Most in-form centre-backs in Premier League

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

At a glance

S. Varatynov of Baltika is the standout for raw talent across centre-backs in Premier League, with a Field Insider Rating of 36.6, and K. Andrade has been the form player this season, grading 68.6, and N. Marichal leads the scoring with 5 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: K. Andrade has improved his Season rating most, up +23.5 on last season, while S. Varatynov's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +8.3 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, S. Varatynov of Baltika is the most valuable name in this group at 11.

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#	Player	Team	Age	Season	Rating
1	K. Andrade Centre-back	Baltika	27	6952.1%	306.4%
2	E. Teslenko Centre-back	Rubin	25	5276.4%	344.7%
3	Diego Costa Centre-back	FC Krasnodar	26	5110.3%	352%
4	S. Varatynov Centre-back	Baltika	23	5168%	3729.3%
5	Nino Centre-back	Zenit	29	5119%	2519.8%
6	I. Vujačić Centre-back	Rubin	31	4773%	1920.9%
7	Vítor Tormena Centre-back	FC Krasnodar	30	467%	2214.5%
8	A. Filin Centre-back	Baltika	30	4589.5%	1929.1%
9	I. Diveev Centre-back	CSKA Moscow	26	3821.3%	3310.2%
10	J. Tabidze Centre-back	Dinamo Makhachkala	30	3445.7%	2010.3%
11	D. Chistyakov Centre-back	FC Rostov	32	33243.2%	152.5%
12	I. Shumakhov Centre-back	Dinamo Makhachkala	27	338.7%	2619.4%
13	N. Marichal Centre-back	Dynamo	25	281.8%	342.7%
14	S. Bozhin Centre-back	Krylia Sovetov	31	272.5%	1811.8%
15	C. Montes Centre-back	Lokomotiv	29	2667.7%	252.4%
16	A. Gritsaenko Centre-back	Rubin	31	264.9%	1438.6%
17	A. Djiku Centre-back	Spartak Moscow	31	258.3%	1743%
18	M. Bokoev Centre-back	Akron	24	2549.1%	3313.2%
19	O. Sako Centre-back	FC Rostov	30	2537.2%	1923%
20	M. Osipenko Centre-back	Dynamo	32	243.7%	1532.4%
21	O. Ndong Centre-back	Akhmat	26	23406.5%	2935%
22	M. Lukin Centre-back	CSKA Moscow	22	2380%	342.1%
23	C. Wooh Centre-back	Spartak Moscow	24	2225.9%	3452.5%
24	K. Cake Centre-back	Akhmat	27	21	27
25	M. Alibekov Centre-back	Dinamo Makhachkala	29	2074.8%	2013.7%
26	João Victor Centre-back	CSKA Moscow	27	189.9%	2655.5%
27	E. Fariña Centre-back	Nizhny Novgorod	24	1841%	2915.7%
28	E. Morozov Centre-back	Lokomotiv	25	18134.7%	336.9%
29	D. Khotulev Centre-back	FC Orenburg	23	17115.2%	3210.6%
30	N. Alip Centre-back	Zenit	26	1735.2%	2811%
31	G. Nyamsi Centre-back	Lokomotiv	29	1635.9%	2031.6%
32	A. Tchitchinadze Centre-back	FC Orenburg	28	161.9%	219.3%
33	I. Nedelcearu Centre-back	Akron	30	1637.7%	205.3%
34	N. Ghandri Centre-back	Akhmat	31	1528.6%	1524.4%
35	I. Lepskiy Centre-back	Krylia Sovetov	21	1444.4%	3129.8%
36	N. Chernov Centre-back	Krylia Sovetov	30	1484.4%	1711.2%
37	N. Kakkoev Centre-back	Nizhny Novgorod	26	1450.9%	2519.4%
38	M. Nenakhov Centre-back	Lokomotiv	27	1354.6%	2620.3%
39	V. Aleksandrov Centre-back	Nizhny Novgorod	24	1237.9%	296.5%
40	João Escoval Centre-back	Akron	29	1264%	1834.9%
41	Marcelo Alves Centre-back	FC Sochi	28	1262.5%	234.7%
42	M. Zea Centre-back	CSKA Moscow	18	11	32
43	R. Evgenjev Centre-back	Krylia Sovetov	27	1012.3%	2223.9%
44	I. Kirsch Centre-back	Nizhny Novgorod	21	9423.5%	293.3%
45	A. Tataev Centre-back	FC Orenburg	27	838.5%	225.7%
46	R. Fernández Centre-back	Dynamo	26	864.8%	2619.6%
47	N. Stojić Centre-back	FC Sochi	28	7	20
48	K. Savichev Centre-back	Akron	32	586.6%	1049.7%