Most In-Form centre-backs This Season

The most in-form centre-backs, ranked on Field Insider.

Most in-form goalkeepers Most in-form defenders Most in-form midfielders Most in-form attackers Best centre-backs Top-scoring centre-backs

At a glance

Pau Cubarsí Paredes of Barcelona is the standout for raw talent across centre-backs, with a Field Insider Rating of 92.5, and J. Bednarek has been the form player this season, grading 80.9, and K. Wootton leads the scoring with 19 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: Jacobo Ramón Naveros has improved his Season rating most, up +71.2 on last season, while L. Høgsberg's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +33.8 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, W. Saliba of Arsenal is the most valuable name in this group at 126.8.

Best talent

Pau Cubarsí Paredes92.5RTG

Strasbourg · 24/25→25/26

Most improved

Jacobo Ramón Naveros+71.2SsN

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	Player	Team
1	J. Bednarek Centre-back	FC Porto	30	81184.9%	4129.2%
2	C. Paz Centre-back	Deportivo Riestra	31	77241.8%	3111.9%
3	Jacobo Ramón Naveros Centre-back	Como	21	761369.2%	8914.7%
4	Gabriel Magalhães Centre-back	Arsenal	28	7699.5%	748.8%
5	J. Kiwior Centre-back	FC Porto	26	71301.7%	5924.1%
6	J. de Haas Centre-back	Famalicao	26	7129.3%	631.7%
7	W. Anton Centre-back	Borussia Dortmund	30	70173.2%	544.6%
8	T. Koga Centre-back	Kashiwa Reysol	27	69189.5%	504.6%
9	E. Ndicka Centre-back	AS Roma	26	6917.4%	799.8%
10	K. Andrade Centre-back	Baltika	27	6952.1%	306.4%
11	M. Akanji Centre-back	Inter	31	68132.9%	4616.4%
12	I. Zabarnyi Centre-back	Paris Saint Germain	23	6871.3%	849.8%
13	K. Hajrizi Centre-back	FC Sion	27	675491.7%	3937.5%
14	C. Burgess Centre-back	Union St. Gilloise	34	6627.8%	2315%
15	M. Niakhaté Centre-back	Lyon	30	6551.7%	5215.5%
16	Clinton Mata Centre-back	Lyon	33	6544.5%	3616.5%
17	A. Norén Centre-back	Mjallby AIF	27	6449.6%	337.5%
18	M. Svoboda Centre-back	Venezia	27	64324%	598.1%
19	W. Saliba Centre-back	Arsenal	25	6320.5%	885.2%
20	L. Villalba Centre-back	Cruzeiro	31	63213.9%	426.7%
21	P. Retsos Centre-back	Olympiakos Piraeus	27	63159.9%	355.4%
22	Fabrício Bruno Centre-back	Cruzeiro	30	62144.3%	487.9%
23	Grego Centre-back	Burgos	33	62168.1%	306.1%
24	T. Crama Centre-back	Millwall	24	62192%	7769.8%
25	K. Lomónaco Centre-back	Independiente	24	6211.8%	543.5%
26	Léo Pereira Centre-back	Flamengo	30	62159.9%	475.2%
27	N. Elvedi Centre-back	Borussia Mönchengladbach	29	6190.3%	569%
28	V. Eriksson Centre-back	Hammarby FF	25	6163.8%	398.4%
29	W. Pacho Centre-back	Paris Saint Germain	24	6156.7%	792.3%
30	M. N'Diaye Centre-back	FC Schalke 04	24	6178.9%	6622.3%
31	Bremer Centre-back	Juventus	29	60261.7%	6112.2%
32	Mario Gila Centre-back	Lazio	25	6079.3%	812.2%
33	M. Senesi Centre-back	Bournemouth	29	60197.5%	658.7%
34	M. Young Centre-back	Sparta Rotterdam	20	5969.4%	768.3%
35	Ahmed Shousha Centre-back	Ghazl El Mehalla	32	59	20
36	Rúben Neves Centre-back	Al-Hilal Saudi FC	29	59111.2%	448.4%
37	Ahmed El Aash Centre-back	Ghazl El Mehalla	28	58	29
38	M. Fernández Centre-back	Coquimbo Unido	37	58	8
39	L. Morales Centre-back	Gimnasia L.P.	35	588.2%	2012.9%
40	F. Pereyra Centre-back	Huracan	36	5829.5%	209.9%
41	N. Otamendi Centre-back	Benfica	38	5813.1%	1927.7%
42	M. Bani Centre-back	Palermo	32	58166.2%	3024.3%
43	S. Yohou Centre-back	Le Mans	35	57686.3%	26115.6%
44	Filipe Relvas Centre-back	AEK Athens FC	26	57695.8%	399.7%
45	F. Álvarez Centre-back	Argentinos JRS	26	576.1%	505.8%
46	M. Simakan Centre-back	Al-Nassr	26	5788.7%	551.3%
47	B. Cabrera Centre-back	Coquimbo Unido	29	57	19
48	J. Portillo Centre-back	Talleres Cordoba	26	5739.8%	4620.4%
49	H. Taniguchi Centre-back	Tokyo Verdy	26	5779.1%	4811.6%
50	Teo Quintero Centre-back	Sparta Rotterdam	27	56518.7%	584.3%