The Most Famous
Soccer Players from South Africa
This page contains a list of the greatest South Africans Soccer Players. The pantheon dataset contains 21,273 Soccer Players, 105 of which were born in South Africa. This makes South Africa the birth place of the 48th most number of Soccer Players behind Costa Rica and Iran.
Top 10 South African Soccer Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary South Africans Soccer Players of all time. This list of famous South Africans 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 South Africans Soccer Players.
- #1
Bruce Grobbelaar
b. 1957
HPI 57.3028 langsZimbabwean footballer and manager
- #2
Gordon Hodgson
1904 - 1951
HPI 52.4216 langsFootballer, football manager (1904-1951)
- #3
Dimas
b. 1969
HPI 51.1519 langsPortuguese footballer
- #4
Siphiwe Tshabalala
b. 1984
HPI 50.5540 langsSouth African footballer
- #5
Steven Pienaar
b. 1982
HPI 49.8748 langsSouth African footballer
- #6
Benni McCarthy
b. 1977
HPI 49.5845 langsSouth African footballer
- #7
Mark González
b. 1984
HPI 49.2637 langsChilean footballer
- #8
Phil Masinga
1969 - 2019
HPI 48.5522 langsSouth African footballer (1969-2019)
- #9
Hans Vonk
b. 1970
HPI 48.4918 langsSouth African footballer
- #10
MacBeth Sibaya
b. 1977
HPI 47.6230 langsSouth African footballer
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable South Africans Soccer Players grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
2000s(2)
1990s(30)
1980s(31)
1970s(27)
1960s(13)
1950s(1)
1900s(1)
Overlapping Lives
Which Soccer Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 9 most globally memorable Soccer Players since 1700.
