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The Top Ranked Soccer Forwards of the 2000s
Notes: Players are only ranked in the position they played the most during this decade.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rnk |
| 1 | Cristiano Ronaldo | 1 |
| 2 | Lionel Messi | 2 |
| 3 | Andriy Shevchenko | 3 |
| 4 | Ronaldo | 6 |
| 5 | Michael Owen | 7 |
| 6 | Thierry Henry | 9 |
| 7 | Raul | 13 |
| 8 | Fernando Torres | 20 |
| 9 | Francesco Totti | 25 |
| 10 | Samuel Eto'o | 26 |
| 11 | Didier Drogba | 28 |
| 12 | Ruud van Nistelrooy | 29 |
| 13 | Zlatan Ibrahimovic | 30 |
| 14 | Wayne Rooney | 31 |
| 15 | David Trezeguet | 33 |
| 16 | David Villa | 35 |
| 17 | Patrick Kluivert | 41 |
| 18 | Miroslav Klose | 43 |
| 19 | Luca Toni | 45 |
| 20 | Henrik Larsson | 48 |
| 21 | Pauleta | 49 |
| 22 | Alessandro Del Piero | 51 |
| 23 | Filippo Inzaghi | 52 |
| 24 | Christian Vieri | 59 |
| 25 | Hernan Crespo | 60 |
| 26 | Adriano | 63 |
| 27 | Diego Forlan | 66 |
| 28 | Gabriel Batistuta | 67 |
| 29 | Hasan Sas | 68 |
| 30 | Sylvain Wiltord | 78 |
| 31 | Edison Mendez | 83 |
| 32 | Ki-Hyeon Seol | 86 |
| 33 | Agustin Delgado | 87 |
| 34 | Jung-Hwan Ahn | 88 |
| 35 | Nelson Cuevas | 89 |
| 36 | Paulo Wanchope | 90 |
| 37 | Ronald Gomez | 91 |
| 38 | Oliver Neuville | 92 |
| 39 | Roy Makaay | 94 |
| 40 | Djibril Cisse | 96 |
| 41 | Robinho | 103 |
| 42 | El Hadji Diouf | 105 |
| 43 | Jon Dahl Tomasson | 107 |
| 44 | Fernando Morientes | 108 |
| 45 | Lukas Podolski | 109 |
| 46 | Marc Wilmots | 110 |
| 47 | Carlos Tevez | 117 |
| 48 | Emmanuel Olisadebe | 119 |
| 49 | Hakan Sukur | 121 |
| 50 | Harry Kewell | 122 |
| 51 | Jan Koller | 123 |
| 52 | Javier Saviola | 124 |
| 53 | Robin van Persie | 126 |
| 54 | Brian McBride | 138 |
| 55 | Carlos Tenorio | 139 |
| 56 | Jared Borgetti | 140 |
| 57 | Landon Donovan | 141 |
| 58 | Chun-Soo Lee | 147 |
| 59 | Ivan Kaviedes | 150 |
| 60 | Ivica Olic | 151 |
| 61 | Marcus Allback | 153 |
| 62 | Nuno Gomes | 156 |
| 63 | Roque Santa Cruz | 160 |
| 64 | Sami Al-Jaber | 161 |
| 65 | Ziad Jaziri | 165 |
| 66 | Giovane Elber | 170 |
| 67 | Karim Benzema | 171 |
| 68 | Robert Pires | 173 |
| 69 | Sonny Anderson | 174 |
| 70 | Claudio Lopez | 177 |
| 71 | Ebbe Sand | 179 |
| 72 | Emmanuel Adebayor | 180 |
| 73 | Milan Baros | 194 |
| 74 | Nihat Kahveci | 195 |
| 75 | Ilhan Mansiz | 211 |
| 76 | Robbie Keane | 214 |
| 77 | Alexander Frei | 215 |
| 78 | Aruna Dindane | 216 |
| 79 | Henri Camara | 219 |
| 80 | Omar Bravo | 220 |
| 81 | Alberto Gilardino | 223 |
| 82 | Asamoah Gyan | 229 |
| 83 | Bakari Kone | 230 |
| 84 | Benni McCarthy | 231 |
| 85 | Bonaventure Kalou | 233 |
| 86 | Carsten Jancker | 236 |
| 87 | Clint Mathis | 238 |
| 88 | Cuauhtemoc Blanco | 240 |
| 89 | Dmitri Sychev | 245 |
| 90 | Emile Heskey | 246 |
| 91 | Flavio Amado | 251 |
| 92 | Francisco Fonseca | 253 |
| 93 | Fred Chaves | 254 |
| 94 | John Aloisi | 262 |
| 95 | Julius Aghahowa | 266 |
| 96 | Keiji Tamada | 268 |
| 97 | Marcin Zewlakow | 272 |
| 98 | Milenko Acimovic | 277 |
| 99 | Mohamed Kader | 278 |
| 100 | Nikola Zigic | 279 |
| 101 | Oliver Bierhoff | 280 |
| 102 | Patrick M'Boma | 283 |
| 103 | Pawel Kryszalowicz | 284 |
| 104 | Peter Crouch | 285 |
| 105 | Richard Morales | 292 |
| 106 | Sebastjan Cimirotic | 297 |
| 107 | Serhiy Rebrov | 298 |
| 108 | Simao Sabrosa | 301 |
| 109 | Siyabonga Nomvethe | 303 |
| 110 | Sun-Hong Hwang | 307 |
| 111 | Takayuki Suzuki | 308 |
| 112 | Vincenzo Iaquinta | 316 |
| 113 | Vladimir Beschastnykh | 318 |
| 114 | Wesley Sonck | 319 |
| 115 | Winston Parks | 320 |
| 116 | Yasser Al-Qahtani | 323 |
| 117 | Atsushi Yanagisawa | 332 |
| 118 | Bosko Balaban | 333 |
| 119 | Gerald Asamoah | 349 |
| 120 | Jesus Arellano | 361 |
| 121 | Josh Wolff | 364 |
| 122 | Maciej Zurawski | 375 |
| 123 | Ailton Goncalves | 414 |
| 124 | Angelos Charisteas | 415 |
| 125 | Darko Kovacevic | 419 |
| 126 | Dimitar Berbatov | 420 |
| 127 | Edin Dzeko | 422 |
| 128 | Frederic Kanoute | 424 |
| 129 | Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink | 426 |
| 130 | Luis Fabiano | 428 |
| 131 | Mario Jardel | 430 |
| 132 | Mista | 432 |
| 133 | Pierre van Hooijdonk | 434 |
| 134 | Roberto Baggio | 436 |
| 135 | Sergio Aguero | 437 |
| 136 | Younis Mahmoud | 444 |
| 137 | Abdullah Al-Jumaan | 450 |
| 138 | Adel Sellimi | 459 |
| 139 | Affo Erassa | 460 |
| 140 | Akinori Nishizawa | 463 |
| 141 | Akwa | 465 |
| 142 | Al Hasan Al-Yami | 466 |
| 143 | Albert Luque | 472 |
| 144 | Aleksandr Kerzhakov | 479 |
| 145 | Alen Boksic | 481 |
| 146 | Alex Tachie-Mensah | 484 |
| 147 | Ali Daei | 487 |
| 148 | Ali Zitouni | 489 |
| 149 | Alvaro Saborio | 492 |
| 150 | Amara Traore | 493 |
| 151 | Andreas Andersson | 504 |
| 152 | Andriy Vorobey | 512 |
| 153 | Andriy Voronin | 513 |
| 154 | Angel Fernandez | 514 |
| 155 | Arash Borhani | 525 |
| 156 | Archie Thompson | 526 |
| 157 | Arif Erdem | 528 |
| 158 | Arouna Kone | 533 |
| 159 | Artem Milevskyi | 534 |
| 160 | Bartholomew Ogbeche | 543 |
| 161 | Benedict Akwuegbu | 545 |
| 162 | Branko Strupar | 556 |
| 163 | Brian Ching | 560 |
| 164 | Cezary Kucharski | 576 |
| 165 | Chaouki Ben Saada | 577 |
| 166 | Christian Benitez | 582 |
| 167 | Christophe Dugarry | 590 |
| 168 | Chu-Young Park | 591 |
| 169 | Claudio Caniggia | 593 |
| 170 | Clinton Morrison | 599 |
| 171 | Collin Samuel | 601 |
| 172 | Cornell Glen | 602 |
| 173 | Dado Prso | 612 |
| 174 | Daniel Gygax | 615 |
| 175 | Danijel Ljuboja | 624 |
| 176 | Dante Lopez | 628 |
| 177 | Dario Silva | 630 |
| 178 | Darius Vassell | 631 |
| 179 | David Connolly | 634 |
| 180 | Davor Suker | 641 |
| 181 | Davor Vugrinec | 642 |
| 182 | Denilson de Oliveira | 648 |
| 183 | Diego Tristan | 658 |
| 184 | Dirk Kuyt | 660 |
| 185 | Du-Ri Cha | 670 |
| 186 | Dwight Yorke | 673 |
| 187 | Eddie Johnson | 677 |
| 188 | Edilson Silva | 679 |
| 189 | Euzebiusz Smolarek | 699 |
| 190 | Federico Magallanes | 707 |
| 191 | Felix Borja | 708 |
| 192 | Francileudo Santos | 716 |
| 193 | Francisco Palencia | 719 |
| 194 | George Koumantarakis | 739 |
| 195 | Gert Verheyen | 745 |
| 196 | Goran Vlaovic | 755 |
| 197 | Grzegorz Rasiak | 756 |
| 198 | Guillermo Franco | 758 |
| 199 | Gustavo Varela | 764 |
| 200 | Hao Haidong | 777 |
| 201 | Haykel Guemamdia | 781 |
| 202 | Helder Postiga | 783 |
| 203 | Imed Mhedhebi | 799 |
| 204 | Ireneusz Jelen | 800 |
| 205 | Ivan Bosnjak | 803 |
| 206 | Ivan Klasnic | 805 |
| 207 | Jae-Jin Cho | 813 |
| 208 | Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink | 820 |
| 209 | Jason Scotland | 825 |
| 210 | Javad Kazemian | 826 |
| 211 | Jiri Stajner | 847 |
| 212 | Joao Pinto | 848 |
| 213 | Joe-Max Moore | 851 |
| 214 | Johan Elmander | 854 |
| 215 | Jorge Luis Campos | 868 |
| 216 | Jose Cardozo | 872 |
| 217 | Joseph-Desire Job | 884 |
| 218 | Joshua Kennedy | 885 |
| 219 | Julio Cruz | 894 |
| 220 | Kenwyne Jones | 912 |
| 221 | Kurt Bernard | 926 |
| 222 | Kyung-Ho Chung | 927 |
| 223 | Louis Saha | 943 |
| 224 | Love Cabungula | 944 |
| 225 | Luis Boa Morte | 951 |
| 226 | Luis Hernandez | 955 |
| 227 | Luizao Bombonato | 958 |
| 228 | Malek Mouath | 971 |
| 229 | Mano Torres | 972 |
| 230 | Marco Delvecchio | 983 |
| 231 | Marco Streller | 984 |
| 232 | Marek Heinz | 988 |
| 233 | Mark Viduka | 1005 |
| 234 | Markus Rosenberg | 1009 |
| 235 | Masashi Nakayama | 1015 |
| 236 | Masashi Oguro | 1016 |
| 237 | Mateja Kezman | 1020 |
| 238 | Mateus Galiano | 1021 |
| 239 | Matthew Amoah | 1023 |
| 240 | Mauro Lustrinelli | 1025 |
| 241 | Mbo Mpenza | 1026 |
| 242 | Mike Hanke | 1040 |
| 243 | Milan Osterc | 1042 |
| 244 | Mladen Rudonja | 1051 |
| 245 | Moustapha Salifou | 1064 |
| 246 | Naohiro Takahara | 1069 |
| 247 | Nelson Valdez | 1074 |
| 248 | Niall Quinn | 1076 |
| 249 | Nicolas Asencio | 1081 |
| 250 | Nicolas Olivera | 1083 |
| 251 | Nwankwo Kanu | 1088 |
| 252 | Obeid Al-Dosari | 1089 |
| 253 | Oleksiy Byelik | 1096 |
| 254 | Otto Addo | 1103 |
| 255 | Pape Thiaw | 1112 |
| 256 | Patrick Suffo | 1116 |
| 257 | Pawel Brozek | 1127 |
| 258 | Peter Lovenkrands | 1135 |
| 259 | Peter Madsen | 1136 |
| 260 | Pius N'Diefi | 1147 |
| 261 | Qu Bo | 1151 |
| 262 | Rasoul Khatibi | 1162 |
| 263 | Razak Pimpong | 1165 |
| 264 | Reza Enayati | 1167 |
| 265 | Riadh Jelassi | 1168 |
| 266 | Richart Baez | 1174 |
| 267 | Robbie Fowler | 1177 |
| 268 | Robert Malm | 1180 |
| 269 | Rodrigo Palacio | 1184 |
| 270 | Rolando Fonseca | 1185 |
| 271 | Ruslan Pimenov | 1188 |
| 272 | Ryan Babel | 1191 |
| 273 | Saad Al-Harthi | 1193 |
| 274 | Salvador Cabanas | 1195 |
| 275 | Savo Milosevic | 1201 |
| 276 | Sebastian Abreu | 1204 |
| 277 | Seiichiro Maki | 1207 |
| 278 | Senad Tiganj | 1209 |
| 279 | Sidney Govou | 1217 |
| 280 | Souleymane Camara | 1222 |
| 281 | Stern John | 1227 |
| 282 | Steven Bryce | 1230 |
| 283 | Su Maozhen | 1236 |
| 284 | Tae-Uk Choi | 1241 |
| 285 | Teddy Sheringham | 1246 |
| 286 | Theo Walcott | 1250 |
| 287 | Titi Buengo | 1261 |
| 288 | Vahid Hashemian | 1279 |
| 289 | Victor Nunez | 1283 |
| 290 | Vincenzo Montella | 1287 |
| 291 | Vratislav Lokvenc | 1292 |
| 292 | William Sunsing | 1301 |
| 293 | Yang Chen | 1307 |
| 294 | Yong-Soo Choi | 1315 |
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