0|||
|1988|1|0|||
|1989|1|0|||
|1990|0|0|||
|1991|0|0|||
|1992|0|0|||
|1993|0|0|||
|1994|0|0|||
|1995|0|0|||
|1996|3|2|||
|1997|3|4|||

||
| --- |
|Indicates goal was scored from a penalty kick|
|scope="col"||scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|10 October 1981|Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand||1–0|1–2|1982 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||||||
|19 December 1981|Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia|rowspan=2|align="center"|2–0|5–0||||||||||
|align="center"|5–0|||||||||||||
|10 January 1982|National Stadium, Singapore||2–0|2–1||||||||||
|10 January 1982|Queen Elizabeth II Park, Christchurch, New Zealand||1–1|1–2|Friendly|||||||||
|26 October 1985|Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand||1–0|3–1|1986 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||||||
|5 October 1996|Doha, Qatar|rowspan=2|align="center"|?–?|2–3|Friendly|||||||||
|align="center"|?–?|||||||||||||
|11 June 1997|North Harbour Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand|rowspan=2|align="center"|3–0|7–0|1998 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||||||
|align="center"|4–0|||||||||||||
|18 June 1997|North Harbour Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand|rowspan=2|align="center"|1–0|5–0||||||||||
|align="center"|3–0|||||||||||||

## Honours

**Grasshoppers**
- Swiss Cup: 1988–89
- Swiss Super Cup: 1989

**Werder Bremen**
- Bundesliga: 1992–93
- DFB-Pokal: 1990–91, 1993–94
- DFB-Supercup: 1993, 1994
- UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 1991–92

**1. FC Kaiserslautern**
- 2. Bundesliga: 1996–97

**Central United**
- Chatham Cup: 1997

**Individual**
- New Zealand Young Player of the Year: 1981 and 1982
- Oceania Footballer of the Year: 1989, 1990, 1992
- FIFA Oceania Footballer of the Century
- UEFA Champions League Top-scorer: 1993–94
- Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to soccer, in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours
- New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame: Inducted in 2005
- Maori Sports Hall of Fame: Inducted in 2007
- Rufer is a member of the FIFA Football Committee, with Franz Beckenbauer, Michel Platini and Bobby Charlton. He is also involved with the FIFA Ambassadors Against Racism Committee.
- IFFHS Legends
- IFFHS Oceania Men's Team of All Time: 2021

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Wynton Rufer

- **image**: Wynton rufer headshot.JPG
- **caption**: Rufer in 2009
- **fullname**: Wynton Alan Whai Rufer
- **birth place**: Wellington, New Zealand
- **height**: 1.81 m
- **position**: Striker (association football), Striker
- **years1**: 1980
- **clubs1**: Stop Out Sports Club, Stop Out
- **caps1**: 5
- **goals1**: 2
- **years2**: 1981
- **clubs2**: Wellington United, Wellington Diamond
- **caps2**: 19
- **goals2**: 7
- **years3**: 1982
- **clubs3**: Norwich City F.C., Norwich City
- **caps3**: 0
- **goals3**: 0
- **years4**: 1982
- **clubs4**: Miramar Rangers AFC, Miramar Rangers
- **caps4**: 8
- **goals4**: 3
- **years5**: 1982–1986
- **clubs5**: FC Zürich
- **caps5**: 100
- **goals5**: 43
- **years6**: 1986–1988
- **clubs6**: FC Aarau
- **caps6**: 37
- **goals6**: 18
- **years7**: 1988–1989
- **clubs7**: Grasshopper Club Zürich, Grasshoppers
- **caps7**: 22
- **goals7**: 12
- **years8**: 1989–1995
- **clubs8**: SV Werder Bremen, Werder Bremen
- **caps8**: 174
- **goals8**: 59
- **years9**: 1995–1996
- **clubs9**: JEF United Chiba, JEF United
- **caps9**: 54
- **goals9**: 38
- **years10**: 1997
- **clubs10**: 1. FC Kaiserslautern
- **caps10**: 14
- **goals10**: 4
- **years11**: 1997
- **clubs11**: Central United F.C., Central United
- **caps11**: 30
- **goals11**: 12
- **years12**: 1998
- **clubs12**: North Shore United
- **caps12**: 11
- **goals12**: 3
- **years13**: 1999–2002
- **clubs13**: Football Kingz FC, Auckland Kingz
- **caps13**: 48
- **goals13**: 12
- **totalcaps**: 522
- **totalgoals**: 213
- **nationalyears1**: 1980–1997
- **nationalteam1**: New Zealand men's national football team, New Zealand
- **nationalcaps1**: 23
- **nationalgoals1**: 12
- **manageryears1**: 1998–1999
- **managerclubs1**: North Shore United, North Shore
- **manageryears2**: 1999
- **managerclubs2**: New Zealand national under-16 football team, New Zealand U16
- **manageryears3**: 1999–2002
- **managerclubs3**: New Zealand Knights FC, Kingz
- **manageryears4**: 2014–2015
- **managerclubs4**: Papua New Guinea national football team, Papua New Guinea