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The Top Ranked Soccer Midfielders of the 1990s
Notes: Players are only ranked in the position they played the most during this decade.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rnk |
| 1 | Lothar Matthaus | 2 |
| 2 | Zinedine Zidane | 5 |
| 3 | Rivaldo | 8 |
| 4 | Michael Laudrup | 12 |
| 5 | Andreas Moller | 15 |
| 6 | Luis Figo | 19 |
| 7 | Diego Maradona | 23 |
| 8 | David Beckham | 26 |
| 9 | David Platt | 29 |
| 10 | Dejan Savicevic | 31 |
| 11 | Fernando Hierro | 32 |
| 12 | Gheorghe Hagi | 33 |
| 13 | Enzo Scifo | 34 |
| 14 | Edgar Davids | 38 |
| 15 | Frank Rijkaard | 39 |
| 16 | Didier Deschamps | 41 |
| 17 | Krasimir Balakov | 42 |
| 18 | Dragan Stojkovic | 45 |
| 19 | Robert Prosinecki | 52 |
| 20 | Ronald de Boer | 54 |
| 21 | Ruud Gullit | 57 |
| 22 | Youri Djorkaeff | 58 |
| 23 | Dunga Bledorn | 61 |
| 24 | Dino Baggio | 67 |
| 25 | Andreas Herzog | 69 |
| 26 | Finidi George | 71 |
| 27 | Thomas Hassler | 77 |
| 28 | Marc Wilmots | 85 |
| 29 | Alberto Garcia Aspe | 88 |
| 30 | Kjetil Rekdal | 91 |
| 31 | Aron Winter | 95 |
| 32 | Carlos Valderrama | 97 |
| 33 | Freddy Rincon | 100 |
| 34 | Yordan Letchkov | 102 |
| 35 | Ryan Giggs | 105 |
| 36 | Chris Waddle | 108 |
| 37 | Clarence Seedorf | 109 |
| 38 | Stefan Effenberg | 115 |
| 39 | Zvonimir Boban | 116 |
| 40 | Paul Gascoigne | 117 |
| 41 | Jose Luis Caminero | 122 |
| 42 | Emmanuel Petit | 123 |
| 43 | Pep Guardiola | 128 |
| 44 | Rai Souza | 129 |
| 45 | Olaf Thon | 133 |
| 46 | Ariel Ortega | 141 |
| 47 | Fuad Anwar | 145 |
| 48 | Daniel Borimirov | 153 |
| 49 | Harold Lozano | 158 |
| 50 | John Collins | 161 |
| 51 | Marcelino Bernal | 165 |
| 52 | Mustapha Hadji | 168 |
| 53 | Mutiu Adepoju | 169 |
| 54 | Paul Caligiuri | 171 |
| 55 | Ray Houghton | 173 |
| 56 | Robert Jarni | 174 |
| 57 | Saeed Al-Owairan | 176 |
| 58 | Seok-Ju Ha | 177 |
| 59 | Sunday Oliseh | 178 |
| 60 | Franky Van Der Elst | 182 |
| 61 | Lorenzo Staelens | 185 |
| 62 | Tab Ramos | 189 |
| 63 | Paulo Sousa | 192 |
| 64 | Ciriaco Sforza | 195 |
| 65 | Dimitris Saravakos | 198 |
| 66 | John Barnes | 202 |
| 67 | Juan Sebastian Veron | 203 |
| 68 | Mario Basler | 204 |
| 69 | Rafael Martin Vazquez | 208 |
| 70 | Roy Keane | 211 |
| 71 | Michel | 216 |
| 72 | Cesar Sampaio | 218 |
| 73 | Andoni Goikoetxea | 224 |
| 74 | Bernardo Redin | 225 |
| 75 | Emmanuel Amunike | 228 |
| 76 | Michal Bilek | 234 |
| 77 | Phillip Cocu | 235 |
| 78 | Theodore Whitmore | 241 |
| 79 | Alain Sutter | 245 |
| 80 | Ali Thani Jumaa | 248 |
| 81 | Allan Nielsen | 249 |
| 82 | Andrei Zygmantovich | 251 |
| 83 | Boudewijn Zenden | 253 |
| 84 | Craig Burley | 259 |
| 85 | Darren Anderton | 263 |
| 86 | Erwin Sanchez | 270 |
| 87 | Georges Bregy | 274 |
| 88 | Giuseppe Giannini | 276 |
| 89 | Glenn Stromberg | 277 |
| 90 | Hakan Mild | 279 |
| 91 | Hamid Estili | 280 |
| 92 | Hernan Gaviria | 285 |
| 93 | Hwangbo Kwan | 287 |
| 94 | Ivan Hasek | 289 |
| 95 | Jan Ceulemans | 291 |
| 96 | Jorge Burruchaga | 295 |
| 97 | Jose Luis Sierra | 297 |
| 98 | Juan Cayasso | 298 |
| 99 | Kevin Sheedy | 299 |
| 100 | Khalid Ismail | 300 |
| 101 | Lubos Kubik | 304 |
| 102 | Luigi Di Biagio | 305 |
| 103 | Magdi Abdelghani | 307 |
| 104 | Mario Stanic | 309 |
| 105 | Martin Jorgensen | 311 |
| 106 | Mehdi Mahdavikia | 314 |
| 107 | Oleksandr Zavarov | 323 |
| 108 | Pablo Bengoechea | 324 |
| 109 | Patrick Vervoort | 326 |
| 110 | Paul Scholes | 327 |
| 111 | Pedro Troglio | 329 |
| 112 | Pierre Littbarski | 331 |
| 113 | Robbie Earle | 335 |
| 114 | Safet Susic | 338 |
| 115 | Skander Souayah | 341 |
| 116 | Stuart McCall | 342 |
| 117 | Tijani Babangida | 344 |
| 118 | Uwe Bein | 346 |
| 119 | Wilson Oruma | 347 |
| 120 | Yousuf Al-Thunayan | 348 |
| 121 | Alan McLoughlin | 354 |
| 122 | Aleksandr Borodyuk | 356 |
| 123 | Anders Limpar | 361 |
| 124 | Andy Townsend | 364 |
| 125 | Claudio Reyna | 372 |
| 126 | Cobi Jones | 374 |
| 127 | Constantin Galca | 375 |
| 128 | Danny Boffin | 377 |
| 129 | Demetrio Albertini | 380 |
| 130 | Diego Simeone | 381 |
| 131 | Dorinel Munteanu | 382 |
| 132 | Emile Mbouh | 384 |
| 133 | Emmanuel Maboang | 385 |
| 134 | Erik Mykland | 387 |
| 135 | Gabriel Gomez (1959) | 391 |
| 136 | Hamzah Saleh | 395 |
| 137 | Ioan Lupescu | 399 |
| 138 | Ivaylo Yordanov | 400 |
| 139 | Jan Wouters | 401 |
| 140 | Jay-Jay Okocha | 402 |
| 141 | John Harkes | 405 |
| 142 | John Sheridan | 406 |
| 143 | Jonas Thern | 407 |
| 144 | Jong-Son Chung | 408 |
| 145 | Joo-Sung Kim | 409 |
| 146 | Jose Basualdo | 411 |
| 147 | Jose Mari Bakero | 413 |
| 148 | Julen Guerrero | 417 |
| 149 | Jung-Yoon Noh | 418 |
| 150 | Khaled Massad | 421 |
| 151 | Klas Ingesson | 422 |
| 152 | Leonardo Araujo | 424 |
| 153 | Leonel Alvarez | 425 |
| 154 | Louis-Paul M'Fede | 426 |
| 155 | Marc Emmers | 429 |
| 156 | Mauricio Serna | 430 |
| 157 | Nicola Berti | 437 |
| 158 | Ovidiu Stinga | 441 |
| 159 | Oyvind Leonhardsen | 442 |
| 160 | Rachid Azzouzi | 444 |
| 161 | Ramon Ramirez | 446 |
| 162 | Roar Strand | 450 |
| 163 | Roberto Donadoni | 451 |
| 164 | Ronnie Whelan | 453 |
| 165 | Stefan Schwarz | 461 |
| 166 | Tahar El Khalej | 465 |
| 167 | Thomas Dooley | 467 |
| 168 | Thomas Libiih | 469 |
| 169 | Young-Jin Lee (1963) | 481 |
| 170 | Zlatko Yankov | 482 |
| 171 | Bent Skammelsrud | 487 |
| 172 | David Ginola | 489 |
| 173 | Franck Sauzee | 493 |
| 174 | Guy Hellers | 495 |
| 175 | Henrik Larsen | 497 |
| 176 | John Jensen | 499 |
| 177 | Juninho Paulista | 501 |
| 178 | Karel Poborsky | 502 |
| 179 | Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko | 506 |
| 180 | Patrick Berger | 507 |
| 181 | Pavel Nedved | 508 |
| 182 | Radek Bejbl | 509 |
| 183 | Rui Costa | 510 |
| 184 | Thomas Doll | 512 |
| 185 | Zlatko Zahovic | 515 |
| 186 | Abdualla Sultan | 522 |
| 187 | Alaa Maihoub | 549 |
| 188 | Alain Boghossian | 550 |
| 189 | Alberico Evani | 555 |
| 190 | Albert Celades | 556 |
| 191 | Alejandro Mancuso | 557 |
| 192 | Aleksandr Mostovoi | 558 |
| 193 | Alemao de Brito | 559 |
| 194 | Alexandre Guimaraes | 563 |
| 195 | Alfred Hortnagl | 570 |
| 196 | Alfred Phiri | 571 |
| 197 | Ali Elkhattabi | 575 |
| 198 | Alireza Mansourian | 578 |
| 199 | Aljosa Asanovic | 579 |
| 200 | Anatoli Nankov | 584 |
| 201 | Andreas Heraf | 590 |
| 202 | Andreas Reisinger | 591 |
| 203 | Andres Estrada | 593 |
| 204 | Andrey Pyatnitsky | 594 |
| 205 | Angelo Di Livio | 598 |
| 206 | Antonio Conte | 603 |
| 207 | Arnold Wetl | 607 |
| 208 | Augustine Simo | 610 |
| 209 | Basarab Panduru | 614 |
| 210 | Benjamin Galindo | 616 |
| 211 | Bernard Diomede | 618 |
| 212 | Billy McKinlay | 624 |
| 213 | Bismarck Barreto | 625 |
| 214 | Bjarne Goldbaek | 626 |
| 215 | Boncho Genchev | 628 |
| 216 | Branko Brnovic | 629 |
| 217 | Braulio Luna | 630 |
| 218 | Brian Maisonneuve | 634 |
| 219 | Bruno Versavel | 635 |
| 220 | Bryan Robson | 637 |
| 221 | Carlo Ancelotti | 640 |
| 222 | Carlos Borja | 643 |
| 223 | Carlos Morales | 648 |
| 224 | Carlos Paredes | 650 |
| 225 | Chad Deering | 655 |
| 226 | Chris Dawes | 659 |
| 227 | Chris Henderson | 660 |
| 228 | Christian Karembeu | 665 |
| 229 | Clarence Acuna | 672 |
| 230 | Cyrille Makanaky | 681 |
| 231 | Dae-Shik Choi | 683 |
| 232 | Daniel Timofte | 686 |
| 233 | Danut Lupu | 688 |
| 234 | Darryl Powell | 693 |
| 235 | David Batty | 695 |
| 236 | Dejan Govedarica | 703 |
| 237 | Dejan Stankovic | 704 |
| 238 | Denilson de Oliveira | 706 |
| 239 | Didier Angibeaud | 714 |
| 240 | Dietmar Hamann | 715 |
| 241 | Dietmar Kuhbauer | 716 |
| 242 | Dmitri Khlestov | 720 |
| 243 | Dmitri Popov | 722 |
| 244 | Doctor Khumalo | 723 |
| 245 | Do-Keun Kim | 725 |
| 246 | Dominique Herr | 726 |
| 247 | Dorin Mateut | 730 |
| 248 | Doriva Guidoni | 731 |
| 249 | Dragoljub Brnovic | 732 |
| 250 | El Arbi Hababi | 747 |
| 251 | Emerson (1976) | 750 |
| 252 | Erwin Koeman | 763 |
| 253 | Fabian Estay | 767 |
| 254 | Fahad Abdulrahman | 769 |
| 255 | Fahad Al-Bishi | 770 |
| 256 | Faysal Ben Ahmed | 774 |
| 257 | Felipe Minambres | 775 |
| 258 | Fernando Cornejo | 780 |
| 259 | Fernando De Napoli | 781 |
| 260 | Fernando Gomez | 782 |
| 261 | Fernando Redondo | 783 |
| 262 | Fitzroy Simpson | 785 |
| 263 | Francesco Moriero | 786 |
| 264 | Francisco Villarroya | 791 |
| 265 | Gabriel Correa | 801 |
| 266 | Gabriel Popescu | 802 |
| 267 | Gamal Abdel-Hamid | 803 |
| 268 | Garba Lawal | 804 |
| 269 | Gary McAllister | 808 |
| 270 | Gennadiy Litovchenko | 812 |
| 271 | Georgi Georgiev (1963) | 815 |
| 272 | Gerald Glatzmayer | 819 |
| 273 | Gerald Vanenburg | 820 |
| 274 | German Chavarria | 822 |
| 275 | German Villa | 823 |
| 276 | Gharib Amzine | 826 |
| 277 | Giancarlo Marocchi | 830 |
| 278 | Giovanni Silva | 837 |
| 279 | Giovanni van Bronckhorst | 838 |
| 280 | Guillermo Amor | 849 |
| 281 | Gunter Hermann | 850 |
| 282 | Harald Cerny | 862 |
| 283 | Hassan Kachloul | 863 |
| 284 | Hassan Mohamed | 864 |
| 285 | Helman Mkhalele | 867 |
| 286 | Heung-Sil Lee | 872 |
| 287 | Hidetoshi Nakata | 873 |
| 288 | Hiroaki Morishima | 874 |
| 289 | Hiroshi Nanami | 875 |
| 290 | Hugo Perez (1963) | 880 |
| 291 | Hugo Perez (1968) | 881 |
| 292 | Ibrahim Mater | 889 |
| 293 | Igor Korneev | 893 |
| 294 | Igor Lediakhov | 894 |
| 295 | Igor Shalimov | 895 |
| 296 | Ilian Iliev | 899 |
| 297 | Ilya Tsymbalar | 901 |
| 298 | Ioan Sabau | 904 |
| 299 | Iosif Rotariu | 907 |
| 300 | Ismail Youssef | 909 |
| 301 | Iulian Chirita | 910 |
| 302 | Iulian Filipescu | 911 |
| 303 | Ivan Yaremchuk | 915 |
| 304 | Jackie McNamara | 919 |
| 305 | Jaime Ordiales | 922 |
| 306 | Jason McAteer | 928 |
| 307 | Jean-Pierre Fiala | 934 |
| 308 | Jens Jeremies | 936 |
| 309 | Jesper Blomqvist | 941 |
| 310 | Jesus Arellano | 942 |
| 311 | Jim Bett | 943 |
| 312 | Jin-Ho Cho | 946 |
| 313 | Jiri Nemec | 947 |
| 314 | Joakim Nilsson | 949 |
| 315 | Joaquin del Olmo | 950 |
| 316 | John Moshoeu | 955 |
| 317 | John Stollmeyer | 956 |
| 318 | John Wilmar Perez | 959 |
| 319 | Jong-Soo Ko | 962 |
| 320 | Jorge Bolano | 966 |
| 321 | Jorge Luis Campos | 968 |
| 322 | Jorge Rodriguez (1968) | 970 |
| 323 | Jose Carlos Chaves | 971 |
| 324 | Jose Clayton | 972 |
| 325 | Jose Milton Melgar | 978 |
| 326 | Jose Perdomo | 980 |
| 327 | Joseph Elanga | 986 |
| 328 | Joseph N'Do | 987 |
| 329 | Jozef Chovanec | 990 |
| 330 | Juan Carlos Chavez | 993 |
| 331 | Jules Onana | 999 |
| 332 | Julio Cesar Baldivieso | 1000 |
| 333 | Julio Cesar Enciso | 1001 |
| 334 | Julio Cesar Yegros | 1002 |
| 335 | Kaies Ghodhbane | 1008 |
| 336 | Karim Bagheri | 1010 |
| 337 | Khamis Al-Owairan | 1016 |
| 338 | Krunoslav Jurcic | 1020 |
| 339 | Lars Bohinen | 1025 |
| 340 | Lebogang Morula | 1027 |
| 341 | Leif Engqvist | 1028 |
| 342 | Leon Villa | 1029 |
| 343 | Leonardo Astrada | 1030 |
| 344 | Leonardo Rodriguez | 1031 |
| 345 | Ljubinko Drulovic | 1037 |
| 346 | Lubomir Moravcik | 1039 |
| 347 | Lucian Marinescu | 1043 |
| 348 | Luis Fajardo | 1050 |
| 349 | Luis Musrri | 1052 |
| 350 | Magdy Tolba | 1056 |
| 351 | Manfred Linzmaier | 1060 |
| 352 | Manfred Zsak | 1061 |
| 353 | Marcel Mahouve | 1068 |
| 354 | Marcelo Gallardo | 1070 |
| 355 | Marcelo Vega | 1074 |
| 356 | Marco Etcheverry | 1075 |
| 357 | Marc-Vivien Foe | 1080 |
| 358 | Marian Hristov | 1081 |
| 359 | Mario Pinedo | 1084 |
| 360 | Markus Schopp | 1088 |
| 361 | Martin Amerhauser | 1089 |
| 362 | Martin Wagner | 1094 |
| 363 | Matias Almeyda | 1098 |
| 364 | Mauricio Ramos | 1105 |
| 365 | Maurizio Gaudino | 1106 |
| 366 | Mauro Silva | 1108 |
| 367 | Mehrdad Minavand | 1113 |
| 368 | Michael Baur | 1114 |
| 369 | Miguel Davis | 1124 |
| 370 | Mike Sorber | 1132 |
| 371 | Milen Petkov | 1136 |
| 372 | Minas Hantzidis | 1137 |
| 373 | Miroslav Stevic | 1143 |
| 374 | Missael Espinoza | 1145 |
| 375 | Mohamed Samadi | 1151 |
| 376 | Moon-Sik Choi | 1155 |
| 377 | Morten Wieghorst | 1157 |
| 378 | Motohiro Yamaguchi | 1158 |
| 379 | Murdo MacLeod | 1163 |
| 380 | Mustafa El Haddaoui | 1164 |
| 381 | Nasir Khamees | 1170 |
| 382 | Nawaf Al-Temyat | 1171 |
| 383 | Neil Covone | 1172 |
| 384 | Neil Webb | 1174 |
| 385 | Nelson Parraguez | 1176 |
| 386 | Nico Van Kerckhoven | 1184 |
| 387 | Niklas Nyhlen | 1186 |
| 388 | Nikos Nioplias | 1188 |
| 389 | Nikos Tsiantakis | 1189 |
| 390 | Osama Orabi | 1202 |
| 391 | Oscar Ramirez (1964) | 1205 |
| 392 | Panagiotis Tsalouchidis | 1211 |
| 393 | Patrick Sylvestre | 1217 |
| 394 | Patrick Vieira | 1218 |
| 395 | Paul Ince | 1222 |
| 396 | Paul Lambert | 1224 |
| 397 | Paul Loga | 1225 |
| 398 | Paul McStay | 1226 |
| 399 | Paul Merson | 1227 |
| 400 | Paulo Sergio | 1230 |
| 401 | Paulo Silas do Prado | 1231 |
| 402 | Pavel Pardo | 1232 |
| 403 | Per Frandsen | 1235 |
| 404 | Peter Cargill | 1243 |
| 405 | Peter Stoger | 1248 |
| 406 | Philippe Clement | 1253 |
| 407 | Preki | 1263 |
| 408 | Quinton Fortune | 1264 |
| 409 | Rachid Daoudi | 1267 |
| 410 | Radu Niculescu | 1271 |
| 411 | Rafael Paz | 1272 |
| 412 | Ramiro Castillo | 1274 |
| 413 | Raul Lara | 1277 |
| 414 | Refik Sabanadzovic | 1278 |
| 415 | Riadh Bouazizi | 1282 |
| 416 | Ricardo Giusti | 1285 |
| 417 | Richard Witschge | 1290 |
| 418 | Rob Lee | 1293 |
| 419 | Rob Witschge | 1294 |
| 420 | Robert Fernandez | 1295 |
| 421 | Robert Pires | 1298 |
| 422 | Roberto Acuna | 1299 |
| 423 | Roberto Di Matteo | 1301 |
| 424 | Roger Feutmba | 1305 |
| 425 | Roger Gomez | 1306 |
| 426 | Roman Mahlich | 1308 |
| 427 | Roy Myers | 1315 |
| 428 | Ruben Paz | 1317 |
| 429 | Ruben Pereira | 1318 |
| 430 | Saber Eid | 1323 |
| 431 | Said Chiba | 1325 |
| 432 | Salomon Olembe | 1328 |
| 433 | Sandro Cois | 1334 |
| 434 | Santiago Ostolaza | 1336 |
| 435 | Sattar Hamedani | 1337 |
| 436 | Savvas Kofidis | 1339 |
| 437 | Scot Gemmill | 1340 |
| 438 | Sebastien Fournier | 1342 |
| 439 | Sergei Aleinikov | 1344 |
| 440 | Sergio Batista | 1347 |
| 441 | Sergio Berti | 1348 |
| 442 | Shinji Ono | 1351 |
| 443 | Silvio Maric | 1354 |
| 444 | Sirajeddine Chihi | 1357 |
| 445 | Sirous Dinmohammadi | 1358 |
| 446 | Slavisa Jokanovic | 1360 |
| 447 | Soo-Jin Noh | 1362 |
| 448 | Spiros Marangos | 1365 |
| 449 | Srecko Katanec | 1366 |
| 450 | Stale Solbakken | 1367 |
| 451 | Stefan Rehn | 1375 |
| 452 | Steffen Freund | 1377 |
| 453 | Stephane van der Heyden | 1381 |
| 454 | Steve Hodge | 1385 |
| 455 | Steve McMahon | 1386 |
| 456 | Steve McManaman | 1387 |
| 457 | Stig Tofting | 1390 |
| 458 | Stoycho Stoilov | 1391 |
| 459 | Sung-Yong Choi | 1394 |
| 460 | Taher Abouzeid | 1398 |
| 461 | Takashi Hirano | 1399 |
| 462 | Talal Jebreen | 1400 |
| 463 | Tarek Soliman | 1401 |
| 464 | Tasos Mitropoulos | 1404 |
| 465 | Teruyoshi Ito | 1409 |
| 466 | Thomas Bickel | 1414 |
| 467 | Thomas Strunz | 1416 |
| 468 | Thomas Wyss | 1417 |
| 469 | Thompson Oliha | 1418 |
| 470 | Tita Queiroz | 1421 |
| 471 | Toshihiro Hattori | 1428 |
| 472 | Trevor Steven | 1429 |
| 473 | Ulrik Jansson | 1432 |
| 474 | Vaclav Nemecek | 1433 |
| 475 | Valdo Candido | 1436 |
| 476 | Valeri Broshin | 1437 |
| 477 | Valeri Karpin | 1438 |
| 478 | Vasyl Rats | 1440 |
| 479 | Vladimir Jugovic | 1450 |
| 480 | Vladimir Soria | 1453 |
| 481 | Vladimir Weiss | 1455 |
| 482 | William Castro | 1468 |
| 483 | William Mokoena | 1469 |
| 484 | Youssef Chippo | 1481 |
| 485 | Ze Roberto da Silva | 1490 |
| 486 | Zinho de Oliveira | 1493 |
| 487 | Zoran Mamic | 1495 |
| 488 | Zoubeir Baya | 1498 |
| 489 | Zsolt Muzsnay | 1499 |
| 490 | Zvonimir Soldo | 1501 |
| 491 | Wim Jonk | 1503 |
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