Best Defensive defenders by Season Rating in First League 26/27
The best defensive defenders in First League in 26/27, ranked on Field Insider.
At a glance
Y. Koledin of Nizhny Novgorod is the standout for raw talent across defenders in First League, with a Field Insider Rating of 30.8, and S. Karič has been the form player this season, grading 30.1, and Marcelo Alves leads the scoring with 2 goals.
The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: Y. Koledin has improved his Season rating most, up +14.2 on last season. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.
By our market-value index, E. Fariña of Nizhny Novgorod is the most valuable name in this group at 2.9.
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| Player | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | S. KaričCentre-back |  Nizhny Novgorod | 28 | 30.1 | 3016.2% | 2510% |
| 2 | A. SoldatenkovCentre-back |  FC Sochi | 29 | 21.1 | 2115.9% | 2219.8% |
| 3 | Y. KoledinFull-back | Nizhny Novgorod | 21 | 19 | 19295.8% | 3118% |
| 4 | E. FariñaCentre-back | Nizhny Novgorod | 24 | 14.4 | 1452.3% | 289.4% |
| 5 | N. KakkoevFull-back | Nizhny Novgorod | 27 | 14.1 | 1450.9% | 2519.4% |
| 6 | I. KalininCentre-back | FC Sochi | 30 | 13.9 | 1433.5% | 235.9% |
| 7 | V. LitvinovCentre-back | FC Sochi | 25 | 12.6 | 1334.7% | 273.4% |
| 8 | V. AleksandrovCentre-back | Nizhny Novgorod | 24 | 12.3 | 1237.9% | 296.5% |
| 9 | K. GotsukCentre-back |  Arsenal Tula | 34 | 11.5 | 1222.3% | 165.3% |
| 10 | Marcelo AlvesCentre-back | FC Sochi | 28 | 11.3 | 1156.9% | 223.7% |
| 11 | K. ZaikaCentre-back | FC Sochi | 33 | 9.7 | 1054% | 1027.3% |
| 12 | R. EvgenjevCentre-back | Nizhny Novgorod | 27 | 9.6 | 1015.8% | 2515.7% |
| 13 | V. PigasFull-back | Nizhny Novgorod | 25 | 7.7 | 8 | 26 |
| 14 | R. MagalFull-back | FC Sochi | 34 | 6.9 | 752.1% | 827.3% |
| 15 | N. StojićCentre-back | FC Sochi | 28 | 5.6 | 6 | 19 |
| 16 | A. MakarchukFull-back | FC Sochi | 30 | 4.7 | 574.9% | 1524.9% |