Gianluigi Buffon has made the most career appearances in Europe's top five leagues, with 674 appearances in Serie A and Ligue 1.

most games by a player in europe soccer

	NAME	M	MIN	START	G	G/M	A	G+A	PK
1	Gianluigi Buffon G. Buffon	674	60,066	672	0	0.00	0	0	0
2	Joaquín	671	45,085	502	81	0.12	33	114	4
3	Pepe Reina P. Reina	669	59,535	662	0	0.00	6	6	0
4	Gareth Barry G. Barry	653	54,434	618	53	0.08	64	117	18
5	Paolo Maldini P. Maldini	647	56,495	640	29	0.04			0
6	James Milner J. Milner	645	40,285	434	56	0.09	88	144	18
7	Miroslav Votava M. Votava	642	55,576	622	52	0.08			0
8	Jesús Navas J. Navas	639	47,407	528	30	0.05	46	76	0
9	Ryan Giggs R. Giggs	632	46,437	522	109	0.17	163	272	2
10	Cristiano Ronaldo C. Ronaldo	626	51,094	566	495	0.79	96	591	98
11	Andoni Zubizarreta A. Zubizarreta	622	55,862	622	0	0.00			0
12	Mickaël Landreau M. Landreau	618	55,450	618	0	0.00	0	0	0
13	Francesco Totti F. Totti	618	47,054	540	250	0.40	46	296	71
14	Raúl	616	49,696	565	256	0.42	9	265	9
15	Javier Zanetti J. Zanetti	615	53,018	589	12	0.02	6	18	0
16	Raúl García R. García	609	38,078	424	112	0.18	26	138	19
17	Frank Lampard F. Lampard	609	48,871	546	177	0.29	102	279	43
18	Claude Makélélé C. Makélélé	607	50,770	579	18	0.03	7	25	0
19	Karl-Heinz Körbel K. Körbel	602	53,355	600	45	0.07			12
20	Manfred Kaltz M. Kaltz	594	52,770	586	77	0.13			53
21	Gianluca Pagliuca G. Pagliuca	592	53,150	592	0	0.00			0
22	Sergio Ramos S. Ramos	581	50,287	569	81	0.14	7	88	16
23	Hugo Lloris H. Lloris	579	51,732	579	0	0.00	2	2	0
24	Lothar Matthäus L. Matthäus	579	49,965	576	161	0.28			47
25	Albiol	578	49,270	546	14	0.02	7	21	0