Maradona, Maldini, Ronaldo, Totti: Who is the greatest Serie A player of all-time?

We’ve ranked 35 of the greatest Serie A players ever from ‘legend’ to ‘The Godfather’.

The Italian top-flight has played host to countless world class footballers throughout its illustrious history.

Diego Maradona, Cristiano Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane and Marco van Basten are just a few household names that have graced the iconic league.

And that’s before you even get onto the homegrown talent championed by the likes of Paolo Maldini and Francesco Totti.

But who among them are the very best?

We’ve used Tiermaker to assign 35 of the league’s biggest names in recent history across five categories that range from ‘legend’ to ‘The Godfather’.

Daniele De Rossi, Dennis Bergkamp, Hernan Crespo, Pavel Nedved, Frank Rijkaard, Patrick Vieira, Antonio Di Natale, Andriy Shevchenko, Gennaro Gattuso, Samuel Eto’o, Christian Vieri

Vieira and Bergkamp, two Arsenal legends, also excelled in the Serie A. The Dutchman played for Inter Milan between 1993-1995. Meanwhile, Vieira enjoyed spells at both Milan clubs as well as Juventus.

Although Nedved and Shevchenko headline this category having claimed the Ballon d’Or whilst in the Italian top-flight and so they can count themselves pretty unlucky not to make the ‘true great’ section.

We have three iconic Serie A strikers in the form of Crespo, Vieri and Di Natale. The three old fashioned ballers were made for scoring goals and did so expertly for many years in Italy.

Whilst Rijkaard, Gattuso and De Rossi provide the muscle as three of the league’s finest midfield enforcers of all-time.

Fabio Cannavaro, Cafu, Clarence Seedorf, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Javier Zanetti, Giorgio Chiellini, Gabriel Batistuta, Alessandro Del Piero, Ruud Gullit

Plenty of elite defensive specialists find their home