Argentina national football team

**Argentina national football team** is the national football team of Argentina. They are nicknamed La Albiceleste (the blue and whites).

## Most appearances

** Boldface ** indicates a player still active

|width=30|Rank|width=150|Player|width=50|Caps|width=50|Goals|width=100|Career|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left|**Lionel Messi**|191|112||||||
|2|align=left|Javier Mascherano|147|3||||||
|rowspan=2|3|align=left|Ángel Di María|145|31|2008–2024||||
|align=left|Javier Zanetti|145|5|1994–2011||||||
|5|align=left|**Nicolás Otamendi**|125|7|2009–present|||||
|6|align=left|Roberto Ayala|115|7|1994–2007|||||
|7|align=left|Diego Simeone|104|11|1988–2002|||||
|8|align=left|Sergio Agüero|101|41|2006–2021|||||
|9|align=left|Oscar Ruggeri|97|7|1983–1994|||||
|10|align=left|Sergio Romero|96|0|2009–2018|||||

## Top scorers

|width=35|Rank|width=150|Player|width=50|Goals|width=50|Caps|width=50|Ratio|width=100|Career|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align="left"|**Lionel Messi**|112|191||||||||
|2|align=left|Gabriel Batistuta|56|78||||||||
|3|align=left|Sergio Agüero|41|101||2006–2021||||||
|4|align=left|Hernán Crespo|35|64||1995–2007||||||
|5|align=left|Diego Maradona|34|91||1977–1994||||||
|6|align=left|**Lautaro Martínez**|32|70||||||||
|rowspan=2|7|align=left|Gonzalo Higuaín|31|75||2009–2018|||||
|align=left|Ángel Di María|31|145||2008–2024|||||||
|9|align=left|Luis Artime|24|25||1961–1967||||||
|rowspan=2|10|align=left|Leopoldo Luque|22|45||1975–1981|||||
|align=left|Daniel Passarella|22|70||1976–1986|||||||

## References

- Notes

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Argentina
- **badge size**: 120
- **fifa trigramme**: ARG
- **nickname**: _La Albiceleste_
 (The White and Sky Blues)
- **association**: (AFA)
- **confederation**: CONMEBOL (South America)
- **coach**: Lionel Scaloni
- **captain**: Lionel Messi
- **most caps**: Lionel Messi(167)
- **top scorer**: Lionel Messi (List of international goals scored by Lionel Messi, 94)
- **home stadium**: **Estadio Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Antonio V. Liberti**
(Buenos Aires)
**Estadio Alberto J. Armando, Alberto J. Armando**
(Buenos Aires)
**Estadio Malvinas Argentinas, Malvinas Argentinas**
(Mendoza, Argentina, Mendoza)
**Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes, Mario Alberto Kempes**
(Córdoba (Argentina), Córdoba)
**Estadio Único Madre de Ciudades, Único Madre de Ciudades**
(Santiago del Estero)
- **fifa max**: 1
- **fifa min**: 24
- **elo max**: 1
- **elo max date**: World Football Elo Ratings, 29 times between 1902 and 2016
- **elo min**: 26
- **elo min date**: June 1990
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- **first game**: 1902 Uruguay v Argentina football match, 0–6
(Montevideo, Uruguay; 20 Jul 1902)
- **largest win**: 12–0
 (Montevideo, Uruguay; 22 January 1942)
- **largest loss**: 6–1
(Helsingborg, Sweden; 15 June 1958)
 6–1
(La Paz, Bolivia; 1 April 2009)
 6–1
(Madrid, Spain; 27 March 2018)
- **world cup apps**: 17
- **world cup first**: 1930
- **world cup best**: Champions (1978 FIFA World Cup, 1978, 1986 FIFA World Cup, 1986, 2022 FIFA World Cup, 2022)
- **confederations cup apps**: 3
- **confederations cup first**: 1992 King Fahd Cup, 1992
- **confederations cup best**: Champions (1992 King Fahd Cup, 1992)
- **regional name**: Copa América
- **regional cup apps**: 42
- **regional cup first**: 1916 South American Championship, 1916
- **regional cup best**: Champions (1921 South American Championship, 1921, 1925 South American Championship, 1925, 1927 South American Championship, 1927, 1929 South American Championship, 1929, 1937 South American Championship, 1937, 1941 South American Championship, 1941, 1945 South American Championship, 1945, 1946 South American Championship, 1946, 1947 South American Championship, 1947, 1955 South American Championship, 1955, 1957 South American Championship, 1957, 1959 South American Championship (Argentina), 1959, 1991 Copa América, 1991, 1993 Copa América, 1993, 2021 Copa América, 2021)
- **2ndregional name**: Panamerican Championship
- **2ndregional cup apps**: 2
- **2ndregional cup first**: 1956 Panamerican Championship, 1956
- **2ndregional cup best**: Champions (1960 Panamerican Championship, 1960)
- **3rdregional name**: Artemio Franchi Trophy, Intercontinental Cup of Nations
- **3rdregional cup apps**: 1
- **3rdregional cup first**: Artemio Franchi Trophy#Editions##1993, 1993
- **3rdregional cup best**: Champions (Artemio Franchi Trophy#1993, 1993)