Best Players Never To Play At A FIFA World Cup

Can you name the 32 best players never to play at a FIFA World Cup, according to FourFourTwo?

* not recognised by FIFA at the time

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Last updated: March 9, 2025

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Rank	Player	Country
1	Alfredo Di Stéfano	Argentina/Colombia*/Spain
2	George Best	Northern Ireland
3	Laszlo Kubala	Czechoslovakia/Hungary/Spain
4	Valentino Mazzola	Italy
5	Ryan Giggs	Wales
6	George Weah	Liberia
7	Gunnar Nordahl	Sweden
8	Éric Cantona	France
9	Duncan Edwards	England
10	Ian Rush	Wales
11	Bernd Schuster	West Germany
12	David Ginola	France
13	Johnny Giles	Republic of Ireland
14	Abedi Pele	Ghana
15	Liam Brady	Republic of Ireland
16	Neville Southall	Wales
17	Bill Foulkes	England
18	Dimitar Berbatov	Bulgaria
19	Jari Litmanen	Finland
20	Sami Hyypiä	Finland
21	Matt Le Tissier	England
22	Mahmoud El Khatib	Egypt
23	Kakha Kaladze	Georgia
24	Andy Cole	England
25	Mohamed Aboutrika	Egypt
26	Bruce Grobbelaar	Zimbabwe
27	Georgi Kinkladze	Georgia
28	Gary Speed	Wales
29	Paolo Di Canio	Italy
30	Lee Dixon	England
31	Cristian Chivu	Romania
32	Kazuyoshi Miura	Japan

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2 Comments

Level 48

Mar 21, 2025

I agree with all of the non-English selections: how did I miss C and G?

I'd never have got some of the English ones though. 4-4-2 really made some strange calls there.

Good quiz though. I enjoyed it.

Level 66

May 29, 2025

Nice quiz, but the one you definitely missed is HORST BLANKENBURG.