Coverage is part of the record.

• A squad record means a player was listed in a tournament roster; it does not prove the player appeared in a match.
• Appearances and starts are counted from source-linked match lineups where available.
• Goals and cards are counted from captured match-event records. Historical player and event depth varies by edition.
• Records pages are explicitly labeled as source-linked totals, not complete career totals when the underlying match coverage is partial.

• Match-sheet spellings are joined to a squad only within that national team's tournament roster.
• Reviewed transliterations, diacritics, initials and display-name variants are stored in source-scoped alias files.
• Ambiguous single-name entries and names not safely found in an imported squad remain match-source-only profile records.
• When a match-sheet spelling is available, it stays on the event record even when a canonical squad name is used for the profile link.

Current match-source-only profile count: 9.

Every edition, team, squad, player, match, record and source page is generated as HTML before deployment. The optional browser search loads a static JSON index; it is not required to read or crawl the archive.

Normal builds use pinned local snapshots and do not call external data services. Refreshing the source snapshots is a separate, reviewed workflow. No user accounts, APIs or runtime database are required.