Best Defensive players by Season Rating in First League 26/27
The best defensive players in First League in 26/27, ranked on Field Insider.
At a glance
A. Ivlev of Nizhny Novgorod is the standout for raw talent across players in First League, with a Field Insider Rating of 31.4, and S. Karič has been the form player this season, grading 28.6, and B. Fourrier leads the scoring with 7 goals.
The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: Y. Koledin has improved his Season rating most, up +21 on last season. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.
By our market-value index, L. Tičić of Nizhny Novgorod is the most valuable name in this group at 3.
16 players · ranked by best defendersCustomise →
| Player | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | S. KaričCentre-back |  Nizhny Novgorod | 28 | 28.6 | 2910.4% | 2510% |
| 2 | Y. KoledinFull-back | Nizhny Novgorod | 21 | 25.8 | 26437.5% | 3118% |
| 3 | K. GotsukCentre-back |  Arsenal Tula | 34 | 25.2 | 2570.3% | 165.3% |
| 4 | E. FariñaCentre-back | Nizhny Novgorod | 24 | 24.2 | 2419.9% | 289.4% |
| 5 | N. KakkoevFull-back | Nizhny Novgorod | 27 | 23.8 | 2417.1% | 2519.4% |
| 6 | I. KalininCentre-back |  FC Sochi | 30 | 22.8 | 239.1% | 235.9% |
| 7 | A. SoldatenkovCentre-back | FC Sochi | 29 | 21.6 | 2218.7% | 2219.8% |
| 8 | V. LitvinovCentre-back | FC Sochi | 25 | 21.1 | 219.3% | 273.4% |
| 9 | R. EvgenjevCentre-back | Nizhny Novgorod | 27 | 19.3 | 1969.3% | 2515.7% |
| 10 | V. AleksandrovCentre-back | Nizhny Novgorod | 24 | 18.5 | 196.6% | 296.5% |
| 11 | Marcelo AlvesCentre-back | FC Sochi | 28 | 16.6 | 17130.6% | 223.7% |
| 12 | V. PigasFull-back | Nizhny Novgorod | 25 | 13 | 13 | 26 |
| 13 | R. MagalFull-back | FC Sochi | 34 | 11.5 | 1220.1% | 827.3% |
| 14 | K. ZaikaCentre-back | FC Sochi | 33 | 10.7 | 1149.3% | 1027.3% |
| 15 | N. StojićCentre-back | FC Sochi | 28 | 9.5 | 10 | 19 |
| 16 | A. MakarchukFull-back | FC Sochi | 30 | 7.4 | 760.4% | 1524.9% |