The Top 100 Football Players Ever

A video guide to the top 100 footballers - vote for your favourite players

This list began with the top 100 footballe players list published by the Association of Football Statisticians at the end of last year - they used statistics to calculate who should be top so this doesn't take into account simple raw talent, flair and class. Their list also had a few serious omissions, so we've added those players in.

So you can vote to move the top 100 players up and down the list by clicking the thumbs up & thumbs down below! The original position is shown in the second column.

Click on each football player to watch videos of them, to make up your mind before voting..

Click the icons to vote and move players up & down (Max 5 votes per player per day!)

Pos	Orig	Moved	Player	Country	Vote!
1	16	+15	Zico	Brazil
2	6	+4	Diego Maradona	Argentina
3	1	-2	Pele	Brazil
4	27	+23	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Germany
5	44	+39	David Beckham	England
6	---	+98	Kaka	Brazil
7	20	+13	Ferenc Puskas	Hungary
8	57	+49	Ronaldinho	Brazil
9	13	+4	Michel Platini	France
10	15	+5	Paolo Maldini	Italy
11	19	+8	Eusebio	Portugal
12	---	+89	George Best	Northern Ireland
13	31	+18	Dennis Bergkamp	Netherlands
14	22	+8	Alfredo di Stefano	Argentina
15	18	+3	Ruud Gullit	Netherlands
16	41	+25	Enzo Francescoli	Uruguay
17	30	+13	Hristo Stoichkov	Bulgaria
18	29	+11	Michael Laudrup	Denmark
19	17	-2	Raul	Spain
20	24	+4	Jurgen Klinsmann	Germany
21	7	-14	Lothar Matthaus	Germany
22	36	+14	Peter Schmeichel	Denmark
23	---	+82	Lionel Messi	Argentina
24	23	-1	Bobby Charlton	England
25	43	+18	Paolo Rossi	Italy
26	50	+24	Clarence Seedorf	Netherlands
27	79	+52	Roberto Baggio	Italy
28	61	+33	Davor Suker	Croatia
29	---	+79	George Weah	Liberia
30	---	+81	Lev Yashin	Russia
31	46	+15	Kevin Keegan	England
32	4	-28	Luis Figo	Portugal
33	8	-25	Gerd Muller	Germany
34	28	-6	Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina
35	---	+77	Bobby Moore	England
36	---	+70	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal
37	59	+22	Bebeto	Brazil
38	60	+22	Alessandro Del Piero	Italy
39	35	-4	Gheorghe Hagi	Romania
40	25	-15	Kenny Dalglish	Scotland
41	32	-9	Frank Rijkaard	Netherlands
42	58	+16	Sylvain Wiltord	France
43	26	-17	Ali Daei	Iran
44	37	-7	Andriy Shevchenko	Ukraine
45	84	+39	Carlos Valderrama	Colombia
46	54	+8	Daniel Passarella	Argentina
47	77	+30	Franco Baresi	Italy
48	52	+4	Patrick Kluivert	Netherlands
49	42	-7	Hakan Sukur	Turkey
50	14	-36	Rivaldo	Brazil
51	98	+47	Edwin van der Sar	Netherlands
52	34	-18	Pavel Nedved	Czech Republic
53	40	-13	Lilian Thuram	France
54	39	-15	Didier Deschamps	France
55	93	+38	Brian Laudrup	Denmark
56	62	+6	Ryan Giggs	Wales
57	47	-10	Marcel Desailly	France
58	53	-5	Jari Litmanen	Finland
59	48	-11	Oliver Kahn	Germany
60	45	-15	Jean-Pierre Papin	France
61	12	-49	Marco van Basten	Netherlands
62	68	+6	Michael Owen	England
63	49	-14	Alessandro Costacurta	Italy
64	9	-55	Franz Beckenbauer	Germany
65	2	-63	Ronaldo	Brazil
66	56	-10	Gary Lineker	England
67	100	+33	Johan Neeskens	Netherlands
68	55	-13	Bixente Lizarazu	France
69	33	-36	Thierry Henry	France
70	10	-60	Cafu	Brazil
71	88	+17	Claudio Taffarel	Brazil
72	63	-9	David Trezeguet	France
73	38	-35	Sepp Maier	Germany
74	51	-23	Dino Zoff	Italy
75	64	-11	Demetrio Albertini	Italy
76	65	-11	Patrick Vieira	France
77	67	-10	Laurent Blanc	France
78	66	-12	Jurgen Kohler	Germany
79	69	-10	Youri Djorkaeff	France
80	72	-8	Hugo Sanchez	Mexico
81	70	-11	Frank De Boer	Netherlands
82	96	+14	Michael Ballack	Germany
83	76	-7	Kanu	Nigeria
84	5	-79	Zinedine Zidane	France
85	74	-11	Djalma Santos	Brazil
86	21	-65	Johan Cruyff	Netherlands
87	71	-16	Emilio Butragueno	Spain
88	75	-13	Giacinto Facchetti	Italy
89	87	-2	Edgar Davids	Netherlands
90	85	-5	Rui Costa	Portugal
91	78	-13	Gianni Rivera	Italy
92	81	-11	Gheorghe Popescu	Romania
93	97	+4	Jan Koller	Czech Republic
94	94		Henrik Larsson	Sweden
95	73	-22	Rudi Voller	Germany
96	---	+7	Eric Cantona	France
97	99	+2	Robert Pires	France
98	92	-6	Roy Keane	Republic of Ireland
99	80	-19	Oscar Ruggeri	Argentina
100	91	-9	Bryan Robson	England
101	82	-19	Jon Dahl Tomasson	Denmark
102	89	-13	Paul Scholes	England
103	83	-20	Raymond Kopa	France
104	90	-14	Diego Simeone	Argentina
105	---	+2	Steven Gerrard	England
106	95	-11	Fabien Barthez	France
107	86	-21	Gary Neville	England
108	11	-97	Roberto Carlos	Brazil
109	---	-7	Denis Law	Scotland
110	---	-1	Alessandro Nesta	Italy
111	---	-1	Stanley Matthews	England
112	3	-109	Romario	Brazil