UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll
In 2004, to celebrate their Golden Jubilee, European footballing body UEFA held an Internet poll to determine who are the finest European players of the last 5 decades. This poll, commonly known as the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll, attracted over 6 million votes from users of www.uefa.com.
The results of the poll is as follows:
1 Zinédine Zidane (France) 123,582 2 Franz Beckenbauer (Germany) 122,569 3 Johan Cruijff (Netherlands) 119,332 4 Marco van Basten (Netherlands) 117,987 5 Dino Zoff (Italy) 114,529
6 Alfredo Di Stéfano (Argentina/Spain)107,435 7 Eusébio (Portugal) 103,937 8 Lev Yashin (Soviet Union) 101,862 9 Michel Platini (France) 99,380 10 Paolo Maldini (Italy) 95,497
11 Ferenc Puskás (Hungary/Spain) 94,361 12 Paolo Rossi (Italy) 91,194 13 Ruud Gullit (Netherlands) 91,001 14 Bobby Charlton (England) 89,921 15 Lothar Matthäus (Germany) 86,798
16 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (Germany) 86,649 17 Franco Baresi (Italy) 83,800 18 Gerd Müller (Germany) 82,668 19 George Best (N. Ireland) 79,036 20 Kevin Keegan (England) 78,840
21 Frank Rijkaard (Netherlands) 71,333 22 David Beckham (England) 71,299 23 Bobby Moore (England) 70,884 24 Roberto Baggio (Italy) 68,239 25 Michael Laudrup (Denmark) 67,484 26 Ronald Koeman (Netherlands) 66,661 27 Peter Schmeichel (Denmark) 66,463 28 Gheorghe Hagi (Romania) 62,383 29 Sepp Maier (Germany) 62,375 30 Oliver Kahn (Germany) 58,151
31 Luís Figo (Portugal) 58,078 32 Raúl González (Spain) 56,880 33 Berti Vogts (Germany) 55,398 34 Johan Neeskens (Netherlands) 54,796 35 Gianni Rivera (Italy) 53,874 36 José Antonio Camacho (Spain) 53,873 37 Marco Tardelli (Italy) 53,732 38 Just Fontaine (France) 53,612 39 Peter Shilton (England) 50,841 40 Bernd Schuster (Germany) 50,247 41 Raymond Kopa (France) 49,504 42 Eric Cantona (France) 48,436 43 Stanley Matthews (England) 47,915 44 Ruud van Nistelrooij (Netherlands) 47,398 45 Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union) 46,022 46 Gary Lineker (England) 44,787 47 Alessandro Nesta (Italy) 44,667 48 José Emilio Santamaría (Uruguay/Spain) 43,690 49 Alessandro Del Piero (Italy) 43,227 50 Alessandro Costacurta (Italy) 42,511