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100 Best Male Footballers 2024

Can you name the top international football players in the world in 2024 according to a panel of 197 judges organized by the Guardian?
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Last updated: February 11, 2025
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Nation
Club
Player
1.
Manchester City
Rodri
2.
Real Madrid
Vinícius Júnior
3.
Manchester City
Erling Haaland
4.
Barcelona
Lamine Yamal
5.
Real Madrid
Jude Bellingham
6.
Bayern Munich
Harry Kane
7.
Inter
Lautaro Martínez
8.
Bayer Leverkusen
Florian Wirtz
9.
Real Madrid
Dani Carvajal
10.
Real Madrid
Kylian Mbappé
11.
Liverpool
Mohamed Salah
12.
Chelsea
Cole Palmer
13.
Arsenal
Bukayo Saka
14.
Athletic Bilbao
Nico Williams
15.
Manchester City
Phil Foden
16.
Real Madrid
Toni Kroos
17.
Barcelona
Dani Olmo
18.
Arsenal
Martin Ødegaard
19.
Bayern Munich
Jamal Musiala
20.
Real Madrid
Federico Valverde
21.
Barcelona
Robert Lewandowski
22.
Atalanta
Ademola Lookman
23.
Aston Villa
Emiliano Martínez
24.
Real Madrid
Antonio Rüdiger
25.
Barcelona
Raphinha
26.
Bayer Leverkusen
Granit Xhaka
27.
Inter Miami
Lionel Messi
28.
Arsenal
William Saliba
29.
Sporting CP
Viktor Gyökeres
30.
Liverpool
Virgil van Dijk
31.
Real Madrid
Rodrygo
32.
Inter
Hakan Calhanoglu
33.
Bayer Leverkusen
Alex Grimaldo
34.
Arsenal
Declan Rice
35.
Manchester City
Rúben Dias
36.
Manchester City
Kevin De Bruyne
37.
Liverpool
Luis Díaz
38.
Liverpool
Alexis Mac Allister
39.
Barcelona
Pedri
40.
Manchester City
Bernardo Silva
41.
Atlético Madrid
Antoine Griezmann
42.
Al-Nassr
Cristiano Ronaldo
43.
Borussia Dortmund
Serhou Guirassy
44.
Paris Saint-Germain
Fabián Ruiz
45.
Manchester City
Josko Gvardiol
46.
Inter
Nicolò Barella
47.
Paris Saint-Germain
Vitinha
48.
Roma
Artem Dovbyk
49.
Paris Saint-Germain
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
50.
Manchester City
Ederson
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Nation
Club
Player
51.
Real Madrid
Thibaut Courtois
52.
Inter
Alessandro Bastoni
53.
Inter
Federico Dimarco
54.
Aston Villa
Ollie Watkins
55.
Atlético Madrid
Julián Alvarez
56.
Paris Saint-Germain
Achraf Hakimi
57.
Arsenal
Gabriel Magalhães
58.
Real Madrid
Luka Modric
59.
Manchester City
Omar Marmoush
60.
Tottenham Hotspur
Son Heung-min
61.
AC Milan
Rafael Leão
62.
Bayer Leverkusen
Victor Boniface
63.
Manchester United
Bruno Fernandes
64.
Bayer Leverkusen
Jeremie Frimpong
65.
Roma
Mats Hummels
66.
Liverpool
Trent Alexander-Arnold
67.
Inter
Marcus Thuram
68.
AC Milan
Kyle Walker
69.
RB Leipzig
Xavi Simons
70.
AC Milan
Álvaro Morata
71.
Benfica
Ángel Di María
72.
Chelsea
Marc Cucurella
73.
Lille
Jonathan David
74.
Galatasaray
Victor Osimhen
75.
Bayer Leverkusen
Jonathan Tah
76.
Bayern Munich
Joshua Kimmich
77.
Club León
James Rodríguez
78.
Arsenal
Kai Havertz
79.
Liverpool
Alisson
80.
Valencia
Giorgi Mamardashvili​
81.
Barcelona
Pau Cubarsí
82.
Real Madrid
Andriy Lunin
83.
Tottenham Hotspur
Cristian Romero
84.
Liverpool
Cody Gakpo
85.
Bayern Munich
Michael Olise
86.
Arsenal
David Raya
87.
Barcelona
Jules Koundé
88.
Paris Saint-Germain
Bradley Barcola
89.
Real Madrid
Eduardo Camavinga
90.
Newcastle
Alexander Isak
91.
Athletic Bilbao
Unai Simón
92.
Borussia Dortmund
Gregor Kobel
93.
Juventus
Dusan Vlahovic
94.
Manchester City
Savinho
95.
AC Milan
Christian Pulisic
96.
AC Milan
Mike Maignan
97.
Arsenal
Riccardo Calafiori
98.
Al-Hilal
Aleksandar Mitrovic
99.
Borussia Dortmund
Julian Brandt
100.
Borussia Dortmund
Marcel Sabitzer
32 Comments
+8
Level ∞
Dec 22, 2024
Crazy how much turnover there is year to year.
+4
Level 77
Dec 24, 2024
That's what always bugs me about this list. It seems completely reactionary and dependent on a few small factors, like who won the champions league and whatever international tournament took place. Dani Carvajal wasn't even on the list last year and now, somehow, he's 9th
+1
Level 64
Dec 22, 2024
Never heard of the top 3
+10
Level 65
Dec 22, 2024
lift that rock buddy
+2
Level 59
Dec 22, 2024
No he's right... How does a top 3 not contain Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar, Lewa, Suarez

Times are changing

+2
Level 64
Dec 29, 2024
Wasn’t meant to be a confronting or questioning comment, just an observation. I’m not a soccer fan by any means, just weird that the top 3 aren’t making any major headlines.
+3
Level 67
Dec 31, 2024
If you think Rodri, Haaland, and Vini Jr haven't been in the headlines this year, I don't know what sport you're watching
+1
Level 75
Jan 28, 2025
They did say that they're not a soccer fan, and as a soccer fan myself I get what they mean, they aren't grabbing the same genre-breaking attention as Messi and Ronaldo did. Idk if that's because of who the players are or change in media coverage
+1
Level 65
Jan 29, 2025
Well it's probably unlikely we'll ever get players as good as Messi and Ronaldo in the same generation again, so its fair to say that the standard has declined.
+4
Level 76
Dec 22, 2024
Haaland has been breaking Premier League records since 2022. He's got the coveted 'most goals in a season' record that Alan Shearer and Andy Cole held since 1993/95
+2
Level 66
Dec 29, 2024
Even more impressive considering Shearer and Cole played 4 more games a season
+3
Level 60
Dec 30, 2024
Tell me you're American without telling me you're American.
+3
Level 76
Dec 22, 2024
Interesting list, I love football and follow it every week but I feel my non-premier league knowledge has fallen off a cliff in the last few years. Probably would've scored higher on a quiz on 2014 best players!

Some odds picks on here though, like what has Savinho done to justify being top 100? He's been average since La Liga finished in May. Walker has also been poor since the season ended. And why is James Rodriguez here?? He's literally had 15 appearances in the whole of 2024.

+2
Level 75
Dec 22, 2024
Because James is kinda goated
+3
Level 76
Dec 23, 2024
Haha nice, didn't know it existed!
+1
Level 46
Dec 30, 2024
Savinho was brilliant for Girona last season, like Dovbyk and has played decently for City. Definitely not a guaranteed top 100 player but there are names on the list that deserve it less than him in my opinion
+1
Level 87
Dec 23, 2024
No Alphonso Davies, Alaba, or De Jong is crazy
+4
Level 68
Dec 29, 2024
Alaba didn't even play a single game in 2024...
+1
Level 91
Dec 23, 2024
I think the word male in the quiz title is entirely superfluous. Despite an organised campaign of gaslighting I still recognise the professional women’s game for what it is. The best ladies in the world would be beaten by a decent U-15 boys team. There are many reasons for this.

It’s only when young girls start putting in the hours playing football in the quantity and to the level of the boys that this might change. But that is for them to decide, not a media rabidly pushing an inferior product for the perception of equality.

There.

+9
Level 65
Dec 23, 2024
ok boss
+1
Level 91
Dec 24, 2024
But I bet you wouldn’t have put “Best Male American Footballer” because that would sound weird
+3
Level 24
Dec 24, 2024
Lookman this high feels... iffy. A hat-trick against Leverkusen was stellar performance, but is it justifiable for 22nd? Seems too result-oriented, especially when Gyokeres and Guirassy were far more consistently lethal.
+2
Level 72
Dec 29, 2024
I only got 10/100 and I've only heard about maybe 1/4 of them all. Long gone are the days when I was the biggest football nerd in my school. I bet I would've scored around 80/100 in 2006 or something.
+2
Level 24
Dec 29, 2024
Disagree with some of these but when you bare in mind that this list is based on 2024 and 2024 alone not taking into account the rest of each players' careers then it's not too bad
+2
Level 66
Dec 29, 2024
Phil Foden? Really????
+1
Level 51
Dec 30, 2024
Heard of 4. Got 3 lol
+1
Level 29
Dec 30, 2024
No raphinia and Messi on 27 th?
+2
Level 25
Dec 30, 2024
The Guardian judges must be delusional to put Romero in this list.. coming from a Spurs fan, van de Ven was way better.
+1
Level 16
Dec 30, 2024
You scored 100/100 = 100%

This beats or equals 99% of test takers

The average score is 40

Your high score is 100

+1
Level 10
Dec 31, 2024
football is dying man
+1
Level 74
Jan 2, 2025
Rodri's BO is absolutely deserved! I will never understand those who claim Vini was robbed...