Ranking football's 50 best dribblers including Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe

The 50 best dribblers in world football have been ranked, according to the extensive Football Manager 2022 database.

The Football Manager video game series from Sports Interactive is renowned for its vast and accurate database, with over 800,000 players and staff included in FM22. Dubbed the most realistic football simulator currently available, Football Manager is used by masses of clubs for scouting and recruitment in the real world, and using the database, Mirror Football found the best dribblers from around the globe.

As expected, the likes of Paris Saint Germain's Lionel Messi and Neymar rank highly on the list, but an abundance of Premier League talent are also included, with players from Man City, Man United and Newcastle all featuring.

Dribbling is one of the most entertaining aspects to watch in football. Be it the close controlled, slaloming runs of Messi, the powerful runs of Adama Traore or the skilful, shoulder dropping runs from Neymar, each dribble is different but there's one aspect that links them all, it's sure to get the crowd on their feet.

So, who are the best dribblers currently in world football? To find out, we used FM22 to rank the top 50 dribblers in the world.

The 50 best dribblers in world football ranked

To get this data, we dove into the Football Manager 2022 editor to find the 50 best dribblers in the entire FM22 database.

The dribbling attribute is rated out of 20 on FM, and in the case of players sharing the same dribbling ability, we've ordered them by their current overall ability (CA).

These are the top 50 dribblers according to FM22.

Lionel Messi (Paris Saint-Germain, CA = 194, Age = 34) - 20 dribbling

Neymar (Paris Saint-Germain, CA = 180, Age = 29) - 20 dribbling

Eden Hazard (Real Madrid, CA = 166, Age = 30) - 19 dribbling

Luis Diaz (FC Porto, CA = 159, Age = 24) - 19 dribbling

Allan Saint-Maximin (Newcastle United, CA = 152, Age = 24) - 19 dribbling

Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain, CA = 184, Age = 22) - 18 dribbling

Sergio Aguero (Barcelona, CA = 169, Age = 33) - 18 dribbling

Leroy Sane (Bayern Munich, CA = 167, Age = 25) - 18 dribbling

Paulo Dybala (Juventus, CA = 166, Age = 27) - 18 dribbling

Jadon Sancho (Manchester United, CA = 162, Age = 21) - 18 dribbling

Ousmane Dembele (Barcelona, CA = 159, Age = 24) - 18 dribbling

Luis Muriel (Atalanta, CA = 158, Age = 30) - 18 dribbling

David Silva (Real Sociedad, CA = 157, Age = 35) - 18 dribbling

Philippe Coutinho (Barcelona, CA = 156, Age = 29) - 18 dribbling

Josip Ilicic (Atalanta, CA = 154, Age = 33) - 18 dribbling

Jesus Corona (FC Porto, CA = 153, Age = 28) - 18 dribbling

Felipe Anderson (Lazio, CA = 148, Age = 28) - 18 dribbling

Adama Traore (Wolves, CA = 148, Age = 25) - 18 dribbling

Yacine Brahimi (Al-Rayyan SC), CA = 145, Age = 31) - 18 dribbling

Jeremie Boga (Sassuolo, CA = 144, Age = 24) - 18 dribbling

Franck Ribery (Salernitana, CA = 137, Age = 38) - 18 dribbling

Franco Vazquez (Parma Calcio 1913, CA = 135, Age = 32 - 18 dribbling

Moussa Dembele (Guangzhou City, CA = 134, Age = 34) - 18 dribbling

Ricardo Quaresma (VTSC, CA = 129, Age = 37) - 18 dribbling

Marcos Lliuya (CS Huancayo, CA = 116, Age = 29) - 18 dribbling

Phakamani Mahlambi (Mamelodi Sundowns FC, CA = 115, Age = 23) - 18 dribbling

Mark Mayambela (Free Agent, CA = 105, Age = 33) - 18 dribbling

Mohamed Salah (Liverpool, CA = 184, Age = 29) - 17 dribbling

Luka Modric (Real Madrid, CA = 171, Age = 35) - 17 dribbling

Bernardo Silva (Manchester City, CA = 170, Age = 26) - 17 dribbling

Jack Grealish (Manchester City, CA = 168, Age = 25) - 17 dribbling

Thiago (Liverpool, CA = 164, Age = 30) - 17 dribbling

Yannick Carrasco (Atletico Madrid, CA = 163, Age = 27) - 17 dribbling

Juan Cuadrado (Juventus, CA = 162, Age = 33) - 17 dribbling

Joao Felix (Atletico Madrid, CA = 159, Age = 21) - 17 dribbling

Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City, CA = 158, Age = 30) - 17 dribbling

Alejandro Gomez (Sevilla, CA = 157, Age = 33) - 17 dribbling

Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid, CA = 156, Age = 21) - 17 dribbling

Kingsley Coman (Bayern Munich, CA = 156, Age = 25) - 17 dribbling

Pedri (Barcelona, CA = 155, Age = 18) - 17 dribbling

Rodrigo De Paul (Atletico Madrid, CA = 154, Age = 27) - 17 dribbling

Mateo Kovacic (Chelsea, CA = 154, Age = 27) - 17 dribbling

Joaqin Correa (Inter Milan, CA = 152, Age = 26) - 17 dribbling

Dani Olmo (RB Leipzig, CA = 152, Age = 23) - 17 dribbling

Rafael Leao (AC Milan, CA = 149, Age = 22) - 17 dribbling

Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa (Napoli, CA = 147, Age = 25) - 17 dribbling

Adam Lallana (Brighton and Hove Albion, CA = 147, Age = 33) - 17 dribbling

Jamal Musiala (Bayern Munich, CA = 147, Age = 18) - 17 dribbling

David Neres (Ajax, CA = 146, Age = 24 - 17 dribbling

Nicolas Pepe (Arsenal, CA = 146, Age = 26) - 17 dribbling

Messi and Neymar both lead the way with a dribbling rating of 20 out of 20, whilst Real Madrid's Eden Hazard, Newcastle's Allan Saint-Maximin and FC Porto's Luis Diaz make up the top five, with the trio's dribbling ranked at 19 out of 20.

Football Manager 2022 is out now on all platforms including PC, Mac, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One and Mobile devices, with Football Manager 2022 Touch also available now on Nintendo Switch.

FM22 has a number of new features including a brand new animation engine, an updated Match AI, a new Data Hub, a revamped transfer market, updated Fantasy Draft mode, more customisation options, more varied player chats and much, much more.