SPEEDSDB
UEFA Champions League · 2011/12 – 2025/26

How fast is football, really?

SpeedsDB ranks 1,537 Champions League players across 15 seasons of official tracking data — career-best top speeds, the distance they covered, the goals they scored and the clubs they ran for.

Fastest ever tracked
Frank Castañeda
Frank Castañeda FC Sheriff Tiraspol · 2021/22
40.00 km/h top speed
40.00 km/hFastest recorded speed
1,537Players tracked
15Seasons
161,776 kmDistance combined
The podium

Three fastest ever tracked

1 FC Sheriff Tiraspol
Frank Castañeda
Frank Castañeda FC Sheriff Tiraspol · 2021/22
40.00 km/h
2 FC Sheriff Tiraspol
Fernando Costanza
Fernando Costanza FC Sheriff Tiraspol · 2021/22
39.40 km/h
3 LOSC Lille
Sven Botman
Sven Botman LOSC Lille · 2021/22
39.21 km/h
Top 10 all-time

The quickest in Europe

Full leaderboard
1 Frank Castañeda Frank Castañeda Midfielder · 2021/22 FC Sheriff Tiraspol 40.00km/h 2 Fernando Costanza Fernando Costanza Defender · 2021/22 FC Sheriff Tiraspol 39.40km/h 3 Sven Botman Sven Botman Defender · 2021/22 LOSC Lille 39.21km/h 4 Kevin De Bruyne Kevin De Bruyne Midfielder · 2021/22 Manchester City 39.10km/h 5 Éder Militão Éder Militão Defender · 2021/22 Real Madrid C.F. 38.30km/h 6 Fikayo Tomori Fikayo Tomori Defender · 2021/22 AC Milan 38.21km/h 7 Reinildo Reinildo Defender · 2021/22 Atlético de Madrid 37.90km/h 8 Ángel Di María Ángel Di María Forward · 2021/22 Paris Saint-Germain 37.80km/h 9 Karim Adeyemi Karim Adeyemi Forward · 2023/24 Borussia Dortmund 37.60km/h 10 Federico Valverde Federico Valverde Midfielder · 2021/22 Real Madrid C.F. 37.40km/h
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FC Sheriff Tiraspol LOSC Lille Manchester City Real Madrid C.F. AC Milan Atlético de Madrid Paris Saint-Germain Borussia Dortmund FC Bayern München Juventus AFC Ajax FC Barcelona Chelsea FC SL Benfica FC Porto Olympique de Marseille Stade Brestois 29 Bayer 04 Leverkusen RB Leipzig Celtic FC Sevilla FC FC Internazionale Milano Club Brugge KV FC Shakhtar Donetsk Manchester United FC Salzburg Feyenoord BSC Young Boys VfB Stuttgart Newcastle United FC Liverpool FC AS Monaco FK Crvena Zvezda Aston Villa Arsenal FC Sporting Clube de Portugal GNK Dinamo Eintracht Frankfurt Atalanta BC Qarabağ FK ŠK Slovan Bratislava Bologna FC 1909 FC Zenit F.C. Copenhagen S.S. Lazio Girona FC Villarreal CF RC Lens PSV Eindhoven SSC Napoli VfL Wolfsburg Real Sociedad de Fútbol 1. FC Union Berlin Beşiktaş JK Tottenham Hotspur AC Sparta Praha SC Braga Royal Antwerp FC Galatasaray A.Ş. FC Viktoria Plzeň Malmö FF SK Sturm Graz Rangers FC NK Maribor Maccabi Haifa FC FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Schalke 04 Olympique Lyonnais Valencia CF AS Roma TSG 1899 Hoffenheim Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC PFC Ludogorets 1945 APOEL FC RSC Anderlecht FC BATE Borisov PFC CSKA Moskva AEK Athens FC Olympiacos FC FC Midtjylland Ferencvárosi TC FC Lokomotiv Moskva FC Basel 1893 İstanbul Başakşehir FK Stade Rennais FC KAA Gent FC Krasnodar Borussia Mönchengladbach SK Slavia Praha Montpellier Hérault SC Fotbal Club FCSB FC Nordsjælland CFR 1907 Cluj Leicester City FC KRC Genk Legia Warszawa FC Rostov FC Astana Trabzonspor A.Ş. Athletic Club Málaga CF FC Spartak Moskva FK Austria Wien SC Oţelul Galaţi
The data

Built on official tracking data

Every speed on SpeedsDB comes from UEFA's public performance API — the same optical tracking system used in Champions League broadcasts, published since the 2011/12 season. We record each player's top speed, the distance they covered, minutes, goals and assists, then rank the whole tracking era.

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