Centre-backs with the Best Potential in Premier League 26/27

The highest-potential centre-backs in Premier League in 26/27, ranked on Field Insider.

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At a glance

T. Mykhavko of Dynamo Kyiv is the standout for raw talent across centre-backs in Premier League, with a Field Insider Rating of 39.5, and N. Muravskyi has been the form player this season, grading 46.1, and E. Sarapiy leads the scoring with 5 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: N. Muravskyi has improved his Season rating most, up +29.7 on last season, while Jan Jurčec's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +3.1 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, R. Didyk of LNZ Cherkasy is the most valuable name in this group at 10.

Kryvbas KR · 24/25→25/26

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LNZ Cherkasy · 24/25→25/26

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	Player	Team
1	T. Mykhavko Centre-back	Dynamo Kyiv	21	683.2%	4011.4%
2	V. Vilivald Centre-back	Kryvbas KR	21	20104.1%	395.4%
3	Y. Pavlyuk Centre-back	FC Kharkiv	24	3298.7%	397.2%
4	R. Didyk Centre-back	LNZ Cherkasy	23	336.8%	389.2%
5	O. Syrota Centre-back	Dynamo Kyiv	26	14228.6%	378.2%
6	Jan Jurčec Centre-back	Kryvbas KR	25	18456.3%	379.2%
7	J. Jones Centre-back	Kryvbas KR	20	11	37
8	V. Kholod Centre-back	Karpaty	22	1360.2%	3616%
9	N. Muravskyi Centre-back	LNZ Cherkasy	26	46181.1%	365.8%
10	O. Martynyuk Centre-back	FC Kharkiv	24	1665.3%	3520.9%
11	A. JanjiÄCentre-back	Zorya Luhansk	24	13	35
12	V. Moroz Centre-back	Epitsentr Dunayivtsi	24	1461.4%	342.5%
13	E. Sarapiy Centre-back	Polessya	27	44182.1%	3411.7%
14	I. Krasniqi Centre-back	Polessya	26	2610.6%	3410.8%
15	V. Dubko Centre-back	FC Kharkiv	25	1641.8%	3316.4%
16	K. Cipot Centre-back	Veres Rivne	25	15	33
17	S. Grygorashchuk Centre-back	Epitsentr Dunayivtsi	25	1171%	327.2%
18	B. Veklyak Centre-back	Kudrivka	26	9	303.5%
19	V. Bondar Centre-back	Shakhtar Donetsk	27	2528.4%	3028%
20	M. Serdyuk Centre-back	Kudrivka	26	5	29
21	A. Ponedelnik Centre-back	Kolos Kovalivka	29	298.2%	2523.9%
22	T. Kędziora Centre-back	Dynamo Kyiv	32	4561.2%	226%
23	M. Matvienko Centre-back	Shakhtar Donetsk	30	2514.5%	2036.4%
24	M. Burda Centre-back	Kolos Kovalivka	31	161.3%	1625.2%
25	R. Goncharenko Centre-back	Kolos Kovalivka	32	1310.4%	1540.9%
26	A. Shabanov Centre-back	FC Kharkiv	34	3328.9%	1146.4%
27	I. Perduta Centre-back	Zorya Luhansk	35	1318.9%	922.7%