Centre-Back
137 CB players ranked by peak rating.
Franco Baresi
Italian · Peak 1990 · b. 1960
Alessandro Nesta
Italian · Peak 2006 · b. 1976
Fabio Cannavaro
Italian · Peak 2006 · b. 1973
Paolo Maldini
Italian · Peak 1994 · b. 1968
Fernando Couto
Portuguese · Peak 2000 · b. 1969
Sergio Ramos
Spanish · Peak 2017 · b. 1986
Giuseppe Bergomi
Italian · Peak 1990 · b. 1963
Sinisa Mihajlovic
Serbian · Peak 2000 · b. 1969
Pietro Vierchowod
Italian · Peak 1990 · b. 1959
Virgil van Dijk
Dutch · Peak 2019 · b. 1991
Carlos Puyol
Spanish · Peak 2010 · b. 1978
John Terry
English · Peak 2009 · b. 1980
Raphaël Varane
French · Peak 2018 · b. 1993
Giorgio Chiellini
Italian · Peak 2013 · b. 1984
Ruud Krol
Dutch · Peak 1974 · b. 1949
Walter Samuel
Argentine · Peak 2007 · b. 1978
Leonardo Bonucci
Italian · Peak 2016 · b. 1987
Aldair
Brazilian · Peak 1994 · b. 1965
Alessandro Costacurta
Italian · Peak 1990 · b. 1966
Ciro Ferrara
Italian · Peak 1997 · b. 1967
Fernando Hierro
Spanish · Peak 1998 · b. 1968
Sol Campbell
English · Peak 2004 · b. 1974
Ronald Koeman
Dutch · Peak 1992 · b. 1963
Jürgen Kohler
German · Peak 1993 · b. 1965
Hierro
Spanish · Peak 2000 · b. 1968
Sanchís
Spanish · Peak 1994 · b. 1965
Marcel Desailly
French · Peak 1995 · b. 1968
Claudio Gentile
Italian · Peak 1985 · b. 1953
Gaetano Scirea
Italian · Peak 1986 · b. 1953
Steve Bruce
English · Peak 1993 · b. 1960
Marco Materazzi
Italian · Peak 2006 · b. 1973
Kalidou Koulibaly
Senegalese · Peak 2018 · b. 1991
Alessandro Bastoni
Italian · Peak 2023 · b. 1999
Lilian Thuram
French · Peak 2003 · b. 1972
Pepe
Portuguese · Peak 2012 · b. 1983
Thiago Silva
Brazilian · Peak 2011 · b. 1984
Vincent Kompany
Belgian · Peak 2012 · b. 1986
Jaap Stam
Dutch · Peak 1999 · b. 1972
Nicola Legrottaglie
Italian · Peak 2010 · b. 1976
Aymeric Laporte
Spanish · Peak 2020 · b. 1994
Roque Junior
Brazilian · Peak 2002 · b. 1976
Simon Kjær
Danish · Peak 2021 · b. 1989
Kim Min-jae
South Korean · Peak 2022 · b. 1996
Laurent Blanc
French · Peak 1998 · b. 1965
Nemanja Vidić
Serbian · Peak 2009 · b. 1981
Gary Pallister
English · Peak 1993 · b. 1965
Kakha Kaladze
Georgian · Peak 2003 · b. 1978
Sami Hyypiä
Finnish · Peak 2005 · b. 1973
Jamie Carragher
English · Peak 2007 · b. 1978
William Saliba
French · Peak 2025 · b. 2001
Dario Šimić
Croatian · Peak 2005 · b. 1975
Rio Ferdinand
English · Peak 2008 · b. 1978
Carles Puyol
Spanish · Peak 2010 · b. 1978
Gerard Piqué
Spanish · Peak 2011 · b. 1987
Tony Adams
English · Peak 1993 · b. 1966
Lúcio
Brazilian · Peak 2010 · b. 1978
Toby Alderweireld
Belgian · Peak 2018 · b. 1989
Javier Mascherano
Argentine · Peak 2013 · b. 1984
Matthias Sammer
German · Peak 1996 · b. 1967
Martin Keown
English · Peak 2002 · b. 1966
Francesco Acerbi
Italian · Peak 2020 · b. 1988
Matthijs de Ligt
Dutch · Peak 2020 · b. 1999
Rúben Dias
Portuguese · Peak 2023 · b. 1997
Steve Bould
English · Peak 1993 · b. 1962
Per Mertesacker
German · Peak 2014 · b. 1984
Ricardo Carvalho
Portuguese · Peak 2006 · b. 1978
Gary Cahill
English · Peak 2015 · b. 1985
Samuel Kuffour
Ghanaian · Peak 2001 · b. 1976
Mark Iuliano
Italian · Peak 1998 · b. 1973
Jérôme Boateng
German · Peak 2014 · b. 1988
Joel Matip
Cameroonian · Peak 2019 · b. 1991
Mats Hummels
German · Peak 2014 · b. 1988
Eric Abidal
French · Peak 2009 · b. 1979
Jan Vertonghen
Belgian · Peak 2016 · b. 1987
Joleon Lescott
English · Peak 2012 · b. 1982
Steve Staunton
Irish · Peak 1994 · b. 1969
Andreas Christensen
Danish · Peak 2021 · b. 1996
Fikayo Tomori
English · Peak 2022 · b. 1997
Branislav Ivanović
Serbian · Peak 2014 · b. 1984
Laurent Koscielny
French · Peak 2014 · b. 1985
Stéphane Henchoz
Swiss · Peak 2001 · b. 1974
Mikael Silvestre
French · Peak 2003 · b. 1977
Thomas Vermaelen
Belgian · Peak 2010 · b. 1985
Samuel Umtiti
French · Peak 2017 · b. 1993
William Gallas
French · Peak 2008 · b. 1977
Goikoetxea
Spanish · Peak 1982 · b. 1956
Mauricio Pochettino
Argentine · Peak 1998 · b. 1972
Kolo Touré
Ivorian · Peak 2004 · b. 1981
Nicolás Otamendi
Argentine · Peak 2017 · b. 1988
David Alaba
Austrian · Peak 2015 · b. 1992
Wes Brown
English · Peak 2008 · b. 1979
Dante
Brazilian · Peak 2013 · b. 1983
Dejan Lovren
Croatian · Peak 2018 · b. 1989
Jens Nowotny
German · Peak 2002 · b. 1974
Marquinhos
Brazilian · Peak 2012 · b. 1994
Thomas Linke
German · Peak 2001 · b. 1969
Ronny Johnsen
Norwegian · Peak 1998 · b. 1969
Adil Rami
French · Peak 2013 · b. 1985
Gabriel Magalhães
Brazilian · Peak 2023 · b. 1997
Stefan Savić
Montenegrin · Peak 2014 · b. 1991
Teddy Lucic
Swedish · Peak 2002 · b. 1973
Daniel Agger
Danish · Peak 2009 · b. 1984
Nacho
Spanish · Peak 2017 · b. 1990
Benjamin Pavard
French · Peak 2025 · b. 1996
Dayot Upamecano
French · Peak 2023 · b. 1998
Carlos Bocanegra
American · Peak 2007 · b. 1979
Daniel van Buyten
Belgian · Peak 2010 · b. 1978
John O'Shea
Irish · Peak 2008 · b. 1981
Niklas Süle
German · Peak 2020 · b. 1995
Josip Šimunić
Croatian · Peak 2006 · b. 1978
Franz Beckenbauer
German · Peak 1974 · b. 1945
Bobby Moore
English · Peak 1966 · b. 1941
Karl-Heinz Förster
German · Peak 1982 · b. 1958
David O'Leary
Irish · Peak 1983 · b. 1958
Holger Badstuber
German · Peak 2012 · b. 1989
Danny Blind
Dutch · Peak 1995 · b. 1961
Frank de Boer
Dutch · Peak 1995 · b. 1970
Presnel Kimpembe
French · Peak 2020 · b. 1995
Chris Coleman
Welsh · Peak 1994 · b. 1970
Gary Medel
Chilean · Peak 2015 · b. 1987
Matthew Upson
English · Peak 2009 · b. 1979
Berti Vogts
German · Peak 1972 · b. 1946
Pau Torres
Spanish · Peak 2025 · b. 1997
Óscar Ruggeri
Argentine · Peak 1986 · b. 1962
Victor Lindelöf
Swedish · Peak 2019 · b. 1994
Philippe Albert
Belgian · Peak 1996 · b. 1967
Éder Militão
Brazilian · Peak 2025 · b. 1998
Mamadou Sakho
French · Peak 2012 · b. 1990
Gilles Grimandi
French · Peak 1998 · b. 1970
Antoine Kombouaré
French · Peak 1992 · b. 1963
Miodrag Belodedici
Romanian · Peak 1994 · b. 1964
Billy McNeill
Scottish · Peak 1966 · b. 1940
Alan Hansen
Scottish · Peak 1984 · b. 1955
Iván Helguera
Spanish · Peak 2002 · b. 1975
Nacho Fernández
Spanish · Peak 2016 · b. 1990
Ion Oblemenco
Romanian · Peak 1971 · b. 1945
Iván Hurtado
Ecuadorian · Peak 2005 · b. 1974