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The Top Ranked Soccer Midfielders of the 1980s
Notes: Players are only ranked in the position they played the most during this decade.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rnk |
| 1 | Michel Platini | 1 |
| 2 | Diego Maradona | 2 |
| 3 | Ruud Gullit | 5 |
| 4 | Bernd Schuster | 6 |
| 5 | Alain Giresse | 8 |
| 6 | Zbigniew Boniek | 11 |
| 7 | Bryan Robson | 14 |
| 8 | Jan Ceulemans | 15 |
| 9 | Lothar Matthaus | 17 |
| 10 | Oleksandr Zavarov | 19 |
| 11 | Gheorghe Hagi | 21 |
| 12 | Jean Tigana | 27 |
| 13 | Michael Laudrup | 31 |
| 14 | Soren Lerby | 32 |
| 15 | Giancarlo Antognoni | 34 |
| 16 | Michel | 37 |
| 17 | Bruno Conti | 46 |
| 18 | Gordon Strachan | 47 |
| 19 | Graeme Souness | 48 |
| 20 | Luis Fernandez | 52 |
| 21 | Vladimir Petrovic | 53 |
| 22 | Zico | 58 |
| 23 | Marco Tardelli | 61 |
| 24 | Falcao | 63 |
| 25 | Socrates | 68 |
| 26 | Bernard Genghini | 69 |
| 27 | Liam Brady | 72 |
| 28 | Herbert Prohaska | 75 |
| 29 | Wilfried Van Moer | 78 |
| 30 | Igor Belanov | 79 |
| 31 | Antonin Panenka | 80 |
| 32 | Enzo Scifo | 81 |
| 33 | John Wark | 83 |
| 34 | Carlos Manuel Correia | 87 |
| 35 | Jesus Maria Zamora | 90 |
| 36 | Lajos Detari | 92 |
| 37 | Pavel Yakovenko | 95 |
| 38 | Felix Magath | 100 |
| 39 | Glenn Hoddle | 102 |
| 40 | Andriy Bal | 113 |
| 41 | Andrzej Buncol | 114 |
| 42 | Lakhdar Belloumi | 121 |
| 43 | Frank Rijkaard | 128 |
| 44 | Dragan Stojkovic | 129 |
| 45 | Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko | 134 |
| 46 | Frank Arnesen | 141 |
| 47 | Hansi Muller | 144 |
| 48 | Paul McStay | 148 |
| 49 | Peter Reid | 149 |
| 50 | Terry McDermott | 152 |
| 51 | Trevor Brooking | 153 |
| 52 | Julio Cesar Romero | 177 |
| 53 | Ramon Caldere | 180 |
| 54 | Chang-Sun Park | 194 |
| 55 | Diamantino Miranda | 197 |
| 56 | Enrique Saura | 200 |
| 57 | Gregoire M'Bida | 205 |
| 58 | Ivan Gudelj | 211 |
| 59 | Ivan Yaremchuk | 212 |
| 60 | Janusz Kupcewicz | 213 |
| 61 | Jean-Marc Ferreri | 215 |
| 62 | Juan Antonio Senor | 223 |
| 63 | Jung-Moo Huh | 226 |
| 64 | Khoren Hovhannisyan | 227 |
| 65 | Ludo Coeck | 230 |
| 66 | Manuel Negrete | 233 |
| 67 | Miguel Angel Neira | 235 |
| 68 | Osvaldo Ardiles | 238 |
| 69 | Plamen Getov | 241 |
| 70 | Reinhold Hintermaier | 244 |
| 71 | Rene Girard | 245 |
| 72 | Sergei Aleinikov | 249 |
| 73 | Steve Sumner | 253 |
| 74 | Vasyl Rats | 258 |
| 75 | Yuri Gavrilov | 261 |
| 76 | Andrzej Palasz | 264 |
| 77 | David McCreery | 266 |
| 78 | Karim Maroc | 282 |
| 79 | Ray Wilkins | 292 |
| 80 | Ricardo Gallego | 294 |
| 81 | Vadym Yevtushenko | 299 |
| 82 | Volodymyr Bezsonov | 300 |
| 83 | Waldemar Matysik | 301 |
| 84 | Andreas Moller | 305 |
| 85 | David Kipiani | 308 |
| 86 | Dejan Savicevic | 310 |
| 87 | Dimitris Saravakos | 311 |
| 88 | Fedor Cherenkov | 312 |
| 89 | Fernando Chalana | 313 |
| 90 | Frankie Vercauteren | 316 |
| 91 | Frans Thijssen | 317 |
| 92 | Heinz Hermann | 318 |
| 93 | Marcel Raducanu | 321 |
| 94 | Thomas Hassler | 333 |
| 95 | Vasilis Hatzipanagis | 335 |
| 96 | Abdelaziz Souleimani | 337 |
| 97 | Abdelmajid Dolmy | 345 |
| 98 | Adolfino Canete | 351 |
| 99 | Alejandro Dominguez | 361 |
| 100 | Alemao de Brito | 364 |
| 101 | Ali Fergani | 367 |
| 102 | Ali Hussein Shihab | 368 |
| 103 | Allan Boath | 369 |
| 104 | Americo Gallego | 373 |
| 105 | Antonio Andre | 383 |
| 106 | Antonio Di Gennaro | 384 |
| 107 | Antonio Sousa | 386 |
| 108 | Asa Hartford | 390 |
| 109 | Ayan Sadakov | 394 |
| 110 | Aziz Bouderbala | 395 |
| 111 | Azzedine Amanallah | 396 |
| 112 | Basil Gorgis | 398 |
| 113 | Batista | 400 |
| 114 | Bernard McNally | 404 |
| 115 | Billy McClure | 408 |
| 116 | Bozhidar Iskrenov | 414 |
| 117 | Brian Turner (1949) | 417 |
| 118 | Buenaventura Ferreira | 419 |
| 119 | Carlo Ancelotti | 425 |
| 120 | Carlos Caballero | 427 |
| 121 | Carlos de los Cobos | 429 |
| 122 | Carlos Munoz | 431 |
| 123 | Carlos Rivas | 433 |
| 124 | Carlos Tapia | 434 |
| 125 | Cesar Cueto | 437 |
| 126 | Charles Toube | 441 |
| 127 | Chris Waddle | 445 |
| 128 | Claudio Borghi | 448 |
| 129 | David Buezo | 459 |
| 130 | David Campbell | 460 |
| 131 | David Norman | 461 |
| 132 | Deuk-Soo Kang | 464 |
| 133 | Dirceu Guimaraes | 466 |
| 134 | Djamel Tlemcani | 469 |
| 135 | Duncan Cole | 472 |
| 136 | Eamonn Bannon | 473 |
| 137 | Edhem Sljivo | 475 |
| 138 | Eduardo Bonvallet | 480 |
| 139 | Eduardo Malasquez | 482 |
| 140 | Elzo Coelho | 487 |
| 141 | Ephrem M'Bom | 492 |
| 142 | Ernst Baumeister | 495 |
| 143 | Fadel Jilal | 500 |
| 144 | Fathi Chebel | 502 |
| 145 | Fawzi Benkhalidi | 505 |
| 146 | Ferenc Csongradi | 508 |
| 147 | Fernando De Napoli | 512 |
| 148 | Francisco Javier Toledo | 517 |
| 149 | Francisco Jose Carrasco | 518 |
| 150 | Francisco Lopez | 519 |
| 151 | Franco Causio | 521 |
| 152 | Franky Van Der Elst | 530 |
| 153 | Frantisek Stambachr | 532 |
| 154 | Gabriele Oriali | 535 |
| 155 | Gennadiy Litovchenko | 538 |
| 156 | Georgi Yordanov | 545 |
| 157 | German Leguia | 549 |
| 158 | Gerry Gray | 552 |
| 159 | Giampiero Marini | 554 |
| 160 | Gilberto Yearwood | 556 |
| 161 | Giuseppe Baresi | 557 |
| 162 | Giuseppe Dossena | 558 |
| 163 | Graham Rix | 563 |
| 164 | Grant Turner | 564 |
| 165 | Greg Ion | 565 |
| 166 | Guy Vandersmissen | 567 |
| 167 | Gyorgy Bognar | 568 |
| 168 | Gyozo Burcsa | 569 |
| 169 | Gyula Hajszan | 571 |
| 170 | Halim Benmabrouk | 572 |
| 171 | Haris Mohammed | 574 |
| 172 | Hector Enrique | 576 |
| 173 | Hocine Yahi | 582 |
| 174 | Hristo Kolev | 584 |
| 175 | Ismail Mohammed Sharif | 596 |
| 176 | Ivica Surjak | 601 |
| 177 | Jaime Magalhaes | 604 |
| 178 | Jaime Pacheco | 605 |
| 179 | Jamal Ali | 608 |
| 180 | Jamie Lowery | 610 |
| 181 | Jan Bartram | 611 |
| 182 | Jan Berger | 612 |
| 183 | Jan Karas | 616 |
| 184 | Jan Kozak | 617 |
| 185 | Jan Molby | 618 |
| 186 | Javier Aguirre | 622 |
| 187 | Javier Hernandez (1961) | 623 |
| 188 | Jean-Francois Larios | 625 |
| 189 | Jean-Pierre Tokoto | 626 |
| 190 | Jens Jorn Bertelsen | 627 |
| 191 | Jim Bett | 629 |
| 192 | Jim Cleary | 630 |
| 193 | Joaquin Alonso | 634 |
| 194 | Joaquín Ventura | 635 |
| 195 | Johann Dihanich | 637 |
| 196 | Johnny Jameson | 640 |
| 197 | Joo-Sung Kim | 642 |
| 198 | Jorge Amado Nunes | 643 |
| 199 | Jorge Barrios | 644 |
| 200 | Jorge Guasch | 647 |
| 201 | Jos Daerden | 651 |
| 202 | Jose Daniel Valencia | 654 |
| 203 | Jose Luis Rugamas | 660 |
| 204 | Jose Ribeiro | 663 |
| 205 | Jose Velasquez | 666 |
| 206 | Jose Zalazar | 667 |
| 207 | Joseph Enanga | 669 |
| 208 | Joseph Kamga | 670 |
| 209 | Jozsef Nagy | 678 |
| 210 | Juan Barbas | 679 |
| 211 | Juan Cruz Murillo | 682 |
| 212 | Julio Cesar Uribe | 687 |
| 213 | Jurica Jerkovic | 689 |
| 214 | Karl Allgower | 694 |
| 215 | Karoly Csapo | 695 |
| 216 | Keith MacKay | 697 |
| 217 | Kenny Cresswell | 698 |
| 218 | Klaus Berggreen | 704 |
| 219 | Kurt Jara | 708 |
| 220 | Kwang-Rae Cho | 710 |
| 221 | Leo Van Der Elst | 721 |
| 222 | Leonid Buryak | 722 |
| 223 | Luis Reyna | 730 |
| 224 | Manuel Rojas | 736 |
| 225 | Marc Millecamps | 738 |
| 226 | Marcelo Trobbiani | 739 |
| 227 | Mario Saralegui | 749 |
| 228 | Martin O'Neill | 753 |
| 229 | Mauricio Alfaro | 756 |
| 230 | Miguel Bossio | 768 |
| 231 | Miguel Espana | 769 |
| 232 | Miguel Gutierrez | 770 |
| 233 | Mike Sweeney | 772 |
| 234 | Mohamed Kaci-Said | 777 |
| 235 | Mohamed Timoumi | 778 |
| 236 | Mohammed Karam | 779 |
| 237 | Mohammed Sahil | 780 |
| 238 | Mouncif El Haddaoui | 781 |
| 239 | Mustafa El Haddaoui | 785 |
| 240 | Mustapha Dahleb | 787 |
| 241 | Nassir Al-Ghanem | 793 |
| 242 | Natiq Hashim | 794 |
| 243 | Norberto Huezo | 804 |
| 244 | Olaf Thon | 807 |
| 245 | Oscar Arizaga | 811 |
| 246 | Patricio Hernandez | 817 |
| 247 | Patrick Vervoort | 819 |
| 248 | Paul James | 822 |
| 249 | Paul Ramsey | 823 |
| 250 | Paulo Isidoro | 824 |
| 251 | Paulo Silas do Prado | 826 |
| 252 | Pavel Chaloupka | 828 |
| 253 | Per Frimann | 832 |
| 254 | Periko Alonso | 834 |
| 255 | Peter Hannich | 837 |
| 256 | Peter Simonsen | 838 |
| 257 | Philippe Desmet | 845 |
| 258 | Philippe Vercruysse | 847 |
| 259 | Plamen Markov | 850 |
| 260 | Predrag Pasic | 851 |
| 261 | Premysl Bicovsky | 852 |
| 262 | Prudencio Norales | 853 |
| 263 | Quique Setien | 856 |
| 264 | Radoslav Zdravkov | 859 |
| 265 | Ramon Maradiaga | 864 |
| 266 | Randy Ragan | 866 |
| 267 | Raul Ormeno | 869 |
| 268 | Renato Frederico | 871 |
| 269 | Rene Vandereycken | 874 |
| 270 | Rene Verheyen | 875 |
| 271 | Ricardo Bochini | 876 |
| 272 | Ricardo Giusti | 877 |
| 273 | Rodolfo Dubo | 884 |
| 274 | Roland Hattenberger | 888 |
| 275 | Rolando Chilavert | 889 |
| 276 | Ruben Paz | 892 |
| 277 | Ryszard Komornicki | 894 |
| 278 | Ryszard Tarasiewicz | 895 |
| 279 | Saad Al-Houti | 896 |
| 280 | Salah Larbes | 897 |
| 281 | Salvatore Bagni | 901 |
| 282 | Sam-Soo Kim | 906 |
| 283 | Sandor Muller | 907 |
| 284 | Sergio Batista | 915 |
| 285 | Sergio Santín | 916 |
| 286 | Shaker Mahmoud | 918 |
| 287 | Silvio Aquino | 919 |
| 288 | Soo-Jin Noh | 921 |
| 289 | Stephan Engels | 924 |
| 290 | Steve Coppell | 925 |
| 291 | Steve Hodge | 927 |
| 292 | Steve Penney | 929 |
| 293 | Tente Sanchez | 935 |
| 294 | Teofilo Cubillas | 936 |
| 295 | Theophile Abega | 940 |
| 296 | Tomas Boy | 946 |
| 297 | Tommy Cassidy | 949 |
| 298 | Tommy Finney | 950 |
| 299 | Toninho Cerezo | 951 |
| 300 | Trevor Steven | 953 |
| 301 | Uwe Rahn | 955 |
| 302 | Valdo Candido | 957 |
| 303 | Victor Munoz | 962 |
| 304 | Vitaly Daraselia | 964 |
| 305 | Wolfgang Dremmler | 976 |
| 306 | Wolfgang Rolff | 977 |
| 307 | Yussef Al-Suwayed | 985 |
| 308 | Zhivko Gospodinov | 988 |
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