Top-Scoring defenders in Championship

The top-scoring defenders in Championship, ranked on Field Insider.

Top-scoring midfielders in Championship Top-scoring attackers in Championship Best defenders in Championship Most in-form defenders in Championship Most valuable defenders in Championship Most improved defenders in Championship

At a glance

T. Crama of Millwall is the standout for raw talent across defenders in Championship, with a Field Insider Rating of 77.1, and R. Manning leads the scoring with 8 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 47.8.

Millwall · 24/25→25/26

Most improved

T. Crama+40.9SsN

Millwall · 24/25→25/26

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	Player	Team
1	R. Manning Full-back	Southampton	30	8	35200.9%	4611.5%
2	T. Harwood-Bellis Centre-back	Southampton	24	7	3360.3%	768.6%
3	H. Burrows Full-back	Sheffield Utd	24	5	2461.5%	7211.1%
4	J. Bree Full-back	Charlton	28	4	32373.5%	5510.8%
5	G. Campbell Full-back	West Brom	25	4	3735.8%	6652.6%
6	A. Ahmed Attacking midfielder	Norwich	25	4	36123.7%	6973.4%
7	M. Targett Defensive midfielder	Middlesbrough	30	4	4723550%	452.6%
8	J. Cooper Centre-back	Millwall	31	4	5345.6%	429.4%
9	C. Taylor Centre-back	Millwall	23	3	4250.5%	7050.9%
10	S. Langås Centre-back	Derby	25	3	3628.9%	6946.5%
11	C. Brown Centre-back	Oxford United	28	3	2921%	5217%
12	J. Dunne Full-back	QPR	28	3	3027.3%	5517.7%
13	J. Vestergaard Centre-back	Leicester	34	3	21100.9%	2234.5%
14	R. Atkinson Centre-back	Bristol City	28	3	39556.7%	52±0%
15	T. Crama Centre-back	Millwall	24	3	62192%	7769.8%
16	D. Fry Centre-back	Middlesbrough	28	3	2692.6%	497.8%
17	M. Clarke Centre-back	Derby	29	3	4753.6%	513%
18	B. Wilmot Centre-back	Stoke City	26	3	3320.7%	635.3%
19	N. Phillips Centre-back	West Brom	29	3	4591%	4513%
20	J. Ngakia Central midfielder	Watford	25	3	5268.7%	665.4%
21	M. Cleworth Full-back	Wrexham	23	3	3840.7%	7328.6%
22	J. Egan Centre-back	Hull City	33	3	41989.5%	2815.8%
23	B. Thomas Centre-back	Coventry	25	3	4213.6%	715.2%
24	C. Kipré Centre-back	Ipswich	29	3	3610.6%	4623%
25	C. Klarer Centre-back	Birmingham	26	3	3146.6%	6726.9%
26	P. Neumann Centre-back	Birmingham	29	3	2448.4%	4418.7%
27	H. Carter Centre-back	Blackburn	26	2	1329%	5510.5%
28	C. Doyle Full-back	Wrexham	22	2	337.2%	715.3%
29	Ricardo Pereira Full-back	Leicester	32	2	37812.5%	309.8%
30	I. Bowat Centre-back	Portsmouth	23	2	846.8%	5918.6%
31	Z. Swanson Centre-back	Portsmouth	25	2	295.5%	620.8%
32	C. Shaughnessy Centre-back	Portsmouth	30	2	23521.6%	365.9%
33	L. Lindsay Centre-back	Preston	30	2	1841.5%	3427%
34	J. Storey Centre-back	Preston	28	2	3415.1%	539.2%
35	A. Mbengue Full-back	QPR	24	2	333%	6836.6%
36	J. Key Full-back	Swansea	26	2	2146.8%	5817.2%
37	L. Miller Full-back	Blackburn	25	2	4584.3%	6434.2%
38	M. Bola Central midfielder	Watford	28	2	3531.7%	491.7%
39	M. Gillesphey Full-back	Charlton	30	2	2264.1%	3415.7%
40	J. Stephens Centre-back	Southampton	32	2	29128.6%	3120.6%
41	K. Kesler-Hayden Full-back	Coventry	23	2	1366.4%	659%
42	L. Kitching Centre-back	Coventry	26	2	4573.7%	660.6%
43	L. Davis Full-back	Ipswich	26	2	40161.4%	6814.9%
44	Kieran Morgan Central midfielder	QPR	20	2	1746.2%	653.7%
45	R. Edwards Centre-back	QPR	23	1	3397%	709.5%
46	M. McGuinness Centre-back	Sheffield Utd	25	1	1381%	6015.8%
47	N. Eile Centre-back	Bristol City	24	1	2712.3%	6545.4%
48	E. Cashin Full-back	Blackburn	24	1	4669.5%	656%
49	H. Souttar Centre-back	Leicester	27	1	196.3%	4232.3%
50	L. Cooper Centre-back	Sheffield Wednesday	34	1	1219.6%	1446.2%