Martín Palermo

**Martín Palermo** (born 7 November 1973) is an Argentine football player. He plays for Boca Juniors and Argentina national team.

### Club

- Source:

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National Cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="11"|Estudiantes|1991–92|Clausura|1|0|—|—|—|1|0||||
|1992–93|Apertura|2|0|—|1|0|—|10|1|||||
|Clausura|7|1||||||||||||
|1993–94|Apertura|10|0|—|1|0|—|18|1|||||
|Clausura|7|1||||||||||||
|1994–95|Primera B|3|0|—|2|0|—|5|0|||||
|1995–96|Apertura|8|6|—|—|—|27|17||||||
|Clausura|19|11||||||||||||
|1996–97|Apertura|19|6|—|2|2|—|38|17|||||
|Clausura|17|9||||||||||||
|rowspan="8"|Boca Juniors|1997–98|Apertura|17|8|—|4|1|—|36|21|||
|Clausura|15|12||||||||||||
|1998–99|Apertura|19|20|—|4|3|—|39|35|||||
|Clausura|16|12||||||||||||
|1999–2000|Apertura|13|14|—|5|2|—|26|21|||||
|Clausura|4|4|4|1||||||||||
|2000–01|Apertura|18|11|—|4|1|1|2|23|14||||
|rowspan="4"|Villarreal|2000–01|La Liga|17|6|—|—|—|17|6||||
|2001–02|La Liga|19|5|2|2|—|—|21|7|||||
|2002–03|La Liga|34|7|1|1|8|0|—|43|8||||
|Real Betis|2003–04|La Liga|11|1|1|0|—|—|12|1||||
|Alavés|2003–04|Segunda|14|3|—|—|—|14|3|||||
|rowspan="15"|Boca Juniors|2004–05|Apertura|13|6|—|6|3|1|0|40|21||
|Clausura|12|6|9|6||||||||||
|2005–06|Apertura|16|7|—|7|4|—|43|22|||||
|Clausura|19|11||||||||||||
|2006–07|Apertura|16|11|—|1|0|2|1|47|27||||
|Clausura|16|11|12|4||||||||||
|2007–08|Apertura|19|13|—|2|2|2|0|49|32||||
|Clausura|14|10|12|7||||||||||
|2008–09|Apertura|2|0|—|7|5|1|1|25|13||||
|Clausura|15|7||||||||||||
|2009–10|Apertura|17|6|—|2|0|—|38|16|||||
|Clausura|19|10||||||||||||
|2010–11|Apertura|19|8|—|—|—|38|14||||||
|Clausura|19|6||||||||||||

### International

**Appearances and goals by national team and year**
|National Team|Year|Apps|Goals|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="13"|Argentina|||
|1999|7|3||
|2000|0|0||
|2001|0|0||
|2002|0|0||
|2003|0|0||
|2004|0|0||
|2005|0|0||
|2006|0|0||
|2007|0|0||
|2008|0|0||
|2009|3|3||
|2010|5|3||
**International goals**
|#|Date|Venue|Opponent|Score|Result|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1.|1 July 1999|Estadio Feliciano Cáceres, Luque, Paraguay||2–0|3–1|1999 Copa América|
|2.|3–0||||||
|3.|7 July 1999|Estadio Feliciano Cáceres, Luque, Paraguay||2–0|2–0|1999 Copa América|
|4.|30 September 2009|Estadio Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina||1–0|2–0|Friendly|
|5.|2–0||||||
|6.|10 October 2009|El Monumental, Buenos Aires, Argentina||2–1|2–1|2010 FIFA World Cup qualification|
|7.|10 February 2010|Estadio José María Minella, Mar del Plata, Argentina||1–1|2–1|Friendly|
|8.|5 May 2010|El Coloso del Ruca Quimey, Cutral Có, Argentina||2–0|4–0|Friendly|
|9.|22 June 2010|Peter Mokaba Stadium, Polokwane, South Africa||2–0|2–0|2010 FIFA World Cup|

## Managerial statistics

|rowspan="2"|Team|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|From|rowspan="2"|To|colspan="8"|Record|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=center|Godoy Cruz|rowspan="2"||align=left|27 November 2012|align=left|31 December 2013|||
|align=center|Arsenal|align=left|16 April 2014|align=left|19 April 2015|||||
|align=center|Unión Española|||align=left|1 June 2016|align=left|3 November 2018|||
|align=center|Pachuca|||align=left|25 January 2019|align=left|31 December 2019|||
|align=center|Curicó Unido|||align=left|27 November 2020|align=left|25 July 2021|||
|align=center|Aldosivi|rowspan="2"||align=left|28 September 2021|align=left|31 May 2022|||
|align=center|Platense|align=left|1 January 2023|align=left|present|||||

### Player

**Estudiantes**
- Primera B Nacional: 1994–95

**Boca Juniors**
- Primera División: 1998 Apertura, 1999 Clausura, 2000 Apertura, 2005 Apertura, 2006 Clausura, 2008 Apertura
- Copa Libertadores: 2000, 2007
- Intercontinental Cup: 2000
- Copa Sudamericana: 2004, 2005
- Recopa Sudamericana: 2006, 2008

**Individual**
- Primera División top scorer: 1998 Apertura (20 goals, short tournament record), 2007 Clausura
- Boca Juniors top scorer: 1998 Clausura, 1998 Apertura, 1999 Clausura, 1999 Apertura, 2000 Apertura, 2004 Apertura, 2005 Clausura, 2006 Clausura, 2007 Clausura, 2007 Apertura, 2008 Clausura, 2009 Clausura, 2009 Apertura, 2010 Clausura, 2010 Apertura, 2011 Clausura
- South American Footballer of the Year: 1998
- South American Team of the Year: 1998, 2000
- Intercontinental Cup Most Valuable Player of the Match Award: 2000
- American Golden Shoe: 2007 (shared with Giancarlo Maldonado)
- Konex Award Merit Diploma as one of the five best football players of the last decade in Argentina: 2010

### Manager

**Unión Española**
- Chilean Primera División: Runner-up 2017

### Records and facts

- First professional match: 5 July 1992 Clausura. (San Lorenzo 0–0 Estudiantes)
- First professional goal: 22 May 1993 Clausura. (Estudiantes 3–0 San Martín de Tucumán)
- First International match: 3 February 1999. (Venezuela 0–2 Argentina)
- First International goal: 1 July 1999. (Ecuador 1–3 Argentina)
- First European professional match: 4 February 2001. (Villarreal 2–0 Alavés)
- First European professional goal: 11 February 2001. (Oviedo 1–3 Villarreal)
- He is in the Guinness book of records for having missed three penalty kicks in the same match, against Colombia in the 1999 Copa América.
- Palermo holds an Italian passport, which enables him to play as a UEFA player.
- World Cup debut: 22 June 2010 in a match against Greece in the 2010 World Cup.
- Oldest player to score for the Argentina national football team: 36 years and 7 months old, scored the second goal of Argentina's 2–0 win over Greece (This record was previously held by Diego Armando Maradona, who was 33 years old when he scored his last goal in a 1994 World Cup match, also against Greece).
- Tied for 5th place of all-time in a career among the Argentine Primera División top scorers with 227 goals (34 with Estudiantes and 193 with Boca Juniors).
- 1st place among Boca's all-time top scorers with 236 goals, having surpassed the 221 goal mark of Roberto Cherro.
- Top scorer in the professional era among Boca's top scorers with 236 Goals. (193 in Primera división Argentine tournaments and 43 in international tournaments)
- Boca Junior's top scorer in international matches with 43 goals, 15 more than 2nd place Rodrigo Palacio.

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Martín Palermo
- **image**: Everton - Unión Española, 2018-04-28 - Martín Palermo - 01 (cropped).jpg
- **image size**: 220px
- **caption**: Palermo in 2018
- **fullname**: Martín Palermo
- **birth place**: La Plata, Argentina
- **height**: 1.88 m
- **position**: Striker (association football), Striker
- **currentclub**: Club Atlético Platense, Platense (manager)
- **youthclubs1**: Estudiantes de La Plata
- **years1**: 1992–1997
- **clubs1**: Estudiantes de La Plata
- **caps1**: 93
- **goals1**: 34
- **years2**: 1997–2001
- **clubs2**: Boca Juniors
- **caps2**: 102
- **goals2**: 81
- **years3**: 2001–2003
- **clubs3**: Villarreal CF, Villarreal
- **caps3**: 70
- **goals3**: 18
- **years4**: 2003–2004
- **clubs4**: Real Betis, Betis
- **caps4**: 11
- **goals4**: 1
- **years5**: 2004
- **clubs5**: Deportivo Alavés, Alavés
- **caps5**: 14
- **goals5**: 3
- **years6**: 2004–2011
- **clubs6**: Boca Juniors
- **caps6**: 216
- **goals6**: 112
- **totalcaps**: 592
- **totalgoals**: 249
- **nationalyears1**: 1999–2010
- **nationalteam1**: Argentina national football team, Argentina
- **nationalcaps1**: 15
- **nationalgoals1**: 9
- **manageryears1**: 2012–2013
- **managerclubs1**: Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba, Godoy Cruz
- **manageryears2**: 2014–2015
- **managerclubs2**: Arsenal de Sarandí
- **manageryears3**: 2016–2018
- **managerclubs3**: Unión Española
- **manageryears4**: 2019
- **managerclubs4**: C.F. Pachuca, Pachuca
- **manageryears5**: 2020–2021
- **managerclubs5**: Curicó Unido
- **manageryears6**: 2021–2022
- **managerclubs6**: Club Atlético Aldosivi, Aldosivi
- **manageryears7**: 2023–
- **managerclubs7**: Club Atlético Platense, Platense