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Wynton Alan Whai Rufer CNZM (born 29 December 1962) is a New Zealand retired professional footballer who played as a striker. He spent more than a decade of his professional career in Switzerland and Germany, achieving his greatest success at Werder Bremen, where he won a total of four major titles and finished the top scorer in the UEFA Champions League 1993–94 season. He was also a member of the New Zealand national team in its first FIFA World Cup appearance in 1982. He was named the Oceania Footballer of the Century by the Oceania Football Confederation.

Honours

Grasshoppers

• Swiss Cup: 1988–89

• Swiss Super Cup: 1989

Werder Bremen

• Bundesliga: 1992–93

• DFB-Pokal: 1990–91, 1993–94

• DFB-Supercup: 1993, 1994

• UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 1991–92

1. FC Kaiserslautern

• 2. Bundesliga: 1996–97

Central United

• Chatham Cup: 1997

Individual

• New Zealand Young Player of the Year: 1981 and 1982

• Oceania Footballer of the Year: 1989, 1990, 1992

• FIFA Oceania Footballer of the Century

• UEFA Champions League Top-scorer: 1993–94

• Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to soccer, in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours

• New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame: Inducted in 2005

• Maori Sports Hall of Fame: Inducted in 2007

• Rufer is a member of the FIFA Football Committee, with Franz Beckenbauer, Michel Platini and Bobby Charlton.[20] He is also involved with the FIFA Ambassadors Against Racism Committee.

• IFFHS Legends

• IFFHS Oceania Men's Team of All Time: 2021