Chris Wood
b. 1991
HPI 60.1739 languages
New Zealand footballer
The Most Famous
Soccer Players from New Zealand
67 notable people
This page contains a list of the greatest New Zealanders Soccer Players. The pantheon dataset contains 24,321 Soccer Players, 67 of which were born in New Zealand. This makes New Zealand the birth place of the 61st most number of Soccer Players behind North Macedonia and Honduras.
Top 10 New Zealander Soccer Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary New Zealander Soccer Players of all time. This list of famous New Zealander Soccer Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of New Zealander Soccer Players.
#1 #2 
Wynton Rufer
b. 1962
HPI 59.0449 languagesNew Zealand footballer
#3 
Winston Reid
b. 1988
HPI 54.8444 languagesNew Zealand footballer
#4 
Ricki Herbert
b. 1961
HPI 48.8726 languagesNew Zealand footballer
#5 
Ivan Vicelich
b. 1976
HPI 47.7130 languagesNew Zealand footballer
#6 
Archie Thompson
b. 1978
HPI 47.6931 languagesAustralian association football player
#7 
Andrew Barron
b. 1980
HPI 47.3821 languagesNew Zealand footballer
#8 
Mark Paston
b. 1976
HPI 44.0929 languagesNew Zealand footballer
#9 
Michael McGlinchey
b. 1987
HPI 43.3947 languagesNew Zealand footballer
#10 
Simon Elliott
b. 1974
HPI 42.0324 languagesNew Zealand footballer
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable New Zealanders Soccer Players grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
2000s(9)
1990s(26)
1980s(20)
1970s(9)
Overlapping Lives
Which Soccer Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Soccer Players since 1700.
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