Top 35 Brasileirão Players of All Time

From samba-style icons of the 70s to modern Maracana giants, Brazilian club football has produced a parade of legends. Which one will win?

1. 1
   Zico

   Flamengo idol who lifted four Brasileirao titles and is widely considered the league's greatest ever player.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Pele

   Santos legend whose goal-scoring exploits in the 1960s defined Brazilian club football for generations.
   797pts

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3. 3
   Rivelino

   Corinthians and Fluminense playmaker whose elastico and free kicks made him a Brasileirao icon.
   765pts
4. 4
   Romario

   Vasco da Gama and Flamengo striker whose 1,000-goal career stretched across multiple Brasileirao spells.
   730pts
5. 5
   Giorgian de Arrascaeta

   Uruguayan playmaker who has won multiple Brasileirão titles with Flamengo since joining from Cruzeiro in 2019.
   717pts
6. 6
   Serginho Chulapa

   São Paulo and Santos striker who scored 127 Brasileirão goals and was one of the league's most feared forwards of the 1980s.
   647pts
7. 7
   Neymar

   Santos teenager whose two Brasileirao seasons reignited the league's global star power before he left for Barcelona.
   647pts
8. 8
   Hulk

   Powerful winger whose Atletico Mineiro spell delivered the 2021 Brasileirao title and Player of the Year.
   598pts
9. 9
   Socrates

   Corinthians captain and architect of Democracia Corinthiana, the league's most politically influential figure.
   597pts
10. 10
    Darío Conca

    Argentine playmaker named best player of the 2010 Brasileirão after leading Fluminense to the title.
    542pts
11. 11
    Túlio Maravilha

    Botafogo striker who led the club to the 1995 title and finished as top scorer in three editions of the Brasileirão.
    478pts
12. 12
    Alex

    Cruzeiro captain and playmaker who led the club to the 2003 Brasileirão as part of a historic treble.
    478pts
13. 13
    Careca

    Sao Paulo striker who finished as Brasileirao top scorer in 1986 before joining Maradona at Napoli.
    478pts
14. 14
    Robinho

    Santos teenage dribbler whose stepovers in the 2002 final helped win the club's first Brasileirão, followed by another in 2004.
    478pts
15. 15
    Ronaldo Nazario

    Cruzeiro teenager and later Corinthians star whose Brasileirao spells bookended a global career.
    404pts
16. 16
    Edmundo

    Vasco da Gama 'Animal' whose 29-goal 1997 Brasileirao season is still cited as one of its best.
    404pts
17. 17
    Falcão

    Internacional midfielder who won three Brasileirão titles in the 1970s, including the unbeaten 1979 campaign.
    404pts
18. 18
    Gabriel Barbosa

    Flamengo striker Gabigol whose goals delivered consecutive Brasileirao titles in 2019 and 2020.
    404pts
19. 19
    Roberto Dinamite

    Vasco da Gama all-time top scorer and the Brasileirao's most prolific marksman of the 1970s and 80s.
    404pts
20. 20
    Ademir da Guia

    Palmeiras playmaker nicknamed the Divine who won the 1972 and 1973 Brasileirão titles in a one-club career.
    404pts
21. 21
    Bebeto

    Forward who won the 1987 title with Flamengo and the 1989 Brasileirão with Vasco da Gama.
    404pts
22. 22
    Rogério Ceni

    São Paulo goalkeeper and captain who won three straight Brasileirão titles from 2006 and scored more than 100 career goals.
    319pts
23. 23
    Ronaldinho

    Gremio and Flamengo magician who twice won the Brazilian league a decade apart.
    319pts
24. 24
    Hernanes

    Sao Paulo playmaker named 2009 Brasileirao Player of the Year before moving to Lazio.
    319pts
25. 25
    Marcelinho Carioca

    Corinthians free-kick specialist and fan idol who won back-to-back Brasileirão titles with the club in 1998 and 1999.
    319pts
26. 26
    Reinaldo

    Atlético Mineiro striker who scored 28 goals in 18 games in the 1977 Brasileirão, a scoring rate never matched since.
    319pts
27. 27
    Rivaldo

    Palmeiras and Corinthians playmaker whose audacious goals lit up the late-1990s Brasileirao.
    319pts
28. 28
    Dudu

    Palmeiras winger who won several Brasileirão titles and was named the league's best player in 2018.
    319pts
29. 29
    Rai

    Sao Paulo captain who lifted two Brasileirao titles in the 1990s after a stellar Copa Libertadores run.
    217pts
30. 30
    Dadá Maravilha

    Atlético Mineiro striker who scored the goal that won the first Brasileirão in 1971 and twice topped the scoring charts.
    217pts
31. 31
    Carlos Tevez

    Argentine forward who won the 2005 Brasileirão with Corinthians and was named the league's best player.
    217pts
32. 32
    Tostao

    Cruzeiro forward and 1971 South American Footballer of the Year, a defining Brasileirao striker of his era.
    217pts
33. 33
    Junior

    Versatile Flamengo full-back who featured in the legendary 1980s side and won three Brasileirao titles.
    217pts
34. 34
    Dejan Petković

    Serbian playmaker who drove Flamengo to the 2009 Brasileirão title at 37 with his set pieces.
    0pts
35. 35
    Fred

    Fluminense striker who won the 2010 and 2012 titles and scored 158 Brasileirão goals, second only to Roberto Dinamite.
    0pts

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