most appearances by south america players

Javier Zanetti has made the most career appearances by a South American in Europe's top five leagues, with 615 appearances in Serie A.

	NAME	M	MIN	START	G	G/M	A	G+A	PK
1	Javier Zanetti J. Zanetti	615	53,018	589	12	0.02	6	18	0
2	Lionel Messi L. Messi	578	47,162	520	496	0.86	136	632	60
3	Hilton	512	44,669	501	20	0.04	8	28	0
4	Claudio Pizarro C. Pizarro	511	31,375	325	199	0.39	34	233	10
5	Dani Alves D. Alves	503	40,853	454	30	0.06	31	61	0
6	Alexis Sánchez A. Sánchez	483	30,929	343	153	0.32	73	226	7
7	Edinson Cavani E. Cavani	479	35,355	394	267	0.56	41	308	40
8	Dante	470	40,619	453	19	0.04	10	29	0
9	Donato Gama D. Gama	466	37,190	415	49	0.11			13
10	José João Altafini J. João Altafini	458	39,038	429	217	0.47			15
11	Sergio Agüero S. Agüero	454	33,350	386	258	0.57	47	305	28
12	Arturo Vidal A. Vidal	437	29,551	332	77	0.18	53	130	16
13	Diego Godín D. Godín	430	37,076	415	23	0.05	5	28	0
14	Gonzalo Higuaín G. Higuaín	428	30,147	338	237	0.55	29	266	15
15	Gus Poyet G. Poyet	426	32,099	367	117	0.27			1
16	Thiago Silva T. Silva	410	34,947	398	23	0.06	8	31	0
17	Fabricio Coloccini F. Coloccini	408	35,614	401	16	0.04	1	17	0
18	Juan Cuadrado J. Cuadrado	405	27,751	304	43	0.11	63	106	1
19	Lucas Leiva L. Leiva	402	27,882	323	3	0.01	20	23	0
20	Roberto Carlos R. Carlos	400	35,287	397	52	0.13			3
21	Roberto Firmino R. Firmino	396	29,470	337	120	0.30	73	193	5
22	Adriano	395	28,569	337	26	0.07	5	31	0
23	Bruno Pesaola B. Pesaola	394	35,364	394	62	0.16			4
24	Tomás Rincón T. Rincón	393	29,244	329	9	0.02	18	27	0
25	Hernán Crespo H. Crespo	389	26,312	301	173	0.44	1	174	14