Top-Scoring centre-backs

The top-scoring centre-backs, ranked on Field Insider.

Top-scoring defenders Top-scoring midfielders Top-scoring attackers Best centre-backs Most in-form centre-backs Most valuable 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	K. Wootton Centre-back	Stockport County	29	19	2830.2%	3815.6%
2	Rúben Neves Centre-back	Al-Hilal Saudi FC	29	11	59111.2%	448.4%
3	S. van der Sloot Centre-back	ADO Den Haag	24	8	5648.3%	630.5%
4	D. Pospelov Centre-back	Uta Arad	34	7	27161.2%	1332.1%
5	A. Tiritiello Centre-back	Virtus Entella	31	7	2442.1%	3233.6%
6	F. Brignani Centre-back	Castellón	28	7	2625.6%	4812.5%
7	T. Harwood-Bellis Centre-back	Southampton	24	7	3360.3%	768.6%
8	Ahmed Shousha Centre-back	Ghazl El Mehalla	32	7	59	20
9	I. Baouf Centre-back	Cambuur	19	6	39150%	6442.7%
10	F. Almada Centre-back	Mazatlán	28	6	2032.8%	4021%
11	D. Krčík Centre-back	Karviná	27	6	7	1
12	G. Egawa Centre-back	Tegevajaro Miyazaki	26	6	12	26
13	A. Jędrych Centre-back	GKS Katowice	34	6	3026.7%	161.8%
14	O. Bjørtuft Centre-back	Bodo/Glimt	27	6	4450.9%	403.9%
15	H. Falchener Centre-back	Viking	23	6	361127.6%	5135.4%
16	M. Laborda Centre-back	Vancouver Whitecaps	26	6	4486.9%	446%
17	N. Saint-Ruf Centre-back	Nancy	33	6	1854.2%	226.1%
18	M. Maglica Centre-back	SV Darmstadt 98	27	6	37776.2%	5415.1%
19	D. Zec Centre-back	Holstein Kiel	26	6	37202.5%	6012.8%
20	L. Vušković Centre-back	Hamburger SV	19	6	3368.9%	8740.6%
21	A. Oluwo Centre-back	Salford City	26	6	31	32
22	K. Watts Centre-back	Cambridge United	26	6	44255.6%	3517.4%
23	V. van Dijk Centre-back	Liverpool	35	6	3440.9%	377.7%
24	Lucas Maia Centre-back	Henan Jianye	33	6	22	14
25	T. Letschert Centre-back	Chengdu Better City	33	5	4220.2%	1451.2%
26	K. Boateng Centre-back	Dinamo Bucuresti	29	5	3850.2%	2655.6%
27	I. Larie Centre-back	Farul Constanta	39	5	20	10
28	S. Simović Centre-back	Radnicki 1923	37	5	39	11
29	J. Černín Centre-back	Zlin	27	5	16	1
30	M. Machado Centre-back	Racing Cordoba	25	5	7	37
31	N. Marichal Centre-back	Dynamo	25	5	281.8%	342.7%
32	E. Sarapiy Centre-back	Polessya	27	5	44182.1%	3411.7%
33	K. Sotiriou Centre-back	Korona Kielce	30	5	29236%	24±0%
34	Waleed Al Ahmad Centre-back	Al Taawon	27	5	1945.3%	4513.1%
35	Marçal Centre-back	Botafogo	37	5	2210.6%	1032.9%
36	E. Fernandez Centre-back	Rangers	24	5	32156.1%	506.8%
37	B. Mechele Centre-back	Club Brugge KV	33	5	460.7%	2721.3%
38	J. de Haas Centre-back	Famalicao	26	5	7129.3%	631.7%
39	F. Lajugie Centre-back	Annecy	30	5	2628.3%	374.4%
40	L. Lochoshvili Centre-back	1. FC Nürnberg	28	5	33487.5%	516.9%
41	D. Doekhi Centre-back	Union Berlin	28	5	353.4%	6412.2%
42	K. Diks Centre-back	Borussia Mönchengladbach	29	5	54117.7%	5649.6%
43	L. Østigård Centre-back	Genoa	26	5	3781.4%	739.1%
44	P. Farquharson Centre-back	Walsall	29	5	16403.1%	206.9%
45	N. Smith Centre-back	Tranmere	30	5	201.5%	226.5%
46	Jiang Shenglong Centre-back	Shanghai Shenhua	25	4	27	34
47	A. Alarcón Centre-back	Deportivo Pasto	25	4	17	25
48	A. Pașcanu Centre-back	Rapid	27	4	2622.4%	2855.5%
49	P. Petrović Centre-back	Javor	21	4	35	45
50	N. Tekijaški Centre-back	FK Jablonec	29	4	35169.2%	196.6%