Mickaël Landreau has made the most career appearances by a player younger than 36 in Europe's top five leagues, with 618 appearances in Ligue 1.

most games before turning 36 years old by a player

	NAME	M	MIN	START	G	G/M	A	G+A	PK
1	Mickaël Landreau M. Landreau	618	55,450	618	0	0.00	0	0	0
2	Gareth Barry G. Barry	617	51,990	592	52	0.08	63	115	18
3	Raúl	616	49,696	565	256	0.42	9	265	9
4	Andoni Zubizarreta A. Zubizarreta	595	53,432	595	0	0.00			0
5	Karl-Heinz Körbel K. Körbel	584	51,735	582	45	0.08			12
6	Lionel Messi L. Messi	578	47,162	520	496	0.86	136	632	60
7	James Milner J. Milner	577	38,003	410	55	0.10	84	139	17
8	Frank Lampard F. Lampard	577	47,881	536	171	0.30	101	272	43
9	Eike Immel E. Immel	572	51,293	572	0	0.00			0
10	Hugo Lloris H. Lloris	569	50,877	569	0	0.00	2	2	0
11	Cristiano Ronaldo C. Ronaldo	568	46,644	519	462	0.81	93	555	93
12	Pepe Reina P. Reina	568	50,883	567	0	0.00	5	5	0
13	Raúl García R. García	554	36,729	417	109	0.20	23	132	19
14	Karim Benzema K. Benzema	551	39,192	456	281	0.51	88	369	28
15	Manfred Kaltz M. Kaltz	550	49,212	547	75	0.14			52
16	Jesús Navas J. Navas	549	42,041	468	29	0.05	43	72	0
17	Moussa Sissoko M. Sissoko	543	40,801	454	38	0.07	29	67	2
18	Antoine Griezmann A. Griezmann	541	40,874	475	200	0.37	75	275	12
19	Roberto Mancini R. Mancini	541	43,935	497	156	0.29			22
20	Ivan Rakitić I. Rakitić	535	37,119	419	73	0.14	61	134	12
21	Dimitri Payet D. Payet	535	38,791	451	112	0.21	119	231	16
22	Paolo Maldini P. Maldini	535	47,102	533	25	0.05			0
23	César Azpilicueta C. Azpilicueta	534	44,182	490	12	0.02	40	52	0
24	Ryan Giggs R. Giggs	534	40,697	460	100	0.19	143	243	0
25	Claude Makélélé C. Makélélé	530	44,014	502	17	0.03	5	22	0