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The Top Ranked Soccer Midfielders of the 1970s
Notes: Players are only ranked in the position they played the most during this decade.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rnk |
| 1 | Gunter Netzer | 8 |
| 2 | Michel Platini | 9 |
| 3 | Kazimierz Deyna | 11 |
| 4 | Johan Neeskens | 13 |
| 5 | Franco Causio | 19 |
| 6 | Rainer Bonhof | 20 |
| 7 | Wolfgang Overath | 22 |
| 8 | Gianni Rivera | 29 |
| 9 | Zbigniew Boniek | 40 |
| 10 | Rene van de Kerkhof | 42 |
| 11 | Branko Oblak | 43 |
| 12 | Hansi Muller | 44 |
| 13 | Juan Manuel Asensi | 45 |
| 14 | Teofilo Cubillas | 48 |
| 15 | Rivellino | 51 |
| 16 | Arie Haan | 52 |
| 17 | Heinz Flohe | 53 |
| 18 | Dirceu Guimaraes | 54 |
| 19 | Willy van de Kerkhof | 59 |
| 20 | Rene Houseman | 63 |
| 21 | Romeo Benetti | 65 |
| 22 | Joao Resende Alves | 70 |
| 23 | Billy Bremner | 72 |
| 24 | Dominique Bathenay | 73 |
| 25 | Jean-Marc Guillou | 76 |
| 26 | Ruud Geels | 79 |
| 27 | Bobby Charlton | 83 |
| 28 | Archie Gemmill | 85 |
| 29 | Wilfried Van Moer | 89 |
| 30 | Dominique Rocheteau | 91 |
| 31 | Jurgen Sparwasser | 94 |
| 32 | Vladislav Bogicevic | 96 |
| 33 | Ove Kindvall | 98 |
| 34 | Sandro Mazzola | 99 |
| 35 | Gerson | 103 |
| 36 | Asparuh Nikodimov | 107 |
| 37 | Bernd Holzenbein | 108 |
| 38 | Bernhard Cullmann | 109 |
| 39 | Conny Torstensson | 110 |
| 40 | Ove Grahn | 114 |
| 41 | Victor Esparrago | 116 |
| 42 | Bo Larsson | 118 |
| 43 | Trevor Brooking | 124 |
| 44 | Alan Ball | 127 |
| 45 | Anders Linderoth | 128 |
| 46 | Carles Rexach | 133 |
| 47 | Cornel Dinu | 134 |
| 48 | Didier Six | 136 |
| 49 | Emlyn Hughes | 137 |
| 50 | Giancarlo Antognoni | 139 |
| 51 | Graeme Souness | 141 |
| 52 | Jaroslav Pollak | 143 |
| 53 | Willem van Hanegem | 151 |
| 54 | Alberto Gallardo | 159 |
| 55 | Alan Mullery | 174 |
| 56 | Carlos Babington | 181 |
| 57 | Cesar Cueto | 182 |
| 58 | Clodoaldo Tavares | 185 |
| 59 | Dinko Dermendzhiev | 188 |
| 60 | Emerich Dembrovschi | 189 |
| 61 | Fabio Capello | 191 |
| 62 | Ildo Maneiro | 198 |
| 63 | Iraj Danaeifard | 200 |
| 64 | Jose Luis Gonzalez | 203 |
| 65 | Jose Velasquez | 204 |
| 66 | Juan Ignacio Basaguren | 205 |
| 67 | Kakhi Asatiani | 207 |
| 68 | Karoly Csapo | 209 |
| 69 | Maouhoub Ghazouani | 212 |
| 70 | Martin Peters | 215 |
| 71 | Miguel Angel Brindisi | 216 |
| 72 | Nejib Ghommidh | 220 |
| 73 | Renato Zaccarelli | 225 |
| 74 | Roberto Challe | 227 |
| 75 | Sandor Zombori | 231 |
| 76 | Theo de Jong | 233 |
| 77 | Zico | 240 |
| 78 | Claes Cronqvist | 245 |
| 79 | Henryk Kasperczak | 252 |
| 80 | Julio Montero Castillo | 256 |
| 81 | Orjan Persson | 262 |
| 82 | Pedro Rocha | 264 |
| 83 | Staffan Tapper | 269 |
| 84 | Wilson Piazza | 274 |
| 85 | George Best | 280 |
| 86 | Amancio Amaro | 282 |
| 87 | Antonin Panenka | 285 |
| 88 | Francois Van Der Elst | 289 |
| 89 | Franz Hasil | 291 |
| 90 | Gerrie Muhren | 292 |
| 91 | Johnny Giles | 296 |
| 92 | Leonid Buryak | 299 |
| 93 | Liam Brady | 300 |
| 94 | Mimis Domazos | 302 |
| 95 | Ray Kennedy | 303 |
| 96 | Safet Susic | 304 |
| 97 | Simon Tahamata | 305 |
| 98 | Steve Heighway | 306 |
| 99 | Adam Nawalka | 318 |
| 100 | Ademir da Guia | 319 |
| 101 | Alberto Cardaccio | 328 |
| 102 | Alberto Villalta | 331 |
| 103 | Alfons Peeters | 338 |
| 104 | Alfonso Lara | 339 |
| 105 | Alfredo Quesada | 341 |
| 106 | Ali Parvin | 343 |
| 107 | Ali Shojaei | 344 |
| 108 | Americo Gallego | 349 |
| 109 | Antonio de la Torre | 362 |
| 110 | Antonio Guzman | 363 |
| 111 | Antonio Munguia | 365 |
| 112 | Asa Hartford | 368 |
| 113 | Benno Magnusson | 376 |
| 114 | Bohdan Masztaler | 382 |
| 115 | Bohumil Vesely | 383 |
| 116 | Bruce Rioch | 390 |
| 117 | Caju | 392 |
| 118 | Carlos Reinoso | 396 |
| 119 | Carlos Squeo | 397 |
| 120 | Chicao Jezuino | 399 |
| 121 | Claude Papi | 402 |
| 122 | Claudio Sala | 404 |
| 123 | Colin Bell | 405 |
| 124 | Comunardo Niccolai | 407 |
| 125 | Dagoberto Fontes | 410 |
| 126 | Dan Coe | 411 |
| 127 | Danny Shmulevich-Rom | 416 |
| 128 | David Hay | 419 |
| 129 | David Primo | 421 |
| 130 | Dick Schoenaker | 424 |
| 131 | Don Masson | 431 |
| 132 | Donald Ford | 432 |
| 133 | Drazen Muzinic | 434 |
| 134 | Driss Bamous | 435 |
| 135 | Ebrahim Ghasempour | 437 |
| 136 | Eddy Antoine | 438 |
| 137 | Eduard Krieger | 441 |
| 138 | Enrique Chazarreta | 448 |
| 139 | Enrique Lopez Zarza | 449 |
| 140 | Eraldo Pecci | 452 |
| 141 | Erich Beer | 453 |
| 142 | Erich Hamann | 454 |
| 143 | Ernesto Labarthe | 457 |
| 144 | Ernie Campbell | 458 |
| 145 | Ernst Baumeister | 459 |
| 146 | Ernst Jean-Joseph | 460 |
| 147 | Erwin Vandendaele | 462 |
| 148 | Eugenio Leal | 463 |
| 149 | Ferenc Fulop | 468 |
| 150 | Francisco Valdes | 479 |
| 151 | Franjo Vladic | 481 |
| 152 | Frantisek Vesely | 483 |
| 153 | Genaro Sermeno | 489 |
| 154 | George Borba | 492 |
| 155 | Georgi Asparuhov | 494 |
| 156 | Georgi Denev | 495 |
| 157 | Gerardo Lugo | 499 |
| 158 | Gerd Zewe | 501 |
| 159 | German Leguia | 503 |
| 160 | Gheorghe Tataru | 506 |
| 161 | Giancarlo De Sisti | 507 |
| 162 | Goran Nicklasson | 515 |
| 163 | Guillermo Mendizabal | 520 |
| 164 | Guillermo Paez | 521 |
| 165 | Gunther Happich | 523 |
| 166 | Guy Francois | 526 |
| 167 | Hadi Dahane | 529 |
| 168 | Hamadi Agrebi | 530 |
| 169 | Harald Irmscher | 535 |
| 170 | Hassan Nayebagha | 540 |
| 171 | Hector Pulido | 544 |
| 172 | Henri Michel | 549 |
| 173 | Henryk Wieczorek | 551 |
| 174 | Herbert Prohaska | 552 |
| 175 | Herbert Wimmer | 553 |
| 176 | Istvan Halasz | 568 |
| 177 | Itzhak Shum | 570 |
| 178 | Ivan Davidov | 572 |
| 179 | Ivan Hrdlicka | 574 |
| 180 | Ivan Stoyanov | 575 |
| 181 | Jan Olsson (1944) | 589 |
| 182 | Jan Verheyen | 591 |
| 183 | Javier Cardenas | 595 |
| 184 | Javier Gonzalez | 596 |
| 185 | Jean Dockx | 599 |
| 186 | Jean Petit | 601 |
| 187 | Jean-Claude Desir | 603 |
| 188 | Jimmy Johnstone | 614 |
| 189 | Jimmy Mackay | 615 |
| 190 | Jimmy Rooney | 616 |
| 191 | Joao Batista | 618 |
| 192 | Johan Boskamp | 621 |
| 193 | Johnny Warren | 625 |
| 194 | Johnny Watkiss | 626 |
| 195 | Jorge Socias | 630 |
| 196 | Jorge Vasquez | 631 |
| 197 | Jose Daniel Valencia | 634 |
| 198 | Jose Quintanilla | 642 |
| 199 | Josef Hickersberger | 644 |
| 200 | Josef Jurkanin | 645 |
| 201 | Joseph-Marion Leandre | 646 |
| 202 | Jovan Acimovic | 647 |
| 203 | Jozsef Toth (1951) | 649 |
| 204 | Juan Ramon Martinez | 657 |
| 205 | Julio Baylon | 661 |
| 206 | Julio Cardenosa | 662 |
| 207 | Julio Cesar Cortes | 663 |
| 208 | Julio Cesar Jimenez | 664 |
| 209 | Jurgen Pommerenke | 668 |
| 210 | Jurica Jerkovic | 669 |
| 211 | Kafula Ngoie | 672 |
| 212 | Kamunda Tshinabu | 676 |
| 213 | Kembo Uba Kembo | 683 |
| 214 | Khaled Gasmi | 685 |
| 215 | Khemais Labidi | 686 |
| 216 | Kibonge Mafu | 687 |
| 217 | Kidumu Mantantu | 688 |
| 218 | Kilasu Massamba | 689 |
| 219 | Kiril Ivkov | 691 |
| 220 | Kurt Jara | 699 |
| 221 | Ladislav Kuna | 700 |
| 222 | Laszlo Nagy | 706 |
| 223 | Leif Eriksson | 708 |
| 224 | Leivinha | 710 |
| 225 | Lennart Larsson | 711 |
| 226 | Leon Semmeling | 713 |
| 227 | Leonardo Cuellar | 714 |
| 228 | Leslaw Cmikiewicz | 717 |
| 229 | Luciano Re Cecconi | 725 |
| 230 | Luis Cruzado | 728 |
| 231 | Mana Mamuwene | 736 |
| 232 | Marco Tardelli | 742 |
| 233 | Marcos Rivas | 743 |
| 234 | Mario Bertini | 747 |
| 235 | Mario Velarde | 753 |
| 236 | Maurice Martens | 754 |
| 237 | Mauricio Rodriguez | 756 |
| 238 | Max Lorenz | 758 |
| 239 | Max Tolson | 759 |
| 240 | Miguel Oviedo | 765 |
| 241 | Miroslav Pavlovic | 773 |
| 242 | Mohammad Sadeghi | 779 |
| 243 | Mohammed Maaroufi | 782 |
| 244 | Moshe Romano | 785 |
| 245 | Mustapha Choukri | 787 |
| 246 | Ndaye Mulamba | 794 |
| 247 | Nestor Togneri | 797 |
| 248 | Nikolay Kiselyov | 803 |
| 249 | Norberto Alonso | 806 |
| 250 | Odilon Polleunis | 808 |
| 251 | Olle Nordin | 812 |
| 252 | Omar Larrosa | 814 |
| 253 | Osvaldo Ardiles | 819 |
| 254 | Patrizio Sala | 827 |
| 255 | Paulo Cesar Carpegiani | 828 |
| 256 | Paulo Cezar | 829 |
| 257 | Pedro Gonzalez | 831 |
| 258 | Percy Rojas | 834 |
| 259 | Peter Cormack | 837 |
| 260 | Peter Dietrich | 838 |
| 261 | Peter Ollerton | 840 |
| 262 | Philippe Vorbe | 845 |
| 263 | Radu Nunweiller | 855 |
| 264 | Ramon Mifflin | 857 |
| 265 | Raul Gorriti | 860 |
| 266 | Ray Richards | 863 |
| 267 | Reinhard Lauck | 864 |
| 268 | Ricardo Villa | 868 |
| 269 | Roberto Telch | 880 |
| 270 | Rogelio Farias | 884 |
| 271 | Roland Hattenberger | 887 |
| 272 | Rolf Russmann | 889 |
| 273 | Ronald Ahman | 892 |
| 274 | Roni Shuruk | 894 |
| 275 | Ruben Galvan | 901 |
| 276 | Rudiger Schnuphase | 905 |
| 277 | Said Ghandi | 908 |
| 278 | Sandor Pinter | 912 |
| 279 | Sergio Mendez | 919 |
| 280 | Stefko Velichkov | 927 |
| 281 | Sten Palsson | 928 |
| 282 | Sven Lindman | 932 |
| 283 | Tarak Dhiab | 933 |
| 284 | Thomas Ahlstrom | 935 |
| 285 | Tommy Hutchison | 941 |
| 286 | Tommy Svensson | 942 |
| 287 | Toninho Cerezo | 944 |
| 288 | Tsonyo Vasilev | 947 |
| 289 | Ugo Ferrante | 949 |
| 290 | Valery Zykov | 953 |
| 291 | Vasil Mitkov | 954 |
| 292 | Viktor Serebryanikov | 956 |
| 293 | Vladimir Muntyan | 960 |
| 294 | Vladimir Petrovic | 961 |
| 295 | Walter Mantegazza | 964 |
| 296 | Willie Johnston | 970 |
| 297 | Wolfgang Seguin | 978 |
| 298 | Wolfgang Weber | 979 |
| 299 | Yisha'ayahu Schwager | 985 |
| 300 | Zygmunt Maszczyk | 995 |
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