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The Top Ranked Soccer Forwards of the 1970s
Notes: Players are only ranked in the position they played the most during this decade.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rnk |
| 1 | Johan Cruyff | 1 |
| 2 | Kevin Keegan | 3 |
| 3 | Gerd Muller | 4 |
| 4 | Allan Simonsen | 5 |
| 5 | Rob Rensenbrink | 6 |
| 6 | Hristo Bonev | 15 |
| 7 | Dragan Dzajic | 17 |
| 8 | Roberto Bettega | 23 |
| 9 | Hans Krankl | 24 |
| 10 | Grzegorz Lato | 25 |
| 11 | Ralf Edstrom | 27 |
| 12 | Paolo Rossi | 30 |
| 13 | Mario Kempes | 33 |
| 14 | Pele | 34 |
| 15 | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | 35 |
| 16 | Dieter Muller | 37 |
| 17 | Kenny Dalglish | 41 |
| 18 | Uli Hoeness | 46 |
| 19 | Jairzinho | 49 |
| 20 | Johnny Rep | 50 |
| 21 | Jurgen Grabowski | 58 |
| 22 | Andrzej Szarmach | 62 |
| 23 | Joe Jordan | 64 |
| 24 | Oleg Blokhin | 66 |
| 25 | Alessandro Mazzola | 67 |
| 26 | Dudu Georgescu | 68 |
| 27 | Eusebio | 69 |
| 28 | Hans-Jurgen Kreische | 75 |
| 29 | Jupp Heynckes | 77 |
| 30 | Piet Keizer | 78 |
| 31 | Tibor Nyilasi | 81 |
| 32 | Wlodzimierz Lubanski | 82 |
| 33 | Uwe Seeler | 84 |
| 34 | Florea Dumitrache | 86 |
| 35 | Joachim Streich | 87 |
| 36 | Roland Sandberg | 88 |
| 37 | Angelo Domenghini | 90 |
| 38 | Geoff Hurst | 92 |
| 39 | Peter Lorimer | 95 |
| 40 | Walter Schachner | 97 |
| 41 | Roberto Boninsegna | 106 |
| 42 | Luis Cubilla | 113 |
| 43 | Josip Skoblar | 120 |
| 44 | Marian Masny | 121 |
| 45 | Zdenek Nehoda | 126 |
| 46 | Luigi Riva | 127 |
| 47 | Andras Torocsik | 129 |
| 48 | Benny Wendt | 131 |
| 49 | Denis Law | 135 |
| 50 | Francis Lee | 138 |
| 51 | Giorgio Chinaglia | 140 |
| 52 | Klaus Fischer | 144 |
| 53 | Paul Van Himst | 147 |
| 54 | Robert Gadocha | 149 |
| 55 | Santillana | 150 |
| 56 | Anatoliy Byshovets | 154 |
| 57 | Leopoldo Luque | 155 |
| 58 | Dusan Bajevic | 156 |
| 59 | Roberto Dinamite | 158 |
| 60 | Daniel Bertoni | 161 |
| 61 | Emmanuel Sanon | 163 |
| 62 | Hector Yazalde | 166 |
| 63 | Ivica Surjak | 167 |
| 64 | Javier Valdivia | 168 |
| 65 | Ladislav Petras | 169 |
| 66 | Raoul Lambert | 171 |
| 67 | Stanislav Karasi | 172 |
| 68 | Tostao | 173 |
| 69 | Alexandru Neagu | 175 |
| 70 | Allan Clarke | 177 |
| 71 | Andras Toth | 178 |
| 72 | Bernard Lacombe | 180 |
| 73 | Dani Ruiz-Bazan | 186 |
| 74 | Dick Nanninga | 187 |
| 75 | Hassan Rowshan | 195 |
| 76 | Houmane Jarir | 197 |
| 77 | Ilija Petkovic | 199 |
| 78 | Javier Fragoso | 202 |
| 79 | Marc Berdoll | 213 |
| 80 | Martin Hoffmann | 214 |
| 81 | Mordechai Spiegler | 219 |
| 82 | Pietro Anastasi | 221 |
| 83 | Reinaldo de Lima | 223 |
| 84 | Reinhard Libuda | 224 |
| 85 | Ruben Ayala | 228 |
| 86 | Rudiger Abramczik | 229 |
| 87 | Sergio Ahumada | 232 |
| 88 | Thomas Sjoberg | 234 |
| 89 | Tom Turesson | 236 |
| 90 | Valdomiro Vaz | 237 |
| 91 | Victor Rangel | 238 |
| 92 | Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi | 239 |
| 93 | Bozhidar Grigorov | 244 |
| 94 | Edu Americo | 247 |
| 95 | Gigi Riva | 248 |
| 96 | Hugo Sotil | 254 |
| 97 | Inge Ejderstedt | 255 |
| 98 | Marek Kusto | 259 |
| 99 | Paolo Pulici | 263 |
| 100 | Ali Kemal Denizci | 281 |
| 101 | Antal Dunai | 283 |
| 102 | Don Givens | 287 |
| 103 | Ferenc Bene | 288 |
| 104 | Franny Lee | 290 |
| 105 | Jose Altafini | 297 |
| 106 | Kees Kist | 298 |
| 107 | Martin Chivers | 301 |
| 108 | Tony Woodcock | 307 |
| 109 | Trevor Francis | 308 |
| 110 | Aaron Padilla | 311 |
| 111 | Abderraouf Ben Aziza | 315 |
| 112 | Adrian Alston | 322 |
| 113 | Agustin Balbuena | 324 |
| 114 | Ahmed Alaoui | 325 |
| 115 | Ahmed Faras | 326 |
| 116 | Alberto Gomez (1944) | 329 |
| 117 | Aldo Poy | 333 |
| 118 | Anatoliy Puzach | 351 |
| 119 | Andrej Kvasnak | 353 |
| 120 | Andrzej Iwan | 355 |
| 121 | Atanas Mihaylov | 369 |
| 122 | Attila Abonyi | 370 |
| 123 | Behtash Fariba | 374 |
| 124 | Bela Varady | 375 |
| 125 | Branko Buljevic | 387 |
| 126 | Carlos Caszely | 393 |
| 127 | Cesar Maluco | 398 |
| 128 | Christian Dalger | 400 |
| 129 | Claude Barthelemy | 401 |
| 130 | Cristobal Ortega | 408 |
| 131 | Dada Maravilha | 409 |
| 132 | Danilo Popivoda | 414 |
| 133 | David Cabrera | 418 |
| 134 | Denis Milar | 422 |
| 135 | Derek Johnstone | 423 |
| 136 | Dieter Herzog | 426 |
| 137 | Dimitar Marashliev | 427 |
| 138 | Dimitar Yakimov | 428 |
| 139 | Eberhard Vogel | 436 |
| 140 | Eladio Reyes | 443 |
| 141 | Eli Ben Rimoz | 444 |
| 142 | Elmer Acevedo | 445 |
| 143 | Enrique Borja | 447 |
| 144 | Ernesto Aparicio | 456 |
| 145 | Fernando Morena | 470 |
| 146 | Flavius Domide | 471 |
| 147 | Francesco Graziani | 472 |
| 148 | Frans Janssens | 482 |
| 149 | Franz Oberacher | 484 |
| 150 | Fritz Leandre | 486 |
| 151 | Garry Manuel | 488 |
| 152 | Gennady Yevriuzhikin | 491 |
| 153 | Georgi Popov | 497 |
| 154 | Ghafour Jahani | 504 |
| 155 | Gil | 508 |
| 156 | Giora Spiegel | 509 |
| 157 | Givi Nodia | 514 |
| 158 | Guillermo La Rosa | 519 |
| 159 | Guillermo Yavar | 522 |
| 160 | Guy Saint-Vil | 527 |
| 161 | Hamid Majd Teymouri | 531 |
| 162 | Hannes Lohr | 532 |
| 163 | Hans Pirkner | 533 |
| 164 | Harry Lubse | 537 |
| 165 | Helmut Haller | 546 |
| 166 | Herbert Zimmermann | 554 |
| 167 | Horacio Lopez Salgado | 556 |
| 168 | Hossein Faraki | 557 |
| 169 | Hugo Rodriguez | 561 |
| 170 | Hugo Sanchez | 562 |
| 171 | Isidoro Diaz | 566 |
| 172 | Jaime Portillo | 583 |
| 173 | Jan Capkovic | 585 |
| 174 | Jan Domarski | 586 |
| 175 | Jean Kalala N'Tumba | 600 |
| 176 | Jeff Astle | 607 |
| 177 | Joe Harper | 619 |
| 178 | Johan Devrindt | 622 |
| 179 | John Robertson (1953) | 624 |
| 180 | Jorge Mendonca | 628 |
| 181 | Jose del Castillo | 635 |
| 182 | Jose Gomez (1949) | 638 |
| 183 | Jozef Adamec | 648 |
| 184 | Juan Carlos Oblitas | 652 |
| 185 | Juan Munante | 655 |
| 186 | Juan Silva | 659 |
| 187 | Juanito Gomez | 660 |
| 188 | Julio Losada | 665 |
| 189 | Julio Morales | 666 |
| 190 | Kakoko Etepe | 673 |
| 191 | Karol Jokl | 678 |
| 192 | Kazimierz Kmiecik | 680 |
| 193 | Kiril Milanov | 692 |
| 194 | Krasimir Borisov | 696 |
| 195 | Laszlo Fazekas | 704 |
| 196 | Laszlo Pusztai | 707 |
| 197 | Leonardo Veliz | 715 |
| 198 | Lou Macari | 723 |
| 199 | Majid Bishkar | 735 |
| 200 | Maranon | 740 |
| 201 | Marin Tufan | 744 |
| 202 | Mario Medina | 750 |
| 203 | Mario Monge | 751 |
| 204 | Mavuba Mafuila | 757 |
| 205 | Mayanga Maku | 761 |
| 206 | Mbungu Ekofa | 762 |
| 207 | Milan Albrecht | 769 |
| 208 | Mirandinha da Silva | 771 |
| 209 | Mircea Lucescu | 772 |
| 210 | Mohamed Akid | 777 |
| 211 | Mohamed Ben Moussa | 778 |
| 212 | Mohammed El Filali | 780 |
| 213 | Mokhtar Hasni | 784 |
| 214 | Nasser Nouraei | 793 |
| 215 | Nejib Limam | 796 |
| 216 | Nicolae Dobrin | 798 |
| 217 | Ohman Chehaibi | 810 |
| 218 | Olivier Rouyer | 811 |
| 219 | Oscar Ortiz | 817 |
| 220 | Oscar Zubia | 818 |
| 221 | Osvaldo Castro | 820 |
| 222 | Oswaldo Ramirez | 821 |
| 223 | Pavel Panov | 830 |
| 224 | Pedro Pablo Leon | 832 |
| 225 | Petar Zhekov | 835 |
| 226 | Peter Ducke | 839 |
| 227 | Peter Osgood | 841 |
| 228 | Pierino Prati | 846 |
| 229 | Pierre Carteus | 849 |
| 230 | Quini | 853 |
| 231 | Rachamim Talbi | 854 |
| 232 | Raul Isiordia | 861 |
| 233 | Roberto | 873 |
| 234 | Roberto Mosquera | 875 |
| 235 | Roger Saint-Vil | 885 |
| 236 | Roman Jakobczak | 890 |
| 237 | Ronald Worm | 893 |
| 238 | Ruben Bareno | 897 |
| 239 | Ruben Cano | 898 |
| 240 | Ruben Corbo | 899 |
| 241 | Salvador Cabezas | 909 |
| 242 | Sanny Aslund | 913 |
| 243 | Sergio Gori | 918 |
| 244 | Sigfried Held | 923 |
| 245 | Slah Karoui | 924 |
| 246 | Slava Metreveli | 925 |
| 247 | Temime Lahzami | 934 |
| 248 | Tomas Nordahl | 939 |
| 249 | Torbjorn Nilsson | 946 |
| 250 | Valeriy Porkujan | 952 |
| 251 | Voyn Voynov | 962 |
| 252 | Wilfried Puis | 967 |
| 253 | Wilhelm Kreuz | 968 |
| 254 | Willie Morgan | 971 |
| 255 | Wlodzimierz Mazur | 974 |
| 256 | Wolfram Lowe | 980 |
| 257 | Yechezekel Chazom | 982 |
| 258 | Yehoshua Feigenbaum | 984 |
| 259 | Zdzislaw Kapka | 989 |
| 260 | Ze Sergio Presti | 991 |
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