Most Valuable centre-backs by Market Value in Eredivisie

The most valuable centre-backs in Eredivisie, ranked on Field Insider.

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At a glance

Y. Baas of Ajax is the standout for raw talent across centre-backs in Eredivisie, with a Field Insider Rating of 76.2, and M. Young has been the form player this season, grading 59.3.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: Teo Quintero has improved his Season rating most, up +47.2 on last season, while D. Janse's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +22.7 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, Teo Quintero of Sparta Rotterdam is the most valuable name in this group at 43.2.

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	Player	Team
1	Teo Quintero Centre-back	Sparta Rotterdam	27	43.2	56518.7%	584.3%
2	Y. Baas Centre-back	Ajax	23	41.4	545.7%	764.5%
3	M. Young Centre-back	Sparta Rotterdam	20	38.7	5969.4%	768.3%
4	Alexandre Penetra Centre-back	AZ Alkmaar	24	33.4	3712%	721.4%
5	A. Kaplan Centre-back	NEC Nijmegen	23	32.9	2793%	7113.3%
6	C. Widell Centre-back	Excelsior	23	32.8	2836.6%	7111.6%
7	S. Lemkin Centre-back	Twente	23	32.7	25620.6%	7194.8%
8	A. MacNulty Centre-back	PEC Zwolle	23	32.5	305.9%	715.7%
9	M. Willemsen Centre-back	Heerenveen	23	32.5	2210.9%	7129.6%
10	W. Goes Centre-back	AZ Alkmaar	22	32.5	3916.3%	741.1%
11	R. Flamingo Centre-back	PSV Eindhoven	23	32.3	2343.9%	7011.5%
12	A. Ahmedhodžić Centre-back	Feyenoord	27	31.7	4132.2%	6112.9%
13	Yarek Gasiorowski Centre-back	PSV Eindhoven	21	31.4	2883.7%	761.2%
14	T. Blokzijl Centre-back	Groningen	21	31.4	4149.1%	768.3%
15	M. Didden Centre-back	Utrecht	24	31.1	33285.9%	6711.6%
16	M. Bruns Centre-back	Twente	23	29.8	1449.3%	656%
17	R. Hillen Centre-back	NAC Breda	23	29.6	3013.3%	645.6%
18	D. Janse Centre-back	Groningen	20	29.3	4294.9%	7543.5%
19	J. Šutalo Centre-back	Ajax	26	29.3	3842.8%	6114.6%
20	J. Dirksen Centre-back	GO Ahead Eagles	23	28.8	192983.3%	6210.2%
21	Justin Quincy Hubner Centre-back	Fortuna Sittard	22	28.7	161021.4%	6649.8%
22	L. Greiml Centre-back	NAC Breda	25	28.5	3215.4%	628.2%
23	D. Koswal Centre-back	Telstar	22	27.7	1556.1%	6313%
24	L. Schouten Centre-back	Excelsior	22	27.4	1730.1%	6313.2%
25	S. Adewoye Centre-back	Fortuna Sittard	26	27.3	2716.3%	596.3%
26	O. Wijndal Centre-back	Ajax	26	27.1	28226.7%	591.2%
27	N. Hopland Centre-back	Heerenveen	22	26.7	675.9%	6115.3%
28	D. James Centre-back	GO Ahead Eagles	26	26.2	2529.9%	5712.5%
29	S. Graves Centre-back	PEC Zwolle	27	25.9	2924.1%	5614.2%
30	H. Petrov Centre-back	Heerenveen	24	25.9	718%	567.6%
31	S. Henderikx Centre-back	Excelsior	23	25.9	785.9%	566.6%
32	G. van Zwam Centre-back	GO Ahead Eagles	22	25.6	1060.7%	598.5%
33	T. Velthuis Centre-back	PEC Zwolle	24	24.9	642.7%	543.8%
34	R. Nijstad Centre-back	Twente	18	24.7	17	72
35	J. Plug Centre-back	Feyenoord	21	24.5	2	590.5%
36	T. Beelen Centre-back	Feyenoord	25	24.2	0100%	5321.3%
37	M. Jeng Centre-back	Feyenoord	21	24.2	192.1%	5848.6%
38	T. Kraaijeveld Centre-back	Feyenoord	19	24	11	65
39	M. Hilgers Centre-back	Twente	25	23.9	0100%	5227.7%
40	M. Eerdhuijzen Centre-back	Utrecht	26	23.9	1456.1%	5225.2%
41	A. Van Hoorenbeeck Centre-back	Heracles	27	23.7	167%	5115.7%
42	M. de Ligt Centre-back	Sparta Rotterdam	22	23.6	0	54
43	A. Obispo Centre-back	PSV Eindhoven	27	23.6	755.3%	5113.7%
44	I. Mulder Centre-back	Heerenveen	21	23.1	0	56
45	D. van der Haar Centre-back	PEC Zwolle	22	23	098.1%	5323.2%
46	Rodney Kroeze Centre-back	PEC Zwolle	22	22.9	1	52
47	Jaylan von Schooneveld Centre-back	Telstar	21	22.3	0	54
48	Dylan Ruward Centre-back	PEC Zwolle	21	22.2	0	54
49	R. Bouw Centre-back	Heerenveen	20	22.1	0	56
50	W. Kuhn Centre-back	PSV Eindhoven	19	21.9	0100%	5923.2%