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Marta vs Pelé
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MartaWinner
95.0Marta wins: Longevity, Statistics
Pelé
94.2Pelé wins: Honours
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Verdict
Weighted GOAT score
🇧🇷 Marta Vieira da Silva
95.0
Marta leads in 4 of 5 weighted categories.
1. Marta Vieira da Silva
2. Pelé
Category breakdown
Season form · Goals per season
Career timeline · Goals per season
Cumulative output season by season — the shape of each career against the other.
GOAT pace tracker
Through age 21 · Goals per season
1. 🇧🇷 Pelé248 goals
5 seasons by age 21 · 49.6 per season
Setting the pace at age 21
2. 🇧🇷 Marta Vieira da Silva89 goals
5 seasons by age 21 · 17.8 per season
Marta is -64.1% behind Pelé's pace at age 21
Every career is cut at the season the athlete turned 21, so a rookie today is measured against exactly what a legend had banked by the same birthday.
| Metric | MartaActive | PeléRetired · New York Cosmos |
|---|---|---|
| FIFA World Player awards | 6 | — |
| World Cup goals | 17 | — |
| Brazil caps | 200 | — |
| Brazil goals | 119 | — |
| Olympic medals | 3 | — |
| World Cups played | 6 | — |
| Career goals | — | 767 |
| Career assists | — | 229 |
| Ballon d'Or | — | 0 |
| World Cups | — | 3 |
| Champions League titles | — | 0 |
| League titles | — | 10 |
| Goals per 90 | — | 0.84 |
| Dominance w25% | 96 | 96 |
| Peak w20% | 97 | 97 |
| Longevity w20% | 94 | 90 |
| Honours w20% | 92 | 95 |
| Statistics w15% | 96 | 92 |
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GOAT Rank · the data
Marta95.0
Pelé94.2
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