Top 47 Serie A Players of All Time

From postwar prolific scorers to global icons in azzurro and bianconero, this lineup spans every era of Italian football. Cast your vote!

1. 1
   Paolo Maldini

   AC Milan one-club legend whose 25-year Serie A career set the standard for left-back and centre-back play.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Diego Maradona

   Argentine genius who led Napoli to two Serie A titles in the late 1980s and remains the league's most mythologised import.
   927pts
3. 3
   Christian Vieri

   Powerful striker who won the 2003 Serie A Golden Boot with Inter and scored more than 140 league goals.
   699pts
4. 4
   Marco van Basten

   Dutch striker whose AC Milan years produced two Ballons d'Or and some of Serie A's most iconic goals.
   699pts
5. 5
   Andrea Pirlo

   Deep-lying playmaker who reinvented midfield at Milan and Juventus, winning six Serie A titles.
   699pts
6. 6
   Ronaldo Nazario

   Brazilian phenomenon whose Inter spell produced the 1998 UEFA Cup and unforgettable Serie A nights before injuries.
   684pts
7. 7
   Fabio Cannavaro

   Centre-back who starred for Napoli, Parma, Inter and Juventus and won the 2006 Ballon d'Or as a defender.
   663pts
8. 8
   John Charles

   Welsh giant who scored 93 Serie A goals for Juventus, won three Scudetti and was later voted the league's best foreign player.
   623pts
9. 9
   Luigi Riva

   Cagliari striker who fired the island club to its only Scudetto in 1970 and topped the Serie A scoring charts three times.
   579pts
10. 10
    Gianluca Vialli

    Striker who formed the goal twins with Mancini to win Sampdoria's 1991 Scudetto and later won the title with Juventus.
    579pts
11. 11
    Giacinto Facchetti

    Inter's attacking left-back of the Grande Inter years who won four Scudetti and reshaped the full-back role.
    529pts
12. 12
    Frank Rijkaard

    Dutch midfielder who anchored AC Milan in the Sacchi years and won two Scudetti and two European Cups.
    529pts
13. 13
    José Altafini

    Brazilian-Italian striker who scored 216 Serie A goals for Milan, Napoli and Juventus, among the league's highest totals.
    529pts
14. 14
    Omar Sívori

    Argentine forward who won three Scudetti and the 1961 Ballon d'Or with Juventus alongside Charles and Boniperti.
    529pts
15. 15
    Falcão

    Brazilian midfielder nicknamed the Eighth King of Rome, who led Roma to the 1983 Scudetto.
    473pts
16. 16
    Javier Zanetti

    Argentine captain who played more than 600 Serie A games for Inter and won five consecutive Scudetti.
    473pts
17. 17
    Sandro Mazzola

    Inter one-club forward of the Grande Inter era who won four Scudetti and two European Cups.
    473pts
18. 18
    Franco Baresi

    Imperious AC Milan sweeper who anchored the unbeaten 1991-92 side and won six Serie A titles.
    473pts
19. 19
    Michel Platini

    French playmaker and three-time Ballon d'Or winner who dominated Serie A with Juventus in the mid-1980s.
    473pts
20. 20
    Roberto Mancini

    Sampdoria's creative forward who led the club to its only Scudetto in 1991 during 15 seasons in Genoa.
    473pts
21. 21
    Giampiero Boniperti

    Juventus one-club forward who won five Scudetti and was the club's record scorer for decades.
    473pts
22. 22
    Lothar Matthäus

    German captain who drove Inter to the 1989 Scudetto with a record points tally and won the 1990 Ballon d'Or.
    473pts
23. 23
    Gaetano Scirea

    Elegant Juventus sweeper who won seven Scudetti and every major club trophy without ever being sent off.
    473pts
24. 24
    Alessandro Nesta

    Centre-back who captained Lazio to the 2000 Scudetto and won two more titles with AC Milan.
    410pts
25. 25
    Silvio Piola

    Serie A's all-time top scorer with 274 goals across a career spanning the 1930s, 40s and 50s.
    410pts
26. 26
    Andriy Shevchenko

    Ukrainian striker who won two Serie A Golden Boots and the 2004 Scudetto and is Milan's second-highest goalscorer.
    410pts
27. 27
    Roberto Baggio

    Italian fantasista who lit up Serie A across five clubs and was the league's last truly universal idol.
    410pts
28. 28
    Giuseppe Bergomi

    Inter one-club defender who played more than 500 Serie A games and won the record-points 1989 Scudetto.
    410pts
29. 29
    Pavel Nedvěd

    Czech midfielder who won Scudetti with Lazio and Juventus and claimed the 2003 Ballon d'Or during his Turin years.
    410pts
30. 30
    Gianni Rivera

    AC Milan's Golden Boy who won the 1969 Ballon d'Or and three Scudetti over 19 seasons with the club.
    338pts
31. 31
    Ruud Gullit

    Dutch Ballon d'Or winner who arrived at AC Milan in 1987 and won three Scudetti with Sacchi's great side.
    338pts
32. 32
    Gunnar Nordahl

    Swedish striker whose 225 Serie A goals for AC Milan remain the all-time league record.
    338pts
33. 33
    Cristiano Ronaldo

    Portuguese superstar who won two Serie A titles and a Capocannoniere during three seasons at Juventus.
    338pts
34. 34
    Kurt Hamrin

    Swedish winger who scored 190 Serie A goals, mostly for Fiorentina, and won the 1968 Scudetto with Milan.
    338pts
35. 35
    Kaká

    Brazilian playmaker who won the 2004 Scudetto and the 2007 Ballon d'Or during six seasons at AC Milan.
    338pts
36. 36
    Alessandro Del Piero

    Juventus number 10 who scored 188 Serie A goals across 19 seasons and lifted six Scudetti.
    338pts
37. 37
    Dino Zoff

    Juventus goalkeeper who won six Scudetti and set a Serie A record of 903 minutes without conceding.
    338pts
38. 38
    Zinedine Zidane

    French maestro whose five seasons at Juventus included two Serie A titles and a Ballon d'Or.
    255pts
39. 39
    Gianluigi Buffon

    Record-holding Serie A goalkeeper whose Juventus and Parma years span four decades of the league.
    255pts
40. 40
    Valentino Mazzola

    Captain of the Grande Torino side that won five straight titles before the 1949 Superga air disaster.
    255pts
41. 41
    Giuseppe Meazza

    Inter and Milan icon of the 1930s and arguably the greatest Italian footballer of the pre-war era.
    158pts
42. 42
    Antonio Di Natale

    Udinese striker who won back-to-back Serie A Golden Boots in 2010 and 2011 and scored 209 league goals.
    158pts
43. 43
    Zlatan Ibrahimovic

    Swedish striker who won Serie A titles with Juventus, Inter and Milan across two decades.
    158pts
44. 44
    Nils Liedholm

    Swedish midfielder of Milan's Gre-No-Li trio who won four Scudetti and later coached Roma to the 1983 title.
    158pts
45. 45
    Gabriel Batistuta

    Argentine bomber who scored 184 Serie A goals for Fiorentina and Roma and finally won the title in 2001.
    158pts
46. 46
    Ciro Immobile

    Lazio striker who equalled the Serie A single-season record with 36 goals in 2019–20 and won four Golden Boots.
    158pts
47. 47
    Francesco Totti

    Roma's eternal captain, Serie A top scorer in 2007 and the league's romantic one-club icon of the 2000s.
    0pts

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