# Which football club has had most international captains in the same team? | The Knowledge

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/which-football-club-has-had-most-international-captains-in-the-same-team-the-knowledge/
- Published: 2026-11-11T08:00:33+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T08:29:39+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/nov/11/football-club-most-international-captains-same-team-the-knowledge
- Topics: Entertainment, Football, Sport, TV

## Key points

- Inter’s 2010 final squad featured seven current national captains.
- The tally includes players who had captained their countries’ most recent matches.
- Tottenham had five; Liverpool’s six did not all overlap.

## Summary

Inter Milan’s 2010 Champions League final squad appears to hold the record for the most players who were their country’s captain at the same time. The distinction matters because several other teams had players who later became international captains, but the count here includes only those holding the role at kick-off.

Inter had seven such players in the matchday squad: Brazil’s Lúcio, Romania’s Cristian Chivu, Cameroon’s Samuel Eto’o, Macedonia’s Goran Pandev, Serbia’s Dejan Stankovic, Ghana’s Sulley Muntari and Colombia’s Iván Córdoba. Muntari had captained Ghana in its previous match, while Córdoba had been restored as Colombia captain for its previous game; Tottenham in 2020-21 had five, and Liverpool had six players who did not all serve together as incumbent captains.

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