The Official GOAT List: Ranking the Greatest Pizza Styles of All Time

Pizza Styles

The Greatest Pizza Styles of All Time league is less about food and more about identity. People don’t casually “prefer” New York pizza. They defend it like a family member. Same with Chicago deep dish, Detroit-style, tavern pizza, and every other slice in this bracket. That’s why pizza debates never end.

This league throws the heavyweights into one arena: crispy edge fanatics, floppy-slice loyalists, stuffed crust truthers, frozen pizza defenders, and the New Haven crowd that somehow turns ordering dinner into a TED Talk. Some picks are pure nostalgia. Some are regional pride. Some exist purely to start arguments.

And honestly? If your favorite pizza style loses in round one, you’re probably going to blame the voters instead of the pizza. That’s exactly how it should be.

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All Time ranks by all-time win rate across every head-to-head battle. Latest ranks by latest fan sentiment, updated as new battles are voted on.

1. NEW YORK STYLE PIZZA

66.9% win rate

#1 Greatest Pizza Styles of All Time

2. DETROIT-STYLE PIZZA

60.3% win rate

#2 Greatest Pizza Styles of All Time

3. PAN PIZZA

55.3% win rate

#3 Greatest Pizza Styles of All Time

4. NEAPOLITAN PIZZA

54.7% win rate

#4 Greatest Pizza Styles of All Time

5. ST. LOUIS-STYLE PIZZA

51.1% win rate

#5 Greatest Pizza Styles of All Time

6. STUFFED CRUST PIZZA

50.6% win rate

#6 Greatest Pizza Styles of All Time

7. CHICAGO DEEP DISH PIZZA

47.7% win rate

#7 Greatest Pizza Styles of All Time

8. NEW HAVEN (APIZZA)

26.7% win rate

#8 Greatest Pizza Styles of All Time

9. FROZEN PIZZA

18.4% win rate

#9 Greatest Pizza Styles of All Time