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The Top Ranked Soccer Midfielders of the 2000s
Notes: Players are only ranked in the position they played the most during this decade.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rnk |
| 1 | Luis Figo | 4 |
| 2 | Kaka | 5 |
| 3 | Pavel Nedved | 8 |
| 4 | Zinedine Zidane | 12 |
| 5 | Deco | 15 |
| 6 | Frank Lampard | 16 |
| 7 | Steven Gerrard | 18 |
| 8 | Ronaldinho | 21 |
| 9 | David Beckham | 22 |
| 10 | Michael Ballack | 23 |
| 11 | Patrick Vieira | 24 |
| 12 | Andrea Pirlo | 32 |
| 13 | Franck Ribery | 36 |
| 14 | Claude Makelele | 38 |
| 15 | Cesc Fabregas | 39 |
| 16 | Paul Scholes | 40 |
| 17 | Ryan Giggs | 42 |
| 18 | Rivaldo | 44 |
| 19 | Xavi | 50 |
| 20 | Juninho Pernambucano | 53 |
| 21 | Juan Roman Riquelme | 56 |
| 22 | Michael Essien | 57 |
| 23 | Gennaro Gattuso | 58 |
| 24 | Arjen Robben | 65 |
| 25 | Maniche | 69 |
| 26 | Rui Costa | 70 |
| 27 | Gaizka Mendieta | 71 |
| 28 | Pablo Aimar | 76 |
| 29 | Ji-Sung Park | 80 |
| 30 | Junichi Inamoto | 81 |
| 31 | Bernd Schneider | 82 |
| 32 | Hidetoshi Nakata | 84 |
| 33 | Joe Cole | 85 |
| 34 | Ludovic Giuly | 93 |
| 35 | Emerson (1976) | 97 |
| 36 | Florent Malouda | 98 |
| 37 | Juan Sebastian Veron | 100 |
| 38 | Ruben Baraja | 104 |
| 39 | Papa Bouba Diop | 111 |
| 40 | Bastian Schweinsteiger | 112 |
| 41 | Tim Cahill | 114 |
| 42 | Tomas Rosicky | 115 |
| 43 | Juan Carlos Valeron | 125 |
| 44 | Shunsuke Nakamura | 127 |
| 45 | Sang-Chul Yoo | 134 |
| 46 | Ze Roberto da Silva | 135 |
| 47 | Claudio Reyna | 136 |
| 48 | Anders Svensson | 144 |
| 49 | Chong-Gug Song | 146 |
| 50 | Eul-Yong Lee | 148 |
| 51 | Gerardo Torrado | 149 |
| 52 | John O'Brien | 152 |
| 53 | Niclas Alexandersson | 154 |
| 54 | Niko Kovac | 155 |
| 55 | Torsten Frings | 163 |
| 56 | Freddie Ljungberg | 166 |
| 57 | Andrey Arshavin | 167 |
| 58 | Clarence Seedorf | 168 |
| 59 | Diego Ribas | 169 |
| 60 | Mahamadou Diarra | 172 |
| 61 | Andres Iniesta | 175 |
| 62 | Damiano Tommasi | 178 |
| 63 | Ivan Helguera | 182 |
| 64 | Johan Micoud | 184 |
| 65 | Jose Antonio Reyes | 185 |
| 66 | Luis Enrique | 188 |
| 67 | Luis Garcia | 189 |
| 68 | Marcos Senna | 190 |
| 69 | Mark van Bommel | 191 |
| 70 | Mauro Camoranesi | 192 |
| 71 | Rafael van der Vaart | 196 |
| 72 | Roy Keane | 197 |
| 73 | Yaya Toure | 202 |
| 74 | Yildiray Basturk | 203 |
| 75 | Zlatko Zahovic | 204 |
| 76 | Maxi Rodriguez | 212 |
| 77 | Umit Davala | 222 |
| 78 | Alvaro Recoba | 226 |
| 79 | Clint Dempsey | 237 |
| 80 | Damien Duff | 241 |
| 81 | Darijo Srna | 242 |
| 82 | Dennis Rommedahl | 244 |
| 83 | Emre Belozoglu | 247 |
| 84 | Esteban Cambiasso | 249 |
| 85 | Haminu Draman | 257 |
| 86 | Hiroaki Morishima | 258 |
| 87 | Jawhar Mnari | 259 |
| 88 | Johan Walem | 261 |
| 89 | Khalilou Fadiga | 269 |
| 90 | Maksym Kalynychenko | 271 |
| 91 | Marco Bode | 273 |
| 92 | Matt Holland | 274 |
| 93 | Milan Rapaic | 276 |
| 94 | Quinton Fortune | 288 |
| 95 | Salif Diao | 294 |
| 96 | Sasa Ilic | 296 |
| 97 | Sinha | 302 |
| 98 | Stephen Appiah | 305 |
| 99 | Sulley Muntari | 306 |
| 100 | Teboho Mokoena | 309 |
| 101 | Tranquillo Barnetta | 313 |
| 102 | Valeri Karpin | 314 |
| 103 | Xabi Alonso | 321 |
| 104 | Yegor Titov | 324 |
| 105 | Abdulaziz Al-Khathran | 325 |
| 106 | Carlos Bonet | 334 |
| 107 | Carlos Paredes | 336 |
| 108 | DaMarcus Beasley | 338 |
| 109 | Daniel Andersson | 339 |
| 110 | David Albelda | 341 |
| 111 | Diego Gavilan | 344 |
| 112 | Eddie Lewis | 345 |
| 113 | Edwin Tenorio | 347 |
| 114 | Gilberto Silva | 351 |
| 115 | Hugo Viana | 355 |
| 116 | Jacek Krzynowek | 359 |
| 117 | Joaquin Sanchez | 363 |
| 118 | Jurica Vranjes | 368 |
| 119 | Kaies Ghodhbane | 370 |
| 120 | Mattias Jonson | 378 |
| 121 | Mauricio Solis | 379 |
| 122 | Mitsuo Ogasawara | 382 |
| 123 | Mohammad Al-Shalhoub | 384 |
| 124 | Mohammed Noor | 385 |
| 125 | Nam-Il Kim | 386 |
| 126 | Nawaf Al-Temyat | 387 |
| 127 | Omar Al-Ghamdi | 389 |
| 128 | Owen Hargreaves | 390 |
| 129 | Petit Goncalves | 392 |
| 130 | Rafael Garcia | 393 |
| 131 | Ramon Morales | 394 |
| 132 | Riadh Bouazizi | 396 |
| 133 | Ricardinho Pozzi | 397 |
| 134 | Roberto Acuna | 399 |
| 135 | Shinji Ono | 401 |
| 136 | Takashi Fukunishi | 404 |
| 137 | Tobias Linderoth | 406 |
| 138 | Walter Centeno | 410 |
| 139 | Adrian Mutu | 413 |
| 140 | Edgar Davids | 421 |
| 141 | Fernando Redondo | 423 |
| 142 | Ricardo Quaresma | 435 |
| 143 | Stefan Effenberg | 438 |
| 144 | Theodoros Zagorakis | 439 |
| 145 | Tiago Mendes | 440 |
| 146 | Vicente Rodriguez | 442 |
| 147 | Yoann Gourcuff | 443 |
| 148 | Aaron Lennon | 446 |
| 149 | Abdul Kader Keita | 449 |
| 150 | Abdullah Al-Waked | 451 |
| 151 | Abdullah Ercan | 452 |
| 152 | Adekambi Olufade | 456 |
| 153 | Adel Chedli | 457 |
| 154 | Alain Boghossian | 468 |
| 155 | Alaixys Romao | 469 |
| 156 | Albert Nad | 473 |
| 157 | Alberto Garcia Aspe | 474 |
| 158 | Aleksandr Mostovoi | 480 |
| 159 | Ales Ceh | 482 |
| 160 | Alex Aguinaga | 483 |
| 161 | Alexey Smertin | 485 |
| 162 | Alfonso Obregon | 486 |
| 163 | Ali Karimi | 488 |
| 164 | Alou Diarra | 491 |
| 165 | Amdy Faye | 494 |
| 166 | Anatoliy Tymoshchuk | 498 |
| 167 | Andranik Teymourian | 500 |
| 168 | Andre Macanga | 501 |
| 169 | Andres Guardado | 507 |
| 170 | Andriy Husin | 509 |
| 171 | Angelo Di Livio | 515 |
| 172 | Anthony Wolfe | 519 |
| 173 | Antonio Mendonca | 523 |
| 174 | Antonio Valencia | 524 |
| 175 | Ariel Ortega | 527 |
| 176 | Arkadiusz Bak | 529 |
| 177 | Arkadiusz Radomski | 531 |
| 178 | Aurtis Whitley | 539 |
| 179 | Bart Goor | 542 |
| 180 | Ben Olsen | 544 |
| 181 | Bennett Mnguni | 546 |
| 182 | Bernd Thijs | 547 |
| 183 | Blerim Dzemaili | 550 |
| 184 | Bobby Convey | 551 |
| 185 | Braulio Luna | 557 |
| 186 | Brian Steen Nielsen | 561 |
| 187 | Capucho Goncalves | 564 |
| 188 | Carlos Hernandez (1982) | 568 |
| 189 | Carsten Ramelow | 573 |
| 190 | Cherif Toure Mamam | 578 |
| 191 | Chris Birchall | 580 |
| 192 | Christian Bolanos | 583 |
| 193 | Christian Lara | 584 |
| 194 | Christian Poulsen | 586 |
| 195 | Christian Wilhelmsson | 587 |
| 196 | Claudio Husain | 594 |
| 197 | Claus Jensen | 596 |
| 198 | Cleber Chala | 598 |
| 199 | Cobi Jones | 600 |
| 200 | Costinha Rodrigues | 603 |
| 201 | Cristian Riveros | 604 |
| 202 | Cristiano Doni | 606 |
| 203 | Cristiano Zanetti | 607 |
| 204 | Daisuke Ichikawa | 613 |
| 205 | Daniel Kome | 616 |
| 206 | Daniele De Rossi | 623 |
| 207 | Danny Boffin | 625 |
| 208 | Danny Fonseca | 626 |
| 209 | Dariusz Dudka | 632 |
| 210 | David Degen | 635 |
| 211 | David Jarolim | 636 |
| 212 | David Odonkor | 638 |
| 213 | Dejan Stankovic | 645 |
| 214 | Delron Buckley | 647 |
| 215 | Denny Landzaat | 650 |
| 216 | Densill Theobald | 651 |
| 217 | Derek Boateng | 652 |
| 218 | Didier Zokora | 654 |
| 219 | Diego Simeone | 657 |
| 220 | Dietmar Hamann | 659 |
| 221 | Dmitri Alenichev | 661 |
| 222 | Dmitri Khokhlov | 662 |
| 223 | Do-Heon Kim | 665 |
| 224 | Douglas Sequeira | 667 |
| 225 | Dzoni Novak | 674 |
| 226 | Earnie Stewart | 675 |
| 227 | Edgar Barreto | 678 |
| 228 | Edson Nobre | 680 |
| 229 | Emerse Fae | 683 |
| 230 | Emmanuel Petit | 687 |
| 231 | Ergun Penbe | 690 |
| 232 | Eric Djemba-Djemba | 694 |
| 233 | Estanislao Struway | 697 |
| 234 | Evans Wise | 700 |
| 235 | Fabian O'Neill | 701 |
| 236 | Femi Opabunmi | 709 |
| 237 | Ferydoon Zandi | 713 |
| 238 | Franck Atsou | 720 |
| 239 | Frankie Hejduk | 723 |
| 240 | Gabriel Caballero | 728 |
| 241 | Gaetan Englebert | 732 |
| 242 | Gao Yao | 733 |
| 243 | Garba Lawal | 734 |
| 244 | German Villa | 744 |
| 245 | Gianni Guigou | 746 |
| 246 | Gilles Yapi Yapo | 747 |
| 247 | Gonzalo de los Santos | 750 |
| 248 | Guido Alvarenga | 757 |
| 249 | Gustavo Lopez | 760 |
| 250 | Gustavo Morinigo | 762 |
| 251 | Hakan Yakin | 769 |
| 252 | Hamed Namouchi | 773 |
| 253 | Hans Sarpei | 774 |
| 254 | Hassen Gabsi | 780 |
| 255 | Hedwiges Maduro | 782 |
| 256 | Hernan Medford | 785 |
| 257 | Ho Lee | 787 |
| 258 | Ibrahim Suwayed | 791 |
| 259 | Igor Duljaj | 794 |
| 260 | Igor Semshov | 795 |
| 261 | Igor Tudor | 796 |
| 262 | Ivan Ergic | 804 |
| 263 | Ivan Leko | 806 |
| 264 | Jabu Pule | 808 |
| 265 | James Obiorah | 815 |
| 266 | Jan Michaelsen | 818 |
| 267 | Jan Polak | 819 |
| 268 | Jaroslav Plasil | 822 |
| 269 | Jason Culina | 823 |
| 270 | Jason McAteer | 824 |
| 271 | Javad Nekounam | 827 |
| 272 | Javier de Pedro | 828 |
| 273 | Javier Mascherano | 829 |
| 274 | Jay-Jay Okocha | 831 |
| 275 | Jens Jeremies | 836 |
| 276 | Jerko Leko | 838 |
| 277 | Jermaine Jenas | 839 |
| 278 | Jesper Gronkjaer | 842 |
| 279 | Ji-Hoon Baek | 844 |
| 280 | Joel Epalle | 850 |
| 281 | Johan Rodriguez | 856 |
| 282 | Johann Vogel | 857 |
| 283 | John Paintsil | 861 |
| 284 | John Utaka | 862 |
| 285 | Jong-Hwan Yoon | 863 |
| 286 | Jorg Bohme | 864 |
| 287 | Jose Kleberson | 877 |
| 288 | Jose Montiel | 880 |
| 289 | Joseph N'Do | 882 |
| 290 | Josip Skoko | 886 |
| 291 | Juan Carlos Burbano | 887 |
| 292 | Julio dos Santos | 895 |
| 293 | Juninho Paulista | 896 |
| 294 | Justice Christopher | 897 |
| 295 | Kamil Kosowski | 900 |
| 296 | Kanga Akale | 901 |
| 297 | Karel Poborsky | 902 |
| 298 | Kazuyuki Toda | 908 |
| 299 | Kevin Kilbane | 913 |
| 300 | Khaled Aziz | 915 |
| 301 | Khamis Al-Owairan | 918 |
| 302 | Kieron Dyer | 919 |
| 303 | Kily Gonzalez | 920 |
| 304 | Kim Kallstrom | 921 |
| 305 | Koffi Romaric | 923 |
| 306 | Kuami Agboh | 925 |
| 307 | Lars Ricken | 930 |
| 308 | Lauren Bisan-Etame | 931 |
| 309 | Lee Carsley | 933 |
| 310 | Li Tie | 937 |
| 311 | Li Xiaopeng | 939 |
| 312 | Libor Sionko | 940 |
| 313 | Lucho Gonzalez | 946 |
| 314 | Luigi Di Biagio | 950 |
| 315 | Luis Ernesto Perez | 953 |
| 316 | Luis Gomez | 954 |
| 317 | Luis Saritama | 956 |
| 318 | Luka Modric | 959 |
| 319 | Ma Mingyu | 962 |
| 320 | MacBeth Sibaya | 964 |
| 321 | MacDonald Mukansi | 965 |
| 322 | Magnus Svensson | 969 |
| 323 | Makhtar N'Diaye | 970 |
| 324 | Marat Izmailov | 975 |
| 325 | Marcelo Gallardo | 977 |
| 326 | Marcelo Romero | 978 |
| 327 | Marc-Vivien Foe | 987 |
| 328 | Marek Kozminski | 990 |
| 329 | Mario Regueiro | 995 |
| 330 | Mario Stanic | 996 |
| 331 | Mark Bresciano | 1000 |
| 332 | Mark Kinsella | 1002 |
| 333 | Marko Babic | 1006 |
| 334 | Martin Jorgensen | 1011 |
| 335 | Masoud Shojaei | 1017 |
| 336 | Matias Almeyda | 1022 |
| 337 | Mehdi Mahdavikia | 1027 |
| 338 | Mehdi Nafti | 1028 |
| 339 | Mehrzad Madanchi | 1029 |
| 340 | Michael Carrick | 1032 |
| 341 | Mile Sterjovski | 1043 |
| 342 | Miloy Joaquim | 1044 |
| 343 | Mineiro da Silva | 1045 |
| 344 | Miran Pavlin | 1047 |
| 345 | Miroslaw Szymkowiak | 1048 |
| 346 | Mohammed Ameen | 1058 |
| 347 | Moharram Navidkia | 1060 |
| 348 | Mourad Melki | 1062 |
| 349 | Moussa N'Diaye | 1063 |
| 350 | Mutiu Adepoju | 1066 |
| 351 | Muzzy Izzet | 1067 |
| 352 | Nastja Ceh | 1071 |
| 353 | Nicky Butt | 1077 |
| 354 | Nicolas Alnoudji | 1080 |
| 355 | Niko Kranjcar | 1085 |
| 356 | Ognjen Koroman | 1090 |
| 357 | Okan Buruk | 1092 |
| 358 | Oleh Husyev | 1093 |
| 359 | Oleh Shelayev | 1094 |
| 360 | Pablo Garcia (1977) | 1107 |
| 361 | Pape Sarr | 1111 |
| 362 | Patricio Urrutia | 1114 |
| 363 | Paulo Bento | 1119 |
| 364 | Paulo Figueiredo | 1122 |
| 365 | Paulo Sousa | 1124 |
| 366 | Pavel Pardo | 1126 |
| 367 | Pawel Sibik | 1128 |
| 368 | Pedro Barbosa | 1129 |
| 369 | Phillip Cocu | 1140 |
| 370 | Piotr Giza | 1144 |
| 371 | Piotr Swierczewski | 1145 |
| 372 | Pius Ikedia | 1146 |
| 373 | Pontus Farnerud | 1148 |
| 374 | Predrag Dordevic | 1149 |
| 375 | Qi Hong | 1150 |
| 376 | Radoslaw Kaluzny | 1155 |
| 377 | Radoslaw Sobolewski | 1157 |
| 378 | Rajko Tavcar | 1159 |
| 379 | Randall Azofeifa | 1160 |
| 380 | Ricardo Cabanas | 1169 |
| 381 | Robert Prosinecki | 1181 |
| 382 | Rodrigo Cordero | 1183 |
| 383 | Ruslan Rotan | 1189 |
| 384 | Russell Latapy | 1190 |
| 385 | Salomon Olembe | 1194 |
| 386 | Saud Kariri | 1200 |
| 387 | Scott Chipperfield | 1203 |
| 388 | Sebastian Mila | 1205 |
| 389 | Segundo Castillo | 1206 |
| 390 | Selim Benachour | 1208 |
| 391 | Sergei Semak | 1210 |
| 392 | Sergio Conceicao | 1211 |
| 393 | Sergio Gonzalez | 1212 |
| 394 | Serhiy Nazarenko | 1213 |
| 395 | Shao Jiayi | 1215 |
| 396 | Sibusiso Zuma | 1216 |
| 397 | Sigifredo Mercado | 1218 |
| 398 | Simone Barone | 1219 |
| 399 | Simone Perrotta | 1220 |
| 400 | Sofiane Melliti | 1221 |
| 401 | Steven Pienaar | 1232 |
| 402 | Steven Reid | 1233 |
| 403 | Stewart Downing | 1234 |
| 404 | Stig Tofting | 1235 |
| 405 | Sung-Yong Choi | 1238 |
| 406 | Sven Vermant | 1239 |
| 407 | Sylvain N'Diaye | 1240 |
| 408 | Tayfur Havutcu | 1245 |
| 409 | Thabo Mngomeni | 1249 |
| 410 | Thomas Dossevi | 1251 |
| 411 | Thomas Gravesen | 1252 |
| 412 | Thomas Hitzlsperger | 1254 |
| 413 | Tiago Cardoso | 1255 |
| 414 | Tim Borowski | 1256 |
| 415 | Timmy Simons | 1259 |
| 416 | Tomas Galasek | 1263 |
| 417 | Tomokazu Myojin | 1270 |
| 418 | Trevor Sinclair | 1275 |
| 419 | Tugay Kerimoglu | 1276 |
| 420 | Valon Behrami | 1281 |
| 421 | Vampeta | 1282 |
| 422 | Vikash Dhorasoo | 1284 |
| 423 | Vince Grella | 1286 |
| 424 | Wellington Sanchez | 1298 |
| 425 | Wesley Sneijder | 1300 |
| 426 | Wilmer Lopez | 1302 |
| 427 | Xavier Margairaz | 1305 |
| 428 | Yao Aziawonou | 1309 |
| 429 | Yao Junior Senaya | 1310 |
| 430 | Yassine Chikhaoui | 1311 |
| 431 | Yasuhito Endo | 1312 |
| 432 | Youri Djorkaeff | 1319 |
| 433 | Yu Genwei | 1320 |
| 434 | Yves Vanderhaeghe | 1326 |
| 435 | Ze Kalanga Baptista | 1329 |
| 436 | Zhao Junzhe | 1333 |
| 437 | Zoran Pavlovic | 1334 |
| 438 | Zoubeir Baya | 1335 |
| 439 | Zvonimir Soldo | 1336 |
| 440 | Zvonimir Vukic | 1337 |
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