Best Defensive defenders by Season Rating in Eredivisie 26/27
The best defensive defenders in Eredivisie in 26/27, ranked on Field Insider.
At a glance
J. Bos of Feyenoord is the standout for raw talent across defenders in Eredivisie, with a Field Insider Rating of 76.
The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: J. Bos has improved his Season rating most, up +30 on last season. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.
By our market-value index, J. Bos of Feyenoord is the most valuable name in this group at 36.8.
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| Player | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J. BosFull-back |  Feyenoord | 23 | 39.4 | 39319.1% | 7637.4% |
| 2 | D. BlindCentre-back |  Ajax | 36 | 32.1 | 320.6% | 306.7% |
| 3 | Tomas GalvezFull-back |  GO Ahead Eagles | 21 | 31.7 | 32±0% | 651.3% |
| 4 | W. HoedtCentre-back |  AZ Alkmaar | 32 | 29.3 | 2926.7% | 2723.7% |
| 5 | N. NwankwoCentre-back |  Telstar | 28 | 23.8 | 24 | 48 |
| 6 | A. KaplanCentre-back | NEC Nijmegen | 23 | 23.3 | 2364.1% | 7417.3% |
| 7 | M. MuzunguCentre-back | Ajax | 18 | 23 | 23±0% | 5913% |
| 8 | B. ReithFull-back |  Sparta Rotterdam | 27 | 22 | 22±0% | 464.3% |
| 9 | S. LemkinCentre-back |  Twente | 23 | 21.7 | 22538.2% | 6989.8% |
| 10 | T. JukicCentre-back | GO Ahead Eagles | 24 | 19.8 | 20 | 36 |
| 11 | Iván MárquezCentre-back |  Fortuna Sittard | 32 | 19.3 | 1939.5% | 3220.9% |
| 12 | D. KasiusFull-back | AZ Alkmaar | 24 | 16.1 | 1638.8% | 676.7% |
| 13 | G. SmalFull-back | Feyenoord | 29 | 15.7 | 161.9% | 4623.5% |
| 14 | M. van de WeteringFull-back |  Excelsior | 17 | 11.4 | 11 | 54 |
| 15 | G. NauberCentre-back | GO Ahead Eagles | 34 | 8.6 | 976.4% | 1458.6% |
| 16 | A. NataliFull-back | AZ Alkmaar | 18 | 8.4 | 8±0% | 538.2% |
| 17 | J. MesbahiFull-back | Twente | 20 | 7.6 | 8 | 5210.3% |
| 18 | A. NagaloCentre-back |  PSV Eindhoven | 24 | 4.5 | 5246.2% | 4426.3% |