FIFA 100

The **FIFA 100** is a list of 125 footballers chosen by Brazilian football legend Pelé. He made his choices based on who he thought were the best living footballers in the world. It was presented on 4 March 2004 at a ceremony in London.

The number 100 represents the 100th anniversary of FIFA and not the number of players selected. The list has 123 male players and 2 female players. At the time the list was selected, 50 players were active and 75 were retired.

## List

This is the list of the "FIFA 100" greatest living footballers as chosen by Pelé.
- An asterisk (*) marks players who still played in 2004.
- Players who are still playing in 2020 are in _italics_.

|width=20%|Player|width=7%|Position|width=13%|Date of Birth|
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|Gabriel Batistuta*|FW|1969-02-01||||
|Hernán Crespo*|FW|1975-07-05||||
|Alfredo Di Stéfano|FW|1926-07-04||||
|Mario Kempes|FW|1954-07-15||||
|Diego Maradona|FW/MF|1960-10-30||||
|Daniel Passarella|DF|1953-05-25||||
|Javier Saviola*|FW|1981-12-11||||
|Omar Sívori|FW|1935-10-02||||
|Juan Sebastián Verón*|MF|1975-03-09||||
|Javier Zanetti*|DF/MF|1973-08-10|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Jan Ceulemans|MF|1957-02-28||||
|Jean-Marie Pfaff|GK|1953-12-04||||
|Franky Van der Elst|MF|1961-04-30|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Carlos Alberto|DF|1944-07-17||||
|Cafu*|DF|1970-06-07||||
|Falcão|MF|1953-10-16||||
|Pelé|FW|1940-10-23||||
|Júnior|MF|1954-06-29||||
|Rivaldo*|MF|1972-04-19||||
|Rivelino|MF|1946-01-01||||
|Roberto Carlos*|DF|1973-04-10||||
|Romário*|FW|1966-01-29||||
|Ronaldinho*|MF/FW|1980-03-21||||
|Ronaldo*|FW|1976-09-18||||
|Djalma Santos|DF|1929-02-27||||
|Nílton Santos|DF|1925-05-16||||
|Sócrates|MF|1954-02-19||||
|Zico|MF/FW|1953-03-03|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Hristo Stoichkov|FW|1966-02-08|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Roger Milla|FW|1952-05-20|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Elías Figueroa|DF|1946-10-25||||
|Iván Zamorano|FW|1967-01-18|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Carlos Valderrama|MF|1961-09-02|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Davor Šuker|FW|1968-01-01|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Josef Masopust|MF|1931-02-09||||
|Pavel Nedvěd*|MF|1972-08-30|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Brian Laudrup|FW|1969-02-22||||
|Michael Laudrup|MF|1964-06-15||||
|Peter Schmeichel|GK|1963-11-18|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Gordon Banks|GK|1937-12-30||||
|David Beckham*|MF|1975-05-02||||
|Bobby Charlton|MF|1937-10-11||||
|Kevin Keegan|FW|1951-02-14||||
|Gary Lineker|FW|1960-11-30||||
|Michael Owen*|FW|1979-12-14||||
|Alan Shearer*|FW|1970-08-13|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Eric Cantona|FW|1966-05-24||||
|Marcel Desailly*|DF|1968-09-07||||
|Didier Deschamps|MF|1968-10-15||||
|Just Fontaine|FW|1933-08-18||||
|Thierry Henry*|FW|1977-08-17||||
|Raymond Kopa|MF|1931-10-31||||
|Jean-Pierre Papin|FW|1963-11-05||||
|Robert Pires*|MF|1973-10-29||||
|Michel Platini|MF|1955-06-21||||
|Lilian Thuram*|DF|1972-01-01||||
|Marius Trésor|DF|1950-01-15||||
|David Trezeguet*|FW|1977-10-15||||
|Patrick Vieira*|MF|1976-06-23||||
|Zinedine Zidane*|MF|1972-06-23|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Michael Ballack*|MF|1976-09-26||||
|Franz Beckenbauer|SW|1945-09-11||||
|Paul Breitner|MF/DF|1951-09-05||||
|Oliver Kahn*|GK|1969-06-15||||
|Jürgen Klinsmann|FW|1964-07-30||||
|Sepp Maier|GK|1944-02-28||||
|Lothar Matthäus|MF/SW|1961-03-21||||
|Gerd Müller|FW|1945-11-03||||
|Karl-Heinz Rummenigge|FW|1955-09-25||||
|Uwe Seeler|FW|1936-11-05|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Abédi Pelé|FW|1964-11-05|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Ferenc Puskás|FW|1927-04-02|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Roberto Baggio*|FW/MF|1967-02-18||||
|Franco Baresi|DF/SW|1960-05-08||||
|Giuseppe Bergomi|DF|1963-12-22||||
|Giampiero Boniperti|FW|1928-07-04||||
|_Gianluigi Buffon*_|GK|1978-01-28||||
|Alessandro Del Piero*|FW|1974-11-09||||
|Giacinto Facchetti|DF|1942-07-18||||
|Paolo Maldini*|DF|1968-06-26||||
|Alessandro Nesta*|DF|1976-03-19||||
|Gianni Rivera|MF|1943-08-18||||
|Paolo Rossi|FW|1956-09-23||||
|Francesco Totti*|FW/MF|1976-09-27||||
|Christian Vieri*|FW|1973-07-12||||
|Dino Zoff|GK|1942-02-28|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Hidetoshi Nakata*|MF|1977-01-22|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|George Weah|FW|1966-10-01|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Hugo Sánchez|FW|1958-07-11|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Marco van Basten|FW|1964-10-31||||
|Dennis Bergkamp*|FW|1969-05-10||||
|Johan Cruyff|FW|1947-04-25||||
|Edgar Davids*|MF|1973-03-13||||
|Ruud Gullit|MF|1962-09-01||||
|René van de Kerkhof|MF|1951-09-16||||
|Willy van de Kerkhof|MF|1951-09-16||||
|Patrick Kluivert*|FW|1976-07-01||||
|Johan Neeskens|MF|1951-09-15||||
|Ruud van Nistelrooy*|FW|1976-07-01||||
|Rob Rensenbrink|FW|1947-07-03||||
|Frank Rijkaard|MF/DF|1962-09-30||||
|Clarence Seedorf*|MF|1976-04-01|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Jay-Jay Okocha*|MF|1973-08-14|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|George Best|MF|1946-05-22|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Romerito|FW|1960-08-28|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Teófilo Cubillas|FW|1949-03-08|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Zbigniew Boniek|MF|1956-03-03|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Eusébio|FW|1942-01-25||||
|Luís Figo*|MF|1972-11-04||||
|Rui Costa*|MF|1972-03-29|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Roy Keane*|MF|1971-08-10|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Gheorghe Hagi|MF|1965-02-05|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Rinat Dasayev|GK|1957-06-13|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Kenny Dalglish|FW|1951-03-04|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|El Hadji Diouf*|FW|1981-01-15|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Hong Myung-bo*|DF|1969-02-12|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Emilio Butragueño|FW|1963-07-22||||
|Luis Enrique*|MF|1970-05-08||||
|Raúl*|FW|1977-06-27|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" style="width:70%;"|||
|Rüştü Reçber*|GK|1973-05-10||||
|_Emre Belözoğlu*_|MF|1980-07-09|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Andriy Shevchenko*|FW|1976-09-29|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Michelle Akers|MF/FW|1966-02-01||||
|Mia Hamm*|FW|1972-03-17|} ==== {| border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" style="width:70%;"|||
|Enzo Francescoli|FW/MF|1961-11-12|}|||