Best Defensive players by Season Rating

The best defensive players, ranked on Field Insider.

Best defensive goalkeepers Best defensive defenders Best defensive midfielders Best defensive attackers Best players Most in-form players

At a glance

Y. Minteh of Brighton is the standout for raw talent across players, with a Field Insider Rating of 93.5, and L. Messi has been the form player this season, grading 86.1, and D. Beljo leads the scoring with 31 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: Neymar has improved his Season rating most, up +71.5 on last season, while R. Jansson's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +50.4 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, J. Timber of Arsenal is the most valuable name in this group at 167.

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	Player	Team
1	L. Lozano Full-back	Boca Juniors	27	77.6	7815.8%	3626.8%
2	F. Sjøvold Full-back	Bodo/Glimt	23	77.5	7860.5%	522.2%
3	Lisandro López Centre-back	Belgrano Cordoba	37	74.9	75174.4%	18136.8%
4	T. Palacios Full-back	Estudiantes L.P.	23	71	71100%	556.6%
5	O. Wójcik Centre-back	Werder Bremen	23	70.3	70	4024.2%
6	O. Bjørtuft Centre-back	Bodo/Glimt	27	69.9	7063.7%	404.2%
7	F. Álvarez Centre-back	Argentinos JRS	26	69.4	6921.5%	523.8%
8	K. Hajrizi Centre-back	FC Sion	27	67.1	675491.7%	3937.5%
9	J. Timber Full-back	Arsenal	25	66.7	67±0%	93±0%
10	Hassan Tambakti Centre-back	Al-Hilal Saudi FC	27	65.3	65±0%	47±0%
11	S. Prieto Full-back	Argentinos JRS	33	65.2	6522.8%	228.3%
12	R. Porteous Centre-back	Los Angeles FC	27	65.2	65343.5%	3922.5%
13	L. Morales Centre-back	Belgrano Cordoba	35	64.1	6410.3%	203.5%
14	I. Zabarnyi Centre-back	Paris Saint Germain	24	64	6461.2%	8311%
15	E. Segura Centre-back	Los Angeles FC	29	62.9	6366%	321.6%
16	Nathan Full-back	Vitoria	24	62.3	62386.7%	645%
17	T. Crama Full-back	Millwall	24	62.2	62192%	7973.3%
18	Álex Full-back	Burgos	23	61.7	62	73
19	W. Saliba Centre-back	Arsenal	25	61.7	6217.3%	885.7%
20	Yehia Zakaria Full-back	Ghazl El Mehalla	24	61.4	61	37
21	J. Cornejo Full-back	Coquimbo Unido	36	61.3	61	10
22	A. Maldonado Centre-back	Belgrano Cordoba	29	61.3	6170.8%	3911.6%
23	M. Villa Full-back	Atletico Tucuman	29	61.1	61901.6%	3433.3%
24	Raniele Centre-back	Corinthians	29	60.9	6181.8%	468.5%
25	M. Weigandt Full-back	Boca Juniors	26	60.8	61364.1%	4322%
26	Léo Pereira Centre-back	Flamengo	30	60.6	611%	461.7%
27	Ali Majrashi Full-back	Al-Ahli Jeddah	26	60.5	613.2%	526.5%
28	E. Herrera Full-back	San Lorenzo	23	60.1	6014.3%	542.7%
29	M. Svoboda Full-back	Brighton	27	59.1	59294%	598.1%
30	N. Schlotterbeck Centre-back	Borussia Dortmund	26	58.8	59±0%	77±0%
31	E. Skoglund Centre-back	Hammarby FF	22	58.8	5911.4%	40±0%
32	S. van der Sloot Centre-back	Fortuna Düsseldorf	24	58.6	5955.4%	641.8%
33	Ahmed Shousha Centre-back	Ghazl El Mehalla	32	58.6	59	20
34	K. Wagner Full-back	Philadelphia Union	29	58.4	58±0%	2426.6%
35	Ahmed El Aash Centre-back	National Bank of Egypt	28	58.3	58	29
36	N. Lavanchy Full-back	FC Sion	33	58.3	58	24
37	M. Fernández Centre-back	Coquimbo Unido	37	58.1	58	8
38	F. Salinas Full-back	Coquimbo Unido	26	58	58	27
39	Marco Moreno Centre-back	Bahia	25	57.9	58143.3%	6816.5%
40	N. Otamendi Centre-back	River Plate	38	57.7	58±0%	571.9%
41	N. Tafari Full-back	Los Angeles FC	29	57.7	5887.9%	3110%
42	S. Yohou Centre-back	Le Mans	35	57.4	57±0%	26±0%
43	M. Bentayg Full-back	Zamalek SC	26	57.3	57330.8%	3733.4%
44	L. Di Lollo Centre-back	Boca Juniors	22	57	5714.2%	57±0%
45	L. Martínez Centre-back	River Plate	30	56.7	5719.1%	3413.6%
46	L. Nikolić Full-back	Vojvodina	27	56.4	56	36
47	T. Guddal Full-back	Tromso	24	56	5633.3%	467.8%
48	Sergio Akieme Full-back	Reims	28	55.9	56±0%	53±0%
49	L. Seema Centre-back	Orlando Pirates	25	55.9	56	2
50	Léo Duarte Centre-back	Atletico-MG	30	55.7	5691.4%	3311.6%