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1 WM 84 Wes Morgan Leicester's captain in 2015-16 played every minute of all 38 league games, and in March 2017 Morgan became the first Jamaican to score in the Champions League. He was Premier League champion and PFA Team of the Year in that season, added the 2021 FA Cup and the 2014 Championship, and won 30 caps for Jamaica after 402 appearances for Nottingham Forest. CB2014–21

2 LB 83 Leon Bailey 41 caps · 7 goals · K.R.C. Genk, Bayer 04 LeverkusenOn 30 November 2019 he scored twice against Bayern Munich for Leverkusen, one with each foot. He won the Europa League with Aston Villa in 2026, UEFA's Goal of the Season in the 2016-17 edition while at Genk, a place in the 2017-18 Bundesliga Team of the Season, and Belgium's young professional footballer of the year award for 2015-16. LM2015–26

3 AB 82 Andre Blake Philadelphia Union, UConn Huskies men's soccerThe ten saves Blake made on 26 September 2015 remain Philadelphia Union's single-game record, and a decade later he was still doing the same job for the same club. He was the first Jamaican to win the Gold Cup Golden Glove, in 2017, the year Jamaica reached their second straight final, and he has three MLS Goalkeeper of the Year awards from 2016, 2020 and 2022, Supporters' Shields in 2020 and 2025, the 2014 Caribbean Cup and 94 caps. GK2014–25

4 RG 82 Ricardo Gardner 111 caps · Harbour View, Bolton WanderersIn November 2007 Gardner opened the scoring against Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena, his first club goal in almost five years and a rare flourish in 14 seasons and 342 league games at Bolton. He started all three group matches at France 98 as a 19-year-old, won the Caribbean Cup that year, and finished with 111 caps and nine goals for Jamaica. LB2000s

81 Luton Shelton 75 caps · 35 goals · Harbour View, Vålerenga FotballFour goals arrived on his Jamaica debut in 2004, a start no other Jamaican has managed, and he was still in the side nine years later. His 35 goals in 75 caps remain the Jamaican record, and he won three Caribbean Cups, in 2005, 2008 and 2010, scoring both goals in the 2008 final against Grenada, plus the Swedish Cup with Helsingborg and the Norwegian Cup with Vålerenga. SS2004–10

6 TW 81 Theodore Whitmore 105 caps · 24 goals · Montego Bay United, Hull City A.F.C.Lyon, 26 June 1998: Tappa Whitmore scored in the 39th minute and again in the 54th, and Jamaica beat Japan 2-1 for the only World Cup win in their history. Two Caribbean Cups, in 1998 and 2005, and Caribbean Footballer of the Year in 1998; 120 caps and 23 goals between 1993 and 2004, then 77 games for Hull City. CM1993–2005

7 FS 80 Frank Sinclair Extra time in the 1998 League Cup final at Wembley, and the goal that broke Middlesbrough came from Sinclair, a defender who made 218 appearances for Chelsea. He won the Cup Winners' Cup weeks later, added the 1997 FA Cup and a second League Cup with Leicester in 2000, and started all three of Jamaica's group games at France 98 among his 28 caps. CB1997–2000

8 RF 80 Ricardo Fuller 73 caps · 9 goals · Preston North End, Stoke CityBeating three West Ham defenders before rolling the ball past Rob Green in 2009-10 won him Stoke's goal of the season for a third year running. He scored Stoke's first Premier League goal, a consolation in a 3-1 defeat at Bolton on the opening day of 2008-09, made the PFA Championship Team of the Year in 2007-08 as Stoke went up, and won more than 70 caps for Jamaica between 1999 and 2012. ST1999–2012

9 RE 80 Robbie Earle 33 caps · 8 goals · Stoke City, Port Vale · Hall of FameHis goal against Croatia in Lens on 14 June 1998 arrived in the 45th minute and was the first Jamaica ever scored at a World Cup, one of only eight caps he won. Before that came 294 league games and 77 goals for Port Vale, including both in the 1989 Third Division play-off final, then 284 games and 59 goals for Wimbledon, whom he captained from 1995. CM1989–98

10 DG 79 Demarai Gray A curling shot from the edge of the box on 31 December 2022 gave Everton a 1-1 draw with Manchester City and won Gray the Premier League Goal of the Month. He was a Premier League champion with Leicester in 2015-16, switched from England's youth teams to Jamaica in 2023, and made the Gold Cup Best XI in his first tournament for them, with seven goals in 29 caps. RM2015–23

11 DR 79 Donovan Ricketts 100 caps · LA Galaxy, Portland TimbersBehind him the 2010 Los Angeles Galaxy conceded 26 goals across 30 league matches, and he ended that season as MLS Goalkeeper of the Year. He finished with 100 caps for Jamaica, the 2011 MLS Cup with the Galaxy, Supporters' Shields in 2010 and 2011, a second Goalkeeper of the Year award at Portland in 2013, two places in the MLS Best XI and Caribbean Cups in 2005 and 2008. GK2005–13

12 WB 79 Warren Barrett 40 caps · Violet Kickers, WadadahAcross five home qualifiers in the 1997 final round he kept five clean sheets at Independence Park, the last a 0-0 with Mexico on 16 November that carried Jamaica to France. He captained the Reggae Boyz at that World Cup, joined FIFA's century club with 108 official caps between 1990 and 2000, and spent his entire club career in Jamaica, almost all of it at Violet Kickers. GK1990–2000

13 DP 78 Darryl Powell 21 caps · 1 goals · Portsmouth, Derby CountyTwo bookings inside the first half at the Parc des Princes ended Powell's World Cup on 21 June 1998, and Batistuta scored a hat-trick against the ten men who finished the game. He won 21 caps between 1998 and 2001, and gave the English game 132 league appearances for Portsmouth and 207 for Derby County over seven seasons, most of them in the Premier League. CM1998–2001

14 IG 78 Ian Goodison 120 caps · Hull City A.F.C., Montego Bay UnitedHe wore the armband in Lyon on 26 June 1998 when Jamaica beat Japan 2-1 for the country's only World Cup win, and he was still playing league football for Tranmere in his forties. Jamaica's appearance record was his with 128 caps, he won the Caribbean Cup in 1998, and Tranmere gave him more than 350 games and three player of the season awards after Hull City's in 2000-01. RB1998–2000

15 JE 78 Jason Euell Both goals in Charlton's 2-1 win over Chelsea on 2 March 2002 were his, seven months after the club broke its transfer record at £4.75m to sign him from Wimbledon, where he had scored 19 league goals the previous season. He top-scored for Charlton in each of his first three seasons and finished with 37 in 155 games there, won promotion with Blackpool through the 2010 play-off final, and took his three Jamaica caps late, between 2004 and 2006. CM2002–10

78 Kemar Lawrence Harbour View, New York Red BullsWith two minutes left at the Rose Bowl on 23 July 2017, Lawrence bent a left-footed free kick past Mexico and put Jamaica in a second straight Gold Cup final. Twice a Gold Cup runner-up with Jamaica, in 2015 and 2017, he made the 2017 Best XI, won two Supporters' Shields and a place in the 2018 MLS Best XI with New York Red Bulls, and finished with 77 caps. LB2015–18

17 PC 78 Peter Cargill 84 caps · Harbour View, Maccabi NetanyaJamaica called him Jair, and he carried the name through fourteen years in midfield, from a first cap in 1984 to a substitute's appearance against Japan in Lyon on 26 June 1998. Two Caribbean Cups came his way, in 1991 and 1998, and he played at the 1998 World Cup in France wearing number seven, took 84 caps for Jamaica and spent eight seasons in Israel with Maccabi Netanya and Hapoel Petah Tikva. CDM1984–98

18 RA 78 Rudolph Austin Portmore United, SK BrannAustin scored from a free kick on 7 September 2012 as Jamaica beat the United States 2-1, their first win in 19 meetings with them. Three Caribbean Cups, in 2008, 2010 and 2014, with the tournament MVP award in the last two; a Gold Cup final in 2015, the year he also captained Jamaica at the Copa América; two Jamaica Premier League titles at Portmore United and VG's Norwegian player of the year award in 2011. CDM2008–15

19 DB 77 Deon Burton Canada and Costa Rica were both beaten 1-0 in the 1997 final qualifying round with Burton scoring the goal, four in five games that took the Reggae Boyz to their first World Cup. Jamaica's Sportsman of the Year for 1997, he played at France 98, finished with 13 goals in 62 caps, and took the First Division title with Portsmouth in 2003 and League Two with Gillingham in 2013. RM1997–2013

20 JM 77 Jobi McAnuff His run through the Cardiff half in the 2011 Championship play-off semi-final ended with Reading's third goal and a Wembley final, and he took the club's armband that summer. The Championship title followed in 2011-12 with Reading, then the National League with Leyton Orient in 2018-19, the Caribbean Cup with Jamaica in 2014, a place at the 2015 Copa América and the Sir Tom Finney Award in 2022. LM2011–22

21 LD 77 Linval Dixon 96 caps · Charleston Battery, Portmore UnitedOld Harbour Bay produced him, and he gave Jamaica 127 appearances between 1993 and 2003 for three goals, the first against Zambia in Kingston on 20 August 1995. He wore number 4 in France at the 1998 World Cup, captained the side at points across those ten years, and won the USL A-League with Charleston Battery in 2003 after seven seasons at Hazard United. CB1993–2003

22 MH 77 Michael Hector Chelsea signed Hector on deadline day in September 2015 and he left four years later without a competitive appearance, loaned out season after season until Fulham signed him outright. He was a Gold Cup runner-up with Jamaica in 2015, finished third in the 2023-24 Nations League and made the Best XI of its finals, won 45 caps, and started the 2020 play-off final that returned Fulham to the Premier League. CB2015–23

23 OL 77 Onandi Lowe 65 caps · 27 goals · CF Montréal, WaterhouseNandi's left foot brought 27 goals from 65 Jamaica caps, among them the strike that took the Reggae Boyz past Antigua and Barbuda in the 1998 Caribbean Cup semi-final. France 98 gave him appearances against Croatia and Japan, and he won the Caribbean Cup in 1998, the A-League title with the Rochester Rhinos in 2000 and the Third Division championship with Rushden and Diamonds in 2002-03. ST1998–2002

24 PH 77 Paul Hall Wearing 22, he started all three group games in France in 1998, and those performances turned a £70,000 signing from March 1993 into a £300,000 sale from Portsmouth to Coventry. He made the 1998 Gold Cup team of the tournament, scored 14 goals in 41 caps for Jamaica, hit 37 in 188 games at Fratton Park, and took the PFA Third Division team of the year in 2002-03. SS1993–2002

25 WB 77 Walter Boyd Jamaica called him the Blacka Pearl, and Swansea got the full package in 1999: two goals on his debut, then a sending off at the Vetch Field against Darlington before play had even restarted from the free kick that let him onto the pitch. Sixty-six caps and 19 goals for the Reggae Boyz, with three appearances off the bench at France 98, the country's only World Cup. CAM1990s

26 AP 76 Alvas Powell Portmore United, Portland TimbersOn 30 August 2014, in a 3-0 win over Cascadia rivals Vancouver, Powell scored his first goal for Portland, the club that had taken him on loan from Portmore United a year earlier. He won MLS Cup with Portland in 2015 and the Supporters' Shield with Cincinnati in 2023, and in 58 caps for Jamaica he was part of the sides that reached the Gold Cup finals of 2015 and 2017 and won the 2014 Caribbean Cup. RB2014–23

27 DM 76 Darren Mattocks Vancouver Whitecaps, Portland TimbersIn the Georgia Dome on 22 July 2015, Mattocks opened the scoring as Jamaica beat the United States 2-1 and reached a Gold Cup final for the first time, then scored again in the final against Mexico. Runner-up at the Gold Cups of 2015 and 2017, Caribbean Cup winner and joint top scorer in 2014, second overall pick in the 2012 MLS SuperDraft, 18 goals in 50 caps for Jamaica. ST2012–17

76 Jermaine Taylor Harbour View, St. George's SCAt the 2017 Gold Cup he was named in the tournament's Best XI beside Andre Blake and Kemar Lawrence, the spine of a Jamaica side that reached a second straight final. Runner-up in 2015 and 2017, past 100 caps, three Caribbean Cups in 2005, 2010 and 2014, two Eastern Conference titles with Houston Dynamo, plus the league and CFU club title at Harbour View. CB2005–17

29 KS 76 Khari Stephenson 32 caps · 3 goals · GAIS, Aalesunds FKKansas City threw their rookie into the 2004 play-offs and he answered on 30 October, scoring in the 3-0 conference semi-final win over San Jose that carried the Wizards to MLS Cup. Later came a Norwegian Cup with Aalesund in 2009 and the Supporters' Shield with San Jose in 2012, and for Jamaica, 32 caps, three goals and the 2005 Caribbean Cup. CAM2004–12

30 MJ 76 Michael Johnson Birmingham supporters called him Magic, after the basketball player, and on 12 May 2002 he started the play-off final at the Millennium Stadium in front of 71,597 as Birmingham beat Norwich on penalties to reach the Premier League. Birmingham's Player of the Year in 1998-99, 262 games for the club and more than 550 across the Football League and Premier League, 13 caps for Jamaica at the 2000 and 2003 Gold Cups. ST1998–2003

31 RM 76 Ravel Morrison Birmingham City, West Ham UnitedOn 6 October 2013 at White Hart Lane he ran through the Tottenham defence on his own and finished for West Ham's third in the 79th minute of a 3-0 win. West Ham's Goal of the Season for that run, two goals in the 2011 FA Youth Cup final for Manchester United, and 21 caps for Jamaica since he switched from England in November 2020. CAM2011–20

76 Shavar Thomas 52 caps · FC Dallas, Sporting Kansas CityTen picks into the 2003 SuperDraft, Dallas called his name, and what followed was 198 MLS matches over eight seasons at four clubs, including a goal against D.C. United on 10 July 2004. He captained Jamaica to the 2010 Caribbean Championship in Martinique, won it again in 2008, took the US Open Cup with Kansas City in 2004, and finished with 52 caps between 1999 and 2012. CB1999–2012

75 Devon Williams Pittsburgh Riverhounds 2, Red Bull New York IIWilliams led St George's College in Kingston to schoolboy titles in 2008 and 2009, and Jamaica capped the midfielder everyone calls Speedy at 18, on 11 August 2010 in a 3-1 win over Trinidad and Tobago. Four USL titles with three clubs, New York Red Bulls II in 2016, Louisville City in 2017 and 2018, Colorado Springs in 2024, All-League First Team in 2020 and 35 caps for Jamaica. CDM2008–24

About this XI

Jamaica's pool is led by Wes Morgan, Leon Bailey and Andre Blake. The 33 covers 3 goalkeepers, 10 defenders, 14 midfielders and 6 forwards. Wes Morgan leads the pool at 84 overall. Pick a formation, drag your eleven onto the pitch, then settle the duels below. Your votes reorder the people's ranking of these 33 in real time.

Who is the greatest Jamaica footballer of all time?

In the 33 Legends editorial ranking, Wes Morgan leads Jamaica with an overall rating of 84. The editorial top five: Wes Morgan, Leon Bailey, Andre Blake, Ricardo Gardner, Luton Shelton. The people's ranking on this page moves with every duel vote and can disagree.

How were these 33 Jamaica players chosen?

The pool covers every position across Jamaica's football history. Ratings weigh peak level, longevity, honours and historical standing, then the full methodology page explains the tiers. Fan votes in the duels build a second, independent ranking.

Which Jamaica players reach the Immortal tier or higher?

None yet. Wes Morgan leads the Jamaica pool at 84, in the Icon tier.

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