Top 10 players of each decade, ranked by peak rating.
Ciro Immobile
Italian
ST
Victor Osimhen
Nigerian
Vinicius Junior
Brazilian
LW
Karim Benzema
French
Vinicius Jr
Rodri
Spanish
CDM
Erling Haaland
Norwegian
Mohamed Salah
Egyptian
RW
Bukayo Saka
English
Jude Bellingham
CM
Lionel Messi
Argentine
Xavi Hernández
Andrés Iniesta
Sergio Ramos
CB
Esteban Cambiasso
Lorenzo Insigne
Zlatan Ibrahimović
Swedish
Ronaldo
Portuguese
Virgil van Dijk
Dutch
Carlos Puyol
Gianluigi Buffon
GK
Andriy Shevchenko
Ukrainian
Francesco Totti
CAM
Alessandro Nesta
Kaká
Fabio Cannavaro
Pavel Nedvěd
Czech
Luca Toni
Fernando Couto
Adriano
Franco Baresi
Marco van Basten
Ronaldo Nazário
Lothar Matthäus
German
Roberto Baggio
Roberto Donadoni
Frank Rijkaard
Walter Zenga
Paolo Maldini
LB
Gianluca Vialli
Diego Maradona
Michel Platini
Ruud Gullit
Falcão
Júnior
Claudio Gentile
Gaetano Scirea
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Graeme Souness
Scottish
Marco Tardelli
Johan Cruyff
Ruud Krol
Wim van Hanegem
Dino Zoff
Carlos Alberto Torres
RB
Gigi Riva
Johan Neeskens
Johnny Rep
Emlyn Hughes
Pelé
Gianni Rivera
Sandro Mazzola
José Altafini
Giacinto Facchetti
George Best
Northern Irish
Bobby Charlton
Bobby Moore
Denis Law
Geoff Hurst
Helmut Haller
Alfredo Di Stéfano
Giampiero Boniperti
Raymond Kopa
Just Fontaine
Zoltán Czibor
Hungarian
Lev Yashin
Soviet
Tommy Docherty
Sándor Kocsis
Johnny Haynes
Stanley Matthews
