Robin van Persie

Career record

Robin van Persie is a forward, born 6 August 1983, listed at 183 cm, and holds Kingdom of the Netherlands citizenship. The club record here runs 2001–2019 across 5 clubs, 435 appearances and 205 goals.

The longest stay was Arsenal F.C., 9 years from 2003 to 2012 and 194 appearances. Arsenal F.C. accounts for the most football: 194 appearances of the 435 on record. The best scoring rate came at Feyenoord Rotterdam — 21 in 37, a goal every 1.8 games. Across 18 years there were 4 moves, roughly one every 4.5 seasons. At senior international level the record is 102 caps and 50 goals.

International record

His clubs, in this archive

The archive covers 9 of the seasons Robin van Persie spent at Arsenal F.C., 2003/04 to 2011/12. Arsenal F.C. won the Premier League once in that span and finished in the top four nine times, averaging 75 points a season. At Manchester United F.C., 3 covered seasons run 2012/13 to 2014/15, best finish 1st in 2012/13. Those placings are recalculated from the individual results rather than copied from a table, so they can be read against any other club on this site.

Only the seasons this archive holds are listed — it begins in 2000/01 and covers league matches in the five competitions named above, so a career that started earlier or ran through other leagues shows a gap here rather than a blank.

How this page is put together

The career table above is the structured record held on Wikidata under a public-domain licence, read once and cached, not queried while you are reading. The player is bound to that record by date of birth rather than by name: a name search returns the wrong Klose and three different Robinhos, and a page carrying somebody else’s links cannot afford that.

Compare any two clubs he played for with the head-to-head tool, or read the records these seasons feed into.

Frequently asked

Career record

Robin van Persie, born 1983-08-06, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, listed at 183 cm, an attacker. The club record below covers 5 senior teams between 2004 and 2019.

The record spans 16 years, from 2004 to 2019, across 4 clubs, with 3 moves between them. The longest single spell was at Netherlands, 14 recorded seasons from 2005 to 2018, and the average club spell runs to 4.0 seasons.

International football accounts for a further 14 seasons with Netherlands, running alongside the club years rather than after them — which is why the dates in the table overlap.

Spells are listed by the seasons in which the player appears in the provider’s squad records. Where two clubs overlap in the same year the player moved mid-season, and both are shown rather than one being chosen.

Honours

11 titles are recorded, alongside 10 runner-up or other placed finishes. Both lists come from the same squad records as the career table above, so a competition the player was registered for but did not play in can still appear.

Titles won

Runner-up and other finishes

Frequently asked

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