Top Soccer - 100 Soccer Superstars

1979

100 Soccer Superstars

Top Soccer

100

A somewhat regular occurrence in the 70s and 80s, where football magazines would include special pages that were intended to be cut out, folded and inserted into specially produced covers to form an A5 booklet.

1.  John Wark (Ipswich Town)

2.  Steve Coppell (Manchester United)

3.  Paul Hegarty (Dundee United)

4.  David O'Leary (Arsenal)

5.  Terry Yorath (Tottenham Hotspur)

6.  Frank Stapleton (Arsenal)

7.  Willie Miller (Aberdeen)

8.  John Richards (Wolverhampton Wanderers)

9.  George Wood (Everton)

10.  Paul Mariner (Ipswich Town)

11.  Alan Curtis (Leeds United)

12.  Pat Jennings (Arsenal)

13.  Jimmy Nicholl (Manchester United)

14.  Trevor Francis (Nottingham Forest)

15.  George Berry (Wolverhampton Wanderers)

16.  Derek Spence (Blackpool)

17.  Alex Cropley (Aston Villa)

18.  Terry Cochrane (Middlesbrough)

19.  Peter Cormack (Bristol City)

20.  Joey Jones (Wrexham)

21.  Mickey Thomas (Manchester United)

22.  Gerry Armstrong (Tottenham Hotspur)

23.  Mark Lawrenson (Brighton & Hove Albion)

24.  Laurie Cunningham (Real Madrid)

25.  Frank Gray (Nottingham Forest)

26.  Trevor Brooking (West Ham United)

27.  Billy Caskey (Derby County)

28.  Bruno Pezzey (Eintracht Frankfurt)

29.  Leighton James (Burnley)

30.  Phil Neal (Liverpool)

31.  Juan Miguel Asensi (Barcelona)

32.  Chric McGrath (Manchester United)

33.  Pat Rice (Arsenal)

34.  Tommy Hutchinson (Coventry City)

35.  Kevin Keegan (Hamburg SV)

36.  Steve Heighway (Liverpool)

37.  Bryan Hamilton (Swindon Town)

38.  John Mahoney (Swansea City)

39.  Don Givens (Birmingham City)

40.  Ricardo Villa (Tottenham Hotspur)

41.  Bruce Rioch (Derby County)

42.  Phil Dwyer (Cardiff City)

43.  Willie Pettigrew (Dundee United)

44.  Dave McCreery (Queens Park Rangers)

45.  Archie Gemmill (Birmingham City)

46.  Rudi Krol (Ajax)

47.  Dave Watson (Southampton)

48.  Sammy Nelson (Arsenal)

49.  Osvaldo Ardiles (Tottenham Hotspur)

50.  Ian Gillard (Queens Park Rangers)

51.  Ray Wilkins (Manchester United)

52.  Brian Flynn (Leeds United)

53.  Gerry Daly (Derby County)

54.  Kenny Burns (Nottingham Forest)

55.  Asa Hartford (Everton)

56.  Kenny Sansom (Crystal Palace)

57.  Phil Thompson (Liverpool)

58.  Mario Kempes (Valencia)

59.  Charlie George (Southampton)

60.  Emlyn Hughes (Wolverhampton Wanderers)

61.  Joe Jordan (Manchester United)

62.  Peter Nicholas (Crystal Palace)

63.  Mike Doyle (Stoke City)

64.  Mick Mills (Ipswich Town)

65.  Colin Todd (Birmingham City)

66.  Chris Nicholl (Southampton)

67.  Gregorz Lato (Stal Mielec)

68.  Robbie James (Swansea City)

69.  Stuart Kennedy (Aberdeen)

70.  Joe Royle (Bristol City)

71.  Dai Davies (Wrexham)

72.  David Langan (Derby County)

73.  Jimmy Holmes (Tottenham Hotspur)

74.  Joe Corrigan (Manchester City)

75.  Lou Macari (Manchester United)

76.  Leighton Phillips (Swansea City)

77.  Allan Simonsen (Barcelona)

78.  Liam Brady (Arsenal)

79.  Sandy Jardine (Rangers)

80.  Terry McDermott (Liverpool)

81.  Peter Barnes (West Bromwich Albion)

82.  Zico (Flamengo)

83.  Gerry Payton (Fulham)

84.  Kevin Beattie (Ipswich Town)

85.  Dieter Muller (FC Cologne)

86.  Dave Clement (Bolton Wanderers)

87.  Ubaldo Fillol (River Plate)

88.  Arthur Graham (Leeds United)

89.  Trevor Cherry (Leeds United)

90.  Paul Sturrock (Dundee United)

91.  Johan Neeskens (New York Cosmos)

92.  Tony Grealish (Luton Town)

93.  Viv Anderson (Nottingham Forest)

94.  Rainer Bonhof (Valencia)

95.  Sammy McIlroy (Manchester United)

96.  Tony Currie (Queens Park Rangers)

97.  Frank Worthington (Bolton Wanderers)

98.  Bob Latchford (Everton)

99.  Franco Causio (Juventus)

100.  Martin Dobson (Burnley)

Front cover.  Bob Latchford etc (England v Northern Ireland)

Inside front cover.  Liam Brady