This list is based on the IFFHS' Century Elections for each continent.
| Country | Player of the Century | Keeper of the Century |
| Algeria | Lakhdar Belloumi | - |
| Argentina | Diego Armando Maradona | Amadeo Raúl Carrizo |
| Australia | Frank Farina | Mark Bosnich |
| Austria | Mathias Sindelar | Rudi Hiden |
| Bahrain | - | Hamoud Sultan |
| Belgium | Paul Van Himst | Jean-Marie Pfaff |
| Brazil | Edson Arantes do Nascimento "Pelé" | Gilmar dos Santos Neves |
| Bulgaria | Georgi Asparukhov | - |
| Cameroon | Roger Milla | Joseph-Antoine Bell |
| Canada | Bruce Wilson | James Kennaway |
| Chad | Japhet N´Doram | - |
| Chile | Elias Ricardo Figueroa | Sergio Livingstone |
| China | Zhi-Yi Fan | Hui-Kang Zhang |
| Colombia | Willington Ortiz | José René Higuita |
| Congo-Brazzaville | Paul Moukila | - |
| Congo-Kinshasa (former Zaire) |
Tshimemu Bwanga | Mwemba Kazadi |
| Costa Rica | Alejandro Morera | Luis Gabelo Conejo |
| Cuba | Mario López | - |
| Czechoslovakia | Josef Bican | Frantisek Planicka |
| Denmark | Michael Laudrup | Peter Schmeichel |
| East Germany | - | Jurgen Croy |
| Ecuador | Alberto Spencer | - |
| Egypt | Mahmoud El-Khatib | Ahmed Shoubeir |
| El Salvador | Jorge Alberto González | Manuel "Tamalón" Garay |
| England | Robert "Bobby" Charlton | Gordon Banks |
| France | Michel Platini | Bernard Lama |
| Germany | Franz Beckenbauer | Sepp Maier |
| Ghana | Abedi Ayew "Pelé" | - |
| Guatemala | Oscar "Conejo" Sánchez | - |
| Guinea | Petit Sorry | - |
| Haiti | - | Henri Francillon |
| Honduras | Gilberto Yearwood | - |
| Hungary | Ferenc Puskas | Gyula Grosics |
| India | Pardip Kumar Banderjee | Peter Thangaraj |
| Iran | Ali Daei | Naser Hejazi |
| Iraq | Ahmed Rahdi | - |
| Ireland | Liam Brady | - |
| Israel | Avi Cohen | - |
| Italy | Gianni Rivera | Dino Zoff |
| Ivory Coast | Laurent Pokou | Alain Gouaméné |
| Japan | Kazuyoshi Miura | - |
| Kuwait | Faisal Ali Ak-Dakil | Khaled Al-Fadhli |
| Liberia | George Weah | - |
| Malaysia | Moktar Dahari | Chow Chee Keong |
| Mali | Selif Keita | - |
| Mexico | Hugo Sánchez | Antonio Carbajal |
| Morocco | Ahmed Faras | Badou Zaki |
| Netherlands | Johan Cruyff | Hans van Breukelen |
| New Caledonia | Christian Karembeu | - |
| New Zealand | Wynton Rufer | Frank Van Hattum |
| Nigeria | Finidi George | Peter Rufai |
| North Korea | Doo-Ik Pak | - |
| Northern Ireland | George Best | Pat Jennings |
| Panama | Julio César Dely Valdez | - |
| Paraguay | Arsenio Pastor Erico | José Luis Félix Chilavert |
| Peru | Teófilo Cubillas | - |
| Poland | Zbigniew Boniek | Jan Tomaszewski |
| Portugal | Eusébio Ferreira da Silva | Alberto Costa Pereira |
| Qatar | - | Mohammed Wafah Saami |
| Romania | Gheorghe Hagi | - |
| Saudi Arabia | Abdullah Majed | Mohammed Al-Deayea |
| Scotland | Denis Law | Ronald Simpson |
| Singapore | Ahmad Fandhi | - |
| South Africa | Mark Fish | In-Young Choi |
| South Korea | Bum-Kun Cha | - |
| Soviet Union | Oleg Blokhin | Lev Yashin |
| Spain | Alfredo di Stéfano | Ricardo Zamora |
| Sweden | Gunnar Nordahl | Thomas Ravelli |
| Switzerland | Severino Minelli | - |
| Tahiti | Erroll Bennett | - |
| Thailand | Piyapong Pue-Oun | - |
| Trinidad-Tobago | Dwight Yorke | - |
| Tunisia | Tarek Dhiab | Sadok Attouga |
| UAE | Adnan Khamis Al-Taliyani | - |
| Uruguay | Juan Alberto Schiaffino | Ladislao Mazurkiewicz |
| USA | William Gonsalves | Kasey Keller |
| Wales | John Charles | Neville Southall |
| Yugoslavia | Dragan Dzajic | Vladimir Beara |
| Zambia | Kalusha Bwalya | - |
| Zimbabwe | - | Bruce Grobbelaar |
Prepared and maintained by Marcelo Leme de Arruda for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Author: Marcelo Leme de Arruda
(mlarruda@ime.usp.br)
Last updated: 21 Jan 2000
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