Top 5 Fastest Footballers In The World

[Stack]

hahahahaha the playstation football generation appears......

 

[Red Pavan]

Fastest players in the Prem:

Torres
Agbonlahor
Lennon
Valencia
Walcott
Rooney
Obertan

You probably got that spot on but with the exception of leaving out Carraghar made no sense though.

 

[Name Changed]

So it's not actually the fastest player but actually the average speed they reach during a match.... That's a bit different...

 

[Ashish Negi]

From Cristiano Ronaldo 33.6 kilometres per hour in 2009 to Antonio Rudiger- 36.7 km/h in 2022. So even the 21st Fastest footballer in 2023 in world is quicker than Ronaldo in 2009.

How much football has changed?

 

[DJ Jeff]

From Cristiano Ronaldo 33.6 kilometres per hour in 2009 to Antonio Rudiger- 36.7 km/h in 2022. So even the 21st Fastest footballer in 2023 in world is quicker than Ronaldo in 2009.

How much football has changed?

Tbf even back then people were calling this list out as shite and including names based on rep rather than actual measured speed. Aaron Lennon in 2009 was faster than all of these guys but he wouldn't draw any attention topping a list. And I'm not having for a second that RVP in 09 was faster than Walcott. Use your eyes lads this list makes as little sense now as it did then.

 

[meamth]

From Cristiano Ronaldo 33.6 kilometres per hour in 2009 to Antonio Rudiger- 36.7 km/h in 2022. So even the 21st Fastest footballer in 2023 in world is quicker than Ronaldo in 2009.

How much football has changed?

That's why PL is much harder now, the base fitness level for every team is at the optimum.

Any average ability player can match up top talented players with hard work.

 

[Oly Francis]

That's why PL is much harder now, the base fitness level for every team is at the optimum.

Any average ability player can match up top talented players with hard work.

And yet, none of the best players in the PL for the past decade is a particularly fast player.

It's true though that the average player is much faster.

 

[Malkovich]

From Cristiano Ronaldo 33.6 kilometres per hour in 2009 to Antonio Rudiger- 36.7 km/h in 2022. So even the 21st Fastest footballer in 2023 in world is quicker than Ronaldo in 2009.

How much football has changed?

Nothing has changed, the measurements are bogus then and now. Source : my friend who is on a national 100M team laughs off those 37-38 km/h numbers

 

[Scroto Baggins]

Nothing has changed, the measurements are bogus then and now. Source : my friend who is on a national 100M team laughs off those 37-38 km/h numbers

Didn't Bolt hit a top speed of 44km/h? To set the record at 9.58 seconds for the 100m? To do the 100m in 10sec is 36km/h average across the sprint, fine margins at this level, the fastest professional footballers would not be far off 100m in 10 seconds, some probably ex sprinters. Wasn't Bale a sprinter in his youth but chose football as a career instead of athletics? So what are we looking at for a footballer top speed 35k - 35.5km/h? Maybe at a stretch 37km/h? That doesn't seem unreasonable if top sprinters are hitting 40km/h+.

 

[One Night Only]

I reckon Maguire sometimes hits 3.5km/h

 

[Oly Francis]

Nothing has changed, the measurements are bogus then and now. Source : my friend who is on a national 100M team laughs off those 37-38 km/h numbers

The measurements might be bogus but there's nothing laughable about 37-38 km/h during a very short burst. It's consistent with a 100m in 11 seconds or so, which would be totally achievable for some fast football players in top condition.

 

[Rossa]

Didn't Bolt hit a top speed of 44km/h? To set the record at 9.58 seconds for the 100m? To do the 100m in 10sec is 36km/h average across the sprint, fine margins at this level, the fastest professional footballers would not be far off 100m in 10 seconds, some probably ex sprinters. Wasn't Bale a sprinter in his youth but chose football as a career instead of athletics? So what are we looking at for a footballer top speed 35k - 35.5km/h? Maybe at a stretch 37km/h? That doesn't seem unreasonable if top sprinters are hitting 40km/h+.

Bale was a cross country runner, which is quite different. Also, isn’t he hyped a little? He wasn’t really much faster than Rafael the times they battled, Walker quite easily outpaced him, and Fosu Mensah easily outran him as well.

I doubt there is a single footballer close to 10 seconds flat on a 100m. Perhaps the fastest would clock in at 11 or thereabouts.
Not sure who the fastest are now? Is Walker slowing down a little? If not, he is still up there. Mbappe of course. Nunes? Vinicius? Probably some mediocre centre back and fullback.

 

[Gio]

From Cristiano Ronaldo 33.6 kilometres per hour in 2009 to Antonio Rudiger- 36.7 km/h in 2022. So even the 21st Fastest footballer in 2023 in world is quicker than Ronaldo in 2009.

How much football has changed?

The 2009 numbers are nonsense, that's what's changed. Ronaldo was recorded at 35 km/h at the Euros in 2021 at the ripe old age of 36, yet we all know he slowed up a little as he aged.

Didn't Bolt hit a top speed of 44km/h? To set the record at 9.58 seconds for the 100m? To do the 100m in 10sec is 36km/h average across the sprint, fine margins at this level, the fastest professional footballers would not be far off 100m in 10 seconds, some probably ex sprinters. Wasn't Bale a sprinter in his youth but chose football as a career instead of athletics? So what are we looking at for a footballer top speed 35k - 35.5km/h? Maybe at a stretch 37km/h? That doesn't seem unreasonable if top sprinters are hitting 40km/h+.

To break 11 seconds in the 100m, you need a top speed in the region of 38 km/h.
To hit around 10.5 in the 100m, your top speed needs to be 40 km/h.
To break 10 seconds, the top speed has to be 42 km/h.

Now nobody is really getting above 36 km/h based on the top speed data recorded by UEFA and others in recent years. I think that shows there is a gulf between your top 100m athletes and the quickest footballers.

All of that said, we are not factoring in the impact of surfaces here. Stick Mbappe on a track instead of grass and I can see his top speed shifting up at least a couple of km/h.