U23 defenders with the Best Potential

The highest-potential U23 defenders, ranked on Field Insider.

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At a glance

J. Belocian of Bayer Leverkusen is the standout for raw talent across U23 defenders, with a Field Insider Rating of 86.3, and F. Sjøvold has been the form player this season, grading 77.5, and Š. Chaloupek leads the scoring with 9 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: I. Vådebu has improved his Season rating most, up +49.7 on last season, while R. Jansson's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +50.4 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, T. Livramento of Newcastle is the most valuable name in this group at 106.3.

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T. Livramento106.3val

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	Player	Team
1	J. Belocian Centre-back	Bayer Leverkusen	21	17±0%	8620.5%
2	Pau Navarro Centre-back	Villarreal	21	32±0%	84±0%
3	Alejandro Balde Full-back	Barcelona	22	3221%	848.6%
4	R. Jansson Full-back	FC St. Pauli	22	17281.8%	81208.3%
5	A. Circati Centre-back	Benfica	22	45±0%	80±0%
6	F. Terracciano Centre-back	AC Milan	23	51±0%	801.2%
7	Raúl Asencio Centre-back	Real Madrid	23	273.6%	803.9%
8	Juanlu Sánchez Full-back	Bournemouth	23	2218.6%	803.7%
9	Abdoul Karim Coulibaly Centre-back	Strasbourg	19	22±0%	803%
10	M. Moreno Centre-back	Venezia	22	289.7%	79±0%
11	S. Baidoo Centre-back	Lens	22	39	79
12	H. Ahanor Centre-back	Atalanta	18	27±0%	78±0%
13	Abdulay Bah Centre-back	Manchester City	20	28314.7%	7810.8%
14	K. Peprah Oppong Centre-back	Nice	22	3476.8%	78172%
15	D. Rensch Full-back	AS Roma	23	29±0%	78±0%
16	N. Collins Full-back	Eintracht Frankfurt	22	23±0%	772.7%
17	C. Bradley Full-back	Liverpool	23	1520.3%	778.8%
18	I. Doukouré Full-back	Strasbourg	23	26±0%	76±0%
19	T. Livramento Full-back	Newcastle	23	12±0%	76±0%
20	J. Bos Full-back	Feyenoord	23	39319.1%	7637.4%
21	N. Sangui Full-back	Paris FC	20	2286.6%	763.7%
22	Fellipe Jack Centre-back	Cremonese	20	89.3%	7530.7%
23	Luca Marianucci Full-back	Napoli	22	1453.7%	753.6%
24	W. Mikelbrencis Full-back	Hamburger SV	22	15±0%	75±0%
25	N. Savona Centre-back	Nottingham Forest	23	1266.1%	756.9%
26	S. Coulibaly Centre-back	Strasbourg	22	18±0%	745.5%
27	A. Kaplan Centre-back	NEC Nijmegen	23	2364.1%	7417.3%
28	I. Ogbus Centre-back	SC Freiburg	20	152416.7%	7410.5%
29	D. Ghilardi Centre-back	AS Roma	23	31±0%	73±0%
30	C. Mawissa Elebi Full-back	Monaco	21	19±0%	73±0%
31	Álex Full-back	Burgos	23	62	73
32	A. Phillips Centre-back	Middlesbrough	21	33±0%	733.3%
33	C. Favasuli Full-back	Napoli	22	44±0%	73±0%
34	M. Vitík Centre-back	Bologna	23	24	72
35	C. Hughes Centre-back	Hull City	22	43145.5%	7211.9%
36	A. Matturro Full-back	Shakhtar Donetsk	21	146.3%	72±0%
37	A. Zehnter Centre-back	VfL Wolfsburg	21	874.3%	723.8%
38	E. Bitshiabu Centre-back	RB Leipzig	21	1162.5%	724.7%
39	N. Äelik Centre-back	Lens	20	13	72
40	A. Giay Centre-back	Palmeiras	22	374.6%	71±0%
41	Gonçalo Oliveira Centre-back	Rennes	20	11	7063.5%
42	Jonathan Centre-back	Cruzeiro	22	39125%	706.1%
43	Arthur Centre-back	Palmeiras	21	30	70
44	K. Kita Centre-back	Real Sociedad	21	29±0%	697.1%
45	N. Veratschnig Full-back	Red Bull Salzburg	23	727.3%	691.2%
46	S. Lemkin Centre-back	Twente	23	22538.2%	6989.8%
47	T. Gooijer Full-back	Ajax	22	19±0%	698.2%
48	B. Okoh Centre-back	Auxerre	23	20	69
49	Riyad Idrissi Full-back	Cagliari	23	116.9%	6920.1%
50	O. Diomande Full-back	Nottingham Forest	22	24±0%	6913%