Best XI of the 2000s

The top scorers of the entire decade (seasons 1999/00 through 9/10).

1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

#	Player	Position	Citizenship	Decade goals	Assists	Apps	Minutes
1	Thierry Henry	Attack - Centre-Forward	France Guadeloupe	249	119	442	5,129
2	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Attack - Centre-Forward	Netherlands	225	46	345	4,486
3	Roy Makaay	Attack - Centre-Forward	Netherlands	224	66	421	4,281
4	Samuel Eto'o	Attack - Centre-Forward	Cameroon Spain	210	64	396	5,808
5	David Villa	Attack - Centre-Forward	Spain	209	38	404	4,102
6	Henrik Larsson	Attack - Centre-Forward	Sweden Cape Verde	208	61	297	5,344
7	Didier Drogba	Attack - Centre-Forward	Cote d'Ivoire France	195	72	402	5,339
8	Raúl	Attack - Second Striker	Spain	192	81	455	4,759
9	Djibril Cissé	Attack - Centre-Forward	France Cote d'Ivoire	191	27	407	5,887
10	Francesco Totti	Attack - Second Striker	Italy	190	84	354	4,378
11	Dimitar Berbatov	Attack - Centre-Forward	Bulgaria	184	85	411	4,570
12	Alessandro Del Piero	Attack - Second Striker	Italy	183	94	384	3,486
13	Claudio Pizarro	Attack - Centre-Forward	Peru Italy	182	66	410	4,955
14	Kris Boyd	Attack - Centre-Forward	Scotland	182	19	341	2,560
15	Miroslav Klose	Attack - Centre-Forward	Germany	177	100	414	5,115
16	Andriy Shevchenko	Attack - Centre-Forward	Ukraine	176	58	384	5,345
17	Dirk Kuyt	Attack - Right Winger	Netherlands	176	97	429	7,566
18	Armin Hobel	Attack - Centre-Forward	Austria	173	7	317	3,583
19	David Trezeguet	Attack - Centre-Forward	France Argentina	171	38	319	3,236
20	Christian Giménez	Attack - Centre-Forward	Argentina Italy	169	18	315	4,847
21	Jermain Defoe	Attack - Centre-Forward	England St. Lucia	169	23	400	4,303
22	Blaise Nkufo	Attack - Centre-Forward	Switzerland	166	57	349	3,745
23	Robbie Keane	Attack - Centre-Forward	Ireland	166	54	411	5,399
24	Frank Lampard	Midfield - Central Midfield	England	166	124	513	10,092
25	Danny Koevermans	Attack - Centre-Forward	Netherlands	165	35	312	3,178
26	Kevin Kuranyi	Attack - Centre-Forward	Germany Panama	164	69	394	5,496
27	Jared Borgetti	Attack - Centre-Forward	Mexico Italy	164	8	304	5,022
28	Fernando Torres	Attack - Centre-Forward	Spain	163	23	359	3,934
29	Diego Forlán	Attack - Centre-Forward	Uruguay Spain	162	37	379	5,585
30	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Attack - Centre-Forward	Sweden Bosnia-Herzegovina	161	77	362	4,137
31	Cristiano Lucarelli	Attack - Centre-Forward	Italy	160	19	356	4,839
32	Frédéric Kanouté	Attack - Centre-Forward	Mali France	159	39	371	3,970
33	Robert Earnshaw	Attack - Centre-Forward	Wales Zambia	157	7	335	4,213
34	Cristiano Ronaldo	Attack - Centre-Forward	Portugal	155	82	356	4,054
35	Michael Owen	Attack - Centre-Forward	England	154	35	336	4,463
36	Roland Kollmann	Attack - Centre-Forward	Austria	153	22	283	2,900
37	Stefan Fladerer	Attack - Centre-Forward	Austria	153	1	279	2,334
38	Antonio Di Natale	Attack - Centre-Forward	Italy	150	46	374	4,002
39	Mario Gómez	Attack - Centre-Forward	Germany Spain	150	33	267	2,591
40	Fatih Tekke	Attack - Centre-Forward	Türkiye	150	45	304	3,934
41	Nicolas Anelka	Attack - Centre-Forward	France Martinique	149	58	423	6,686
42	Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink	Attack - Centre-Forward	Netherlands	149	43	392	4,917
43	Yakubu Aiyegbeni	Attack - Centre-Forward	Nigeria	149	36	360	4,398
44	Mladen Petric	Attack - Centre-Forward	Croatia Switzerland	148	41	371	4,344
45	José Cardozo	Attack - Centre-Forward	Paraguay	148	0	184	2,331
46	Milivoje Novakovic	Attack - Centre-Forward	Slovenia	147	20	286	3,875
47	Wayne Rooney	Attack - Centre-Forward	England	145	70	357	3,725
48	Marco Di Vaio	Attack - Centre-Forward	Italy	144	35	374	4,373
49	Ronaldinho	Attack - Left Winger	Brazil Spain	143	114	361	4,820
50	Hernán Crespo	Attack - Centre-Forward	Argentina Italy	143	33	336	4,908