The Greatest Football player at the Olympic Games
Who is the greatest football player of all time based on Olympic Games performances? We have used a weighted total medal count of each male and female Football player from all modern Olympic Games to rank their overall performance, using data from all Olympics including the Tokyo 2020 Games.
Great Britain v Senegal at London 2012The best all-time performing football (soccer) players at the Olympic Games is the four female players listed below, who were all part of the USA team that won three gold medals between 2004 and 2012, with Christie Rampone also winning one silver from the 2000 Games. There are at least 15 female soccer players from the USA who have won at least two gold medals, and at least 13 male players who have won two gold medals.
Another Olympic football player of note is Brazilian player Marta. She is a two-time silver medalist (2004 & 2008). At Tokyo 2020, she became the first player to score at five consecutive Olympic Games. She is also due to extend this record when she plays in Paris 2024.
See also the best athlete from each sport, and the best overall.
Top Olympic Games Football Players
Here are the top-ranked Olympic football players based on performances at all Olympiads, using the Topend Sports Weighted Ranking System to order the athletes, awarding points for both gold (6 points) and other medals (silver 2 pts, bronze 1 pt).
Table: The Top Ranked Athletes from Football at the Olympic Games (including 2021)
| rank | name | country | gender | Gold | Silver | Bronze | total medals |
rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christie Rampone | USA | F | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| =2 | Shannon Boxx | USA | F | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
| =2 | Heather Mitts | USA | F | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
| =2 | Heather O'Reilly | USA | F | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
Related Pages
- Olympic Games Football Winners - Men and Women
- About Olympic Football
- Height and weight of Olympic football players
- List of the best athlete from each Olympic sport
- The greatest ever Olympic athlete
- About Olympic Medal Ranking Systems
- Medal tables from all Olympic Games
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Old Comments
- My best player at olypic is Neymar or Oscar. (from Adebohun Saheed Akorede, 14 Aug 2012)
- Neymar is soppose to rate as the best player of Olympic (from Usama, 11 Aug 2012)
- All+players of football have to respect neymar be cause he play+like ronaldo (from umar+ahmad+almahdi, 8 Aug 2012)
- I like olymic games very much.My best player is neymar in Brazil (from Sajedur Rahaman, July 2012)
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