Paolo Maldini made 582 appearances in Serie A before turning 38.

most games before turning 38 top 5 years old by a player

	NAME	M	MIN	START	G	G/M	A	G+A	PK
1	Paolo Maldini P. Maldini	582	51,158	579	27	0.05			0
2	Gianluigi Buffon G. Buffon	574	51,138	572	0	0.00	0	0	0
3	Francesco Totti F. Totti	562	44,709	515	235	0.42	35	270	64
4	Samir Handanovič S. Handanovič	552	49,342	551	0	0.00	0	0	0
5	Gianluca Pagliuca G. Pagliuca	546	49,010	546	0	0.00			0
6	Roberto Mancini R. Mancini	541	43,935	497	156	0.29			22
7	Javier Zanetti J. Zanetti	536	46,692	518	12	0.02	2	14	0
8	Gianni Rivera G. Rivera	526	46,999	525	129	0.25			27
9	Giuseppe Bergomi G. Bergomi	519	45,012	510	23	0.04			0
10	Alberto Gilardino A. Gilardino	514	36,821	406	188	0.37	13	201	16
11	Andrea Consigli A. Consigli	510	45,538	510	0	0.00	0	0	0
12	Antonio Candreva A. Candreva	502	36,702	424	85	0.17	79	164	22
13	Ciro Ferrara C. Ferrara	496	41,436	469	27	0.05			0
14	Giovanni Galli G. Galli	496	44,060	489	0	0.00			0
15	Andrea Pirlo A. Pirlo	493	37,349	414	58	0.12	31	89	14
16	Tarcisio Burgnich T. Burgnich	489	43,858	489	6	0.01			0
17	Fabio Quagliarella F. Quagliarella	485	34,664	396	171	0.35	30	201	30
18	Alessandro Del Piero A. Del Piero	478	32,794	378	188	0.39	5	193	50
19	Angelo Peruzzi A. Peruzzi	478	41,414	475	0	0.00			0
20	Giancarlo De Sisti G. De Sisti	478	42,910	478	50	0.10			4
21	Pietro Vierchowod P. Vierchowod	477	42,154	474	32	0.07			0
22	Giacinto Facchetti G. Facchetti	475	42,717	475	59	0.12			0
23	Silvio Piola S. Piola	475	42,490	475	243	0.51			16
24	Goran Pandev G. Pandev	473	27,390	314	101	0.21	26	127	2
25	Giuseppe Favalli G. Favalli	473	37,572	443	7	0.01			0