2000s
235 players peaked in the 2000s, ranked by peak rating.
Gianluigi Buffon
Italian · GK · Peak 2006
Andriy Shevchenko
Ukrainian · ST · Peak 2004
Francesco Totti
Italian · CAM · Peak 2001
Alessandro Nesta
Italian · CB · Peak 2006
Kaká
Brazilian · CAM · Peak 2007
Fabio Cannavaro
Italian · CB · Peak 2006
Pavel Nedvěd
Czech · CM · Peak 2003
Luca Toni
Italian · ST · Peak 2006
Fernando Couto
Portuguese · CB · Peak 2000
Adriano
Brazilian · ST · Peak 2005
Zinedine Zidane
French · CAM · Peak 2002
Gabriel Batistuta
Argentine · ST · Peak 2000
Andrei Shevchenko
Ukrainian · ST · Peak 2003
Sinisa Mihajlovic
Serbian · LB · Peak 2000
Roberto Carlos
Brazilian · LB · Peak 2002
Thierry Henry
French · ST · Peak 2004
Edwin van der Sar
Dutch · GK · Peak 2008
John Terry
English · CB · Peak 2009
Andrea Pirlo
Italian · CDM · Peak 2006
Frank Lampard
English · CM · Peak 2009
Hernán Crespo
Argentine · ST · Peak 2000
Walter Samuel
Argentine · CB · Peak 2007
Wayne Rooney
English · ST · Peak 2009
Steven Gerrard
English · CM · Peak 2005
Clarence Seedorf
Dutch · CM · Peak 2005
Raúl González
Spanish · ST · Peak 2000
Dennis Bergkamp
Dutch · CAM · Peak 2002
Luis Figo
Portuguese · RW · Peak 2000
Robert Pires
French · LW · Peak 2002
Ronaldo Gaucho
Brazilian · CAM · Peak 2005
Sol Campbell
English · CB · Peak 2004
Daniele De Rossi
Italian · CDM · Peak 2009
Seedorf
Dutch · CM · Peak 2004
Theodoros Zagorakis
Greek · CM · Peak 2004
Christian Vieri
Italian · ST · Peak 2000
Hierro
Spanish · CB · Peak 2000
Ronaldinho
Brazilian · CAM · Peak 2005
Samuel Eto'o
Cameroonian · ST · Peak 2008
Patrick Vieira
French · CDM · Peak 2004
Ruud van Nistelrooy
Dutch · ST · Peak 2003
Gennaro Gattuso
Italian · CDM · Peak 2006
Marco Materazzi
Italian · CB · Peak 2006
Andrei Arshavin
Russian · CAM · Peak 2008
Gianluca Zambrotta
Italian · RB · Peak 2005
Javier Zanetti
Argentine · RB · Peak 2000
Cafu
Brazilian · RB · Peak 2002
Lilian Thuram
French · RB · Peak 2003
Edgar Davids
Dutch · CDM · Peak 2000
Fernando Torres
Spanish · ST · Peak 2008
Jens Lehmann
German · GK · Peak 2004
Massimo Ambrosini
Italian · CM · Peak 2004
Álvaro Recoba
Uruguayan · CAM · Peak 2000
Michael Owen
English · ST · Peak 2001
Rui Costa
Portuguese · CAM · Peak 2000
Pato
Brazilian · ST · Peak 2009
Stefano Fiore
Italian · CM · Peak 2001
Roque Junior
Brazilian · CB · Peak 2002
Serginho
Brazilian · LB · Peak 2005
Guti
Spanish · CAM · Peak 2002
Paul Scholes
English · CM · Peak 2003
Sébastien Frey
French · GK · Peak 2008
Ashley Cole
English · LB · Peak 2008
Jerzy Dudek
Polish · GK · Peak 2005
Nemanja Vidić
Serbian · CB · Peak 2009
Vincenzo Montella
Italian · ST · Peak 2001
Claude Makélélé
French · CDM · Peak 2004
Kakha Kaladze
Georgian · LB · Peak 2003
Massimo Oddo
Italian · RB · Peak 2006
Sami Hyypiä
Finnish · CB · Peak 2005
Jamie Carragher
English · CB · Peak 2007
Morientes
Spanish · ST · Peak 2000
Hernán Barcos
Argentine · ST · Peak 2009
Dario Šimić
Croatian · CB · Peak 2005
Filippo Inzaghi
Italian · ST · Peak 2003
Rio Ferdinand
English · CB · Peak 2008
Simone Perrotta
Italian · CM · Peak 2006
Juan Román Riquelme
Argentine · CAM · Peak 2005
Michael Ballack
German · CM · Peak 2008
Obafemi Martins
Nigerian · ST · Peak 2005
Fernando Morientes
Spanish · ST · Peak 2002
Mauro Camoranesi
Argentine · RM · Peak 2004
Freddie Ljungberg
Swedish · RM · Peak 2004
Jon Dahl Tomasson
Danish · ST · Peak 2003
Laurent Robert
French · LW · Peak 2002
Martin Keown
English · CB · Peak 2002
Damien Duff
Irish · LW · Peak 2002
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Dutch · ST · Peak 2001
Joe Cole
English · CM · Peak 2006
Míchel Salgado
Spanish · RB · Peak 2002
Shay Given
Irish · GK · Peak 2002
Adrian Mutu
Romanian · ST · Peak 2007
Michael Essien
Ghanaian · CDM · Peak 2007
Roman Pavlyuchenko
Russian · ST · Peak 2007
Ricardo Carvalho
Portuguese · CB · Peak 2006
Pepe Reina
Spanish · GK · Peak 2008
Owen Hargreaves
English · CDM · Peak 2006
Roy Makaay
Dutch · ST · Peak 2002
Samuel Kuffour
Ghanaian · CB · Peak 2001
Craig Bellamy
Welsh · ST · Peak 2005
Cesc Fàbregas
Spanish · CM · Peak 2008
Deco
Portuguese · CM · Peak 2005
Fabien Barthez
French · GK · Peak 2001
Michael Carrick
English · CDM · Peak 2008
Oliver Kahn
German · GK · Peak 2000
Brad Friedel
American · GK · Peak 2004
Thomas Helveg
Danish · RB · Peak 2001
Emerson
Brazilian · CDM · Peak 2004
Emmanuel Adebayor
Togolese · ST · Peak 2008
Willy Sagnol
French · RB · Peak 2005
Eric Abidal
French · LB · Peak 2009
Vincente
Spanish · LW · Peak 2001
Javi Moreno
Spanish · ST · Peak 2002
Júlio Baptista
Brazilian · ST · Peak 2005
Sylvain Wiltord
French · LW · Peak 2001
Emile Heskey
English · ST · Peak 2000
Robbie Keane
Irish · ST · Peak 2005
Aleksandr Hleb
Belarusian · CAM · Peak 2007
Austin Jay-Jay Okocha
Nigerian · CAM · Peak 2003
Simão Sabrosa
Portuguese · LW · Peak 2009
Darren Fletcher
Scottish · CM · Peak 2008
Ricardo Quaresma
Portuguese · RW · Peak 2009
Stéphane Henchoz
Swiss · CB · Peak 2001
Louis Saha
French · ST · Peak 2006
Mikael Silvestre
French · LB · Peak 2003
Rodrigo Taddei
Brazilian · RW · Peak 2007
Anatoliy Tymoshchuk
Ukrainian · CDM · Peak 2008
Patrick Kluivert
Dutch · ST · Peak 2000
Sulley Muntari
Ghanaian · CM · Peak 2009
Hakan Şükür
Turkish · ST · Peak 2001
Peter Crouch
English · ST · Peak 2006
William Gallas
French · CB · Peak 2008
Oliver Neuville
German · ST · Peak 2002
Giovane Élber
Brazilian · ST · Peak 2001
Pablo Aimar
Argentine · CAM · Peak 2004
Tomáš Rosický
Czech · CAM · Peak 2008
Matias Fernandez
Chilean · CAM · Peak 2009
Diego
Brazilian · CAM · Peak 2009
Hidetoshi Nakata
Japanese · CM · Peak 2000
Jay-Jay Okocha
Nigerian · CAM · Peak 2003
Julio Cruz
Argentine · ST · Peak 2002
Kolo Touré
Ivorian · CB · Peak 2004
Nwankwo Kanu
Nigerian · ST · Peak 2000
Park Ji-sung
South Korean · CM · Peak 2007
Salomon Kalou
Ivorian · LW · Peak 2009
Torsten Frings
German · CDM · Peak 2006
Emre Belözoğlu
Turkish · CM · Peak 2004
Tim Cahill
Australian · CM · Peak 2006
Wes Brown
English · CB · Peak 2008
Francesco Flachi
Italian · ST · Peak 2000
Jens Nowotny
German · CB · Peak 2002
Heiko Herrlich
German · ST · Peak 2001
Thomas Linke
German · CB · Peak 2001
Eidur Gudjohnsen
Icelandic · ST · Peak 2004
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
Dutch · ST · Peak 2009
Ludovic Giuly
French · RW · Peak 2006
Giorgos Karagounis
Greek · CM · Peak 2004
Ray Parlour
English · CM · Peak 2002
Gaizka Mendieta
Spanish · CM · Peak 2001
Nicola Amoruso
Italian · ST · Peak 2001
Nolberto Solano
Peruvian · RW · Peak 2002
Simone Inzaghi
Italian · ST · Peak 2000
Steffen Freund
German · CDM · Peak 2000
Teddy Lucic
Swedish · CB · Peak 2002
Mark Bresciano
Australian · CM · Peak 2007
Ze Roberto
Brazilian · LB · Peak 2002
Daniel Agger
Danish · CB · Peak 2009
Mahamadou Diarra
Malian · CDM · Peak 2008
Alberto Gilardino
Italian · ST · Peak 2006
Carsten Ramelow
German · CDM · Peak 2002
Gábor Király
Hungarian · GK · Peak 2005
Oleg Luzhny
Ukrainian · RB · Peak 2002
Yakubu Aiyegbeni
Nigerian · ST · Peak 2007
Karel Poborský
Czech · RM · Peak 2001
Youri Djorkaeff
French · CAM · Peak 2000
Robert Enke
German · GK · Peak 2009
Carlos Bocanegra
American · CB · Peak 2007
Paulo Ferreira
Portuguese · RB · Peak 2005
John O'Shea
Irish · CB · Peak 2008
Diego Tristán
Spanish · ST · Peak 2004
Dirk Kuyt
Dutch · ST · Peak 2009
Gerald Asamoah
German · LW · Peak 2004
Milan Baroš
Czech · ST · Peak 2004
Josip Šimunić
Croatian · CB · Peak 2006
Shaun Wright-Phillips
English · RW · Peak 2004
Vladimir Šmicer
Czech · CAM · Peak 2001
Alex
Brazilian · CM · Peak 2007
Philip Cocu
Dutch · CM · Peak 2001
Glen Johnson
English · RB · Peak 2008
Ivica Olić
Croatian · ST · Peak 2008
Juninho Pernambucano
Brazilian · CM · Peak 2006
Niko Kovač
Croatian · CM · Peak 2000
Lukas Podolski
German · LW · Peak 2007
Aaron Lennon
English · RW · Peak 2008
Angelos Charisteas
Greek · ST · Peak 2004
Matthew Upson
English · CB · Peak 2009
Karim Ziani
Algerian · CAM · Peak 2009
Ailton
Brazilian · ST · Peak 2002
Kevin Kuranyi
German · ST · Peak 2006
Sylvinho
Brazilian · LB · Peak 2006
Jan Koller
Czech · ST · Peak 2003
Shabani Nonda
Congolese · ST · Peak 2004
John Carew
Norwegian · ST · Peak 2008
Boudewijn Zenden
Dutch · LW · Peak 2003
Marcelo Gallardo
Argentine · CAM · Peak 2002
Martín Palermo
Argentine · ST · Peak 2000
Ebbe Sand
Danish · ST · Peak 2004
DaMarcus Beasley
American · LM · Peak 2006
Marc Wilmots
Belgian · CM · Peak 2000
Abel Xavier
Portuguese · RB · Peak 2001
Didier Zokora
Ivorian · CDM · Peak 2008
Steed Malbranque
French · CAM · Peak 2004
Quinton Fortune
South African · LM · Peak 2001
Sidney Govou
French · RW · Peak 2005
Dado Pršo
Croatian · ST · Peak 2004
Anderson
Brazilian · CM · Peak 2008
Serhiy Rebrov
Ukrainian · ST · Peak 2001
Andreas Ottl
German · CDM · Peak 2008
Landon Donovan
American · CAM · Peak 2002
Nuno Gomes
Portuguese · ST · Peak 2001
Alexei Smertin
Russian · CDM · Peak 2004
El Hadji Diouf
Senegalese · ST · Peak 2005
Lee Young-pyo
South Korean · LB · Peak 2004
Henrik Larsson
Swedish · ST · Peak 2001
Siaka Tiéné
Ivorian · LB · Peak 2008
Bafétimbi Gomis
French · ST · Peak 2009
John Paintsil
Ghanaian · RB · Peak 2008
Costinha
Portuguese · CDM · Peak 2004
Hugo Viana
Portuguese · CM · Peak 2003
Habib Beye
Senegalese · RB · Peak 2005
Djibril Cissé
French · ST · Peak 2003
Alexej Smertin
Russian · CDM · Peak 2002
Shunsuke Nakamura
Japanese · CAM · Peak 2006
Iván Helguera
Spanish · CB · Peak 2002
Iván Hurtado
Ecuadorian · CB · Peak 2005
Brad Davis
American · LM · Peak 2009