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The Top Ranked Midfielders of the 1950s
Notes: Players are only ranked in the position they played the most during this decade.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rnk |
| 1 | Raymond Kopa | 1 |
| 2 | Billy Wright | 8 |
| 3 | Jozsef Bozsik | 12 |
| 4 | Horst Szymaniak | 14 |
| 5 | Danny Blanchflower | 15 |
| 6 | Kurt Hamrin | 16 |
| 7 | Nils Liedholm | 18 |
| 8 | Gunnar Gren | 20 |
| 9 | Nandor Hidegkuti | 25 |
| 10 | Didi Pereira | 26 |
| 11 | Fritz Walter | 28 |
| 12 | Obdulio Varela | 32 |
| 13 | Alcides Ghiggia | 50 |
| 14 | Zoltan Czibor | 54 |
| 15 | Jair Rosa Pinto | 57 |
| 16 | Bauer | 62 |
| 17 | Karl Koller | 77 |
| 18 | Duncan Edwards | 84 |
| 19 | Luisito Suarez | 86 |
| 20 | Igor Netto | 89 |
| 21 | Erich Probst | 100 |
| 22 | Oreste Corbatta | 119 |
| 23 | Stig Sundqvist | 120 |
| 24 | Sune Andersson | 146 |
| 25 | Alfred Pfaff | 150 |
| 26 | Fulvio Nesti | 168 |
| 27 | Hector Ortiz | 174 |
| 28 | Zdravko Rajkov | 207 |
| 29 | Armand Penverne | 210 |
| 30 | Doug Cowie | 217 |
| 31 | Ely | 218 |
| 32 | Ferenc Szojka | 221 |
| 33 | Giacomo Mari | 226 |
| 34 | Horst Eckel | 230 |
| 35 | Jan Hertl | 232 |
| 36 | Jean-Jacques Marcel | 233 |
| 37 | Jimmy Dickinson | 234 |
| 38 | Karl Stotz | 237 |
| 39 | Laszlo Budai | 239 |
| 40 | Mario Ochoa | 241 |
| 41 | Oliver Eggimann | 243 |
| 42 | Omero Tognon | 244 |
| 43 | Raul Cardenas | 246 |
| 44 | Svatopluk Pluskal | 250 |
| 45 | Walter Kollmann | 256 |
| 46 | Zlatko Cajkovski | 261 |
| 47 | Janos Gorocs | 267 |
| 48 | Kees Rijvers | 269 |
| 49 | Miguel Montuori | 271 |
| 50 | Stefan Bozhkov | 273 |
| 51 | Abdelaziz Ben Tifour | 275 |
| 52 | Abderrahmane Mahjoub | 276 |
| 53 | Adolf Scherer | 279 |
| 54 | Aki Schmidt | 286 |
| 55 | Albert Quixall | 289 |
| 56 | Alberto Aparicio | 291 |
| 57 | Aleksandar Atanackovic | 294 |
| 58 | Alfonso Silva | 303 |
| 59 | Alfred Teinitzer | 306 |
| 60 | Alfredo Hernandez | 307 |
| 61 | Alfredo Noronha | 308 |
| 62 | Allenby Chilton | 315 |
| 63 | Antal Kotasz | 324 |
| 64 | Antoine Cuissard | 325 |
| 65 | Anton Moravcik | 328 |
| 66 | Antonio Flores | 330 |
| 67 | Antonio Puchades | 332 |
| 68 | Antonio Valencia | 333 |
| 69 | Armando Gonzalez | 336 |
| 70 | Augusto Magli | 343 |
| 71 | Bela Palfi | 346 |
| 72 | Bengt Berndtsson | 348 |
| 73 | Bernard Chiarelli | 351 |
| 74 | Bertie Peacock | 352 |
| 75 | Bigode | 353 |
| 76 | Bill McGarry | 356 |
| 77 | Bill Nicholson | 357 |
| 78 | Bill Slater | 358 |
| 79 | Carlo Parola | 379 |
| 80 | Carlos Guevara | 383 |
| 81 | Carlos Rojas | 385 |
| 82 | Castor Cantero | 388 |
| 83 | Celestin Oliver | 389 |
| 84 | Cetin Zeybek | 393 |
| 85 | Chang-Gi Kang | 394 |
| 86 | Charles Casali | 396 |
| 87 | Charlie Colombo | 398 |
| 88 | Danilo Alvim | 407 |
| 89 | Dave Bowen | 410 |
| 90 | Dave Mackay | 411 |
| 91 | David Mathers | 413 |
| 92 | Dequinha | 416 |
| 93 | Dino Sani | 421 |
| 94 | Dobrosav Krstic | 423 |
| 95 | Dragoslav Sekularac | 426 |
| 96 | Duberty Araoz | 428 |
| 97 | Ed McIlvenny | 429 |
| 98 | Eddie Clamp | 432 |
| 99 | Eddie Turnbull | 434 |
| 100 | Eliseo Mourino | 442 |
| 101 | Ernst Kozlicek | 452 |
| 102 | Ervin Katnic | 453 |
| 103 | Eulogio Sandoval | 457 |
| 104 | Felice Soldini | 461 |
| 105 | Fernando Campos | 467 |
| 106 | Francisco Flores (1926) | 470 |
| 107 | Francisco Hernandez | 471 |
| 108 | George Baker | 484 |
| 109 | Gilbert Fesselet | 489 |
| 110 | Guido Gratton | 502 |
| 111 | Guillaume Bieganski | 504 |
| 112 | Guillermo Sepulveda | 506 |
| 113 | Heinz Bigler (1925) | 520 |
| 114 | Henry Cockburn | 525 |
| 115 | Hernan Carvallo | 529 |
| 116 | Humberto Saavedra | 533 |
| 117 | Ignaz Puschnik | 539 |
| 118 | Imre Kovacs | 542 |
| 119 | Ingvar Gard | 545 |
| 120 | Ivan Santek | 548 |
| 121 | Ivo Frosio | 551 |
| 122 | Ivo Radovnikovic | 552 |
| 123 | Jaime Salazar | 559 |
| 124 | Jean Van Steen | 564 |
| 125 | Jimmy Davidson | 570 |
| 126 | Jiri Cadek | 572 |
| 127 | Jiri Hledik | 573 |
| 128 | Ji-Sung Kim | 576 |
| 129 | Jo Backaert | 577 |
| 130 | Joao Pinheiro | 578 |
| 131 | Johann Riegler | 581 |
| 132 | John Elsworthy | 585 |
| 133 | Jose Luis Panizo | 593 |
| 134 | Jose Varacka | 597 |
| 135 | Josef Masopust | 602 |
| 136 | Jozef Vliers | 606 |
| 137 | Jozsef Zakarias | 607 |
| 138 | Juan Vicente Lezcano | 614 |
| 139 | Karl Giesser | 620 |
| 140 | Karl Mai | 621 |
| 141 | Karl-Heinz Metzner | 622 |
| 142 | Kazimir Hnatow | 624 |
| 143 | Ken Armstrong (1924) | 625 |
| 144 | Knut Nordahl | 629 |
| 145 | Konstantin Krizhevsky | 630 |
| 146 | Lav Mantula | 642 |
| 147 | Leandro Remondini | 644 |
| 148 | Len Allchurch | 645 |
| 149 | Leonardo Ferrel | 650 |
| 150 | Ljubisa Spajic | 656 |
| 151 | Louis Carre | 658 |
| 152 | Luis Cruz (1925) | 662 |
| 153 | Luis Molowny | 665 |
| 154 | Luis Santos Silva | 667 |
| 155 | Maino Neri | 669 |
| 156 | Mariano Gonzalvo | 681 |
| 157 | Mario Perez (1927) | 683 |
| 158 | Maurice Lafont | 686 |
| 159 | Maurice Setters | 688 |
| 160 | Mehmet Dincer | 691 |
| 161 | Mel Charles | 692 |
| 162 | Melanio Baez | 694 |
| 163 | Michal Benedikovic | 695 |
| 164 | Michel Leblond | 696 |
| 165 | Miguel Busquets | 697 |
| 166 | Moacir Pinto | 706 |
| 167 | Nam-Sik Chung | 710 |
| 168 | Nando Gonzalez | 711 |
| 169 | Nestor Carballo | 717 |
| 170 | Nestor Rossi | 718 |
| 171 | Norbert Eschmann | 722 |
| 172 | Olle Ahlund | 726 |
| 173 | Olle Hakansson | 727 |
| 174 | Oreco | 729 |
| 175 | Osvaldo Saez | 734 |
| 176 | Pal Berendy | 739 |
| 177 | Paul Mebus | 742 |
| 178 | Pedro Najera | 746 |
| 179 | Predrag Dajic | 753 |
| 180 | Rafael Avalos | 755 |
| 181 | Raymond Bellot | 765 |
| 182 | Reino Borjesson | 766 |
| 183 | Rene Cabrera | 767 |
| 184 | Rene Dereuddre | 768 |
| 185 | Rino Ferrario | 772 |
| 186 | Rober Eryol | 773 |
| 187 | Robert Maertens | 776 |
| 188 | Robert Van Kerkhoven | 778 |
| 189 | Roberto Leopardi | 780 |
| 190 | Rodolfo Pini | 781 |
| 191 | Roger Quinche | 785 |
| 192 | Ronnie Clayton (1934) | 789 |
| 193 | Rudi Hoffmann | 796 |
| 194 | Rui Campos | 799 |
| 195 | Salvador Villalba | 802 |
| 196 | Sammy Chapman | 803 |
| 197 | Samuel Cuburu | 806 |
| 198 | Sang-Yi Lee | 810 |
| 199 | Sigge Parling | 817 |
| 200 | Syd Owen | 828 |
| 201 | Urbano Rivera | 840 |
| 202 | Vic Crowe | 844 |
| 203 | Victor Mees | 848 |
| 204 | Victoriano Leguizamon | 850 |
| 205 | Viktor Tsaryov | 851 |
| 206 | Walter Bahr | 858 |
| 207 | Washington Ortuno | 865 |
| 208 | Willie Watson | 872 |
| 209 | Wolfgang Peters | 873 |
| 210 | Xerces Louis | 874 |
| 211 | Yung-Kwang Chu | 876 |
| 212 | Zdenek Prochazka | 878 |
| 213 | Zito | 880 |
| 214 | Zlatko Papec | 881 |
| 215 | Zozimo | 883 |
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