Personal Details
Edson Arantes Do Nascimento 'Pele'
Date of Birth : 23 October 1940
Place of Birth : Tres Coracoes, Brazil
Height : 1.73m / 5ft 8in
Position : Forward
Nationality : Brazilian
Honours
Sao Paulo State Championship (10) : 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973
Rio-Sao Paulo Championship (3) : 1959, 1963, 1964
Taca de Prata : 1968
NASL Championship : 1977
Brazilian Cup (5) : 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
Copa Libertadores (2) : 1962, 1963
Intercontinental Cup (2) : 1962, 1963
World Cup (3) : 1958, 1962, 1970
Sao Paulo State Top Scorer (11) : 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1973
Rio-Sao Paulo Top Scorer : 1963
Copa Libertadores Top Scorer : 1965
Copa America Top Scorer : 1959
South American Player of the Year : 1973
| Season | Club | Games | Goals | Position | |
| 1957 | Santos (SPS) | 29 | 36 | 2nd | |
| Santos (RSPS) | 9 | 5 | 4th | ||
| 1958 | Santos (SPS) | 38 | 58 | 1st | |
| Santos (RSPS) | 8 | 8 | 7th | ||
| 1959 | Santos (SPS) | 32 | 45 | 2nd | |
| Santos (RSPS) | 7 | 6 | 1st | ||
| 1960 | Santos (SPS) | 30 | 33 | 1st | |
| Santos (RSPS) | 3 | 0 | 8th | ||
| 1961 | Santos (SPS) | 26 | 47 | 1st | |
| Santos (RSPS) | 7 | 8 | 5th | ||
| 1962 | Santos (SPS) | 26 | 37 | 1st | |
| 1963 | Santos (SPS) | 19 | 22 | 3rd | |
| Santos (RSPS) | 8 | 14 | 1st | ||
| 1964 | Santos (SPS) | 21 | 34 | 1st | |
| Santos (RSPS) | 4 | 3 | 1st | ||
| 1965 | Santos (SPS) | 30 | 49 | 1st | |
| Santos (RSPS) | 7 | 5 | 9th | ||
| 1966 | Santos (SPS) | 14 | 13 | 3rd | |
| 1967 | Santos (SPS) | 18 | 17 | 1st | |
| 1968 | Santos (SPS) | 21 | 17 | 1st | |
| 1969 | Santos (SPS) | 25 | 26 | 1st | |
| 1970 | Santos (SPS) | 15 | 7 | 4th | |
| 1971 | Santos (SPS) | 19 | 8 | 4th | |
| Santos (Championship) | 21 | 1 | 9th | ||
| 1972 | Santos (SPS) | 20 | 9 | 3rd | |
| Santos (Championship) | 16 | 5 | 8th | ||
| 1973 | Santos (SPS) | 19 | 11 | 1st | |
| Santos (Championship) | 30 | 19 | 6th | ||
| 1974 | Santos (SPS) | 10 | 1 | 3rd | |
| Santos (Championship) | 17 | 9 | 3rd | ||
| 1975 | New York Cosmos | 9 | 5 | - | |
| 1976 | New York Cosmos | 24 | 15 | - | |
| 1977 | New York Cosmos | 31 | 17 | - | |
| 1957-1974 | Santos Sao Paulo State | 412 | 470 | 1.14 GPG | |
| 1957-1965 | Santos Rio Sao Paulo | 53 | 49 | 0.92 GPG | |
| 1971-1974 | Santos Championship | 84 | 34 | 0.40 GPG | |
| 1975-1977 | New York Cosmos | 64 | 37 | 0.58 GPG | |
| 1959-1966 | Brazilian Cup | 27 | 28 | 1.04 GPG | |
| 1962-1965 | Copa Libertadores | 15 | 17 | 1.13 GPG | |
| 1967-1990 | Taca de Prata | 57 | 37 | 0.65 GPG | |
| 1957-1971 | Brazil | 92 | 77 | 0.84 GPG | |
| 1957-1977 | Total | 804 | 749 | 0.93 GPG | |
SPS = Sao Paulo State Championship
RSPS = Rio Sao Paulo State Championship
The Taca de Prata tournament, which ran between 1967-1970, is the predecessor to the first national Brazilian Championship (1971 - present). The CBF (Brazilian FA) are considering whether to classify these four tournaments as official championships. The State championships are still run as separate tournaments to the Brazilian League Championship but don't hold the same level of importance following the switch to a traditional league format (with promotion and relegation) of the Brazilian Championships in 2003.
The claims made by many sources that Pele scored 1000+ career goals include hundreds of goals scored in friendly matches, combined state championship teams and even games played while on military service. For a comprehensive list detailing the 1282 goals Pele scored in 1366 games download the statistics from Pele, Ole!
I would also like to take this opportunity to criticise every major soccer publication and every soccer resource for being so damn bone idle and never taking the time to prepare detailed career statistics for the player considered to be the best in the history of this sport. No part of this profile may be published by any commercial source, including wikipedia, in any format on any platform.
Thanks to Emilio Castano Graff, Orlando Duarte, Gregoriak and rsssf.com without whom this statistical biography would not be possible.