brace yourselves for some heavy disagreements

You have guts making this video 😂

4 years later….and Messi is now even greater than he was when you made the video… absolute GOAT

Where is the guy who writes the entire top 100 list for the sake of like😂

1. Harry Maguire 2. Harry O'Maguire 3. Harry Maguireinho 4. Harry Maguireovic 5. Harry Maguiresson

Team with the most players: 1- Milan (18) 2- Barcelona (16) 3- Juventus (15) 4- Inter (12) 5- Real Madrid (11)

People think 100 footballers is a lot and should be easy to get on the list, but when you think how long football has gone for and how many legends there have been in each decade, 100 footballers is a really small number and is tougher to get in than you think. So instead of being annoyed that your favourite childhood footballers are somewhere between the 100-60 spot, you should be thrilled that your favourite footballers are even mentioned!

Stoichkov was a ballon D’or winner and was one of the most dominant strikers of his time. He should’ve made it

My top 3: 1: Bendtner 2: Fellaini 3: Karius Edit: thanks for 1k likes :)

1) Connor Wickham 2)The Invisible banana peel at Anfield 3)Karius Kahn 4) Felé

It make me feel proud that Ronaldo and messi are in the top 5 while they are still playing and i have watched countless of their games live... let's enjoy the remaining of their careers

Fascinating and very well researched. Thanks for compiling this list!

Well I mean If pirlo was 99 I'm scared

I think Busquets is a very underrated player but he is not better than Thierry Henry

Maybe the best option to please everybody would be to somehow include 300 names in the top-100 list...

TOP 10 1. Lionel Messi 48:02 2. Pele 45:46 3. Diego Maradona 45:05 4. Alfredo Di Stefano 44:21 5. Cristiano Ronaldo 43:18 6. Johan Cruyff 42:43 7. Ronaldo Fenomeno 42:05 8. Franz Beckenbauer 41:25 9. Ferenc Puskas 40:44 10. Michel Platini 40:11

I dont agree with how low you put Iniesta. In my opinion Xavi and Iniesta aren't that far apart in greatness.

Never forget Jordan Ibe>Raheem Sterling - Scousers 2015

I love your videos and I love the idea of this one but based on your criteria, I think Gerd muller and Zinedine Zidane should have made the top 20 any day! And Beckenbauer possible a bit higher too. Great video though, absolute joy.

Leonidas, Socrates and Oliver Khan would make my Top 3 in coolest names

One thing I learnt reading the live chat is that people think football started in 1990 lmao

Egyptians be like :WhY iSnt SaLaH HeRe

Shearer, ibra, cantona, stiles, neuer, dennis Irwin, cannavaro and suarez (recent) all make it into my top 100

GREAT LIST ! So much effort put in and remembering players of the past.....thank you.

I love how almost everyone in Sweden agrees Zlatan is the best Swedish player ever, and yet he's not in the top 100, but three other Swedes are lol

I can't believe Phil Jones isn't on this list

Top 4 for me: 1) Pelé 2) Messi 3) Cristiano Ronaldo 4) Maradona "Until now"

zlatan must be on the list, he has been one of the best from 2005 and has never stopped scoring goals even though he plays in different leagues, he is the most productive player in the 21st century after messi and ronaldo, he is ranked 11th goal scorer most of all time, I think zlatan can enter the top 30 and even the top 20

What most people seem to forget, is that Johan Cruyff was chosen Europe’s best footballer of the 20th Century! I. O. W. The best player in a 100 years. His influence on the game is still current today. No other player (the Pelé’s and Maradona’s, etc.) had such an impact on The Beautiful Game as he did. Johan, R. I. P.

To be honest I haven't heard of half of these people!

I love you for your knowledge in all these legends

It's 100 greatest footballers of all time. Before 1930: 1. Ricardo Zamora, 2. Hector Scarone, 3. Arthur Friedenreich, 4. Jose Nasazzi, 5. Dixie Dean, 6. Imre Schlosser, 7. Jose Leandro Andrade, 8. Pedro Petrone, 9. Angel Romano, 10. Vivian Woodward. 1930-1939: 1. Giuseppe Meazza, 2. Matthias Sindelar, 3. Leonidas, 4. Silvio Piola, 5. Gyorgy Sarosi, 6. Arsenio Erico, 7. Luis Monti, 8. Raimundo Orsi, 9. Ernest Wilimowski, 10. Severino Varela. 1940-1949: 1. Josef Bican, 2. Zizinho, 3. Valentino Mazzola, 4. Jose Manuel Moreno, 5. Stanley Matthews, 6. Ademir, 7. Telmo Zarra, 8. Adolfo Pedernera, 9. Fritz Walter, 10. Angel Labruna. 1950-1959: 1. Alfredo Di Stefano, 2. Ferenc Puskas, 3. Raymond Kopa, 4. Didi, 5. Sandor Kocsis, 6. Juan Alberto Schiaffino, 7. Gunnar Nordahl, 8. Ladislao Kubala, 9. Just Fontaine, 10. Francisco Gento. 1960-1969: 1. Pele, 2. Garrincha, 3. Eusebio, 4. Bobby Charlton, 5. Lev Yashin, 6. George Best, 7. Gianni Rivera, 8. Luis Suarez Miramontes, 9. Omar Sivori, 10. Bobby Moore. 1970-1979: 1. Johan Cruyff, 2. Franz Beckenbauer, 3. Gerd Mueller, 4. Mario Kempes, 5. Kevin Keegan, 6. Sepp Maier, 7. Dino Zoff, 8. Rivellino, 9. Kazimierz Deyna, 10. Jairzinho. 1980-1989: 1. Diego Armando Maradona, 2. Michel Platini, 3. Zico, 4. Marco Van Basten, 5. Ruud Gullit, 6. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, 7. Franco Baresi, 8. Paolo Rossi, 9. Zbigniew Boniek, 10. Hugo Sanchez. 1990-1999: 1. Roberto Baggio, 2. Romario, 3. Gabriel Batistuta, 4. Lothar Matthaeus, 5. Paolo Maldini, 6. Hristo Stoichkov, 7. Roberto Carlos, 8. Jurgen Klinsmann, 9. Denis Bergkamp, 10. Michael Laudrup. 2000-2009: 1. Ronaldo, 2. Zinedine Zidane, 3. Ronaldinho, 4. Raul, 5. Luis Figo, 6. Rivaldo, 7. Andrea Pirlo, 8. Thierry Henry, 9. Iker Casillas, 10. Gianluigi Buffon. 2010-2020: 1. Cristiano Ronaldo, 2. Lionel Messi, 3. Neymar, 4. Andres Iniesta, 5. Xavi, 6. Manuel Neuer, 7. Robert Lewandowski, 8. Zlatan Ibrahimović, 9. Luis Suarez, 10. Sergio Ramos. You welcome ;-)

Bendtner, Chamakh, Fellaini, Karius, Heskey, Bakayoko, Voronin, Sanogo, Mignolet, Sisokko, Zaza, Benzema, Bravo, Lukaku & Morata better be in there. #Lords

How is Sergio Busquets better than Thierry Henry?!

Uwe Seeler and Fritz Walter😍Glad you included them

Was searching for a comment which had the names to save my time😔

I think FIFA haven't yet made an icon card for Alfredo di Stefano and Franz Beckenbauer because they haven't yet figured out which position to give them.

1. Loris Karius. 2. Adebayo Akinfenwa. 3. Callum Paterson.

Henry should be at least top 40

In my opinion Manuel Neuer has earned at least an honorable mention

Dennis Bergkamp might just be the most underrated player in the history of the beautiful game.

Kaka and Rooney not even in the honourable mentions?

Amazing Video 👌 must be a ton of work. Greating from Germany 🇩🇪

I think Raul at least deserved to be in honorable mentions, but a good list anyways:)

Thierry Henry number 94 wowwwwww that’s disappointing

Huge respect to you for making this list, I’ve recently tried to make my own top 50 and I didn’t realise how hard it would be, let alone a top 100! I revisited this vid for help and I was blown away by your detail so well done

Kinda wild Messi was already seen as the goat 5 years ago, and now he has a World Cup and Copa America as well

Lionel Messi at the top spot paid off big time 4 you. I used to be the biggest Messi hater ever since he scored the header against Utd followed by Wembley. Not anymore.

How is Henry number 94? And rivaldo 89???????

I feel like you overlooked Kaka here, between 2003-2009, he was the best CAM in the world and just made everything look effortless

I don't get why people say C. Ronaldo doesn't do much outside of goal scoring when he as the 4th or 5th highest assist record of all time in Football. By the time he left La Liga, he had the 3rd highest assist record behind Xavi and Messi, and currently has the highest assist record in Champions League history.

It’s crazy how many great Italian players are on this list. Also so many Argentinians, Brazilians, Uruguayans of Italian decent on the list. There has to be something genetic on why Italians are so good at football.

We did it! 100,000 subscribers before the end of the year! Your boss did not believe in you, but you proved him wrong big time! Even before December! Plus, now we've got this amazing video coming up! Yay!

If Lord Bendtner isn’t on this list I’m taking away my subscription

Great video, obviously I disagree with some placements but I think Busquets is very underrated and I'm happy he is on here

So many people who complain about this list because they don’t have knowledge of football history. Everyone complaining is only asking where a certain 21st century player is or why they are lower than they think.

Kaka? Shevchenko? Raul? Hierro? Cannavaro? Nedved? Puyol? Giggs? Zola?

Zidane 41 Henry 96🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

“If you take Cristiano’s 700 goals away he’s not an all time great” is the worst argument I’ve ever heard mate

Still would love to see an updated version of this!

And at number 0: Jessie Lingard. Lingardinho has scored more premier League goals than Messi and Pele combined! He's also still so young!

1.) Heskey 2.) Santa Claus 3.) Godzilla 4.) Sugar Puff Monster 5.) Aquaman

actually someone who watches football what a great video btw

Top vid! I expected to hear Cafu mentioned at some point, but to be fair, it seems like you've done more research than me

Greatest players never to win Ballon d'or 1:Thierry Henry 2:Gianluigi Buffon 3:Frank Lampard 4:Alan Shearer 5:Peter Scmeichel 6:Roy Keane 7:Wayne Rooney 8:Iniesta 9:Xavi 10:Paul Scholes 11:Dennis Bergkamp 12:Ryan Giggs 13:Ngolo Kante 14: Wesley Sneijder P.S If this gets 300 likes do a two part video on this

Where the hell is Akinfenwa?

Hey Alfie, I just thought of a cracking idea for a video you could do on the turbulent recent history of Goztepe in the Super Lig. They’re one of the Super Lig’s most well supported clubs (a bit like a Newcastle United, Sunderland or Strasbourg if you may). In the 2001/02 season, they finished seventh in the top flight, however from 2002 to 2008, they were relegated five times in six seasons, due to their inability to reduce their outstanding debt which resulted in the football club being banned from signing new players during that time. In August of 2007, a business based in Istanbul, vowed to take them back to the top flight making them one of the top five clubs in the country, but they were met with lots of suspicions from the fan base, and then they handed over the ownership to another bloke called Mehmet Sepil in 2014. Anyway, they’re back in the Super Lig as a solid mid table/weaker top half team. Why am I bringing all this up? Because apparently Abramovich is looking to possibly buy the club himself, after being sanctioned from the UK. It’s a crazy crazy story and may you could look into this, not to mention, they are not only a rare example of a club that is considered a neighbourhood club, as well as the fact that they’ve played in 3 different stadiums since 2011, but also in 1969, they became the first Turkish football team to play a semi-final of a European competition.

Since i know how hard you did research making this list (cause its really hard and time consuming). I wont disagree anymore. Though i have some. But i appreciate the depth you went to the past to make this list ❤

Lothar M was the type of player who was only fully appreciated when he wasn’t in the team. He was the heart and head of every side he played in. Touch, vision, and physical presence. The best reader of a game that I’ve witnessed in 40 years of watching football. “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone” is the best way to summarise the maestro. Oh yeah, I’m English.

I am surprised that Neuer isnt involved here, would definitely say he is one of the 6 best goalies of all time

Messi has not surpassed Pele... Overall Pele performed better for both his club and country than Messi did. 2 active world Cup wins and cut short wickedly at his prime in 2 other world cups. The game was very different in his day, no substitutions, only injury replacements, rougher pitches, heavier less curvy balls, yet somehow he gave the world the sort of consistent performance we see from Messi and Ronaldo today.

I don't necessarily agree with all the rankings but I appreciate the effort it took to make this video.

Some players who could feature (there is more than 100): Argentina: Messi (top 10) Maradona (top 10) Pessarella Riquelme José Manuel Moreno di Stefano (top 10) Batistuta Veron Zanetti Aguero Sivori Kempes Redondo Crespo Austria: Sindelar Bican Hans Krankl Bulgaria: Hristo Stoihkov Brazil: Pele (top 10) Zico Garrincha Roberto Carlos Nilton Santos Coutinho Pepe Ronaldo (top 10) Ronaldinho Rivaldo Roberto Rivelino Jose Altafini Djalma Santos Vavá Romario Dunga Cafu Claudio Taffarel Mario de Castro Carlos Alberto Socrates Falcao Junior Tostao Kaka Artur Freidenreich Didi Zizinho Jairzinho Carlos Alberto Neymar Jr. Cameroun Eto'o Roger Mila Chile Salas Croatia Modric Suker Czech Republic Nedved Masopust Cote d'Ivorie Drogba Colombia Valdarama Denmark Michael Laudrup Brian Laudrup Allan Simonsen Peter Schmeichel England Bobby Charlton Bobby Moore Gordon Banks Frank Lampard Steven Gerrard Duncan Edwards Rio Ferdinand John Terry Ahsley Cole Sol Campbell Alan Shearer Andy Cole Niel Franklin Stanley Matthews Jamie Carragher Gary Lineker Kevin Keegan Greaves Rooney Dixie Dean McManaman Scholes Ecuador Alberto Spencer Finland Jari Litmanen France Patrick Vieria Henry Thuram Barthez Zidane Platini Trezeguet Desailly Pires Fontaine Kopa Papin Deschamps Tresor Cantona Germany Gerd Müller Franz Beckenbauer (top 10) Matthaüs Sepp Maier Klose Rummenigge Breitner Klinsmann Seeler Kahn Fritz Walter Neuer Lahm Ballack Völler Schweinstieger Netzer Vogts Ghana Abedi Pele Hungary Puskas Kubala Kocsis Hidegkuti Florian Albert Italy Baggio del Piero Maldini Baresi Nesta Buffon Zoff Totti Fachetti Paolo Rossi Gianni Rivera Pirlo Gattuso Valentino Mazzola Sandro Mazzola Bergomi Scirea Liberia George Weah Mexico Hugo Sanchez Netherlands Cruyff (top 10) Van Basten Rijkaard Van der Sar Seedorf Gullit Davids Bergkamp Neeskens van Nistelrooy Koeman Overmars Nigeria Okocha Northern Ireland George Best Pat Jennings Blanchflower Paraguay Arsenio Erico Peru Teofillo Cubillas Poland Boniek Portugal Coluna Eusebio CR7 (top 10) Luis Figo Rui Costa Deco Ireland Roy Keane Romania Hagi Scotland Denis Law Graeme Souness Kenny Daglish Spain Raul Butrogueno Sergio Ramos Xavi Iniesta Casillias Pep Puyol Gento Luis Suarez Hierro Serbia Vidic Dzajic Ukraine Shevshenko Uruguay Jose Andrade Varela Forlan Francescoli Schiaffino Luis Suarez Morena Soviet Union: Yashin Blokhin Sweden Nordahl zlatan Hamrin Leidholm Wales Rush Bale Charles Giggs

My top 3 1.Phil Jones 2.Loris Karius 3.Eric Djemba Djemba

Jimmy McGrory was the top League goalscorer in Europe in seasons 1926-27 (49 goals) and 1935-6 (50 goals) · In 445 appearances he scored 472 goals shocking that he wasn't in the top 100

Alan Shearer should atleast be on the honorable mentions

Roberto carlos isn't even in the top 100? Joseph Bican, the most prolific scorer of all time is in 90s?

Tremendous work

I feel like Hugo Sanchez should be in the list

It didn't matter how he made this list it's literally impossible to please everyone but I agree with most of the list

I guarantee most people disagreeing with this list are basing their arguments off of fifa cards instead of research

I appreciate the difficulty of putting this list together. I don't personally think anyone should be creating best ever lists. A lot of the players on the list, have only been seen by the lists creator in black and white photos. I think people should only make lists of the greatest players they have actually seen extensive footage of. I disagree with a lot of the list but it's all subjective and just my opinions. I appreciate the effort and research that went into this video. Rather you than me.

With Messi I always had the sensation that he could play in center midfield or left back and be equally good.

Can you do a top 100 modern day players

No lingard? No phil jones? Are u kidding me?

Best list I found I respect your Culture and I learn a lot.🙏🏼🙏🏼🔥 The only thing is you included way too many players from the 50s-60s (a good half of the list) and way less from the 90s-00s (around 20 players I guess). People usually do the opposite you actually include all the history of football but went too far and forget a lot a greats from our time.

I didn't see the Hungarian star Gyorgy Sarosi, he should have definitely made the list, taking into consideration you put some players from the pre-war era (props to you, many people disregard those players). Sarosi was one of the most complete players ever, he could play in all the outfield positions on the field, and was an able goalscorer too (he famously scored 7 goals against a strong Czechoslovakia once I think), and led Hungary to their first ever World Cup final in 1938, when they ultimately lost to Italy. Sarosi scored in each one of the games in the campaign. He was, without a doubt, the best player in the world in the late 1930s. Generally a very good list, I think it shows a lot of football knowledge and doesn't disrespect older eras as I said earlier. Apart from Sarosi, who I think it's criminal not to put him there, I would put some honorable mentions who could have possibly made the cut in my opinion: Gyorgy Orth(another Hungarian from the 20s, maybe the epitome of completeness), Mario Kempes, Gabriel Batistuta, Andreas Brehme, Roberto Carlos, Paulo Roberto Falcao, Philipp Lahm, Steven Gerrard, Paul Breitner, Teofilo Cubillas, Hugo Sanchez, Manuel Neuer. I would add Neymar Jr and Robert Lewandowski as well, but concerning that you made this video some years ago it's fully understandable, but if you made it today they deserve at least a mention, alongside Kylian Mbappe of course. I can see some players that I personally would have put them outside the top 100 (if I created a top 150 probably everyone from your list would be there), but as I mentioned before a very interesting list overall.

Suarez is sooooo underrated

Ronaldinho #41? What

My top 10 Poet Footballers if all time :- 1. William Wordsworth ( A great full back. May have to be dissuaded from the belief that daffodils grow in the pitch !) 2. Seamus Heaney ( Good, solid Northern Irish addition to the team. May be 'Twice Shy' about performing to his true potential, however.) 3. Ted Hughes ( A real "Bayonet Charge' of a performer ! Can also out 'Thought-Fox' the opposition. 3. TS Eliot ( I would play him under the name 'J. Alfred Prufrock' to confuse the opposition. 4. Simon Armitage ( Gritty Yorkshireman. Able to 'Kid' the opposition very successfully !) 5. Alfred Lord Tennyson. ( Will 'Charge' into the opposition - just like the Light Brigade 6. Percy Bysshe Shelley ( May show a lack of stamina in some matches - TB ? - otherwise very dependable. Can run as swiftly as 'The Wild West Wind' ! 6. John Keats ( Ditto about his stamina - possible TB. Needs to be dissuaded from the belief that the FA Cup is a ' Grecian Urn ' ! 7. John Milton ( Without him - the team would be 'Paradise Lost' !) 8. William Shakespeare ( 'To be . . . or not to be' . . . in the starting X1 ? I would play him. Provided he swaps the doublet and hose for some PROPER shorts ! 9. Philip Larkin ( A good, reliable player once he stops 'larking' around at the back ! Well, he always blames his parents. After all, "They fuck you up, your mum and dad'. So there !)😂😂 10. Carol Ann Duffy. ( Scary, Scottish striker - possible Lesbian. May cut off the opposition players' heads if they annoy her - like 'Salome' ! !😭😞😛)

I know this was made three years ago but if you were gonna include somebody from the former Yugoslavia region, Luka Modrić has pretty much already established himself as the greatest player from there. Džajić is a legend of course but there are also modern players like Davor Šuker, Robert Prosinečki, Zvonimir Boban and from the earlier period like Zlatko Čajkovski, Velimir Zajec or Štef Lamza who are arguably better than Džajić.

HITC: Josef Bican is the greatest goalscorer ever with 1483 goals. Also HITC: *ranks Bican as 93rd*

Refreshing to watch someone who actually acknowledges football from before the 80s

Alfie: States that Masopust is the greatest Czech player ever. Also Alfie: proceeds to put Josef bican higher

how do i make it so i dont see any more of their content

Fantastic video gents, thank you very much! Keep up the sterling reviews, HITC Sevens is by far my favourite KZfaq channel.

We all should thank GOD that we see MESSI play(even Real Madrid fans)

Now it's undisputed who is the greatest

Damn. I love these.

You had Messi at 1. That is all you needed to say. Messi is the best there will ever be