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100 Best Male Footballers in the World. The Guardian 100 Best Male Footballers in the World is a list of the greatest male footballers published annually by the British newspaper The Guardian. From its inception to 2017, it was known as The Guardian 100 Best Footballers in the World. It is decided by a panel of experts from several nations. [1][2]
The Best FIFA Men's Player is an association football award presented annually by the sport's governing body, FIFA, since 2016, to honour the player deemed to have performed the best over the previous calendar year. [1] The award was formerly known as the FIFA World Player of the Year, which was merged with France Football ' s Ballon d'Or in ...
FIFA Men's World Ranking. The FIFA Men's World Ranking is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, led by Argentina as of July 2024. [1] The men's teams of the member nations of FIFA, football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.
The FIFA 100 is a list compiled by Brazilian professional footballer Pelé featuring his choices of the "greatest living footballers" at the time of its release. The list was unveiled on 4 March 2004 during a gala ceremony at the Natural History Museum in London, England, as part of the celebrations commemorating the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Fédération Internationale de ...
On 3 December, Mbappé was the inaugural winner of the Kopa Trophy, which is awarded by France Football to the best under-21 player in the world. [81] On 19 January 2019, Mbappé was one of two players (the other being Cavani) to score a hat-trick in a 9–0 win over Guingamp, breaking a record PSG had set the previous season. [82]
Josef Bican is credited by FIFA with 805 goals. Luis Suárez, the most recent to score 500 goals. Alfredo Di Stéfano, the first South American to score 500 goals. Imre Schlosser, the first footballer to score 500 goals. According to the IFFHS and other media outlets, 25 players are credited with scoring 500 or more goals in top-level ...
Players in bold are still active at international level. Players in italics also hold the record for most caps for their nation. Rank is a count of the 211 FIFA nations. Fourteen nations (Aruba, Azerbaijan, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Scotland, South Sudan, Suriname, United States and U.S. Virgin Islands) have a pair of players tied for national l
French club Lyon has had the most players in the Top 100 with 103 selections. In 2022, Barcelona became the first club other than Lyon to have the most players selected in a single year and retained the top spot the following year. Clubs are counted when a player in the Top 100 played for that team in the same calendar year they were selected.