Ranked: Top 50 Best-Performing Footballers in the World Right Now

Bayern Munich star Robert Lewandowski and Barcelona captain Lionel Messi are the best-performing footballers in the world right now, according to FootballCritic.

Messi won his sixth Ballon d'Or in 2019 and was in fine form last season, despite Barcelona's lacklustre season, and Lewandowski was a solid contender for the 2020 Ballon d'Or having fired Bayern to a treble and scoring a gargantuan 40+ goals in a single Bundesliga season.

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— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) October 14, 2020

FootballCritic compiled the rankings for the 50 best players using their algorithm, with Lewandowski and Messi finishing joint top of the pile with a rating of 99.

Atalanta's, Josep Ilicic ranked third with a rating of 98 tied with Neymar who came in fourth.
Cristiano Ronaldo ranked 7th with a rating of 94 while the PFA player of the year, Kevin de Bruyne, ranked 15th with a rating of 92.

Chelsea new boy Kai Havertz (91 rated), Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (89 rated), Paris Saint-Germain's Kylian Mbappe (93 rated), and Liverpool's Sadio Mane (91 rated) also featured on the list.

These are the 50 best-performing players in world football right now:

50. Juan Cuadrado (Juventus): 87 rated

49. Ricardo Pereira (Leicester City): 87 rated

48. Luis Suarez (Atletico Madrid): 87 rated

Luis Suarez moved from Barcelona to Atletico Madrid this summer / DeFodi Images/Getty Images

47. Alphonso Davies (Bayern Munich): 88 rated

46. Sergio Busquets (Barcelona): 88 rated

45. Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo): 88 rated

44. Jadon Sancho (Borussia Dortmund): 88 rated

43. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Milan): 88 rated

42. Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan): 88 rated

41. Leon Goretzka (Bayern Munich): 88 rated

40. Achraf Hakimi (Inter): 88 rated

Achraf Hakimi moved from Real Madrid to Inter this summer / MB Media/Getty Images

39. Marcel Halstenberg (RB Leipzig): 88 rated

38. Juan Musso (Udinese): 88 rated

37. Hakan Calhanoglu (Milan): 89 rated

36. Jordi Alba (Barcelona): 89 rated

35. Duvan Zapata (Atalanta): 89 rated

34. Santi Cazorla (Al Sadd): 89 rated

33. Dayot Upamecano (RB Leipzig): 89 rated

32. Serge Gnabry (Bayern Munich): 89 rated

Serge Gnabry scored 23 goals for Bayern Munich last season / DeFodi Images/Getty Images

31. Gerard Moreno (Villarreal): 89 rated

30. Andrej Kramaric (Hoffenheim): 89 rated

29. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal): 89 rated

28. Jesus Navas (Sevilla): 89 rated

27. Erling Haaland (Borussia Dortmund): 89 rated

26. Alejandro Gomez (Atalanta): 90 rated

25. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid): 90 rated

24. Sven Bender (Bayer Leverkusen): 90 rated

Sven Bender conceded a goal every 1365 minutes in the Bundesliga last season / DeFodi Images/Getty Images

23. Francesco Caputo (Sassuolo): 91 rated

22. Joao Cancelo (Manchester City): 91 rated

21. Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid): 91 rated

20. Kai Havertz (Chelsea): 91 rated

19. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur): 91 rated

18. Sadio Mane (Liverpool): 91 rated

17. Gerard Pique (Barcelona): 91 rated

16. Jan Oblak (Atletico Madrid): 92 rated

15. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City): 92 rated

Kevin De Bruyne contributed 16 goals and 23 assists last season for Manchester United / James Williamson - AMA/Getty Images

14. Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich): 93 rated

13. Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain): 93 rated

12. Son Heung-min (Tottenham Hotspur): 93 rated

11. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool): 93 rated

10. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United): 93 rated

9. Thiago Alcantara (Liverpool): 93 rated

8. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City): 94 rated

7. Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus): 94 rated

Cristiano Ronaldo scored 37 goals last season to help Juventus lift the Serie A title / Silvia Lore/Getty Images

6. Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid): 96 rated

5. Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich): 96 rated

4. Neymar (Paris Saint-Germain): 98 rated

3. Josip Ilicic (Atalanta): 98 rated

2. Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich): 99 rated

1. Lionel Messi (Barcelona): 99 rated