Gianluigi Buffon

**Gianluigi "Gigi" Buffon** (born 28 January 1978) is a former Italian professional footballer who plays in the goalkeeper position. He is a Goalkeeper for the Serie B team Parma Calcio. He used to play for the Italy national team from 1996 till he retired in 2018. Buffon is recognized by many peoples as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, and, by some, as the greatest ever.

Gianluigi Buffon started his career in Parma and won a UEFA Cup in 1999. In 2001, he transferred to the Italian giant Juventus and won the Serie A on consecutive years.

Buffon joined the Italy national team in 1997. In the 2006 FIFA World Cup, he led them to the championship, allowing only two goals in 7 games and keeping 5 clean sheets (no goals allowed), which was a new World Cup record at that time.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|Cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="7"|Parma|1995–96|Serie A|9|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|9|0|
|1996–97|Serie A|27|0|0|0|1|0|—|28|0||||
|1997–98|Serie A|32|0|6|0|8|0|—|46|0||||
|1998–99|Serie A|34|0|6|0|11|0|—|51|0||||
|1999–2000|Serie A|32|0|0|0|9|0|2|0|43|0|||
|2000–01|Serie A|34|0|2|0|7|0|—|43|0||||
|rowspan="18"|Juventus|2001–02|Serie A|34|0|1|0|10|0|—|45|0||
|2002–03|Serie A|32|0|0|0|15|0|1|0|48|0|||
|2003–04|Serie A|32|0|0|0|6|0|1|0|39|0|||
|2004–05|Serie A|37|0|0|0|11|0|—|48|0||||
|2005–06|Serie A|18|0|2|0|4|0|0|0|24|0|||
|2006–07|Serie B|37|0|3|0|—|—|40|0|||||
|2007–08|Serie A|34|0|1|0|—|—|35|0|||||
|2008–09|Serie A|23|0|2|0|5|0|—|30|0||||
|2009–10|Serie A|27|0|1|0|7|0|—|35|0||||
|2010–11|Serie A|16|0|1|0|0|0|—|17|0||||
|2011–12|Serie A|35|0|0|0|—|—|35|0|||||
|2012–13|Serie A|32|0|1|0|10|0|1|0|44|0|||
|2013–14|Serie A|33|0|0|0|14|0|1|0|48|0|||
|2014–15|Serie A|33|0|0|0|13|0|1|0|47|0|||
|2015–16|Serie A|35|0|0|0|8|0|1|0|44|0|||
|2016–17|Serie A|30|0|0|0|12|0|1|0|43|0|||
|2017–18|Serie A|21|0|3|0|9|0|1|0|34|0|||
|Paris Saint-Germain|2018–19|Ligue 1|17|0|2|0|5|0|1|0|25|0||
|Juventus|2019–20|Serie A|7|0|3|0|1|0|0|0|11|0||

### International

- Source:

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="22"|Italy|1997|1|0|
|1998|3|0|||
|1999|8|0|||
|2000|4|0|||
|2001|7|0|||
|2002|12|0|||
|2003|7|0|||
|2004|12|0|||
|2005|3|0|||
|2006|15|0|||
|2007|8|0|||
|2008|9|0|||
|2009|11|0|||
|2010|2|0|||
|2011|10|0|||
|2012|11|0|||
|2013|15|0|||
|2014|8|0|||
|2015|8|0|||
|2016|13|0|||
|2017|8|0|||
|2018|1|0|||

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Gianluigi Buffon
- **image**: Gianluigi Buffon (31784615942) (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Buffon with Juventus F.C., Juventus in 2016
- **full name**: Gianluigi Buffon
- **birth place**: Carrara, Tuscany, Italy
- **height**: 1.92 m
- **position**: Goalkeeper (association football), Goalkeeper
- **clubnumber**: 1
- **youthyears1**: 1991–1995
- **youthclubs1**: Parma Calcio 1913, Parma
- **years1**: 1995–2001
- **clubs1**: Parma Calcio 1913, Parma
- **caps1**: 168
- **goals1**: 0
- **years2**: 2001–2018
- **clubs2**: Juventus F.C., Juventus
- **caps2**: 509
- **goals2**: 0
- **years3**: 2018–2019
- **clubs3**: Paris Saint-Germain F.C., Paris Saint-Germain
- **caps3**: 17
- **goals3**: 0
- **years4**: 2019–2021
- **clubs4**: Juventus F.C., Juventus
- **caps4**: 17
- **goals4**: 0
- **years5**: 2021–2023
- **clubs5**: Parma Calcio 1913, Parma
- **caps5**: 43
- **goals5**: 0
- **totalcaps**: 754
- **totalgoals**: 0
- **nationalyears1**: 1993–1994
- **nationalteam1**: Italy national under-16 football team, Italy U16
- **nationalcaps1**: 3
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 1995
- **nationalteam2**: Italy national under-17 football team, Italy U17
- **nationalcaps2**: 3
- **nationalgoals2**: 0
- **nationalyears3**: 1994–1995
- **nationalteam3**: Italy national under-18 football team, Italy U18
- **nationalcaps3**: 3
- **nationalgoals3**: 0
- **nationalyears4**: 1995–1997
- **nationalteam4**: Italy national under-21 football team, Italy U21
- **nationalcaps4**: 11
- **nationalgoals4**: 0
- **nationalyears5**: 1997
- **nationalteam5**: Italy Olympic football team, Italy U23
- **nationalcaps5**: 4
- **nationalgoals5**: 0
- **nationalyears6**: 1997–2018
- **nationalteam6**: Italy national football team, Italy
- **nationalcaps6**: 176
- **nationalgoals6**: 0