Category profile
- Dominance
- 88
- Peak
- 94
- Longevity
- 84
- Honours
- 90
- Statistics
- 86
Career timeline · Goals per season
| Season | Goals per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 58 | |
| 2013 | 64 | |
| 2014 | 71 | |
| 2015 | 77 | |
| 2016 | 83 | |
| 2017 | 90 | |
| 2018 | 96 | |
| 2019 | 94 | |
| 2020 | 92 | |
| 2021 | 90 | |
| 2022 | 88 | |
| 2023 | 86 | |
| 2024 | 84 | |
| 2025 | 82 | |
| 2026 | 80 |
Data sources
- FIFA and UEFA official match records
- National federation archives
- Transfermarkt career statistics
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why N'Golo Kanté ranks #58 in Football
N'Golo Kanté ranks 58th among Football athletes on GOAT Rank and 91st of 4013 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 88.5 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 88, Peak 94, Longevity 84, Honours 90, Statistics 86. Those categories are normalised against the full Football reference universe of 895 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 2012–present with 15 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 2018, which sets the Peak component at 94. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 94 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes world cup titles 1, premier league titles 2, champions league titles 1, pfa player of the year awards 1.
Immediately ahead sits Carolina Morace on 88.5, a gap of 0.0 points. Directly behind is Lothar Matthäus on 88.4. The position moves whenever the verified record moves: new titles, new seasons or a corrected source all feed straight back into the same formula, and every change is dated on this profile.
N'Golo Kanté GOAT Score explained
- Dominance88/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Kanté stood above the field while competing. Scored 88/100 against the full Football cohort.
- Peak94/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 2018. Scored 94/100.
- Longevity84/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 14 years of competition and 15 recorded seasons. Scored 84/100.
- Honours90/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 90/100.
- Statistics86/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 86/100.
Top Kanté comparisons
N'Golo Kanté — frequently asked
- Is N'Golo Kanté the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. N'Golo Kanté ranks 58th in Football with a GOAT Score of 88.5, behind Lionel Messi on 97.0.
- What is N'Golo Kanté's GOAT Score?
- 88.5 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 88 (25%), Peak 94 (20%), Longevity 84 (20%), Honours 90 (20%), Statistics 86 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does N'Golo Kanté rank all time?
- 91st of 4013 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 58th within Football.
- N'Golo Kanté vs Carolina Morace: who ranks higher?
- N'Golo Kanté, on 88.5 against Carolina Morace's 88.5 — a margin of 0.0 points.