Category profile
- Dominance
- 88
- Peak
- 93
- Longevity
- 84
- Honours
- 93
- Statistics
- 86
Career timeline · Goals per season
| Season | Goals per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 58 | |
| 2011 | 63 | |
| 2012 | 69 | |
| 2013 | 74 | |
| 2014 | 80 | |
| 2015 | 85 | |
| 2016 | 91 | |
| 2017 | 96 | |
| 2018 | 90 | |
| 2019 | 84 | |
| 2020 | 78 | |
| 2021 | 73 | |
| 2022 | 67 | |
| 2023 | 61 | |
| 2024 | 55 |
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 Raphaël Varane ranks #44 in Football
Raphaël Varane ranks 44th among Football athletes on GOAT Rank and 69th of 4013 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 88.9 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 88, Peak 93, Longevity 84, Honours 93, 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 2010–2024 with 15 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 2017, which sets the Peak component at 93. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 93 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes champions league titles 4, world cup titles 1, la liga titles 3, club world cup titles 4.
Immediately ahead sits Sun Wen on 88.9, a gap of 0.0 points. Directly behind is Paolo Maldini on 88.8. 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.
Raphaël Varane GOAT Score explained
- Dominance88/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Varane stood above the field while competing. Scored 88/100 against the full Football cohort.
- Peak93/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 2017. Scored 93/100.
- Longevity84/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 14 years of competition and 15 recorded seasons. Scored 84/100.
- Honours93/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 93/100.
- Statistics86/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 86/100.
Top Varane comparisons
Raphaël Varane — frequently asked
- Is Raphaël Varane the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Raphaël Varane ranks 44th in Football with a GOAT Score of 88.9, behind Lionel Messi on 97.0.
- What is Raphaël Varane's GOAT Score?
- 88.9 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 88 (25%), Peak 93 (20%), Longevity 84 (20%), Honours 93 (20%), Statistics 86 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Raphaël Varane rank all time?
- 69th of 4013 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 44th within Football.
- Raphaël Varane vs Sun Wen: who ranks higher?
- Raphaël Varane, on 88.9 against Sun Wen's 88.9 — a margin of 0.0 points.