Italy 1980s squad
Every player who appeared for Italy in the 1980s — 71 in all, with their career international caps and goals.
Paolo Maldini racked up the most caps of anyone here — 126 in all. Roberto Baggio leads the scoring with 27. The squad breaks down as 7 goalkeepers, 19 defenders, 29 midfielders and 16 forwards — enough depth to fill any formation in the game.
| Player | Pos | Caps | Goals | Legend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paolo Maldini | DF | 126 | — | 93 |
| Dino Zoff | GK | 112 | — | 92 |
| Franco Baresi | DF | 81 | 1 | 91 |
| Giuseppe Bergomi | DF | 81 | 6 | 91 |
| Giancarlo Antognoni | MF | 73 | 7 | 91 |
| Roberto Baggio | FW | 56 | 27 | 91 |
| Alessandro Altobelli | FW | 61 | 25 | 90 |
| Gaetano Scirea | DF | 78 | 2 | 90 |
| Marco Tardelli | MF | 81 | 6 | 90 |
| Franco Causio | MF | 63 | 6 | 90 |
| Francesco Graziani | FW | 64 | 23 | 90 |
| Antonio Cabrini | DF | 73 | 9 | 89 |
| Claudio Gentile | DF | 71 | 1 | 89 |
| Roberto Donadoni | MF | 63 | 5 | 88 |
| Paolo Rossi | FW | 48 | 20 | 88 |
| Giuseppe Giannini | MF | 47 | 6 | 87 |
| Roberto Bettega | FW | 42 | 19 | 87 |
| Walter Zenga | GK | 58 | — | 87 |
| Gianluca Vialli | FW | 59 | 16 | 87 |
| Romeo Benetti | MF | 55 | 2 | 87 |
| Bruno Conti | MF | 47 | 5 | 87 |
| Fernando De Napoli | MF | 54 | 1 | 86 |
| Fulvio Collovati | DF | 50 | 3 | 86 |
| Ciro Ferrara | DF | 49 | 0 | 85 |
| Salvatore Bagni | MF | 41 | 5 | 85 |
| Riccardo Ferri | DF | 45 | 4 | 84 |
| Pietro Vierchowod | DF | 45 | 2 | 84 |
| Nicola Berti | MF | 39 | 3 | 83 |
| Giuseppe Dossena | MF | 38 | 1 | 82 |
| Luigi De Agostini | DF | 36 | 4 | 81 |
| Gabriele Oriali | MF | 28 | 1 | 79 |
| Renato Zaccarelli | MF | 25 | 2 | 78 |
| Ivano Bordon | GK | 21 | — | 78 |
| Carlo Ancelotti | MF | 26 | 1 | 77 |
| Roberto Mancini | FW | 36 | 4 | 77 |
| Pietro Paolo Virdis | FW | 15 | 9 | 77 |
| Giovanni Galli | GK | 19 | — | 77 |
| Aldo Serena | FW | 24 | 5 | 77 |
| Franco Tancredi | GK | 12 | — | 74 |
| Antonio Di Gennaro | MF | 15 | 4 | 74 |
| Massimo Crippa | MF | 17 | 1 | 74 |
| Gianpiero Marini | MF | 20 | 0 | 73 |
| Giuseppe Baresi | MF | 18 | 0 | 72 |
| Daniele Massaro | FW | 15 | 1 | 72 |
| Andrea Carnevale | FW | 10 | 2 | 71 |
| Pierino Fanna | MF | 14 | 0 | 70 |
| Ruggiero Rizzitelli | FW | 9 | 2 | 70 |
| Giancarlo Marocchi | MF | 11 | 0 | 68 |
| Roberto Tricella | DF | 11 | 0 | 67 |
| Stefano Tacconi | GK | 7 | — | 66 |
| Giuseppe Galderisi | FW | 10 | 0 | 66 |
| Luca Danilo Fusi | MF | 8 | 0 | 65 |
| Patrizio Sala | MF | 8 | 0 | 65 |
| Giovanni Francini | DF | 8 | 0 | 64 |
| Ubaldo Righetti | DF | 8 | 0 | 64 |
| Roberto Pruzzo | FW | 6 | 0 | 63 |
| Gianfranco Matteoli | MF | 6 | 0 | 63 |
| Alberto Marchetti | MF | 5 | 0 | 61 |
| Sebastiano Nela | DF | 5 | 0 | 60 |
| Antonio Sabato | MF | 4 | 0 | 59 |
| Sergio Battistini | DF | 4 | 1 | 58 |
| Franco Selvaggi | FW | 3 | 0 | 57 |
| Stefano Borgonovo | FW | 3 | 0 | 57 |
| Ruben Buriani | MF | 2 | 0 | 55 |
| Dario Bonetti | DF | 2 | 0 | 53 |
| Domenico Marocchino | MF | 1 | 0 | 51 |
| Luciano Marangon | DF | 1 | 0 | 50 |
| Massimo Taibi | GK | — | — | 48 |
| Gino DiFlorio | MF | — | — | 48 |
| Francesco Romano | MF | 0 | 0 | 48 |
| Roberto Cravero | DF | — | — | 48 |
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