# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/godfrey-chitalu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:26:43.579Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/godfrey-chitalu"
name: "Godfrey Chitalu"
slug: "godfrey-chitalu"
description: "Godfrey Chitalu, nicknamed Ucar, was a Zambian footballer who played as a forward. He is widely regarded as the greatest Zambian player of all time as he holds his national team's goalscoring record and was voted Zambian footballer of the year five times. In 2006, he was selected by CAF as one of the best 200 African footballers of the past 50 years. Chitalu is the all-time African men's top goal scorer in international football with 79 goals."
tagline: "Zambian footballer (1947–1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Godfrey_Chitalu_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1947-10-22"
deathDate: "1993-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.75
  momentum:             10
  historical:           20.86824133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Godfri Çitalu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "غودفري تشيتالو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جودفرى تشيتالو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "قادفری چیتالو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Годфри Читалу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "গডফ্রে চিতালু"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Godfrey Chitalu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Godfrey Chitalu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Γκόντφρι Τσιτάλου"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Godfrey Chitalu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Chitalu"
    title: "Godfrey Chitalu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "گادفری چیتالو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Chitalu"
    title: "Godfrey Chitalu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Chitalu"
    title: "Godfrey Chitalu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Chitalu"
    title: "Godfrey Chitalu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Godfrey Chitalu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ゴッドフリー・チタル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "고드프리 치탈루"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrijs_%C4%8Citalu"
    title: "Godfrijs Čitalu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Chitalu"
    title: "Godfrey Chitalu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Chitalu"
    title: "Godfrey Chitalu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Chitalu"
    title: "Godfrey Chitalu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%83%2C_%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Читалу, Годфри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Chitalu"
    title: "Godfrey Chitalu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q794512"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump