Lionel Messi crowned as the best playmaker of the last decade with the Barcelona talisman flanked by Andres Iniesta and Luka Modric in the rankings as Kevin De Bruyne misses out on the podium places... but who else makes the top 20?

Lionel Messi has proved that he is the ultimate team player after being named as the world's best playmaker of the last decade.

The Barcelona talisman is in elite company but was comfortably judged to have been the most productive creator over the last 10 years according to data compiled by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS).

Every year, the IFFHS gives out an award for the best playmaker using statistics to determine a winner on a points system.

This system – which gives 20 points to first place, 19 points to second and so on and so forth – has accumulated each player's yearly total between 2011 and 2020 to help crown the best 20 playmakers, with Messi winning by a clear margin.