Best Defensive midfielders by Season Rating in K League 1 2026
The best defensive midfielders in K League 1 in 2026, ranked on Field Insider.
At a glance
J. Son of FC Seoul is the standout for raw talent across midfielders in K League 1, with a Field Insider Rating of 49.4, and Lee Jae-Won has been the form player this season, grading 22, and Lee Dong-Gyeong leads the scoring with 7 goals.
The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: Go Jae-Hyeon has improved his Season rating most, up +13.1 on last season, while Kim Dong-Jin's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +0.2 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.
By our market-value index, Emerson Negueba of Jeju United FC is the most valuable name in this group at 11.1.
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