Top 50 Best Players In The World For 2021 Ranked – The No. 1 Will Surprise You!
World’s heavyweights Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, Erling Haaland, and more all feature amongst the best players in the world for 2021. However, the number one name on the list is a surprise one too many football fans.
In the latest list released by Football magazine FourFourTwo for its annual list of best players in the world, Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne has been ranked as the world’s best player in 2021. While Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski complete the top three in what is seen as a surprise for every football lover.
The shock is not only that Kevin De Bruyne is being crowned as No.1 and Cristiano Ronaldo somehow down to 10th place but also for fan-favorite and our Ballon d’Or frontrunner N’Golo Kante to barely making the top 30 best players in the world for 2021. As a result, this list will no doubt leave a lot of football fans baffled.
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Full List Of The Best Players In The World For 2021
Kevin De Bruyne, who won back-to-back PFA Player of the Year awards this year has been listed as the best player in the world for 2021 by FourFourTwo magazine ahead of the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, N’Golo Kante, and Robert Lewandowski.
But there are lots of more surprises than that as we unveil the full list of the 50 best players in the world for 2021 below;
Pos | Player | Club |
1 | Kevin De Bruyne | Manchester City |
2 | Lionel Messi | FC Barcelona |
3 | Robert Lewandowski | Bayern Munich |
4 | Neymar | Paris Saint-Germain |
5 | Kylian Mbappe | Paris Saint-Germain |
6 | Harry Kane | Tottenham Hotspur |
7 | Erling Haaland | Borussia Dortmund |
8 | Bruno Fernandes | Manchester United |
9 | Romelu Lukaku | Inter Milan |
10 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Juventus |
11 | Thomas Muller | Bayern Munich |
12 | Jan Oblak | Atletico Madrid |
13 | Joshua Kimmich | Bayern Munich |
14 | Mohamed Salah | Liverpool |
15 | Karim Benzema | Real Madrid |
16 | Leon Goretzka | Bayern Munich |
17 | Riyad Mahrez | Manchester City |
18 | Ruben Dias | Manchester City |
19 | Jadon Sancho | Borussia Dortmund |
20 | Ilkay Gundogan | Manchester City |
21 | Ederson | Manchester City |
22 | Joao Cancelo | Manchester City |
23 | Manuel Neuer | Bayern Munich |
24 | Serge Gnabry | Bayern Munich |
25 | Son Heung-min | Tottenham Hotspur |
26 | Virgil van Dijk | Liverpool |
27 | N’Golo Kante | Chelsea |
28 | Bernardo Silva | Manchester City |
29 | Alphonso Davies | Bayern Munich |
30 | Phil Foden | Manchester City |
31 | Trent Alexander-Arnold | Liverpool |
32 | Raheem Sterling | Manchester City |
33 | Marcus Rashford | Manchester United |
34 | Andrew Robertson | Liverpool |
35 | Antoine Griezmann | FC Barcelona |
36 | Raphael Varane | Real Madrid |
37 | Thibaut Courtois | Real Madrid |
38 | Frenkie De Jong | FC Barcelona |
39 | Luka Modric | Real Madrid |
40 | Mason Mount | Chelsea |
41 | Paul Pogba | Manchester United |
42 | Achraf Hakimi | Inter Milan |
43 | Sergio Ramos | Real Madrid |
44 | Marquinhos | Paris Saint-Germain |
45 | Jack Grealish | Aston Villa |
46 | Toni Kroos | Real Madrid |
47 | Sadio Mane | Liverpool |
48 | Marco Verratti | Paris Saint-Germain |
49 | John Stones | Manchester City |
50 | Zlatan Ibrahimovic | AC Milan |