Top-Scoring centre-backs

The top-scoring centre-backs, ranked on Field Insider.

Top-scoring defenders Top-scoring midfielders Top-scoring attackers Best centre-backs Most in-form centre-backs Most valuable centre-backs

At a glance

Pau Cubarsí Paredes of Barcelona is the standout for raw talent across centre-backs, with a Field Insider Rating of 92.5, and J. Bednarek has been the form player this season, grading 80.9, and K. Wootton leads the scoring with 19 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: Jacobo Ramón Naveros has improved his Season rating most, up +71.2 on last season, while L. Høgsberg's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +33.8 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, W. Saliba of Arsenal is the most valuable name in this group at 126.8.

Best talent

Pau Cubarsí Paredes92.5RTG

Strasbourg · 24/25→25/26

Most improved

Jacobo Ramón Naveros+71.2SsN

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	Player	Team
1	A. Markanich Centre-back	Minnesota United FC	26	10	35425.4%	413.6%
2	S. van der Sloot Centre-back	ADO Den Haag	24	8	5648.3%	630.5%
3	F. Brignani Centre-back	Castellón	28	7	2625.6%	4812.5%
4	O. Sowunmi Centre-back	Bromley	30	7	3515.7%	229.4%
5	T. Harwood-Bellis Centre-back	Southampton	24	7	3360.3%	759.1%
6	A. Tiritiello Centre-back	Virtus Entella	31	7	2442.1%	3233.6%
7	D. Pospelov Centre-back	Uta Arad	34	7	27161.2%	1332.1%
8	Ahmed Shousha Centre-back	Ghazl El Mehalla	32	7	59	20
9	A. Jędrych Centre-back	GKS Katowice	34	6	3026.7%	161.8%
10	L. Klemenz Centre-back	GKS Katowice	30	6	2845%	2412.4%
11	T. Pettersson Centre-back	Mjallby AIF	36	6	38123.1%	121.7%
12	R. Wikström Centre-back	IF Elfsborg	25	6	2860.8%	371.9%
13	H. Falchener Centre-back	Viking	23	6	361127.6%	5034%
14	M. Laborda Centre-back	Vancouver Whitecaps	26	6	3758.1%	421.9%
15	N. Saint-Ruf Centre-back	Nancy	33	6	1854.2%	226.1%
16	M. Maglica Centre-back	SV Darmstadt 98	27	6	37776.2%	5415.1%
17	D. Zec Centre-back	Holstein Kiel	26	6	37202.5%	6012.8%
18	L. Vušković Centre-back	Hamburger SV	19	6	2949.7%	8536.7%
19	A. Oluwo Centre-back	Salford City	26	6	31	32
20	K. Watts Centre-back	Cambridge United	26	6	44255.6%	3517.4%
21	V. van Dijk Centre-back	Liverpool	35	6	3440.9%	377.7%
22	F. Almada Centre-back	Mazatlán	28	6	2032.8%	4021%
23	D. Krčík Centre-back	Karviná	27	6	7	1
24	G. Egawa Centre-back	Tegevajaro Miyazaki	26	6	12	26
25	Lucas Maia Centre-back	Henan Jianye	33	6	22	14
26	N. Marichal Centre-back	Dynamo	25	5	271.8%	342.1%
27	E. Sarapiy Centre-back	Polessya	27	5	44182.1%	3411.7%
28	Y. Sato Centre-back	Nagoya Grampus	27	5	2575.5%	432.7%
29	J. Gammelby Centre-back	Silkeborg	31	5	835.1%	261.9%
30	Waleed Al Ahmad Centre-back	Al Taawon	27	5	1945.3%	4513.1%
31	Marçal Centre-back	Botafogo	37	5	1729.4%	942.6%
32	S. Findlay Centre-back	Heart Of Midlothian	30	5	47356.3%	3310.9%
33	E. Fernandez Centre-back	Rangers	24	5	32156.1%	506.8%
34	B. Mechele Centre-back	Club Brugge KV	33	5	460.7%	2721.3%
35	R. Sykes Centre-back	Union St. Gilloise	27	5	5390.6%	496.3%
36	J. de Haas Centre-back	Famalicao	26	5	7129.3%	631.7%
37	F. Lajugie Centre-back	Annecy	30	5	2624.4%	375.4%
38	L. Lochoshvili Centre-back	1. FC Nürnberg	28	5	33487.5%	517.5%
39	N. Schlotterbeck Centre-back	Borussia Dortmund	26	5	59121.9%	774.1%
40	D. Doekhi Centre-back	Union Berlin	28	5	353.4%	6412.2%
41	K. Diks Centre-back	Borussia Mönchengladbach	29	5	4894.8%	5343.2%
42	S. Pavlović Centre-back	AC Milan	25	5	5564.7%	8410%
43	L. Østigård Centre-back	Genoa	26	5	3362.3%	716.1%
44	Enrique Clemente Centre-back	Las Palmas	27	5	49200%	6011.4%
45	P. Farquharson Centre-back	Walsall	29	5	16403.1%	206.9%
46	N. Smith Centre-back	Tranmere	30	5	201.5%	226.5%
47	G. Bracaglia Centre-back	Frosinone	23	5	45225.5%	6815.9%
48	D. Tonoli Centre-back	Modena	23	5	56	70
49	T. Letschert Centre-back	Chengdu Better City	33	5	4220.2%	1451.2%
50	K. Boateng Centre-back	Dinamo Bucuresti	29	5	3850.2%	2655.6%