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

Lamine Yamal of Barcelona is the standout for raw talent across players, with a Field Insider Rating of 100, and L. Messi has been the form player this season, grading 100, and H. Kane leads the scoring with 36 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: J. Butez has improved his Season rating most, up +78.4 on last season, while B. Touré's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +49.3 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, E. Haaland of Manchester City is the most valuable name in this group at 183.8.

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	Player	Team
1	J. Timber Full-back	Arsenal	25	81.8	8299%	975.3%
2	J. Bednarek Centre-back	FC Porto	30	80.9	81184.9%	4129.2%
3	C. Paz Centre-back	Deportivo Riestra	31	76.9	77241.8%	3111.9%
4	Jacobo Ramón Naveros Centre-back	Como	21	76.4	761369.2%	8914.7%
5	Gabriel Magalhães Centre-back	Arsenal	28	76.4	7699.5%	748.8%
6	K. Mac Allister Full-back	Union St. Gilloise	28	74.5	759.1%	4416.7%
7	Kaiki Full-back	Cruzeiro	23	73.5	74207.5%	8023.3%
8	G. Mancini Full-back	AS Roma	30	72.6	7319.2%	5515%
9	Alberto Baio Full-back	FC Porto	22	71.2	71321.3%	7117.4%
10	J. Kiwior Centre-back	FC Porto	26	70.7	71301.7%	5924.1%
11	Wesley Full-back	AS Roma	22	70.6	7177.4%	9123%
12	J. de Haas Centre-back	Famalicao	26	70.6	7129.3%	631.7%
13	W. Anton Centre-back	Borussia Dortmund	30	70.2	70173.2%	544.6%
14	T. Koga Centre-back	Kashiwa Reysol	27	69.2	69189.5%	504.6%
15	E. Ndicka Centre-back	AS Roma	26	68.7	6917.4%	799.8%
16	K. Andrade Centre-back	Baltika	27	68.6	6952.1%	306.4%
17	M. Akanji Centre-back	Inter	31	68	68132.9%	4616.4%
18	I. Zabarnyi Centre-back	Paris Saint Germain	23	68	6871.3%	849.8%
19	W. Zaïre-Emery Full-back	Paris Saint Germain	20	68	6896%	9412.3%
20	A. Sandez Full-back	Rosario Central	25	67.8	6868.7%	532.2%
21	M. Sarr Full-back	Lens	27	67.6	68125.3%	713.1%
22	K. Hajrizi Centre-back	FC Sion	27	67.1	675491.7%	3937.5%
23	L. Lozano Full-back	Argentinos JRS	27	67	67	49
24	E. Báez Full-back	San Lorenzo	21	67	67141.9%	5817%
25	William Full-back	Cruzeiro	31	66.7	6724%	4023.2%
26	C. Burgess Centre-back	Union St. Gilloise	34	66.2	6627.8%	2315%
27	J. Garner Defensive midfielder	Everton	25	65.7	66195.9%	9016.2%
28	M. Niakhaté Centre-back	Lyon	30	65.4	6551.7%	5215.5%
29	Hassan Tambakti Full-back	Al-Hilal Saudi FC	27	65.3	65218.5%	474.8%
30	Clinton Mata Centre-back	Lyon	33	65.3	6544.5%	3616.5%
31	F. Miguel Full-back	Burgos	29	64.9	6546.5%	4812.7%
32	C. Ibáñez Full-back	Huracan	27	64.9	6514.7%	4320.4%
33	L. Rota Full-back	AEK Athens FC	28	64.2	64193.2%	3512.1%
34	N. Schlotterbeck Full-back	Borussia Dortmund	26	64.2	64142.3%	811.1%
35	A. Norén Centre-back	Mjallby AIF	27	63.9	6449.6%	337.5%
36	L. Blanco Full-back	Boca Juniors	27	63.8	6411%	4719.1%
37	M. Svoboda Centre-back	Venezia	27	63.6	64324%	598.1%
38	Eric García Full-back	Barcelona	25	63.4	63125.6%	85±0%
39	W. Saliba Centre-back	Arsenal	25	63.4	6320.5%	885.2%
40	L. Villalba Centre-back	Cruzeiro	31	63.1	63213.9%	426.7%
41	P. Retsos Centre-back	Olympiakos Piraeus	27	62.9	63159.9%	355.4%
42	A. Hakimi Full-back	Paris Saint Germain	27	62.7	63117.7%	7311.5%
43	Fabrício Bruno Centre-back	Cruzeiro	30	62.3	62144.3%	487.9%
44	Grego Centre-back	Burgos	33	62.2	62168.1%	306.1%
45	T. Crama Centre-back	Millwall	24	62.2	62192%	7769.8%
46	Rodrigo Pinheiro Full-back	Famalicao	23	62	6248.3%	663.1%
47	K. Lomónaco Centre-back	Independiente	24	61.9	6211.8%	543.5%
48	E. Coronel Full-back	Rosario Central	29	61.9	62304.6%	3615.4%
49	T. Guidara Full-back	Huracan	30	61.7	62350.4%	304.1%
50	Álex Full-back	Burgos	22	61.7	62	73