Most in-form centre-backs in Championship

The most in-form centre-backs in Championship, ranked on Field Insider.

At a glance

T. Crama of Millwall is the standout for raw talent across centre-backs in Championship, with a Field Insider Rating of 77.1, and T. Harwood-Bellis leads the scoring with 7 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: T. Crama has improved his Season rating most, up +40.9 on last season. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, T. Crama of Millwall is the most valuable name in this group at 98.7.

Millwall · 24/25→25/26

Most improved

T. Crama+40.9SsN

Millwall · 24/25→25/26

Top scorer

T. Harwood-Bellis7goals

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#	Player	Team	Age	Season	Rating
1	T. Crama Centre-back	Millwall	24	62192%	7769.8%
2	J. Cooper Centre-back	Millwall	31	5345.6%	429.4%
3	M. Clarke Centre-back	Derby	29	4753.6%	513%
4	D. O'Shea Centre-back	Ipswich	27	4776.1%	6321.1%
5	S. McLoughlin Centre-back	Blackburn	29	46129.8%	4711.8%
6	L. Kitching Centre-back	Coventry	26	4573.7%	660.6%
7	L. Jones Centre-back	Charlton	30	4521.1%	4314.8%
8	N. Phillips Centre-back	West Brom	29	4591%	4513%
9	C. Taylor Centre-back	Millwall	23	4250.5%	7050.9%
10	B. Cabango Centre-back	Swansea	26	4212.6%	668.3%
11	B. Thomas Centre-back	Coventry	25	4213.6%	715.2%
12	J. Egan Centre-back	Hull City	33	41989.5%	2919.1%
13	G. Tanner Centre-back	Bristol City	26	4197.1%	597.8%
14	J. Tanganga Centre-back	Sheffield Utd	27	4111.6%	5914.1%
15	K. Ramsay Centre-back	Charlton	25	4016.2%	6532.7%
16	A. Malanda Centre-back	Middlesbrough	24	401.7%	7454%
17	R. Atkinson Centre-back	Bristol City	28	39556.7%	52±0%
18	A. Jones Centre-back	Middlesbrough	28	3987.1%	5310.3%
19	R. Dickie Centre-back	Bristol City	30	3959.8%	4120.7%
20	C. Burgess Centre-back	Swansea	30	39346.6%	4516.9%
21	Neto Borges Centre-back	Bristol City	29	3815.8%	4420.7%
22	C. Kipré Centre-back	Ipswich	29	3610.6%	4623%
23	S. Langås Centre-back	Derby	25	3628.9%	6946.5%
24	R. Poole Centre-back	Portsmouth	28	3647.3%	526.5%
25	M. Helik Centre-back	Oxford United	30	3671.2%	4110.3%
26	D. Sanderson Centre-back	Derby	26	35498.3%	6514.9%
27	Z. Vyner Centre-back	Bristol City	29	354.5%	4627%
28	A. Phillips Centre-back	Stoke City	21	344.2%	711.6%
29	J. Storey Centre-back	Preston	28	3415.1%	539.2%
30	B. Wilmot Centre-back	Stoke City	26	3320.7%	635.3%
31	R. Edwards Centre-back	QPR	23	3397%	709.5%
32	T. Harwood-Bellis Centre-back	Southampton	24	3360.3%	768.6%
33	S. Ajayi Centre-back	Hull City	32	32181.3%	306.6%
34	J. Currie Centre-back	Oxford United	23	3133.7%	6222.3%
35	C. Klarer Centre-back	Birmingham	26	3146.6%	6726.9%
36	C. Mepham Centre-back	West Brom	28	2931.1%	4528.5%
37	C. Brown Centre-back	Oxford United	28	2921%	5217%
38	J. Stephens Centre-back	Southampton	32	29128.6%	3120.6%
39	Z. Swanson Centre-back	Portsmouth	25	295.5%	620.8%
40	J. Greaves Centre-back	Ipswich	25	2866.7%	6418%
41	J. Córdoba Centre-back	Norwich	25	28103.7%	664.3%
42	N. Eile Centre-back	Bristol City	23	2712.3%	6648.1%
43	L. Gibson Centre-back	Preston	25	274.9%	65±0%
44	D. Fry Centre-back	Middlesbrough	28	2692.6%	497.8%
45	N. Wood-Gordon Centre-back	Southampton	24	26326.2%	673.6%
46	H. Darling Centre-back	Norwich	26	2624.6%	6213.1%
47	P. Neumann Centre-back	Birmingham	29	2448.4%	4418.7%
48	M. Talovierov Centre-back	Stoke City	26	24233.8%	523%
49	C. Okoli Centre-back	Leicester	25	2393.4%	6015.8%
50	A. Cresswell Centre-back	Stoke City	36	23170.9%	2126.2%