Top-Scoring centre-backs in Premier League

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

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At a glance

S. Varatynov of Baltika is the standout for raw talent across centre-backs in Premier League, with a Field Insider Rating of 36.6, and K. Andrade has been the form player this season, grading 63.7, and N. Marichal leads the scoring with 5 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: V. Drkušić has improved his Season rating most, up +23.8 on last season, while S. Varatynov's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +8.3 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, S. Varatynov of Baltika is the most valuable name in this group at 6.6.

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	Player	Team
1	N. Marichal Centre-back	Dynamo	25	5	271.8%	342.1%
2	C. Montes Centre-back	Lokomotiv	29	4	2456.1%	244.7%
3	I. Diveev Centre-back	CSKA Moscow	26	3	3821.3%	3311.1%
4	Diego Costa Centre-back	FC Krasnodar	27	3	5012.2%	3112.5%
5	C. Wooh Centre-back	Spartak Moscow	24	2	2031%	3353.1%
6	O. Ndong Centre-back	Akhmat	26	2	22373.9%	2935.8%
7	V. Melekhin Centre-back	FC Rostov	22	2	32187.5%	3514.1%
8	Jubal Centre-back	FC Krasnodar	32	2	785.8%	1177.9%
9	Marcelo Alves Centre-back	FC Sochi	28	2	1156.9%	223.7%
10	M. Osipenko Centre-back	Dynamo	32	2	236.5%	1533.3%
11	A. Soldatenkov Centre-back	FC Sochi	29	1	2115.9%	2219.8%
12	D. Vedernikov Centre-back	FC Orenburg	25	1	17405.9%	3012.8%
13	N. Lobov Centre-back	Rubin	21	1	16	31
14	M. Lukin Centre-back	CSKA Moscow	22	1	1950.4%	330.9%
15	M. Gajić Centre-back	CSKA Moscow	30	1	2216.9%	217%
16	K. Nizhegorodov Centre-back	Rubin	24	1	20298%	292.1%
17	M. Sidorov Centre-back	Akhmat	28	1	2122.2%	2416.7%
18	I. Vujačić Centre-back	Rubin	31	1	4567%	1822.2%
19	N. Alip Centre-back	Zenit	26	1	1735.2%	2811%
20	I. Vakhania Centre-back	FC Rostov	25	1	3129.2%	332.1%
21	Y. Gorshkov Centre-back	Zenit	27	1	370.2%	2321.4%
22	Nino Centre-back	Zenit	29	1	5119%	2519.8%
23	Vítor Tormena Centre-back	FC Krasnodar	30	1	467%	2214.5%
24	S. Karič Centre-back	Nizhny Novgorod	28	1	3016.2%	2510%
25	J. Tabidze Centre-back	Dinamo Makhachkala	30	1	3236.8%	2012.6%
26	K. Zaika Centre-back	FC Sochi	33	1	1054%	1027.3%
27	G. Nyamsi Centre-back	Lokomotiv	29	1	1637.8%	1932.3%
28	S. Bozhin Centre-back	Krylia Sovetov	31	1	259%	1714.3%
29	M. Bokoev Centre-back	Akron	25	1	2548.5%	328.8%
30	I. Nedelcearu Centre-back	Akron	30	1	1424.6%	199.1%
31	S. Varatynov Centre-back	Baltika	23	1	5168%	3729.3%
32	A. Filin Centre-back	Baltika	30	1	4070.5%	1831%
33	K. Andrade Centre-back	Baltika	27	1	6441.2%	291.8%
34	N. Chernov Centre-back	Krylia Sovetov	30	1	1477.9%	1712.2%